Council members and policy workers need to understand (long-term) processes that lead to decisions. Gaining such an overview of a topic through a search engine can be challenging however, as searching a complex topic can result in an overwhelming number ...

This paper aims to explore the use of color and color harmony in Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and present the results in the form of a web-based digital museum to provide an intuitive and immersive experience to the public audience. To achieve this ...

The immersive nature of virtual reality (VR) allows even complex information to be communicated in an engaging, interactive, and fast way. This is particularly useful in the case of long-term political processes, such as the siting, construction, and ...

Data visualization is key in the Big Data context, enabling different cognitive perspectives over large datasets. These visual perspectives can prompt relevant advantages with regard to healthcare records, because they may contribute to a faster, ...

The network protection tools (NPTs) and methods (NPMs) have already passed a fairly long evolutionary path since 1970. The main milestones of this evolution from 1984 to 2011 were shown by Clod Conrad. The goal of the paper is to revise a brief ...

The increased accessibility of urban sensor data and the popularity of social network applications is enabling the discovery of crowd mobility and personal communication patterns. However, studying the egocentric relationships of an individual can be ...

The majority of informational data in the real world is related to time and geographical location. With the advent of the information age, information of time and space will be ubiquitous and ever-present. Reconstructing the original information to ...

Watching omnidirectional movies via head mounted displays puts the viewer inside the scene. In this way, the viewer enjoys an immersive movie experience. However, due to the free choice of field-of-view, it is possible to miss details which are ...

This paper describes a prototype timeline tool designed for humanities researchers exploring digitised historical documents. The tool visualises keyword instances in context mapped by date, and can be used to explore commentary around themes through ...

We propose a system that detects the scene, where a specific speaker is speaking in the video, and displays the site as a heat map in the video's timeline. This system enables users to skip to the timeline they want to hear by detecting scenes in a drama,...

In this paper, we propose a collaborative system to let users share their own videos and interact among themselves to collaboratively do a video coverage of live events. Our intention is to motivate users to make positive contributions to the ...

Longitudinal corpora like legal, corporate and newspaper archives are of immense value to a variety of users, and time as an important factor strongly influences their search behavior in these archives. While many systems have been developed to support ...

With the explosive growth of microblogging service, Twitter has become a leading platform consisting of real-time world wide information. Users tend to explore breaking news or general topics in Twitter according to their interests. However, the ...

As the smartphone has become more widely available, we easily take photos and upload them online to share with others. Photographs are abundant, but they are not used properly, even though they provide meaningful information about the social scenes of ...

Timeline generation is an important research task which can help users to have a quick understanding of the overall evolution of one given topic. Previous methods simply split the time span into fixed, equal time intervals without studying the role of ...

In this article, we introduce a novel timeline visualization technique, TimeSets, that helps make sense of complex temporal datasets by showing the set relationships among individual events. TimeSets visually groups events that share a topic, such as a ...

This demo presents Wikiglass, a learning analytic tool for visualizing the statistics and timelines of collaborative Wikis built by secondary school students during their group project in inquiry-based learning. The tool adopts a modular structure for ...

MyHealthAvatar is a project designed to collect lifestyle and health data to promote citizen’s wellbeing. As a lifetime companion of citizens the amount of data to be collected is large. It is almost impossible for citizens, patients and doctors to view,...

Modeling human mobility is a critical task in fields such as urban planning, ecology, and epidemiology. Given the current use of mobile phones, there is an abundance of data that can be used to create models of high reliability. Existing techniques can ...

Timelines are often used for summarizing complex, time-evolving, sequences of events. In this work, we propose Linea, a tool that helps users build timelines from unstructured text. Besides providing interactive tools for browsing, selecting, editing, ...