Sunday October 10 1:45 - 2:30 Papers Preview (1 min. each) (1:45 - 1:50 Introduction) Chairs: Matt Ward and Tamara Munzner 2:30 - 3:45 Evaluation (25 min. each) An Evaluation of Microarray Visualization Tools for Biological Insight Purvi Saraiya , Chris North , Karen Duca User Experiments with Tree Visualization Systems Alfred Kobsa A Comparison of the Readability of Graphs Using Node-Link and Matrix-Based Representations Mohammad Ghoniem , Jean-Daniel Fekete , Philippe Castagliola 3:45 - 4:15 Break 4:15 - 5:30 InfoVis Contest Chairs: Catherine Plaisant, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Georges Grinstein Monday October 11 8:30 - 10:00 Keynote Stuart Card, PARC 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:15 Techniques and Tools (25 min. each) GeoTime Information Visualization Thomas Kapler , William Wright RecMap: Rectangular Map Approximations Mike Sips , Roland Heilmann , Daniel Keim , Christian Panse EZEL: A Visual Tool for Performance Assessment of Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Networks Lucian Voinea , Alex Telea , Jarke van Wijk A History Mechanism for Visual Data Mining Matthias Kreuseler , Thomas Nocke , Heidrun Schumann 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch 1:45 - 3:45 Multivariate Data (24 min. each) Steerable, Progressive Multidimensional Scaling Matt Williams , Tamara Munzner A Rank-by-Feature Framework for Unsupervised Multidimensional Data Exploration Using Low Dimensional Projections Jinwook Seo , Ben Shneiderman Value and Relation Display for Interactive Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets Jing Yang, Anilkumar Patro, Shiping Huang, Nishant Mehta, Matthew Ward , Elke Rundensteiner Uncovering Clusters in Crowded Parallel Coordinates Visualizations Almir Olivette Artero , Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira , Haim Levkowitz Clutter Reduction in Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization Using Dimension Reordering Wei Peng , Matthew Ward , Elke Runtensteiner 3:45 - 4:15 Break 4:15 - 4:45 Design Studies (15 min. each) Time-Varying Data Visualization using Information Flocking Boids Andrew Vande Moere Artifacts of the Presence Era: Using Information Visualization to Create an Evocative Souvenir Fernanda Viégas , Ethan Perry , Ethan Howe , Judith Donath 4:45 - 5:30 Posters Preview Chairs: John Stasko and Chris North 7:00 - 9:00 Symposium Reception and Poster Session Tuesday October 12 8:30 - 10:00 Evaluation and Perception (22 min. each) Intuitive Color Mixing and Compositing for Visualization Nathan Gossett , Baoquan Chen Expand-Ahead: A Space-Filling Strategy for Browsing Trees Affording Faster Drill-Down Michael McGuffin , Gord Davison , Ravin Balakrishnan Evaluating a System for Interactive Exploration of Large, Hierarchically Structured Document Repositories Michael Granitzer , Wolfgang Kienreich , Vedran Sabol , Keith Andrews , Werner Klieber Metric-Based Network Exploration and Multiscale Scatterplot Guy Melançon , Yves Chiricota , Fabien Jourdan 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:15 Models and Systems (25 min. each) A Knowledge Task-Based Framework for Design and Evaluation of Information Visualizations Robert Amar , John Stasko A Model-Based Visualization Taxonomy Melanie Tory , Torsten Möller Building Highly-Coordinated Visualizations in Improvise Chris Weaver The InfoVis Toolkit Jean-Daniel Fekete 12:45 - 1:30 InfoVis Open Meeting 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch 1:45 - 3:45 Graphs (24 min. each) Topological Fisheye Views for Visualizing Large Graphs Emden Gansner , Yehuda Koren , Stephen North Matrix Zoom: A Visual Interface to Semi-external Graphs James Abello , Frank van Ham Dynamic Drawing of Clustered Graphs Yaniv Frishman , Ayellet Tal Interactive Visualization of Small World Graphs Frank van Ham , Jarke van Wijk Non-Euclidean Spring Embedders Kevin Wampler , Stephen Kobourov 3:45 - 4:15 Break 4:15 - 5:30 Capstone Steve Roth, MAYA Viz Closing Remarks: George Robertson