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Edinburgh Napier University

Natalie Kerracher

Natalie Kerracher

Dr Natalie Kerracher

Research Fellow

N.Kerracher@napier.ac.uk

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Biography

Natalie Kerracher completed her Ph.D. degree within the Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems in 2017. Her research interests lie in the broad area of Information Visualisation, specifically the visualisation of dynamic (temporal) graphs and visualisation classifications. She holds an MA (Hons) degree in Mental Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc in Software Technology for the Web from Edinburgh Napier University.

School

School of Computing

Research Groups

Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems

Themes

Information Society

Research Areas

Information visualisation

Tasks and visual techniques for the exploration of temporal graph data

Kerracher, N. Tasks and visual techniques for the exploration of temporal graph data. (Thesis)
<p>Kerracher, N. Tasks and visual techniques for the exploration of temporal graph data. (Thesis)</p>

This thesis considers the tasks involved in exploratory analysis of temporal graph data, and the visual techniques which are able to support these tasks. There has been an e...
Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations

Kerracher, N. & Kennedy, J. (2017). Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations. Computer Graphics Forum. 36(3)ISSN 0167-7055
<p>Kerracher, N. & Kennedy, J. (2017). Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations. <i>Computer Graphics Forum</i>. <i>36</i>(3)ISSN 0167-7055</p>

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...

2017
A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation

Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., & Chalmers, K. (2015). A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 21(10), (1160-1172). doi:10.1109/tvcg.2015.2424889. ISSN 1077-2626
<p>Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., & Chalmers, K. (2015). A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation. <i>IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics</i>, <i>21(10)</i>, (1160-1172). doi:10.1109/tvcg.2015.2424889. ISSN 1077-2626</p>

By extending and instantiating an existing formal task framework, we define a task taxonomy and task design space for temporal graph visualisation. We discuss the process invo...

2015
Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study

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. doi:10.2312/eurovisshort.20181082
<p>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.), <i>Proceedings of the 2018 Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2018) - Short Papers</i>, 79-83. doi:10.2312/eurovisshort.20181082</p>

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 ...

2018
Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics.

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. doi:10.1145/2858036.2858387
<p>Bach, B., Kerracher, N., Hall, K. W., Carpendale, S., Kennedy, J., & Henry Riche, N. (2016). Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics. In <i>Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'16)</i>, 1-13. doi:10.1145/2858036.2858387</p>

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...

2016
Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data.

Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., Chalmers, K., & Graham, M. (2015). Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data. In E. Bertini, J. Kennedy, & E. Puppo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '15), Short Papers Track, 103-107. doi:10.2312/eurovisshort.20151133
<p>Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., Chalmers, K., & Graham, M. (2015). Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data. In E. Bertini, J. Kennedy, & E. Puppo (Eds.), <i>Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '15), Short Papers Track</i>, 103-107. doi:10.2312/eurovisshort.20151133</p>

Recently, much research has focused on developing techniques for the visual representation of temporal graph data. This paper takes a wider look at the visual techniques invol...

2015
The design space of temporal graph visualisation.

Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J. & Chalmers, K. (2013). The design space of temporal graph visualisation. In Elmqvist, N., Hlawitschka, M. & Kennedy, J. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 18th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '14)doi:10.2312/eurovisshort.20141149. ISBN 978-3-905674-69-9
<p>Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J. & Chalmers, K. (2013). The design space of temporal graph visualisation. In Elmqvist, N., Hlawitschka, M. & Kennedy, J. (Eds.). <i>Proceedings of the 18th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '14)</i>doi:10.2312/eurovisshort.20141149. ISBN 978-3-905674-69-9</p>

This paper presents our work in mapping the design space of techniques for temporal graph visualisation. We identify two independent dimensions upon which the techniques can b...

2013

Security Visualisation

Innovate UK

To optimise the ZoneFox product through the development and incorporation of effective information visualisation tools for generating insight through visual exploration and discovery of relationships ...

2018 to 2020

Previous Post Grad projects

Tasks and visual techniques for exploration of temporal graph data - Dr Natalie Kerracher (Student), Dr Kevin Chalmers, Prof Jessie Kennedy, Dr M J Rutter

Doctorate

2010 to 2017

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