CS295J/Week 4.11

tuesday class notes

• project ideas
  • what is a theory of vis?
  • your revisions, with that in mind
  • some brainstorming on projects
• theory of vis
• crits
  • number (to refer back) and clarify what's is being addressed
  • clean up
  • look for class projects in responses
  • do some more responses with projects?

thursday class notes (mostly dhl paper notes)

• Question: what 50-day project does this paper suggest?
• Statistics and visualization: Diem
  • 2008 abstract sounds great and very relevant: MILCs
  • sounds a little I Caroline's CHI note
  • some interesting uses of network visualization
  • not a lot of details about actual ethnography
• automatic cognitive load detection from speech features: Jenna
  • maybe 3 levels is enough for some things
  • could be built into a 50 day experiment
• cognitive design principles: revealing and instantiating: Michael
  • I like the spatial evaluation of participants
  • this may generalize to visualization users, as well
  • cool that they automated the process!
  • Could we do the same thing to design network visualizations?
• Visual variability analysis for goal models: Chen
  • title is hard to parse
  • sounds like a “we tried a bunch of things” paper. 2004
• uncovering cognitive processes:…: Clara
  • reminds me of Plaisant paper that suggests a research agenda
  • some interesting methodological ingredients for our projects
• embodied models of simulated users: introduction: Nathan
  • 2001–wow, 10 years ago!
  • Maybe we should look at Bonnie John's 1998 paper, as well
  • great division of modeling for 3 uses: prediction, assistance, surrogacy
  • in the special issue
  • maybe we should look at the rest of the tools in this special issue
  • great review article for the kind of modeling we want to do
  • we should look at papers that cite this one!
  • More extensive than most special issue introductions
• low-level components of analytic activity in information visualization: Steve
  • wow, 200 questions!
  • Maybe we could do a similar experiment in class
  • the Schneiderman paper (or was it card) that goes along with tableau seems relevant here
  • I worry that the task is too disinvesed to the users.
• Macro R&D: Stephen
  • example does still exist--could we actually use it?
  • Sounds less established than I would like
  • what we had proposed was “community”
• collaborative synthesis of visual analytic results: Caroline
  • some pretty pictures; some nice ethnographic results
  • too Unstructured? Not enough “driving application"?
  • I think our visualization application is a kind of visual analytics
  • results look somewhat dauntingly complex
  • post-its–nice
  • boy, figure 6 sure shows incredible differences in strategies
  • I come back to “driving application”
• the cognitive task analysis methods for job and task design: Hua
  • 2004
  • focuses on jobs in general, not computer stuff
  • all are based on gathering data via observation by a human
  • table 2 very useful for characterizing different benefits
  • wow, extensive; my cognitive load has been reached

• I'd like to get the cognitive bias ideas into class, as well as the 7 orders of magnitude paper