Graphemes: self-organizing shape-based clustered structures for network visualisations

R Shannon; AJ Quigley; Patrick Nixon

doi:10.1145/1753846.1754125

Graphemes: self-organizing shape-based clustered structures for network visualisations

R Shannon, AJ Quigley, Patrick Nixon

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Abstract

Network visualisations use clustering approaches to simplify the presentation of complex graph structures. We present a novel application of clustering algorithms, which controls the visual arrangement of the vertices in a cluster to explicitly encode information about that cluster. Our technique arranges parts of the graph into symbolic shapes, depending on the relative size of each cluster. Early results suggest that this layout augmentation helps viewers make sense of a graph’s scale and number of elements, while facilitating recall of graph features, and increasing stability in dynamic graph scenarios.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unknown Host Publication
Editors	E Mynatt, D Schoner
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	4195-4200
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-930-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1754125
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 2010
Event	Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Atlanta, GA, USA Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → …

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Conference	Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Period	1/01/10 → …

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Dynamic graphs
graph drawing
visual memory.

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Shannon, R, Quigley, AJ & Nixon, P 2010, Graphemes: self-organizing shape-based clustered structures for network visualisations. in E Mynatt & D Schoner (eds), Unknown Host Publication. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 4195-4200, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1/01/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1754125

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