Scientific Publications

2011
3.		Nazemi, Kawa; Burkhardt, Dirk; Praetorius, Alexander; Breyer, Matthias; Kuijper, Arjan Adapting User Interfaces by Analyzing Data Characteristics for Determining Adequate Visualizations Proceedings Article In: Kurosu, Masaaki (Ed.): Human Centered Design, pp. 566–575, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-21753-1. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX \| Tags: Adaptive Visualization, Human-Centered Interfaces, Human-Computer-Interfaces, Semantics Visualization @inproceedings{Nazemi2011d, title = {Adapting User Interfaces by Analyzing Data Characteristics for Determining Adequate Visualizations}, author = {Kawa Nazemi and Dirk Burkhardt and Alexander Praetorius and Matthias Breyer and Arjan Kuijper}, editor = {Masaaki Kurosu}, url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2011hcii-iv.pdf, Paper as PDF http://2011.hci.international/, Conference Site}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_63}, isbn = {978-3-642-21753-1}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-07-09}, booktitle = {Human Centered Design}, volume = {6776}, pages = {566--575}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6776}, abstract = {Today the information visualization takes in an important position, because it is required in nearly every context where large databases have to be visualized. For this challenge new approaches are needed to allow the user an adequate access to these data. Static visualizations are only able to show the data without any support to the users, which is the reason for the accomplished researches to adaptive user-interfaces, in particular for adaptive visualizations. By these approaches the visualizations were adapted to the users' behavior, so that graphical primitives were change to support a user e.g. by highlighting user-specific entities, which seems relevant for a user. This approach is commonly used, but it is limited on changes for just a single visualization. Modern heterogeneous data providing different kinds of aspects, which modern visualizations try to regard, but therefore a user often needs more than a single visualization for making an information retrieval. In this paper we describe a concept for adapting the user-interface by selecting visualizations in dependence to automatically generated data characteristics. So visualizations will be chosen, which are fitting well to the generated characteristics. Finally the user gets an aquatically arranged set of visualizations as initial point of his interaction through the data.}, keywords = {Adaptive Visualization, Human-Centered Interfaces, Human-Computer-Interfaces, Semantics Visualization}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Close Today the information visualization takes in an important position, because it is required in nearly every context where large databases have to be visualized. For this challenge new approaches are needed to allow the user an adequate access to these data. Static visualizations are only able to show the data without any support to the users, which is the reason for the accomplished researches to adaptive user-interfaces, in particular for adaptive visualizations. By these approaches the visualizations were adapted to the users' behavior, so that graphical primitives were change to support a user e.g. by highlighting user-specific entities, which seems relevant for a user. This approach is commonly used, but it is limited on changes for just a single visualization. Modern heterogeneous data providing different kinds of aspects, which modern visualizations try to regard, but therefore a user often needs more than a single visualization for making an information retrieval. In this paper we describe a concept for adapting the user-interface by selecting visualizations in dependence to automatically generated data characteristics. So visualizations will be chosen, which are fitting well to the generated characteristics. Finally the user gets an aquatically arranged set of visualizations as initial point of his interaction through the data. Close Paper as PDF Conference Site doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_63 Close
2.		Burkhardt, Dirk; Nazemi, Kawa; Breyer, Matthias; Stab, Christian; Kuijper, Arjan SemaZoom: Semantics Exploration by Using a Layer-Based Focus and Context Metaphor Proceedings Article In: Kurosu, Masaaki (Ed.): Human Centered Design, pp. 491–499, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-21753-1. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX \| Tags: Human-Computer-Interfaces, Information Visualization, Semantic Web, Semantics Visualization @inproceedings{Burkhardt2011b, title = {SemaZoom: Semantics Exploration by Using a Layer-Based Focus and Context Metaphor}, author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Matthias Breyer and Christian Stab and Arjan Kuijper}, editor = {Masaaki Kurosu}, url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2011hcii-iii.pdf, Paper as PDF http://2011.hci.international/, Conference Site}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_55}, isbn = {978-3-642-21753-1}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-07-09}, booktitle = {Human Centered Design}, volume = {6776}, pages = {491--499}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6776}, abstract = {The Semantic Web is a powerful technology for organizing the data in our information based society. The collection and organization of information is an important step for showing important information to interested people. But the usage of such semantic-based data sources depends on effective and efficient information visualizations. Currently different kinds of visualizations in general and visualization metaphors do exist. Many of them are also applied for semantic data source, but often they are designed for semantic web experts and neglecting the normal user and his perception of an easy useable visualization. This kind of user needs less information, but rather a reduced qualitative view on the data. These two aspects of large amount of existing data and one for normal users easy to understand visualization is often not reconcilable. In this paper we create a concept for a visualization to show a bigger set of information to such normal users without overstraining them, because of layer-based data visualization, next to an integration of a Focus and Context metaphor.