Publications
Interactive Steering of Hierarchical Clustering.
Weikai Yang, Xiting Wang, Jie Lu, Wenwen Dou, Shixia Liu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2020.
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Parallel embeddings: a visualization technique for contrasting learned representations.
Dustin L Arendt, Nasheen Nur, Zhuanyi Huang, Gabriel Fair, Wenwen Dou.
In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’20). 259–274. 2020.
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Du Bois Wrapped Bar Chart: Visualizing Categorical Data with Disproportionate Values.
Alireza Karduni, Ryan Wesslen, Isaac Cho, and Wenwen Dou.
In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–12. 2020.
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A feasibility study on identifying drinking-related contents in Facebook through mining heterogeneous data.
Omar ElTayeby, Todd Eaglin, Malak Abdullah, David Burlinson, Wenwen Dou, Lixia Yao
Health informatics journal 25 (4), 1756-1767. 2019.
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Student Network Analysis: A Novel Way to Predict Delayed Graduation in Higher Education.
Nasheen Nur, Noseong Park, Mohsen Dorodchi, Wenwen Dou, Mohammad Javad Mahzoon, Xi Niu, Mary Lou Maher
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 370-382. 2019.
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Investigating Effects of Visual Anchors on Decision‐Making about Misinformation.
Ryan Wesslen, Sashank Santhanam, Alireza Karduni, Isaac Cho, Samira Shaikh, and Wenwen Dou
Computer Graphics Forum, 38: 161-171. 2019.
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Towards Rapid Interactive Machine Learning: evaluating tradeoffs of classification without representation.
Dustin Arendt, Emily Saldanha, Ryan Wesslen, Svitlana Volkova, and Wenwen Dou
In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '19).
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Vulnerable to misinformation?: Verifi!.
Alireza Karduni, Isaac Cho, Ryan Wesslen, Sashank Santhanam, Svitlana Volkova, Dustin L Arendt, Samira Shaikh, and Wenwen Dou
In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '19).
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Bridging Text Visualization and Mining: A Task-Driven Survey.
Shixia Liu, Xiting Wang, Christopher Collins, Wewnen Dou, Fangxin Ouyang, Mennatallah El-Assady, Liu Jiang, and Daniel Keim
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2018.
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Can You Verifi This? Studying Uncertainty and Decision-Making About Misinformation using Visual Analytics.
Alireza Karduni, Ryan Wesslen, Sashank Santhanam, Isaac Cho, Svitlana Volkova, Dustin Arendt, Samira Shaikh, and Wewnen Dou
The 12th AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018.
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A Sequence Data Model for Analyzing Temporal Patterns of Student Data.
Mohammad Javad Mahzoon, Mary Lou Maher, Omar Eltayeby, Wenwen Dou, & Kazjon Grace. Journal of Learning Analytics, 5(1), 55–74, 2018.
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The Anchoring Effect in Decision-Making with Visual Analytics.
Isaac Cho, Ryan Wesslen, Alireza Karduni, Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh and Wenwen Dou.
In IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2017.
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CrystalBall: A Visual Analytic System for Future Event Discovery and Analysis from Social Media Data.
Isaac Cho, Ryan Wesslen, Svitlana Volkova, William Ribarsky, and Wenwen Dou.
In IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2017.
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Topic- and Time-Oriented Visual Text Analysis.
Wenwen Dou and Shixia Liu
in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,
vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 8-13, July-Aug. 2016. Featured on Computing Edge Hot Topics.
Omar ElTayeby and Wenwen Dou. 2016. A Survey on Interaction Log Analysis for Evaluating Exploratory Visualizations.
In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors on Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization (BELIV '16), 2016.
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VAiRoma: A Visual Analytics System for Making Sense of Places, Times, and Events in Roman History.
Isaac Cho, Wewnen Dou, Derek Xiaoyu Wang, Eric Sauda and William Ribarsky
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2015
PDF Link to interface:
https://vairoma.uncc.edu
DemographicVis: Analyzing Demographic Information based on User Generated Content
Wenwen Dou, Isaac Cho, Omar ElTayeby, Jaegul Choo, Derek Xiaoyu Wang, and William Ribarsky
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). 2015
PDF Link to interface:
http://demographicvis.uncc.edu
Textvis2015:fourth workshop on interactive visual text analytics
Jaegul Choo, Christopher Collins, Wenwen Dou, and Alex Endert
20th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). 2015
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Visually exploring large text collections using topic hierarchies
Wenwen Dou, Li Yu, Xiaoyu Wang, Zhiqiang Ma, and William Ribarsky
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2013
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Social Media Analytics for Competitive Advantage
William Ribarsky, Xiaoyu Wang, and Wenwen Dou
Elsevier Computer & Graphics, Special Issue on EuroVA 2013.
