Marti A. Hearst: Research: Information Visualization

We have explored a number of innovative methods of visualizing abstract information more effectively.

Keynote talk at NVAC 2006:
Visualization: in Text Analysis Problems ppt (6M)
Tutorial presented at CHI 2003:
Information Visualization: Principles, Promise, and Pragmatics ppt (8.2M)
Tutorial presented at SIGIR 2003:
User Interfaces and Visualization for Information Access ppt (10.6M)
Regularly Taught course:
Information Visualization and Presentation
Lecture materials and class projects from prior years: F'08 F'05 S'04 S'02 F'00 S'98

Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: A Flight Simulation Study, Cecilia Aragon and Marti Hearst, proceedings of CHI 2005. pdf
ImproViz: Visual Explorations of Jazz Improvisations Jon Snydal and Marti Hearst, CHI 2005 Conference Companion pdf of the paper pdf of the poster
Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout, Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, Marti Hearst, in IEEE Infovis Symposium, San Deigo, CA, October 2001.
TileBars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full Text Information Access, Marti Herast Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI), pp. 59-66, Denver, CO, May 1995. html More information
Cat-a-Cone: An Interactive Interface for Specifying Searches and Viewing Retrieval Results using a Large Category Hierarchy , Marti Hearst and Chandu Karadi, Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference Philadelphia, PA, July 1997, pdf html (this version has an appendix with larger images)
User Interfaces and Visualization by M. Hearst, in Modern Information Retrieval edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Company, 1999. html

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