Browsing by Author "Rind, Alexander"

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    netflower: Dynamic Network Visualization for Data Journalists
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019) Stoiber, Christina; Rind, Alexander; Grassinger, Florian; Gutounig, Robert; Goldgruber, Eva; Sedlmair, Michael; Emrich, Štefan; Aigner, Wolfgang; Gleicher, Michael and Viola, Ivan and Leitte, Heike
    Journalists need visual interfaces that cater to the exploratory nature of their investigative activities. In this paper, we report on a four-year design study with data journalists. The main result is netflower, a visual exploration tool that supports journalists in investigating quantitative flows in dynamic network data for story-finding. The visual metaphor is based on Sankey diagrams and has been extended to make it capable of processing large amounts of input data as well as network change over time. We followed a structured, iterative design process including requirement analysis and multiple design and prototyping iterations in close cooperation with journalists. To validate our concept and prototype, a workshop series and two diary studies were conducted with journalists. Our findings indicate that the prototype can be picked up quickly by journalists and valuable insights can be achieved in a few hours. The prototype can be accessed at: http://netflower.fhstp.ac.at/
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    Towards Multimodal Exploratory Data Analysis: SoniScope as a Prototypical Implementation
    (The Eurographics Association, 2022) Enge, Kajetan; Rind, Alexander; Iber, Michael; Höldrich, Robert; Aigner, Wolfgang; Agus, Marco; Aigner, Wolfgang; Hoellt, Thomas
    The metaphor of auscultating with a stethoscope can be an inspiration to combine visualization and sonification for exploratory data analysis. This paper presents SoniScope, a multimodal approach and its prototypical implementation based on this metaphor. It combines a scatterplot with an interactive parameter mapping sonification, thereby conveying additional information about items that were selected with a visual lens. SoniScope explores several design options for the shape of its lens and the sorting of the selected items for subsequent sonification. Furthermore, the open-source prototype serves as a blueprint framework for how to combine D3.js visualization and SuperCollider sonification in the Jupyter notebook environment.