Catherine Plaisant

Orcid: 0000-0003-4049-5848

Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland, College Park, USA


According to our database1, Catherine Plaisant authored at least 176 papers between 1988 and 2023.

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2023
Understanding Barriers to Network Exploration with Visualization: A Report from the Trenches.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2023

2022
Do You Believe Your (Social Media) Data? A Personal Story on Location Data Biases, Errors, and Plausibility as Well as Their Visualization.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2022

Six methods for transforming layered hypergraphs to apply layered graph layout algorithms.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 2022

Lightning and Thunder: The Early Days of Interactive Information Visualization at the University of Maryland.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2022

2021
Analyzing Dynamic Hypergraphs with Parallel Aggregated Ordered Hypergraph Visualization.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2021

The 2020 Visualization Career Award.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2021

Integrating Prior Knowledge in Mixed-Initiative Social Network Clustering.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2021

The historical CHI video project: bringing 1983-2002 treasures to the ACM Digital Library and YouTube.
Interactions, 2021

2020
A Task-Based Taxonomy of Cognitive Biases for Information Visualization.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2020

2019
Correction to: Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall.
Virtual Real., 2019

Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall.
Virtual Real., 2019

Visual Interfaces for Recommendation Systems: Finding Similar and Dissimilar Peers.
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., 2019

EventAction: A Visual Analytics Approach to Explainable Recommendation for Event Sequences.
ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2019

Designing a medication timeline for patients and physicians.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2019

Interactive Visual Event Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges.
Computer, 2019

2018
Result Display.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Second Edition, 2018

Increasing Recognition of Wrong-Patient Errors through Improved Interface Design of a Computerized Provider Order Entry System.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., 2018

Remembering Georges Grinstein.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2018

Observations and Reflections on Visualization Literacy in Elementary School.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2018

Spatial Mnemonics using Virtual Reality.
Proceedings of the 2018 10th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering, 2018

Mining clinical big data for drug safety: Detecting inadequate treatment with a DNA sequence alignment algorithm.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2018, 2018

2017
Coping with Volume and Variety in Temporal Event Sequences: Strategies for Sharpening Analytic Focus.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2017

How the CHI Community Got its Groove: and Changed the World!
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

Finding Similar People to Guide Life Choices: Challenge, Design, and Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

2016
High-Volume Hypothesis Testing: Systematic Exploration of Event Sequence Comparisons.
ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2016

TreatmentExplorer: an Interactive Decision Aid for Medical Risk Communication and Treatment Exploration.
Interact. Comput., 2016

Grand challenges for HCI researchers.
Interactions, 2016

EventAction: Visual analytics for temporal event sequence recommendation.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2016

Simplifying Overviews of Temporal Event Sequences.
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

Animations 25 Years Later: New Roles and Opportunities.
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2016

Designing the User Interface - Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 6th Edition.
Pearson, ISBN: 978-1-292-15391-9, 2016

2015
Novel user interface design for medication reconciliation: an evaluation of Twinlist.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2015

Sharpening Analytic Focus to Cope with Big Data Volume and Variety.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2015

Cohort Comparison of Event Sequences with Balanced Integration of Visual Analytics and Statistics.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2015

2014
A Task Taxonomy for Network Evolution Analysis.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2014

Evaluation of visual analytics environments: The road to the Visual Analytics Science and Technology challenge evaluation methodology.
Inf. Vis., 2014

Reducing Wrong Patient Selection Errors: Exploring the Design Space of User Interface Techniques.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2014, 2014

2013
Temporal Event Sequence Simplification.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2013

Visualizing Change over Time Using Dynamic Hierarchies: TreeVersity2 and the StemView.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2013

30 years at the University of Maryland's human-computer interaction lab (HCIL).
Interactions, 2013

Exploring Data Distributions: Visual Design and Evaluation.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., 2013

Interactive Information Visualization to Explore and Query Electronic Health Records.
Found. Trends Hum. Comput. Interact., 2013

