Panagiotis D. Ritsos

MEng PhD Essex, FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Visualization

XReality, Visualization and
Analytics (XRVA) Lab

Visualization, Data, Modelling and
Graphics (VDMG) research group,

School of Computer Science
and Engineering,

Bangor University,
Dean Street, Bangor,
Gwynedd, UK, LL57 1UT

Poster at IEEE VIS 2015

Our poster Where Can I Go From Here? Drawing Contextual Navigation Maps of the London Underground was presented in IEEE VIS2015 held in Chicago, IL. You can have a look at the accepted papers, news and updates from the symposium at VIS2015.

Abstract - Network administrators often wish to ascertain where network attackers are located; therefore it would be useful to display the network map from the context of either the attacker’s potential location or the attacked host. As part of a bigger project we are investigating how to best visualize contextual network data. We use a dataset of station adjacencies with journey times as edge weights, to explore which visualization design is most suitable, and also ascertain the best network shortest-path metric. This short paper presents our initial findings, and a visualization for Contextual Navigation using circular, centered-phylogram projections of the network. Our visualizations are interactive allowing users to explore different scenarios and observe relative distances in the data.

Contextual Navigation (CN) creates topological projections centered on a given point. Routes to the remainder of the network radiate from this point. Especially useful for creating maps to answer ‘Where can I go from here?’.
Figure 1: Contextual Navigation (CN) creates topological projections centered on a given point. Routes to the remainder of the network radiate from this point. Especially useful for creating maps to answer ‘Where can I go from here?’. [PNG]

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Reference

  • C. C. Gray, J. C. Roberts, and P. D. Ritsos, “Where Can I Go From Here? Drawing Contextual Navigation Maps of the London Underground,” in Posters presented at the IEEE Conference on Visualization (IEEE VIS 2015), Chicago, IL, USA, 2015.