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Rosenholtz, Ruth, Twarog, Nathaniel R., Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja and Wattenberg, Martin (2009): An intuitive model of perceptual grouping for HCI design. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 1331-1340. Available online

“Understanding and exploiting the abilities of the human visual system is an important part of the design of usable user interfaces and information visualizations. Good design enables quick, easy and veridical perception of key components of that design. An important facet of human vision is its ability to seemingly effortlessly perform "perceptual organization; it transforms individual feature estimates into perception of coherent regions, structures, and objects. We perceive regions grouped by proximity and feature similarity, grouping of curves by good continuation, and grouping of regions of coherent texture. In this paper, we discuss a simple model for a broad range of perceptual grouping phenomena. It takes as input an arbitrary image, and returns a structure describing the predicted visual organization of the image. We demonstrate that this model can capture aspects of traditional design rules, and predicts visual percepts in classic perceptual grouping displays.”

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Heer, Jeffrey, Viegas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin (2009): Voyagers and voyeurs: Supporting asynchronous collaborative visualization. In Communications of the ACM, 52 (1) pp. 87-97

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Danis, Catalina M., Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin and Kriss, Jesse (2008): Your place or mine?: visualization as a community component. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 275-284. Available online

“Many Eyes is a web site that provides collaborative visualization services, allowing users to upload data sets, visualize them, and comment on each other's visualizations. This paper describes a first interview-based study of Many Eyes users, which sheds light on user motivation for creating public visualizations. Users talked about data for many reasons, from scientific research to political advocacy to hobbies. One consistent theme across these different scenarios is the use of visualizations in communication and collaborative practices. Collaboration and conversation, however, often took place outside the site, leaving no traces on Many Eyes itself. In other words, despite spurring significant social activity, Many Eyes is not so much an online community as a "community component" which users insert into pre-existing online social systems.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin, Heer, Jeffrey and Agrawala, Maneesh (2008): Social data analysis workshop. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 3977-3980. Available online

“This workshop addresses a new online phenomenon: social data analysis, that is, collective analysis of data supported by social interaction. The recent democratization of data sources on the Internet -- from mandated publication of government-generated data to scientific repositories of experimental data sets -- has enabled a new kind of web site where users upload and collaboratively analyze the most varied sorts of data. So far, most of these sites have relied on visualization as an intrinsic part of their analytical arsenal. The goals of this workshop are to: * Bring together, for the first time, the social data analysis community * Examine the design of social data analysis sites today * Discuss the role that visualizations play in social data analysis * Explore how users are utilizing the various sites that allow them to exchange data-based insights.”

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Viégas, Fernanda and Wattenberg, Martin (2008): Shakespeare, god, and lonely hearts: transforming data access with many eyes. In: JCDL08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008. pp. 145-146. Available online

“Data visualization has historically been accessible only to the technological elite. It is, after all, "serious" technology done by experts for experts. But recent web-based visualizations -- ranging from political art projects to news stories -- have reached millions. Unfortunately, while lay users can view sophisticated visualizations, they have few ways to create them. In order to "democratize" visualization, we have built Many Eyes, a web site where people may upload their own data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations. By making these tools available to anyone on the web, the site fosters a social style of data analysis that empowers users to engage with public data through discussion and collaboration. Political discussions, citizen activism, religious conversations, game playing, and educational exchanges are all happening on Many Eyes. The public nature of these visualizations provides users with a transformative path to information literacy.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin (2008): Tag clouds and the case for vernacular visualization. In Interactions, 15 (4) pp. 49-52

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin, McKeon, Matthew M., Ham, Frank van and Kriss, Jesse (2008): Harry Potter and the Meat-Filled Freezer: A Case Study of Spontaneous Usage of Visualization Tools. In: HICSS 2008 - 41st Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 7-10 January, 2008, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. p. 159. Available online

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Ham, Frank van and Wattenberg, Martin (2008): Centrality Based Visualization of Small World Graphs. In Comput. Graph. Forum, 27 (3) pp. 975-982

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Heer, Jeffrey, Viegas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin (2007): Voyagers and voyeurs: supporting asynchronous collaborative information visualization. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007. pp. 1029-1038. Available online

“This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces. We contribute the design and implementation of sense.us, a web site supporting asynchronous collaboration across a variety of visualization types. The site supports view sharing, discussion, graphical annotation, and social navigation and includes novel interaction elements. We report the results of user studies of the system, observing emergent patterns of social data analysis, including cycles of observation and hypothesis, and the complementary roles of social navigation and data-driven exploration.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin and McKeon, Matthew M. (2007): The Hidden Order of Wikipedia. In: Schuler, Douglas (ed.) OCSC 2007 - Online Communities and Social Computing - Second International Conference July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 445-454. Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin (2007): Artistic Data Visualization: Beyond Visual Analytics. In: Schuler, Douglas (ed.) OCSC 2007 - Online Communities and Social Computing - Second International Conference July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 182-191. Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin, Kriss, Jesse and Ham, Frank van (2007): Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia. In: HICSS 2007 - 40th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 3-6 January, 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. p. 78. Available online

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Wattenberg, Martin, Viegas, Fernanda B. and Hollenbach, Katherine J. (2007): Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms. In: Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio and Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) DEGAS 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of e-Government Applications and Services September 11th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp. 272-287. Available online

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Wattenberg, Martin (2006): Visual exploration of multivariate graphs. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 811-819. Available online

“This paper introduces PivotGraph, a software tool that uses a new technique for visualizing and analyzing graph structures. The technique is designed specifically for graphs that are "multivariate," i.e., where each node is associated with several attributes. Unlike visualizations which emphasize global graph topology, PivotGraph uses a simple grid-based approach to focus on the relationship between node attributes and connections. The interaction technique is derived from an analogy with methods seen in spreadsheet pivot tables and in online analytical processing (OLAP). Finally, several examples are presented in which PivotGraph was applied to real-world data sets.”

