Robert Kosara's Publications

2024

• Robert Kosara, Business Data Visualization, Beyond the Boring, Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 153-158, 2024.

2023

• Robert Kosara, Notebooks for Data Analysis and Visualization: Moving Beyond the Data, Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 91-96, 2023.

2022

• Robert Kosara, More Than Meets the Eye: A Closer Look at Encodings in Visualization, Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 110-114, 2022.

2021

• Matthew Brehmer and Robert Kosara, From Jam Session to Recital: Synchronous Communication and Collaboration Around Data in Organizations, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings VIS), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1139-1149, 2021.
• Matthew Brehmer, Robert Kosara, and Carmen Hull, Generative Design Inspiration for Glyphs with Diatoms, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings VIS), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 389-399, 2021.

2019

• Robert Kosara, Evidence for Area as the Primary Visual Cue in Pie Charts, IEEE VIS Short Paper Proceedings, 2019.
• Aritra Dasgupta, Robert Kosara, and Min Chen, Guess Me If You Can: A Visual Uncertainty Model for Transparent Evaluation of Disclosure Risks in Privacy-Preserving Data Visualization, Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, 2019.
• Robert Kosara, The Impact of Distribution and Chart Type on Part-to-Whole Comparisons, Short Paper Proceedings of the Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), 2019.
• Robert Kosara, Circular Part-to-Whole Charts Using the Area Visual Cue, Short Paper Proceedings of the Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), 2019.

2018

• Robert Kosara and Steve Haroz, Skipping the Replication Crisis in Visualization: Threats to Study Validity and How to Address Them, Proceedings BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV), 2018.
• Steven Drucker, Samuel Huron, Robert Kosara, Jonathan Schwabish, and Nicholas Diakopoulos, Communicating Data to an Audience, in Henry Riche, Hurter, Diakopoulos, Carpendale, Data-Driven Storytelling, A K Peters/CRC Press, 2018.

2017

• Robert Kosara, An Argument Structure for Data Stories, Short Paper Proceedings of the Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), 2017.
• Drew Skau and Robert Kosara, Readability and Precision in Pictorial Bar Charts, Short Paper Proceedings of the Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), 2017.
• Jessica Hullman, Robert Kosara, and Heidi Lam, Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), vol. 36, no. 3, 2017.

2016

• Robert Kosara, An Empire Built On Sand: Reexamining What We Think We Know About Visualization, Proceedings BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV), 2016.
• Robert Kosara, Aritra Dasgupta, and Enrico Bertini, Reflecting on the Design Criteria for Explanatory Visualizations, Workshop on Creation, Curation, Critique and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization (C4PGV), 2016.
• Robert Kosara and Drew Skau, Judgment Error in Pie Chart Variations, Short Paper Proceedings of the Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), pp. 91–95, 2016.
• Drew Skau and Robert Kosara, Arcs, Angles, or Areas: Individual Data Encodings in Pie and Donut Charts, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 121–130, 2016.
• David Burlinson, Mihai Mehedint, Chris Grafer, Kalpathi Subramanian, Jamie Payton, Paula Goolkasian, Michael Youngblood, and Robert Kosara, BRIDGES: A System to Enable Creation of Engaging Data Structures Assignments with Real-World Data and Visualizations, Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE), pp. 18–23, 2016.
• Robert Kosara, Presentation-Oriented Visualization Techniques, Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 80–85, 2016.
• Steve Haroz, Robert Kosara, and Steven L. Franconeri, The Connected Scatterplot for Presenting Paired Time Series, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 2174–2186, 2016.

2015

• Drew Skau, Lane Harrison, and Robert Kosara, An Evaluation of the Impact of Visual Embellishments in Bar Charts, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 221–230, 2015.
• Steve Haroz, Robert Kosara, and Steven L. Franconeri, ISOTYPE Visualization – Working Memory, Performance, and Engagement with Pictographs, Proceedings CHI, pp. 1191–1200, 2015.
• Aritra Dasgupta, Robert Kosara, and Luke Gosink, VIMTEX: A Visualization Interface for Multivariate, Time-Varying, Geological Data Exploration, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 341–350, 2015.
• Robert Kosara, Tapestry: A Different Kind of Conference on Storytelling with Data, Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 12–14, 2015.

2014

• Kristi Morton, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman, Robert Kosara, and Jock Mackinlay, Public Data and Visualizations: How are Many Eyes and Tableau Public Used for Collaborative Analytics?, SIGMOD Record, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 17–22, 2014.