Improving Healthcare with Interactive Visualization.
Computer, 2013

The challenges of specifying intervals and absences in temporal queries: a graphical language approach.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

Twinlist: Novel User Interface Designs for Medication Reconciliation.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2013, 2013

An Information-Centric Framework for Designing Patient-Centered Medical Decision Aids and Risk Communication.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2013, 2013

2012
Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2012

Querying event sequences by exact match or similarity search: Design and empirical evaluation.
Interact. Comput., 2012

Towards event sequence representation, reasoning and visualization for EHR data.
Proceedings of the ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, 2012

Life on the Line: Interacting with Temporal Event Sequence Representations.
Proceedings of the Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, 2012

A reflection on seven years of the VAST challenge.
Proceedings of the 2012 BELIV Workshop: Beyond Time and Errors, 2012

2011
Extracting Insights from Electronic Health Records: Case Studies, a Visual Analytics Process Model, and Design Recommendations.
J. Medical Syst., 2011

Information visualization: State of the field and new research directions.
Inf. Vis., 2011

Research directions in data wrangling: Visualizations and transformations for usable and credible data.
Inf. Vis., 2011

Temporal Visualization of Social Network Dynamics: Prototypes for Nation of Neighbors.
Proceedings of the Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, 2011

TreeVersity: Comparing tree structures by topology and node's attributes differences.
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2011

LifeFlow: visualizing an overview of event sequences (video preview).
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

LifeFlow: visualizing an overview of event sequences.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

Active progress bars: facilitating the switch to temporary activities.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

2010
Making sense of archived e-mail: Exploring the Enron collection with NetLens.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2010

Understanding Interactive Legends: a Comparative Evaluation with Standard Widgets.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 2010

Visual information seeking in multiple electronic health records: design recommendations and a process model.
Proceedings of the ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, 2010

VAST 2010 Challenge: Arms dealings and pandemics.
Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2010

Exploring temporal patterns with information visualization: keynote.
Proceedings of the Graphics Interface 2010 Conference, May 31, 2010

10241 Executive Summary - Information Visualization.
Proceedings of the Information Visualization, 13.06. - 18.06.2010, 2010

10241 Abstracts Collection - Information Visualization.
Proceedings of the Information Visualization, 13.06. - 18.06.2010, 2010

ManyNets: an interface for multiple network analysis and visualization.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Designing the User Interface - Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 5th Edition.
Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 978-0-321-53735-5, 2010

2009
Result Display.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009

Temporal Summaries: Supporting Temporal Categorical Searching, Aggregation and Comparison.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2009

Advancing user-centered evaluation of visual analytic environments through contests.
Inf. Vis., 2009

Visual-Analytics Evaluation.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2009

What's being said near "Martha"? Exploring name entities in literary text collections.
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2009

VAST 2009 challenge: An insider threat.
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2009

The healthcare singularity and the age of semantic medicine.
Proceedings of the Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, 2009

2008
Promoting Insight-Based Evaluation of Visualizations: From Contest to Benchmark Repository.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2008

Data Sonification for Users with Visual Impairment: A Case Study with Georeferenced Data.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2008

Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2008

VAST 2008 Challenge: Introducing mini-challenges.
Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2008

Aligning temporal data by sentinel events: discovering patterns in electronic health records.
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008

BELIV'08: Beyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008

Searching Electronic Health Records for Temporal Patterns in Patient Histories: A Case Study with Microsoft Amalga.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2008, 2008

2007
Exploring Content-Actor Paired Network Data Using Iterative Query Refinement with NetLens.
Bull. IEEE Tech. Comm. Digit. Libr., 2007

NetLens: iterative exploration of content-actor network data.
Inf. Vis., 2007

BELIV'06: beyond time and errors; novel evaluation methods for information visualization.
Interactions, 2007

in Honor of Ben Shneiderman's 60th Birthday: Reflections on Human-Computer Interaction.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., 2007

Similarity-Based Forecasting with Simultaneous Previews: A River Plot Interface for Time Series Forecasting.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2007

