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Our unit conducts research and provides teaching in Information Visualization and Visual Analytics. We are concerned with computer-tools, methods, and concepts that support humans in coping with complex information spaces.

We strive to make complex information structures more comprehensible, facilitate new insights, and enable process of information and knowledge discovery. At this, human abilities as well as users’ needs and tasks are central issues to assist in situations where complex decisions need to be made. Data and information are a broad field – we focus particularly on the temporal, spatial and spatial-temporal dimension.

Visualization (Information Visualization & Visual Analytics): On the one hand, a huge amount of highly structured and unstructured data and information is available in working situations and the daily life, which need to be interpreted for further decision making. On the other hand, different kinds of data and information analysis methods have been developed to gain more insights (information and knowledge gains). We investigate interactive visual and automatic methods which support the interactive exploration process in order to gain new insights. At this, we do not primarily aim to design “beautiful pictures”, but to develop visual and automatic representations and methods to explore multidimensional information spaces, which support the shaping of hypotheses facilitated by various forms of user interactions.

Plan Management & Process Engineering: Plans, workflows, and processes are omnipresent. Computer-assisted methods could ease the handling of these. On the one hand, we develop methods to support the design of such plans and actions. On the other hand, we investigate methods to execute, adapt, and maintain these. The starting point of our research is a time-oriented, intention-based plan representation language. However, such languages are very complex and hardly accessible by the user. To overcome that situation, we study visual methods to communicate such plans (for example, metaphor graphic-based visualizations) and structure as well as model such plans in an (semi-)automatic way (for example, information extraction methods).

Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice: Theoretical methods alone can only partly support the knowledge discovery process. Therefore, we examine the usability and applicability of our methods and apply them in the medical domain. One of our main foci is medical therapy planning:" clinical guidelines and protocols aim to support medical staff in their daily routine. Currently, guidelines and protocols are available in the form of textual documents only. However, if clinical guidelines are embedded within clinical decision support systems and integrated within the workflow of clinicians’ work habits and patient management, they could ease clinicians’ practices. Thus, they have to be presented in a structured format that can be used by clinical decision support systems. Moreover, the life cycle of such guidelines needs to be taken into account to support the concept of “living guidelines”. Other application areas are Digital Humanities, Financial Markets, Business Intelligence, Market Analysis, as well as other disciplines of Natural, Social, and Economic Science.

 
Silvia Miksch
Silvia Miksch S. Miksch

Head of Research Unit
Univ.Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in

 

Markus Bögl
Markus Bögl M. Bögl

PostDoc Researcher
DI Dr. / BSc

Velitchko Filipov
Velitchko Filipov V. Filipov

PostDoc Researcher
DI Dr.

Nikolaus Piccolotto
Nikolaus Piccolotto N. Piccolotto

PostDoc Researcher
Dipl.-Medieninf. Dr.

Sandhya Rajendran
Sandhya Rajendran S. Rajendran

PreDoc Researcher
MSc

Natkamon Tovanich
Natkamon Tovanich N. Tovanich

PostDoc Researcher
Dr.

Michaela Tuscher
Michaela Tuscher M. Tuscher

PreDoc Researcher
DI.in / BSc BA

 

 

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  • Aschenbrenner, A., Baumgartner, M., Böhm, C., Gstrein, E., Holle, O., Maier, K., Miksch, S. (2005). Fostering Social Relations in a Distributed Environment - WAFF’s Intralife. 9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Paris, France, EU.

 

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  • Velitchko Filipov: Best Paper Honorable Mention
    2025 / Uncertainty Visualization Workshop / Austria / Website
  • Velitchko Filipov: Best Full Paper
    2025 / Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2025) / Luxembourg / Website
  • Velitchko Filipov: Top Cited Article
    2025 / Computer Graphics Forum / USA / Website
  • Velitchko Filipov: Best Dissertation
    2024 / Austria / Website
  • Velitchko Filipov: Best Paper VIS4DH
    2019 / VIS4DH / Canada / Website
  • Silvia Miksch: Bridging the Gap between Visual Analytics and Digital Humanities: Beyond the Data-Users-Tasks Design Triangle
    2019 / Best Paper Award at VIS workshop vis4dh (IEEE VIS Conference) / USA / Website
  • Velitchko Filipov: Graph Drawing Contest
    2019 / International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization / Czech Republic / Website
  • Silvia Miksch: The Fabric of Heroes: an Infographic about Marvel Cinematic Universe
    2019 / Third prize winner at International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization Creative Topic Challenge, Contest / Czech Republic / Website
  • Velitchko Filipov: Graph Drawing Contest
    2018 / International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization / Spain / Website
  • Silvia Miksch: The Circle Of Thrones: Conveying the Story of Game of Thrones Using Radial Infographics
    2018 / Third prize winner at International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization Creative Topic Challenge, Contest / Spain / Website
  • Velitchko Filipov: Best Masters Thesis
    2018 / Austria / Website
  • Silvia Miksch: Visually and Statistically Guided Imputation of Missing Values in Univariate Seasonal Time Series
    2015 / Best Poster Award at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) / USA
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Honorable Mention at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2012
    2012 / IEEE Computer Society Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) / USA
  • Silvia Miksch: Recognition of Service Award
    2012 / Eurographics: European Association for Computer Graphics
  • Silvia Miksch: Honorable Mention at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2012
    2012 / IEEE Computer Society Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) / USA
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BM.WF): Sparkling Science Award for the cooperative research project "HorizonVis" with the school HTBL Krems
    2010 / Austria
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition for the research project "VisuExplore"
    2010 / Karl-Ritter-von-Ghega-Preis / Austria
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Top Cited Article 2005-2010 in Computers and Graphics
    2010 / Pergamon/Elsevier / Netherlands
  • Silvia Miksch: Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition for the research project "VisuExplore"
    2010 / Karl-Ritter-von-Ghega-Preis / Austria
  • Silvia Miksch: Top Cited Article 2005-2010 in Computers and Graphics
    2010 / Pergamon/Elsevier / Netherlands
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Federal Ministry of Science and Re- search (BM.WF): Sparkling Science Award for the cooperative research project "StackFlow 3D" with the school HTBL Krems
    2009 / Austria
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition for the research project "DisCo"
    2008 / Karl-Ritter-von-Ghega-Preis / Austria
  • Silvia Miksch: Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition for the research project "DisCo"
    2008 / Karl-Ritter-von-Ghega-Preis / Austria
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Award of Special Recognition
    2004 / Austrian Society of Artificial Intelligence(ÖGAI) / Austria
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Outstanding Achievement Award
    2003 / Austria
  • Wolfgang Aigner: Outstanding Achievement Award
    1999 / Johannes Kepler University Linz / Austria