}, keywords = {Human-Computer-Interfaces, Information Visualization, Semantic Web, Semantics Visualization}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Close The Semantic Web is a powerful technology for organizing the data in our information based society. The collection and organization of information is an important step for showing important information to interested people. But the usage of such semantic-based data sources depends on effective and efficient information visualizations. Currently different kinds of visualizations in general and visualization metaphors do exist. Many of them are also applied for semantic data source, but often they are designed for semantic web experts and neglecting the normal user and his perception of an easy useable visualization. This kind of user needs less information, but rather a reduced qualitative view on the data. These two aspects of large amount of existing data and one for normal users easy to understand visualization is often not reconcilable. In this paper we create a concept for a visualization to show a bigger set of information to such normal users without overstraining them, because of layer-based data visualization, next to an integration of a Focus and Context metaphor. Close Paper as PDF Conference Site doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_55 Close
1.		Burkhardt, Dirk; Breyer, Matthias; Glaser, Christian; Nazemi, Kawa; Kuijper, Arjan Classifying Interaction Methods to Support Intuitive Interaction Devices for Creating User-Centered-Systems Proceedings Article In: Stephanidis, Constantine (Ed.): Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and eInclusion, pp. 20–29, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-21672-5. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX \| Tags: Gesture-based Interaction, Human-Centered Interfaces, Human-Computer-Interfaces, Multimodal Interaction @inproceedings{Burkhardt2011c, title = {Classifying Interaction Methods to Support Intuitive Interaction Devices for Creating User-Centered-Systems}, author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Matthias Breyer and Christian Glaser and Kawa Nazemi and Arjan Kuijper}, editor = {Constantine Stephanidis}, url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2011hcii-i.pdf, Paper as PDF http://2011.hci.international/, Conference Site}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_3}, isbn = {978-3-642-21672-5}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-07-09}, booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and eInclusion}, volume = {6765}, pages = {20--29}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6765}, abstract = {Nowadays a wide range of input devices are available to users of technical systems. Especially modern alternative interaction devices, which are known from game consoles etc., provide a more natural way of interaction. But the support in computer programs is currently a big challenge, because a high effort is to invest for developing an application that supports such alternative input devices. For this fact we made a concept for an interaction system, which supports the use of alternative interaction devices. The interaction-system consists as central element a server, which provides a simple access interface for application to support such devices. It is also possible to address an abstract device by its properties and the interaction-system overtakes the converting from a concrete device. For realizing this idea, we also defined a taxonomy for classifying interaction devices by its interaction method and in dependence to the required interaction results, like recognized gestures. Later, by using this system, it is generally possible to develop a user-centered system by integrating this interaction-system, because an adequate integration of alternative interaction devices provides a more natural and easy to understand form of interaction.}, keywords = {Gesture-based Interaction, Human-Centered Interfaces, Human-Computer-Interfaces, Multimodal Interaction}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Close Nowadays a wide range of input devices are available to users of technical systems. Especially modern alternative interaction devices, which are known from game consoles etc., provide a more natural way of interaction. But the support in computer programs is currently a big challenge, because a high effort is to invest for developing an application that supports such alternative input devices. For this fact we made a concept for an interaction system, which supports the use of alternative interaction devices. The interaction-system consists as central element a server, which provides a simple access interface for application to support such devices. It is also possible to address an abstract device by its properties and the interaction-system overtakes the converting from a concrete device. For realizing this idea, we also defined a taxonomy for classifying interaction devices by its interaction method and in dependence to the required interaction results, like recognized gestures. Later, by using this system, it is generally possible to develop a user-centered system by integrating this interaction-system, because an adequate integration of alternative interaction devices provides a more natural and easy to understand form of interaction. Close Paper as PDF Conference Site doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_3 Close