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Wattenberg, Martin, Rohall, Steven L., Gruen, Daniel and Kerr, Bernard (2005): E-Mail Research: Targeting the Enterprise. In Human-Computer Interaction, 20 (1) pp. 139-162

“The research program at IBM's Collaborative User Experience (CUE) group supports an e-mail system used by millions of people. We present three lessons learned from working with real-world enterprise e-mail solutions. First, a pragmatic, system-level approach reveals that e-mail programs are generally used idiosyncratically, often for many different goals at once. This fact has strong implications for both the design and assessment of new features. Second, we discuss how viewing e-mail as an element of corporate collaboration -- not just communication -- provides insights into problems with current systems as well as potential solutions. Third, we describe constraints imposed by the realities of software development and how they shape the space of feasible new designs. Finally, we illustrate these lessons with an overview of CUE research strategies in the context of an extended case study of one specific new technology: Thread Arcs. Although not all researchers work with an enterprise-level product team, we believe the experiences described here will be useful to anyone wishing to see their ideas ultimately implemented on a broad scale.”

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Wattenberg, Martin (2005): Baby Names, Visualization, and Social Data Analysis. In: InfoVis 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 23-25 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. p. 1. Available online

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Wattenberg, Martin (2005): A Note on Space-Filling Visualizations and Space-Filling Curves. In: InfoVis 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 23-25 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. p. 24. Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin and Dave, Kushal (2004): Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations. In: Dykstra-Erickson, Elizabeth and Tscheligi, Manfred (eds.) Proceedings of ACM CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria. pp. 575-582. Available online

“The Internet has fostered an unconventional and powerful style of collaboration: "wiki" web sites, where every visitor has the power to become an editor. In this paper we investigate the dynamics of Wikipedia, a prominent, thriving wiki. We make three contributions. First, we introduce a new exploratory data analysis tool, the history flow visualization, which is effective in revealing patterns within the wiki context and which we believe will be useful in other collaborative situations as well. Second, we discuss several collaboration patterns highlighted by this visualization tool and corroborate them with statistical analysis. Third, we discuss the implications of these patterns for the design and governance of online collaborative social spaces. We focus on the relevance of authorship, the value of community surveillance in ameliorating antisocial behavior, and how authors with competing perspectives negotiate their differences.”

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Gruen, Daniel, Rohall, Steven L., Minassian, Suzanne, Kerr, Bernard, Moody, Paul, Stachel, Bob, Wattenberg, Martin and Wilcox, Eric (2004): Lessons from the reMail prototypes. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW04 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004. pp. 152-161. Available online

“Electronic mail has become the most widely-used application for business productivity and communication, yet many people are frustrated with their email. Though email usage has changed, our email clients largely have not. In this paper, we describe a prototype email client developed out of a multi-year iterative design process aimed at providing those who "live in their email" with an improved, integrated email experience. We highlight innovative features and describe the user trials for each version of the prototype with resulting modifications. Finally, we discuss how these studies have recast our understanding of the email "habitat" and user needs.”

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Dave, Kushal, Wattenberg, Martin and Muller, Michael J. (2004): Flash forums and forumReader: navigating a new kind of large-scale online discussion. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW04 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004. pp. 232-241. Available online

“We describe a popular kind of large, topic-centered, transient discussion, which we term a flash forum. These occur in settings ranging from web-based bulletin boards to corporate intranets, and they display a conversational style distinct from Usenet and other online discussion. Notably, authorship is more diffuse, and threads are less deep and distinct. To help orient users and guide them to areas of interest within flash forums, we designed ForumReader, a tool combining data visualization with automatic topic extraction. We describe lessons learned from deployment to thousands of users in a real world setting. We also report a laboratory experiment to investigate how interface components affect behavior, comprehension, and information retrieval. The ForumReader interface is well-liked by users, and our results suggest it can lead to new navigation patterns. We also find that, while both visualization and text analytics are helpful individually, combining them may be counterproductive.”

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Wattenberg, Martin and Fisher, Danyel (2003): A Model of Multi-Scale Perceptual Organization in Information Graphics. In: InfoVis 2003 - 9th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 20-21 October, 2003, Seattle, WA, USA. . Available online

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Wattenberg, Martin (2002): Arc Diagrams: Visualizing Structure in Strings. In: InfoVis 2002 - 2002 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 27 October - 1 November, 2002, Boston, MA, USA. pp. 110-116. Available online

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Shneiderman, Ben and Wattenberg, Martin (2001): Ordered Treemap Layouts. In: InfoVis 2001 2001. pp. 73-78. Available online

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Publication period:2001-2009
Publication count:23
Number of co-authors:23

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Martin Wattenberg's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

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Michael J. Muller:63
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