VAST 2007 Contest - Blue Iguanodon.
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2007

Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections: integrating text mining with visualization.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007

2006
TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2006

Shared family calendars: Promoting symmetry and accessibility.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2006

Exploring auction databases through interactive visualization.
Decis. Support Syst., 2006

Exploring erotics in Emily Dickinson's correspondence with text mining and visual interfaces.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006

Exploring content-actor paired network data using iterative query refinement with NetLens.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006

VAST 2006 Contest - A Tale of Alderwood.
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Symposium On Visual Analytics Science And Technology, 2006

Integrating data and interfaces to enhance understanding of government statistics: toward the national statistical knowledge network project briefing.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 2006

Strategies for evaluating information visualization tools: multi-dimensional in-depth long-term case studies.
Proceedings of the 2006 AVI Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization, 2006

Task taxonomy for graph visualization.
Proceedings of the 2006 AVI Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization, 2006

2005
Interactive Sonification of Choropleth Maps.
IEEE Multim., 2005

Show Me! Guidelines for Producing Recorded Demonstrations.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2005), 2005

Interactive pattern search in time series.
Proceedings of the Visualization and Data Analysis 2005, 2005

Visualizing Missing Data: Graph Interpretation User Study.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 2005

Representing Unevenly-Spaced Time Series Data for Visualization and Interactive Exploration.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 2005

Visualizing Graphs as Trees: Plant a Seed and Watch it Grow.
Proceedings of the Graph Drawing, 13th International Symposium, 2005

Project highlight: toward a statistical knowledge network--2004-05.
Proceedings of the 2005 National Conference on Digital Government Research, 2005

"I hear the pattern": interactive sonification of geographical data patterns.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2005

iSonic: interactive sonification for non-visual data exploration.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2005

Designing the user interface - strategies for effective human-computer interaction, 4th Edition.
Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 978-0-321-19786-3, 2005

2004
Immediate usability: a case study of public access design for a community photo library.
Interact. Comput., 2004

Extending the Utility of Treemaps with Flexible Hierarchy.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2004

Les leçons tirées des deux compétitions de visualisation d'information.
Proceedings of the 16th conference on Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine, 2004

Sonification of Geo-Referenced Data for Auditory Information Seeking: Design Principle and Pilot Study.
Proceedings of the ICAD 2004: The 10th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, 2004

Toward the National Statistical Knowledge Network.
Proceedings of the 2004 Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, 2004

The challenge of information visualization evaluation.
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, 2004

2003
Navigation patterns & usability of zoomable user interfaces: with and without an overview.
Interactions, 2003

Which Comes First, Utility or Usability?
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Visualization Conference, 2003

Helping users get started with visual interfaces: multi-layered interfaces, integrated initial guidance and video demonstrations.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction: Universal Access in HCI: Inclusive Design in the Information Society, 2003

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data.
Proceedings of the 2003 Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, 2003

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data.
Proceedings of the 2003 Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, 2003

Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network.
Proceedings of the 2003 Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, 2003

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of Pair Trees.
Proceedings of the 2003 Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, 2003

New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces and Integrated Initial Guidance.
Proceedings of the 2003 Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, 2003

Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families.
Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2003

2002
Navigation patterns and usability of zoomable user interfaces with and without an overview.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2002

A photo history of SIGCHI: evolution of design from personal to public.
Interactions, 2002

SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2002), 27 October, 2002

Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items.
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2002), 27 October, 2002

Technologies for families.
Proceedings of the Extended abstracts of the 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2002

2001
Enabling Commuters to Find the Best Route: An Interface for Analyzing Driving History Logs.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '01: IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2001

Therapeutic play with a storytelling robot.
Proceedings of the CHI 2001 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2001

2000
Previews and overviews in digital libraries: Designing surrogates to support visual information seeking.
J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 2000

Facilitating data exploration with query previews: A study of user performance and preference.
Behav. Inf. Technol., 2000

Evaluation Challenges for a Federation of Heterogeneous Information Providers: The Case of NASA's Earth Science Information Partnerships.
Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2000), 2000

