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Informatics, Volume 4, Issue 3

2017 September - 18 articles

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Articles (18)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,028 Views
15 Pages

There is a long history of creative encounters between tangible interface design and the Arts. However, in comparison with media art, tangible interaction seems to be quite anchored into many of the traditional methodologies imported from human–compu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
35,335 Views
8 Pages

In a connected care environment, more citizens are engaging in their health care through mobile apps and social media tools. Given this growing health care engagement, it is important for health care professionals to have the knowledge and skills to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,682 Views
10 Pages

Connectivity is intrinsic to all aspects of our life today, be it political, economic, technological, scientific, or personal. Higher education is also transcending the previous paradigm of technology enabled content delivery and e-learning, with a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
17,629 Views
31 Pages

Scalable Interactive Visualization for Connectomics

  • Daniel Haehn,
  • John Hoffer,
  • Brian Matejek,
  • Adi Suissa-Peleg,
  • Ali K. Al-Awami,
  • Lee Kamentsky,
  • Felix Gonda,
  • Eagon Meng,
  • William Zhang and
  • Hanspeter Pfister
  • + 9 authors

Connectomics has recently begun to image brain tissue at nanometer resolution, which produces petabytes of data. This data must be aligned, labeled, proofread, and formed into graphs, and each step of this process requires visualization for human ver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,136 Views
20 Pages

Increasingly fast computing systems for simulations and high-accuracy measurement techniques drive the generation of time-dependent volumetric data sets with high resolution in both time and space. To gain insights from this spatio-temporal data, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,873 Views
21 Pages

Multidimensional Data Exploration by Explicitly Controlled Animation

  • Johannes F. Kruiger,
  • Almoctar Hassoumi,
  • Hans-Jörg Schulz,
  • AlexandruC Telea and
  • Christophe Hurter

Understanding large multidimensional datasets is one of the most challenging problems in visual data exploration. One key challenge that increases the size of the exploration space is the number of views that one can generate from a single dataset, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,439 Views
20 Pages

Visual Analysis of Stochastic Trajectory Ensembles in Organic Solar Cell Design

  • Sathish Kottravel,
  • Riccardo Volpi,
  • Mathieu Linares,
  • Timo Ropinski and
  • Ingrid Hotz

We present a visualization system for analyzing stochastic particle trajectory ensembles, resulting from Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations on charge transport in organic solar cells. The system supports the analysis of such trajectories in relation to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,724 Views
15 Pages

While big data is revolutionizing scientific research, the tasks of data management and analytics are becoming more challenging than ever. One way to remit the difficulty is to obtain the multilevel hierarchy embedded in the data. Knowing the hierarc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,501 Views
27 Pages

Abstract: The exploration of multidimensional datasets of all possible sizes and dimensions is a long-standing challenge in knowledge discovery, machine learning, and visualization. While multiple efficient visualization methods for n-D data analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,907 Views
23 Pages

PERSEUS-HUB: Interactive and Collective Exploration of Large-Scale Graphs

  • Di Jin,
  • Aristotelis Leventidis,
  • Haoming Shen,
  • Ruowang Zhang,
  • Junyue Wu and
  • Danai Koutra

Graphs emerge naturally in many domains, such as social science, neuroscience, transportation engineering, and more. In many cases, such graphs have millions or billions of nodes and edges, and their sizes increase daily at a fast pace. How can resea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,228 Views
16 Pages

The selection of appropriate wound products for the treatment of pressure injuries is paramount in promoting wound healing. However, nurses find it difficult to decide on the most optimal wound product(s) due to limited live experiences in managing p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,317 Views
22 Pages

Visual Exploration of Large Multidimensional Data Using Parallel Coordinates on Big Data Infrastructure

  • Joris Sansen,
  • Gaëlle Richer,
  • Timothée Jourde,
  • Frédéric Lalanne,
  • David Auber and
  • Romain Bourqui

The increase of data collection in various domains calls for an adaptation of methods of visualization to tackle magnitudes exceeding the number of available pixels on screens and challenging interactivity. This growth of datasets size has been suppo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,479 Views
14 Pages

Ambient Assisted Living and Health-Related Outcomes—A Systematic Literature Review

  • Alexandra Queirós,
  • Ana Dias,
  • Anabela G. Silva and
  • Nelson Pacheco Rocha

The active ageing paradigm aims to contribute to the expectation of a long, autonomous, independent and healthy life. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) promotes the development of technological solutions that might have a key role in not only the optimiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
13,794 Views
18 Pages

TOPCAT, the Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables, is an interactive desktop application for retrieval, analysis and manipulation of tabular data, offering a powerful and flexible range of interactive visualization options amongst other featur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
11,208 Views
17 Pages

The world is undergoing rapid changes in its climate, environment, and ecosystems due to increasing population growth, urbanization, and industrialization. Numerical simulation is becoming an important vehicle to enhance the understanding of these ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
12,557 Views
27 Pages

Reinforcement Learning for Predictive Analytics in Smart Cities

  • Kostas Kolomvatsos and
  • Christos Anagnostopoulos

The digitization of our lives cause a shift in the data production as well as in the required data management. Numerous nodes are capable of producing huge volumes of data in our everyday activities. Sensors, personal smart devices as well as the Int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,739 Views
27 Pages

Smart mobile devices, due to their ubiquitous nature and high level penetration in everyday life, can be a key component of an Ambient Assisted Living system to improve the quality of life of older people. This paper presents the development and eval...

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