Visual Information Communication

Visual Information Communication is based on VINCI'09, The Visual Information Communications International Conference, September 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Topics covered include The Arts of Visual Layout, Presentation & Exploration, The Design of Vis

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Mao Lin Huang · Quang Vinh Nguyen · Kang Zhang Editors

Visual Information Communication

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Editors Mao Lin Huang Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO BOX 123 Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia [email protected]

Quang Vinh Nguyen School of Computing and Mathematics University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 South Penrith DC, NSW 1797 Australia [email protected]

Kang Zhang Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas 800 West Campbell Road Richardson, TX 75080 USA [email protected]

ISBN 978-1-4419-0311-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0312-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0312-9 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937648 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010  All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Table of Contents

Preface …………...………………………………………………………………..…vii Chapter 1: The Physical Visualization of Information: Designing Data Sculptures in an Educational Context……..…...… …...……………………………... 1 Andrew V. Moere and Stephanie Patel Chapter 2: Visual Analysis of History of World Cup: A Dynamic Network with Dynamic Hierarchy and Geographic Clustering … ………………………….... 25 Adel Ahmed, Xiaoyan Fu, Seok-Hee Hong, Quan H. Nguyen, Kai Xu Chapter 3: From Tree to Graph – Experiments with E-Spring Algorithm ...…...…... 41 Pushpa Kumar, Kang Zhang, and Mao L. Huang Chapter 4: Visual Navigation with Schematic Maps …...………………………….. 65 Steffen Bogen, Ulrik Brandes, and Hendrik Ziezold Chapter 5: DOI-Wave: A Focus+Context Interaction Technique for Networks Based on Attention-Reactive Interface ……………………………………………. 85 Lei Ren, Lin Zhang, Dongxing Teng, Guozhong Dai, Qian Li Chapter 6: Multi-dimensional Data Visualization using Concentric Coordinates ..... 95 Jiawan Zhang, Yuan Wen, Quang V. Nguyen, Liangfu Lu, Mao L. Huang, Jiadong Yang, Jizhou Sun Chapter 7: Construct Connotation Dictionary of Visual Symbols ………………... 119 Ping Xiao, Ernesto Arroyo, Josep Blat Chapter 8: Constructing Confluent Context-sensitive Graph Grammars from Non-confluent Productions for Parsing Efficiency……… ………………….. 135 Yang Zou, Jian Lü, Xiaoqin Zeng, Xiaoxing Ma, and Qiliang Yang Chapter 9: Experimental Color in Computer Icons …………...…………………... 149 Yan-Peng Lim and Peter C. Woods