Conference Proceedings

Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: 29 - 31 May 2013

© 2013. Published by Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. ISBN 978-1-4822-1680-6.

Overview

This thirty-ninth Graphics Interface featured keynote speakers Gavin Miller, Adobe Research Imagination Lab and John T. Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology. Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary, was this year’s recipient of the Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society’s Achievement Award. Also invited were Uta Hinrichs, recipient of the 2012 award for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, and Tyson Brochu, the 2012 recipient of the Alain Fournier Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in computer graphics to present their thesis research.

Chairs

  • Kirstie Hawkey
  • Farmarz F. Samavati

Speakers

  • Innovations in Visualization
    Gavin Miller
    From Research to Products: Adobe’s Imagination Lab Themes and Projects
    John Stasko
    The Value of Visualization for Exploring and Understanding Data

Awards

Best Papers

Student Authors in Bold

    Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Faramarz F. Samavati
    ACM: Atlas of Connectivity Maps for Semiregular Models
    Michael Glueck, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor
    A model of navigation for very large data views

Acceptance Rate

Total Submitted68
Total Accepted29
Acceptance Rate42.6%

Proceedings (228 pages total)

    GI '13: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013: Front Matter
    • BibTeX

      @proceedings{Hawkey:2013,
      editor = {Hawkey, Kirstie and Samavati, Farmarz F.},
      title = {GI ’13: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013: Front Matter},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      numpages = {228},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
Invited paper
    Innovations in visualization
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Carpendale:2013:,
      author = {Carpendale, Sheelagh},
      title = {Innovations in visualization},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {1--8},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
Understanding data
    A model of navigation for very large data views
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Glueck:2013:,
      author = {Glueck, Michael and Grossman, Tovi and Wigdor, Daniel},
      title = {A model of navigation for very large data views},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {9--16},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    FacetClouds: exploring tag clouds for multi-dimensional data
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Waldner:2013:,
      author = {Waldner, Manuela and Schrammel, Johann and Klein, Michael and Kristj{\'a}nsd{\'o}ttir, Katr{\'i}n and Unger, Dominik and Tscheligi, Manfred},
      title = {FacetClouds: exploring tag clouds for multi-dimensional data},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {17--24},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    The effects of display fidelity, visual complexity, and task scope on spatial understanding of 3D graphs
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Bacim:2013:,
      author = {Bacim, Felipe and Ragan, Eric and Scerbo, Siroberto and Polys, Nicholas and Setareh, Mehdi and Jones, Brett},
      title = {The effects of display fidelity, visual complexity, and task scope on spatial understanding of 3D graphs},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {25--32},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Evaluating the readability of extended filter/flow graphs
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Haag:2013:,
      author = {Haag, Florian and Lohmann, Steffen and Ertl, Thomas},
      title = {Evaluating the readability of extended filter/flow graphs},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {33--36},
      numpages = {4},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
Image-based rendering and tracking
    Non-linear normalized entropy based exposure blending
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Bruce:2013:,
      author = {Bruce, Neil},
      title = {Non-linear normalized entropy based exposure blending},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {37--44},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Simulated bidirectional texture functions with silhouette details
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Yengui:2013:,
      author = {Yengui, Mohamed and Poulin, Pierre},
      title = {Simulated bidirectional texture functions with silhouette details},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {45--54},
      numpages = {10},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Efficient reconstruction, decomposition and editing for spatially-varying reflectance data
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Hu:2013:,
      author = {Hu, Yong and Wang, Shan and Qi, Yue},
      title = {Efficient reconstruction, decomposition and editing for spatially-varying reflectance data},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {55--62},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Dynamics based 3D skeletal hand tracking
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Melax:2013:,
      author = {Melax, Stan and Keselman, Leonid and Orsten, Sterling},
      title = {Dynamics based 3D skeletal hand tracking},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {63--70},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
Input 1: pens and consistency
    Motion and context sensing techniques for pen computing
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Hinckley:2013:,
      author = {Hinckley, Ken and Chen, Xiang and Benko, Hrvoje},
      title = {Motion and context sensing techniques for pen computing},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {71--78},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    User perceptions of drawing logic diagrams with pen-centric user interfaces
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Kang:2013:,
      author = {Kang, Bo and Bott, Jared and LaViola, Joseph},
      title = {User perceptions of drawing logic diagrams with pen-centric user interfaces},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {79--86},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Understanding the consistency of users' pen and finger stroke gesture articulation
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Anthony:2013:,
      author = {Anthony, Lisa and Vatavu, Radu-Daniel and Wobbrock, Jacob},
      title = {Understanding the consistency of users’ pen and finger stroke gesture articulation},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {87--94},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Effects of hand drift while typing on touchscreens
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Li:2013:,
