1. Human Centric Visualization
Remco Chang
Charlotte Visualization Center

2. Definition Using cognitive concepts to drive the visualization process
RouteMaps
(Stolte, Stanford, SIGGRAPH 2001)
Network Visualization and Analysis
(Hanrahan, Stanford, VAST 2006)
Content-Aware Image Resizing
(Avidan, MERL, SIGGRAPH 2007)
Urban Simplification
(Chang, UNC Charlotte, SIGGRAPH Sketch 2006)

3. RouteMap

4. Network Traffic Visualization

5. Content-Aware Image Resize

6. Urban Simplification
285,039 polygons
129,883 polygons
85,332 polygons

7. Conclusion Mimic what people do
Challenge is in capturing the “knowledge”
Results are intuitive and easy to understand