Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study
Conference Proceeding
Graham, M., Kukla, R., Mandrychenko, O., Hart, D., & Kennedy, J. (2021)
Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study. In 2021 IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) (47-57). https://doi.org/10.1109/VizSec53666.2021.00011
This paper describes the process of developing data visualisations to enhance a commercial software platform for combating insider threat, whose existing UI, while perfectly f...
Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration
Journal Article
Khartabil, D., Collins, C., Wells, S., Bach, B., & Kennedy, J. (2021)
Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration. Computer Graphics Forum, 40(6), 447-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14389
This paper reports the design and comparison of three visualizations to represent the structure and content within arguments. Arguments are artefacts of reasoning widely used ...
Visual Encodings for Networks with Multiple Edge Types
Conference Proceeding
Vogogias, T., Archambault, D. W., Bach, B., & Kennedy, J. (2020)
Visual Encodings for Networks with Multiple Edge Types. In AVI '20: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1145/3399715.3399827
This paper reports on a formal user study on visual encodings of networks with multiple edge types in adjacency matrices. Our tasks and conditions were inspired by real proble...
Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations
Journal Article
Kerracher, N., & Kennedy, J. (2019)
Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations. Computer Graphics Forum, 36(3), 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13167
Categorising tasks is a common pursuit in the visualisation research community, with a wide variety of taxonomies, typologies, design spaces, and frameworks having been develo...
BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning
Journal Article
Vogogias, A., Kennedy, J., Archambault, D., Bach, B., Smith, V. A., & Currant, H. (2018)
BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning. ACM transactions on intelligent systems and technology, 10(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3230623
We address the problem of exploring, combining and comparing large collections of scored, directed networks for understanding inferred Bayesian networks used in biology. In th...
Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study
Conference Proceeding
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., & Chalmers, K. (2018)
Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study. In J. Johansson, F. Sadlo, & T. Schreck (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2018) - Short Papers, (79-83). https://doi.org/10.2312/eurovisshort.20181082
Task classifications are widely purported to be useful in the design process, with various suggestions having been made for their use at the different stages. However, little ...
Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization
Journal Article
Chen, M., Grinstein, G., Johnson, C. R., Kennedy, J., & Tory, M. (2017)
Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 37(4), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2017.3271463
There is little doubt that having a theoretic foundation will benefit the field of visualization, including its main subfields: information visualization, scientific visualiza...
MLCut: exploring multi-level cuts in dendrograms for biological data
Conference Proceeding
Vogogias, A., Kennedy, J., Archambault, D., Anne Smith, V., & Currant, H. (2016)
MLCut: exploring multi-level cuts in dendrograms for biological data. In C. Turkay, & T. Ruan Wan (Eds.), Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC)https://doi.org/10.2312/cgvc.20161288
Choosing a single similarity threshold for cutting dendrograms is not sufficient for performing hierarchical clustering analysis of heterogeneous data sets. In addition, alter...
Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics.
Conference Proceeding
Bach, B., Kerracher, N., Hall, K. W., Carpendale, S., Kennedy, J., & Henry Riche, N. (2016)
Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'16), (1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858387
In this paper, we explore graph comics as a medium to communicate
changes in dynamic networks. While previous research
has focused on visualizing dynamic networks for data
exp...
Large-scale Argument Visualization (LSAV)
Conference Proceeding
Khartabil, D., Wells, S., & Kennedy, J. (2016)
Large-scale Argument Visualization (LSAV). In Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), Posters Track (2016)
Arguments are structures of premises and conclusions that underpin rational reasoning processes. Within complex knowledge domains, especially if they are contentious, argument...