Pattern browser: Spiral-based interactive visualization using timelines on a geographical map
Patterns exist in many contexts: and can be considered the useful information for decision making. However, many patterns are not directly visible without careful presentation. Here, we describe an interactive visualization approach for browsing patterns in a history of interacting with a computer system. While a user is carrying out his/her business using computers, activities with respect to time and location are captured to determine the situational interactions. We first integrate the timeline and geographical map to create a structure to visualize spatiotemporal events in the interaction history. The spiral-based interactive visualization technique, presented in this paper, is then used to derive patterns according to the user-specified different spatial viewpoints on the map. rn this study, we demonstrate how patterns can be used as visual statements for the analysis of a spatiotemporal data set in the information visualization.
interaction history interactive information visualization spatiotemporal patterns mobile computing