Christian Tominski

Teaching:

Visualisierung wissenschaftlicher Daten (German)
Informatik I: Einführung in die Programmierung (German)
Informatik II: Pogrammierungstechnik (German)

Research:

Software architectures for highly interactive visual analysis
- Formalism for interaction in visualization
- Interaction pattern and design guidelines
- Aspects of software engineering (incl., design pattern, threading, usabiltiy, history mechanism)
Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis
Visualization of Multivariate Data
- Task-oriented color coding
  (coop. with Raphael Schmitz)
- Two-Tone Pseudo Colored TableLens (Java)
  (coop. with Mathias John; inspired by Saito et al., 2005: "Two-Tone Pseudo Coloring")
- Axes-based visualizations (.NET/C#) [software]
- 3D axes-based visualizations in VisAxes 3D (Java3D) [video]
  (coop. with Clemens Holzhüter; "Folder Style" inspired by Anton Fuhrmann)
Interactive Graph Visualization
- Magic Eye View (Java)
- Fisheye Tree View (Java) [video]
- Graph Lenses (Java) [video]
- CGV - Coordinated Graph Visualization (Java) [video]
  (coop. with James Abello and Frank van Ham; incl., multiple linked views, graph lenses, fisheye tree views, magic eye view, graph splatting, filtering, history mechanism)
Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualisierungstechniken zur Analyse zeitlicher Verläufe über geografischen Karten (German)
- Spiral Display Visualization (Java)
- Two-Tone Pseudo Colored Spiral Display (Java)
  (coop. with Steffen Hadlak; inspired by Saito et al., 2005: "Two-Tone Pseudo Coloring")
- SpiraClock implementation (Java)
  (dedicated to the inventors of SpiraClock: Pierre Dragicevic and Stéphane Huot)
- Prototypes: The Timewheel; The Plotwheel (Java)
Visualization of Microarray Data
- ViGeCo - Visualization of Gene Combinations
  (coop. with Clemens Holzhüter)

Publications:

- 2008 -

Christian Tominski and Heidrun Schumann: Visualization of Gene Combinations. International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), London, UK, 2008. (presentation)
Christian Tominski, Georg Fuchs, and Heidrun Schumann: Task-Driven Color Coding. International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), London, UK, 2008.
Christian Tominski, Petra Schulze-Wollgast and Heidrun Schumann: Visual Methods for Analyzing Human Health Data. In: Nilmini Wickramasinghe and Eliezer Geisler (editors), Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems. Information Science Reference, 2008. (ISBN: 978-1-59904-889-5)
Mathias John, Christian Tominski, and Heidrun Schumann: Visual and Analytical Extensions for the Table Lens. IS&T/SPIE Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging - Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), San Jose, USA, 2008. [applet]
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Müller, Heidrun Schumann, and Christian Tominski: Visual Methods for Analyzing Time-Oriented Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2008.

- 2007 -

Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, Christian Tominski, and Heidrun Schumann: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Visual Analytics of Time and Time-Oriented Data. The Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Washington, USA, 2007.
Christian Tominski, Clemens Holzhüter, Andrea Unger, and Heidrun Schumann: Interactive Poster: Visualization of Gene Combinations. IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis), Sacramento, USA, 2007. (poster)
James Abello, Hans-Jörg Schulz, Heidrun Schumann, and Christian Tominski: Interactive Poster: CGV - Coordinated Graph Visualization. IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis), Sacramento, USA, 2007. (poster) [applet]
James Abello, Hans-Jörg Schulz, Benoit Gaudin, and Christian Tominski: Interactive Poster: Name That Cluster - Text vs. Graphics. IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis), Sacramento, USA, 2007. (poster)
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Müller, Heidrun Schumann, and Christian Tominski: Visualizing Time-Oriented Data: A Systematic View. Computers & Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2007.
Gerald Bieber, Christian Tominski, and Bodo Urban: TiDi Browser: A Novel Photo Browsing Technique for Mobile Devices. IS&T/SPIE Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging - Multimedia on Mobile Devices, San Jose, USA, 2007. (presentation)

- 2006 -

Christian Tominski: Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis. PhD thesis, University of Rostock, Germany, 2006. (lowres)
Mathias John, Christian Tominski, and Heidrun Schumann: Interactive Poster: Two-Tone Pseudo Coloring for Multiple Variables. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), Baltimore, USA, 2006. (poster) [applet]
Christian Tominski, James Abello, Frank van Ham, and Heidrun Schumann: Fisheye Treeviews and Lenses for Graph Visualization. International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), London, UK, 2006. [video1, video2, video3, applet1, applet2]
René Rosenbaum, Christian Tominski, and Heidrun Schumann: Graphical Content On Mobile Devices. In: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (editor), Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce. Idea Group Reference, 2006. (ISBN: 1-59140-799-0)

- 2005 - 2003 -

- 2005 -

Christian Tominski, James Abello, and Heidrun Schumann: Interactive Poster: 3D Axes-Based Visualizations for Time Series Data. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), Minneapolis, USA, 2005. (poster) [video]
Christian Tominski, Petra Schulze-Wollgast, and Heidrun Schumann: 3D Information Visualization for Time Dependent Data on Maps. International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), London, UK, 2005. (presentation) [video]
Petra Schulze-Wollgast, Christian Tominski, and Heidrun Schumann: Enhancing Visual Exploration by Appropriate Color Coding. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG), Pilsen, CZ, 2005. (presentation held by Georg Fuchs)

- 2004 -

Christian Tominski and Heidrun Schumann: An Event-Based Approach to Visualization. International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), London, UK, 2004. (presentation)
René Rosenbaum, Heidrun Schumann, and Christian Tominski: Presenting Large Graphical Contents on Mobile Devices - Performance Issues. IRMA International Conference, New Orleans, USA, 2004. (presentation)
Christian Tominski, James Abello, and Heidrun Schumann: Axes-Based Visualizations with Radial Layouts. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Nicosia, Cyprus, 2004. (presentation)

- 2003 -

Christian Tominski, James Abello, and Heidrun Schumann: Interactive Poster: Axes-Based Visualizations for Time Series Data. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), Seattle, USA, 2003. (poster)
Gerald Bieber and Christian Tominski: Visualization Techniques for Personal Tasks on Mobile Computers. HCI International, Hersonissos, Crete, 2003. (presentation)
René Rosenbaum and Christian Tominski: Pixels vs. Vectors: Presentation of Large Images on Mobile Devices. International Workshop on Mobile Computing (IMC), Rostock, Germany, 2003.
Petra Schulze-Wollgast, Heidrun Schumann, and Christian Tominski: Visual Analysis of Human Health Data. IRMA International Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 2003. (presentation)
Christian Tominski, Petra Schulze-Wollgast und Heidrun Schumann: Visualisierung zeitlicher Verläufe auf geografischen Karten. GeoVis, Hannover, Germany, 2003. (presentation)