GraphDiaries: Animated Transitions andTemporal Navigation for Dynamic Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 740 - 754
• Main Authors: Bach, Benjamin, Pietriga, Emmanuel, Fekete, Jean-Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.05.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Animated; Animation; Complexity theory; Dynamic networks; Dynamical systems; Dynamics; graph visualization; Layout; Navigation; Networks; Tasks; Taxonomy; temporal navigation; Topology; user experiment; Visualization

Identifying, tracking and understanding changes in dynamic networks are complex and cognitively demanding tasks. We present GraphDiaries, a visual interface designed to improve support for these tasks in any node-link based graph visualization system. GraphDiaries relies on animated transitions that...