Jie Hao's research while affiliated with University of Texas at Dallas and other places

Publications (6)

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Multidimensional visualization, which creates visual presentations for datasets of multiple variables, helps users to gain an insight of represented information from different perspectives. This paper presents a multidimensional information visualization technique called InfoShape that represents multidimensional information as a 3D sphere whose ap...
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This paper presents a visualization approach called Radial Edgeless Tree (RELT) for vi-sualizing and navigating hierarchical information on small screens. Major advantages of the RELT approach include: elegance recursive division of the display area, space-filling, maximum usage of screen estate, and clarity of the hierarchical structure. It offers...
Conference Paper
Visualization techniques have been widely used in representing software artifacts. They play a central role in conveying program information to software developers. While numerous tools have been developed to visualize information such as static software architectures, dynamic program behaviors, and debugging processes, little attention has been pa...
Conference Paper
This paper presents a visualization methodology called Radial Edgeless Tree (RELT) for visualizing and navigating hierarchical information on mobile interfaces. RELT is characterized by recursive division of a polygonal display area, space-filling, maximum screen space usage, and clarity of the hierarchical structure. It is also general and flexibl...
Conference Paper
There is a dramatic increase in the population who use mobile computing devices. Though the hardware becomes more powerful, effective support for information rendering on small screens very much lags behind. To display hierarchical information, researchers have proposed many algorithms for desktop screen visualization. Such algorithms are generally...
Conference Paper
The small screens on increasingly used mobile devices challenge the traditional visualization methods designed for desktops. This paper presents a method called “Radial Edgeless Tree” (RELT) for visualizing trees in a 2-dimensional space. It combines the existing connection tree drawing with the space-filling approach to achieve the efficient displ...

Citations

... The results showed that RELT has a relatively long learning curve, which means the compact layout of RELT may hurt its readability. Tablorer is another tree visualization system designed especially for mobile devices, which is proposed by Shin, Park, and Han in 2011 [64]. In Tablorer, all children of a node are drawn in one rectangle called sibling block. ...
... Program execution is a common target for visualization developers [16,29,25]. The concept of multi-plane visualization is also used in that area [37]. Richard Müller investigated experimentally different ways of 3D software visualization in his thesis [23]. ...
... The second reason is to give each individual node a more recognizable shape by using irregular convex polygons. Hence, Treemaps have been altered into Voronoi Treemaps ( Figure 13f) and Circular Partitions (Figure 13q), and the Sunburst technique into the Radial Edgeless Trees (Figure 13m) [43]- [47]. These techniques are not restricted to a certain type of primitive that is then packed as tightly as possible in the available screen space. ...
... When mobile devices are used, the display area is usually extremely small and some approaches other than conventional connection and enclosure methods have been pro-posed especially for this situation. Hao, Zhang, and Huang demonstrated "Radial Edgeless Tree" (RELT), a tree visualization method based on space-fill idea for extremely small screen [62,63]. In RELT, the whole display area is partitioned into several polygons defined by three or four edges. ...
... On the other hand, we have a foundational understanding of how people interact with mobile devices. This overview examines the intersection of these interactions; and while the research pertaining to interacting with visualization on mobile devices predates multitouch-enabled phones and tablets (e. g., [57,22,43,51,30]), our overview focuses on research published since 2010. Table 3.1 summarizes our overview. ...