Publications

2008

Tag Clouds and the Case for Vernacular Visualization
Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg
ACM Interactions, XV.4 - July/August, 2008

Emerging Graphic Tool Gets People Talking.
Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas.
Harvard Business Review, published May 2008.

Centrality Based Visualization of Small World Graphs
Frank van Ham, Martin Wattenberg.
IEEE Eurovis 2008

Your Place or Mine? Visualization as a Community Component
Catalina M. Danis, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Jesse Kriss.
CHI, 2008.

Harry Potter and the Meat-Filled Freezer: A Case Study of Spontaneous Usage of Visualization Tools
Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Matt McKeon, Frank van Ham, Jesse Kriss.
HICSS, 2008.
 

2007

Many Eyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale .
Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Frank van Ham, Jesse Kriss, Matt McKeon. Infovis, 2007.

Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms.
Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viégas, and Kate Hollenbach. Interact 2007.

Artistic Data Visualization: Beyond Visual Analytics.
Fernanda B. Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. HCII, 2007.

The Hidden Order of Wikipedia.
Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, and Matthew M. McKeon. HCII, 2007.

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. CHI, 2007.

Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Jesse Kriss, Frank van Ham. HICSS-40, 2007.
best paper Awarded Best Paper

The Visual Side of Wikipedia Fernanda B. Viégas. HICSS-40, 2007.
nominated paper Nominated for Best Paper Award

2006

Communication-Minded Visualization: A Call to Action Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. IBM Systems Journal, 45(4), 2006.

Fisheye Treeviews and Lenses for Graph Visualization Christian Tominski, James Abello, Frank van Ham, and Heidrun Schumann. IEEE Information Visualisation, IV 2006.

ASK-GraphView : A Large Scale Graph Visualization System James Abello, Frank van Ham and Neeraj Krishnan. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 12(5), 2006.

Visual Exploration of Multivariate Graphs Martin Wattenberg. CHI 2006.

Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories Fernanda B. Viégas, Scott Golder, Judith Donath. CHI 2006.

2005

Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs Frank van Ham, PhD thesis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, ISBN 90-386-0704-0, 2005.

Interactive Visualization of Large State Spaces J.F. Groote and Frank van Ham, Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), Vol. 7 No. 5, 2005.

Baby Names, Visualization, and Social Data Analysis Martin Wattenberg. InfoVis 2005.

A Note on Space-Filling Visualizations and Space-Filling Curves Martin Wattenberg. InfoVis 2005.

Revealing individual and collective pasts: Visualizations of online social archives Fernanda B. Viégas. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT Media Laboratory, 2005.

Bloggers' Expectations of Privacy and Accountability: An Initial Survey Fernanda B. Viégas. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Vol. 10, Issue 3, April 2005.

E-Mail Research: Targeting the Enterprise Martin Wattenberg, Steve Rohall, Daniel Gruen, and Bernard Kerr. Human-Computer Interaction 2005, Vol. 20, No. 1&2, Pages 139-162.


2004

Flash Forums and ForumReader: Navigating a New Kind of Online Discussion Kushal Dave, Martin Wattenberg, and Michael Muller. CSCW 2004.

Matrix Zoom: A Visual Interface to Semi-External Graphs James Abello and Frank van Ham. InfoVis 2004.

Interactive Visualization of Small World Graphs Frank van Ham and Jarke J. van Wijk. InfoVis 2004.

Case Study : Visualizing Visualization Frank van Ham. InfoVis 2004 contest entry.

Artifacts of the Presence Era: Using Information Visualization to Create an Evocative Souvenir Fernanda B. Viégas, Ethan Perry, Ethan Howe, and Judith Donath. InfoVis2004.

Artifacts of the Presence Era: Visualizing Presence for Posterity Fernanda B. Viégas, Ethan Perry, Judith Donath, and Ethan Howe. Siggraph 2004.

Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow Visualizations Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, and Kushal Dave. CHI 2004.

Analyzing Perceptual Organization in Information Graphics Martin Wattenberg, and Danyel Fisher. Information Visualization, Vol 3, No. 2, 2004.

Newsgroup Crowds and Authorlines: Visualizing the Activity of Individuals in Conversational Cybersapces Fernanda B. Viégas and Marc Smith. HICSS-37, 2004.
best paper Awarded Best Paper  

Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments Fernanda B. Viégas, danah boyd, David H. Nguyen, Jeffrey Potter, and Judith Donath. HICSS-37, 2004.


2003

A Model of Multi-Scale Perceptual Organization in Information Graphics Martin Wattenberg, and Danyel Fisher. InfoVis 2003.

Using Multilevel Call Matrices in Large Software Projects Frank van Ham, InfoVis 2003.

Rendering Hierarchical Data Jarke J. van Wijk, Huub van de Wetering and Frank van Ham, Comm. ACM 2003, vol 46, no 9ve, pp. 257-263, 2003.

Large State Space Visualization Jan Friso Groote and Frank van Ham, Proc. TACAS '03, 2003.


2002

Arc Diagrams: Visualizing Structure in Strings Martin Wattenberg. InfoVis 2002.

Beamtrees: Compact Visualization of Large Hierarchies Frank van Ham and Jarke J. van Wijk. InfoVis 2002.

Interactive Visualization of State Transition Systems Frank van Ham, Huub van de Wetering and Jarke J. van Wijk, IEEE TVCG Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 319-329, 2002.

The chat circles series: explorations in designing abstract graphical communication interfaces Judith Donath and Fernanda B. Viégas. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2002.

Ordered and quantum treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies Ben Bederson, Ben Shneiderman, and Martin Wattenberg. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 21, No. 4. 2002.

PostHistory: Visualizing Email Networks Over Time Fernanda B. Viégas and Judith Donath. Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXII, 2002.


2001

Ordered Treemap Layouts Ben Shneiderman, and Martin Wattenberg. InfoVis 2001.

Visualization of State Transition Graphs Frank van Ham, Huub van de Wetering and Jarke J. van Wijk, InfoVis 2001.

Sketching a Graph to Query a Time-Series Database Martin Wattenberg. CHI 2001.


2000

Visiphone Judith Donath, Karrie Karahalios, and Fernanda B. Viégas. ICAD 2000.


1999

Chat Circles Fernanda B. Viégas and Judith Donath. CHI 1999.

Visualizing the Stock Market Martin Wattenberg. CHI 1999.

Persistent Conversations Judith Donath, Karrie Karahalios and Fernanda B. Viégas . Journal of computer Mediated Communication, Vol. 4, Number 4. June 1999.

A Fuzzy Commitment Scheme Ari Juels, and Martin Wattenberg. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 1999.

Visualizing Conversations Judith Donath, Karrie Karahalios, and Fernanda B. Viégas . HICSS-32, 1999.


1995

Hillclimbing as a Baseline Method for the Evaluation of Stochastic Approximation Algorithms Ari Juels, and Martin Wattenberg. Neural Information Processing Systems 1995.