Visual analytics of contact tracing policy simulations during an emergency response

M Sondag, C Turkay, K Xu, L Matthews… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Epidemiologists use individual‐based models to (a) simulate disease spread over dynamic
contact networks and (b) to investigate strategies to control the outbreak. These model …

Uncovering chains of infections through spatio-temporal and visual analysis of COVID-19 contact traces

D Antweiler, D Sessler, M Rossknecht, B Abb… - Computers & …, 2022 - Elsevier
A major challenge for departments of public health (DPHs) in dealing with the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic is tracing contacts in exponentially growing SARS-CoV-2 infection …

LFPeers: Temporal similarity search and result exploration

M Sachdeva, J Burmeister, J Kohlhammer… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we introduce a general concept for the analysis of temporal and multivariate
data and the system LFPeers that applies this concept to temporal similarity search and …

User-centered visual explorer of in-process comparison in spatiotemporal space

D Yu, O Ian, L Jie, Y Xiaoru, NQ Vinh - Journal of Visualization, 2023 - Springer
We propose a user-centered visual explorer (UcVE) for progressive comparing multiple
visualization units in spatiotemporal space. We create unique unit visualization with the …

From asymptomatics to zombies: Visualization-based education of disease modeling for children

G McNeill, M Sondag, S Powell, P Asplin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, visualizations became commonplace in public
communications to help people make sense of the world and the reasons behind …

Scalable mining of big data

CK Leung, AGM Pazdor… - 2021 IEEE SmartWorld …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technological advancements have led to easy and rapid generation and collection of huge
volumes of varieties of data from of wide ranges of rich data sources. These big data may be …

[PDF][PDF] Towards the detection and visual analysis of COVID-19 infection clusters

D Antweiler, D Sessler, S Ginzel… - EuroVis workshop on …, 2021 - diglib.eg.org
A major challenge for departments of public health (DPHs) in dealing with the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic is tracing contacts in exponentially growing SARS-CoV2 infection …

A visual modeling method for spatiotemporal and multidimensional features in epidemiological analysis: Applied COVID-19 aggregated datasets

Y Dong, CJ Liang, Y Chen, J Hua - Computational Visual Media, 2024 - Springer
The visual modeling method enables flexible interactions with rich graphical depictions of
data and supports the exploration of the complexities of epidemiological analysis. However …

ClinicLens: Visual Analytics for Exploring and Optimizing the Testing Capacity of Clinics given Uncertainty

Y Dong, J Liang, L Cao, D Catchpoole - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13558, 2023 - arxiv.org
Clinic testing plays a critical role in containing infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
However, one of the key research questions in fighting such pandemics is how to optimize …

The Effect of Smoothing on the Interpretation of Time Series Data: A COVID-19 Case Study

O Stein, A Jacobson, F Chevalier - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08018, 2023 - arxiv.org
We conduct a controlled crowd-sourced experiment of COVID-19 case data visualization to
study if and how different plotting methods, time windows, and the nature of the data …