Early Days of Interactive Information Visualization at the University of Maryland

In spring of 2022 the editors of the “Visual Computing: Origins” section of the IEEE CG&A magazine asked us to write a paper about the early days of interactive Visualization at the HCIL. Below is the paper and a set of original videos.

The Paper

Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B., Lightning and Thunder: the Early Days of Interactive Information Visualization at the University of Maryland, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (2022) to appear

Videos

• SUMMARY VIDEO (coming soon)
• Original videos of the main projects mentioned in the paper:
  • Dynamic queries:
    • HomeFinder: Dynamic Queries: Database Searching by Direct Manipulation (11 min)
    • Dynamap: Dynamap: Dynamic Queries on a Health Statistics Atlas (7 min)
  • Visual Information Seeking:
    • Filmfinder: Visual Information Seeking Using the FilmFinder (6:30 min)
    • IVEE demos (5 min)
    • Early Spotfire demos (6 min)
  • Query Previews:
    • Query Previews in Networked Information Systems: the Case of EOSDIS (5 min)
    • 1999 update
  • Treemaps:
    • Treemaps for visualizing hierarchical information (11 min)
    • Hierarchical Visualization with Treemaps: Making Sense of Pro Basketball Data (9:30 min)
  • Lifelines:
    • Juvenile Justice: LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories (7 min)
    • Medical records: Lifelines – Visualization of medical patient record (8 min)
• All the early HCIL videos