Simulation based learning environments and the use of learning histories.
Proceedings of the CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2000

A storytelling robot for pediatric rehabilitation.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2000

1999
Interface and Data Architecture for Query Preview in Networked Information Systems.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1999

The End of Zero-hit Queries: Query Previews for NASA's Global Change Master Directory.
Int. J. Digit. Libr., 1999

Temporal, Geographical, and Categorial Aggregations Viewed through Coordinated Displays: A Case Study with Highway Incident Data.
Proceedings of the Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation, 1999

The design of history mechanisms and their use in collaborative educational simulations.
Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, 1999

Excentric Labeling: Dynamic Neighborhood Labeling for Data Visualization.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the CHI '99 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: The CHI is the Limit, 1999

Refining Query Previews Techniques for Data with Multivalued Attributes: The Case of NASA EOSDIS.
Proceedings of the IEEE Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, 1999

1998
Designing a real-time telepathology workstation to mitigate communication delays.
Interact. Comput., 1998

An Information Architecture to Support the Visualization of Personal Histories.
Inf. Process. Manag., 1998

Interfaces and Tools for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
Inf. Process. Manag., 1998

Viewing personal history records: A comparison of tabular format and graphical presentation using LifeLines.
Behav. Inf. Technol., 1998

Data Object and Label Placement For Information Abundant Visualizations.
Proceedings of the CIKM 1998 Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation, 1998

Information visualization advanced interface and Web design.
Proceedings of the CHI 98 Conference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1998

Bringing treasures to the surface: previews and overviews in a prototype for the Library of Congress National Digital Library.
Proceedings of the CHI 98 Conference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1998

Visualizing medical records with LifeLines.
Proceedings of the CHI 98 Conference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1998

LifeLines: using visualization to enhance navigation and analysis of patient records.
Proceedings of the AMIA 1998, 1998

1997
Low-Effort, High-Payoff User Interface Reengineering.
IEEE Softw., 1997

Query Previews for Networked Information Systems: A Case Study with NASA Environmental Data.
SIGMOD Rec., 1997

Browsing hierarchical data with multi-level dynamic queries and pruning.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 1997

Bringing Treasures to the Surface: Iterative Design for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1997

Query Previews in Networked Information Systems: the Case of EOSDIS.
Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1997

Putting Visualization to Work: ProgramFinder for Youth Placement.
Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1997

1996
Where is Information Visualization Technology Going?
Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 1996

User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, 1996

LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Common Ground, 1996

LifeLines: visualizing personal histories.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Common Ground, 1996

Query Previews in Networked Information Systems.
Proceedings of the Third Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Library, 1996

1995
Image-Browser Taxonomy and Guidelines for Designers.
IEEE Softw., 1995

Organization overviews and role management: inspiration for future desktop environments.
Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1995

An Applied Ethnographic Method for Redesigning User Interfaces.
Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, 1995

1994
Dynamaps: dynamic queries on a health statistics atlas.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1994

The Future of Graphic User Interfaces: Personal Role Managers.
Proceedings of the People and Computers IX, 1994

1993
Exploring remote images: a telepathology workstation.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 1993

1992
Scheduling Home Control Devices: Design Issues and Usability Evaluation of Four Touchscreen Interfaces.
Int. J. Man Mach. Stud., 1992

Touchscreen Toggle Design.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1992

Remote manipulation interfaces the case of a telepathology workstation.
Proceedings of the Posters and Short Talks of the 1992 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1992

1991
Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the Hyperties Workstation Browser.
Hypermedia, 1991

Scheduling on-off home control devices.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1991

1990
Incorporating String Search in a Hypertext System: User Interface and Signature File Design Issues.
Hypermedia, 1990

1989
Evaluating three museum installations of a hypertext system.
JASIS, 1989

A Spectrum of Automatic Hypertext Constructions.
Hypermedia, 1989

1988
Automatically Transforming Regularly Structured Documents into Hypertext.
Electron. Publ., 1988


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