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Tag-latent dirichlet allocation: Understanding hashtags and their relationships
Zhiqiang Ma, Wenwen Dou, Xiaoyu Wang, and Srinivas Akella
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence. 2013
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Less after-the-fact: Investigative visual analysis of events from streaming twitter
Thomas Kraft, Xiaoyu Wang, Jeffrey Delawder, Wenwen Dou, Li Yu, and William Ribarsky
IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV). 2013
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Discover diamonds-in-the- rough: Tweets as a collective diary of the occupy movement
Wenwen Dou, Xiaoyu Wang, Zhiqiang Ma, and William Ribarsky
The 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). Workshop on Social Media Visualization.2013
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Real-Time Visualization of Streaming Text with a Force-Based Dynamic System
Jamar Alsakran, Yang Chen, Dongning Luo, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, Wenwen Dou, Shixia Liu
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 2012.
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Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between Interaction Constraints and Visual Isomorphs
Wenwen Dou, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Lane Harrison, Dong Hyun Jeong, William Ribarsky, Xiaoyu Wang, Remco Chang
Journal of Information Visualization (IVS), 2012.
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I-SI: Scalable architecture of analyzing latent topical-level information from social media data
Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Zhiqiang Ma, Jeremy Villalobos, Yang Chen, Thomas Kraft, William Ribarsky
Computer Graphics Forum. EuroVis, 2012.
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Leadline: Interactive visual analysis of text data through event identification and exploration
Wenwen Dou, Xiaoyu Wang, Drew Skau, William Ribarsky, Michelle Zhou
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2012.
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Evaluating depth perception of volumetric data in semi-immersive VR
Issac Cho, Wenwen Dou, Zachary Wartell, William Ribarsky, Xiaoyu Wang
ACM SIGCHI Advanced Visual Interface (AVI), 2012.
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Event Detection in Social Media Data
Wenwen Dou, Xiaoyu Wang, William Ribarsky, Michelle Zhou
IEEE VisWeek Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics - Task Driven Analytics of Social Media Content.
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Parallel Topics: A Probabilistic Approach to Exploring Document Collections
Wenwen Dou, Xiaoyu Wang, Remco Chang, William Ribarsky
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2011.
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A two-stage framework for designing visual analytics system in organizational environments
Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Thomas Butkiewicz, Eric Bier, William Ribarsky
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2011.
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Designing knowledge-assisted visual analytics systems for organizational environments
Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Thomas Butkiewicz, Eric Bier, William Ribarsky
VINCI 2011 conference on visual , information communication and interaction, 2011.
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Guiding Security analysis through visualization
Lane Harrison, Wenwen Dou, Aidong Lu, William Ribarsky, Xiaoyu Wang
VAST Challenge, IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2011.
Award: “High Potential for Scalability”
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Analytic Provenance: Process + Interaction + Insight
Chris North, Remco Chang, Alex Endert, Wenwen Dou, Richard May, William Pike, Glenn Fink
ACM SIGCHI Workshop (Extended Abstracts), 2011.
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An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Bridge Management
Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Shen-en Chen, William Ribarsky, Remco Chang
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurovis 2010).
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Comparing Different Levels of Interaction Constraints for Deriving Visual Problem Isomorphs
Wenwen Dou, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Lane Harrison, Dong Hyun Jeong, Roxanne Ryan, William Ribarsky, Xiaoyu Wang, Remco Chang
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2010.
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Helping Users Recall Their Reasoning Process
Heather Richter Lipford, Felesia Stukes, Wenwen Dou, Matthew E Hawkins, Remco Chang
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2010.
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Capturing Reasoning Process Through User Interaction
Wenwen Dou, William Ribarsky, Remco Chang
IEEE EuroVis Symposium on Visual Analytics (EuroVAST) 2010.
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Defining and Applying Knowledge Conversion Processes to a Visual Analytics System
Xiaoyu Wang, Dong Hyun Jeong, Wenwen Dou, Seok-Won Lee, William Ribarsky, Remco Chang
Computers and Graphics (Elsevier).
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Recovering Reasoning Process From User Interactions
Wenwen Dou, Dong Hyun Jeong, Felesia Stukes, William Ribarsky, Heather Richter Lipford, Remco Chang
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) Issue on Visual Analytics Evaluation (SEMVAST).
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Comparing Usage Patterns of Domain Experts and Novices in Visual Analytical Tasks
Wenwen Dou, Dong Hyun Jeong, Felesia Stukes, William Ribarsky, Heather Richter Lipford, Remco Chang
ACM SIGCHI Sensemaking Workshop 2009.
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Multi-Focused Geospatial Analysis Using Probes
Thomas Butkiewicz, Wenwen Dou, Zachary Wartell, William Ribarsky, Remco Chang
InfoVis 2008 (IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics).
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