      author = {Li, Frank and Findlater, Leah and Truong, Khai},
      title = {Effects of hand drift while typing on touchscreens},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {95--98},
      numpages = {4},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
Modeling and animation
    ACM: atlas of connectivity maps for semiregular models
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Amiri:2013:,
      author = {Amiri, Ali and Samavati, Faramarz},
      title = {ACM: atlas of connectivity maps for semiregular models},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {99--107},
      numpages = {9},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Least-squares hermite radial basis functions implicits with adaptive sampling
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Batagelo:2013:,
      author = {Batagelo, Harlen and Gois, Jo{\~a}o},
      title = {Least-squares hermite radial basis functions implicits with adaptive sampling},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {109--116},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Local fairing with local inverse
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Sadeghi:2013:,
      author = {Sadeghi, Javad and Samavati, Faramarz},
      title = {Local fairing with local inverse},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {117--124},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Target particle control of smoke simulation
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Madill:2013:,
      author = {Madill, Jamie and Mould, David},
      title = {Target particle control of smoke simulation},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {125--132},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
Health, wellness, and snippets
    Is movement better?: comparing sedentary and motion-based game controls for older adults
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Gerling:2013:,
      author = {Gerling, Kathrin and Dergousoff, Kristen and Mandryk, Regan},
      title = {Is movement better?: comparing sedentary and motion-based game controls for older adults},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {133--140},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Adaptive difficulty in exergames for Parkinson's disease patients
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Smeddinck:2013:,
      author = {Smeddinck, Jan and Siegel, Sandra and Herrlich, Marc},
      title = {Adaptive difficulty in exergames for Parkinson’s disease patients},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {141--148},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Personal informatics in chronic illness management
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{MacLeod:2013:,
      author = {MacLeod, Haley and Tang, Anthony and Carpendale, Sheelagh},
      title = {Personal informatics in chronic illness management},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {149--156},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Improving form-based data entry with image snippets
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Dell:2013:,
      author = {Dell, Nicola and Breit, Nathan and Wobbrock, Jacob and Borriello, Gaetano},
      title = {Improving form-based data entry with image snippets},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {157--164},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
Rendering
    A micro 64-tree structure for accelerating ray tracing on a GPU
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Liu:2013:,
      author = {Liu, Xin and Rokne, Jon},
      title = {A micro 64-tree structure for accelerating ray tracing on a GPU},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {165--172},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Partition of unity parametrics for texture synthesis
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Caron:2013:,
      author = {Caron, Jack and Mould, David},
      title = {Partition of unity parametrics for texture synthesis},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {173--179},
      numpages = {7},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Structure and aesthetics in non-photorealistic images
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Li:2013:,
      author = {Li, Hua and Mould, David and Davies, Jim},
      title = {Structure and aesthetics in non-photorealistic images},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {181--188},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Rendering in shift-invariant spaces
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Alim:2013:,
      author = {Alim, Usman},
      title = {Rendering in shift-invariant spaces},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {189--196},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
Input 2: haptic and gestures
    Understanding touch selection accuracy on flat and hemispherical deformable surfaces
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Bacim:2013:,
      author = {Bacim, Felipe and Sinclair, Mike and Benko, Hrvoje},
      title = {Understanding touch selection accuracy on flat and hemispherical deformable surfaces},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {197--204},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    It's alive!: exploring the design space of a gesturing phone
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Dawson:2013:,
      author = {Dawson, Jessica and Schneider, Oliver and Ferstay, Joel and Toker, Dereck and Link, Juliette and Haddad, Shathel and MacLean, Karon},
      title = {It’s alive!: exploring the design space of a gesturing phone},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {205--212},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Haptic target acquisition to enable spatial gestures in nonvisual displays
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Fiannaca:2013:,
      author = {Fiannaca, Alexander and Morelli, Tony and Folmer, Eelke},
      title = {Haptic target acquisition to enable spatial gestures in nonvisual displays},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {213--219},
      numpages = {7},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }
    Extending the vocabulary of touch events with ThumbRock
    • BibTeX

      @inproceedings{Bonnet:2013:,
      author = {Bonnet, David and Appert, Caroline and Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel},
      title = {Extending the vocabulary of touch events with ThumbRock},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013},
      series = {GI 2013},
      year = {2013},
      issn = {0713-5424},
      isbn = {978-1-4822-1680-6},
      location = {Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada},
      pages = {221--228},
      numpages = {8},
      publisher = {Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society},
      address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
      }