2013

• Aritra Dasgupta, Min Chen, and Robert Kosara, Measuring Privacy and Utility in Privacy-Preserving Visualization, Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 35–47, 2013.
• Khaldoon (Kal) Dhou, Robert Kosara, Mirsad Hadzikadic, and Mark Faust, Size Judgment and Comparison in Tag Clouds, IEEE Information Visualization Posters, 2013.
• Robert Kosara and Jock D. Mackinlay, Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization, IEEE Computer (Special Issue on Cutting-Edge Research in Visualization), vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 44–50, 2013.
• Robert Kosara, InfoVis Is So Much More: A Comment on Gelman and Unwin and an Invitation to Consider the Opportunities, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 29–32, 2013.

2012

• Aritra Dasgupta and Robert Kosara, The Importance of Tracing Data Through the Visualization Pipeline, Beyond Time and Errors – Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization (BELIV), 2012.
• Aritra Dasgupta, Robert Kosara, and Luke Gosink, Meta Parallel Coordinates for Visualizing Features in Large, High-Dimensional, Time-varying Data, Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), pp. 85–89, 2012.
• Adam Price, Cynthia Gibas, and Robert Kosara, Gene-RiViT: A Visualization Tool for Comparative Analysis of Gene Neighborhoods in Prokaryotes, Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis), 2012.
• Aritra Dasgupta, Min Chen, and Robert Kosara, Conceptualizing Visual Uncertainty in Parallel Coordinates, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 1015–1024, 2012.

2011

• Aritra Dasgupta and Robert Kosara, Privacy-Preserving Data Visualization using Parallel Coordinates, Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), pp. 78680O-1–78680O-12, 2011.
• Robert Kosara, Indirect Multi-Touch Interaction for Brushing in Parallel Coordinates, Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), pp. 786809-1–786809-7, 2011.
• Aritra Dasgupta and Robert Kosara, Adaptive Privacy-Preserving Visualization Using Parallel Coordinates, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings InfoVis), vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 2241–2248, 2011.

2010

• Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara, Laws of Attraction: From Perceived Forces to Conceptual Similarity, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings InfoVis), vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1009–1016, 2010.
• Aritra Dasgupta and Robert Kosara, Pargnostics: Screen-Space Metrics for Parallel Coordinates, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings InfoVis), vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1017–1026, 2010.
• Robert Kosara, Indirect Multi-Touch Interaction for Brushing in Parallel Coordinates, IEEE Information Visualization Posters, 2010.
• Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara, Embedding Information Visualization Within Visual Representation, in Ras, Ribarsky, Advances in Information and Intelligent Systems, 2010.
• Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara, Implied Dynamics in Information Visualization, Proceedings Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 215–222, 2010.
• Robert Kosara and Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Do Mechanical Turks Dream of Square Pie Charts?, Proceedings BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV), pp. 373–382, 2010.
• Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara, Beyond Bertin: Seeing the Forest despite the Trees, Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), Visualization Viewpoints, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 7–11, 2010.
• Robert Kosara, Turning a Table into a Tree: Growing Parallel Sets into a Purposeful Project, in Steele, Illiinsky, Beautiful Visualization, pp. 193–204, O'Reilley Media, 2010.

2009

• Robert Kosara, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, F. Joseph Mako III, Jonathan Miles, and Kam Tin Seong, Parallel Sets in the Real World: Three Case Studies, IEEE InfoVis Discovery Exhibition, 2009.
• Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara, Design Elements and the Perception of Information Structure, IEEE Information Visualization Posters, 2009.
• Remco Chang, Robert Kosara, Alex Godwin, and William Ribarsky, Towards A Role of Visualization in Social Modeling, AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Technosocial Predictive Analytics, 2009.
• Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara, Preconceptions and Individual Differences in Understanding Visual Metaphors, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 911–918, 2009.

2008

• Alex Godwin, Remco Chang, Robert Kosara, and William Ribarsky, Visual Analysis of Entity Relationships in Global Terrorism Database, SPIE Defense and Security, 2008.
• Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara, The Shaping of Information by Visual Metaphors, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings InfoVis), vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1269–1276, 2008.
• Remco Chang, Alvin Lee, Mohammad Ghoniem, Robert Kosara, William Ribarsky, Jing Yang, Evan Suma, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Daniel Kern, and Agus Sudjianto, Scalable and Interactive Visual Analysis of Financial Wire Transactions for Fraud Detection, Information Visualization, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 63–76, 2008.
• Alex Godwin, Remco Chang, Robert Kosara, and William Ribarsky, Visual Data Mining of Unevenly-Spaced Event Sequences, IEEE VAST Posters, 2008.
• Robert Kosara, Fritz Drury, Lars Erik Holmquist, and David H. Laidlaw, Visualization Criticism, Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), Visualization Viewpoints, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 13–15, 2008.
• Aurora Cain, Robert Kosara, and Cynthia Gibas, A Data Warehouse for Collection and Visual Analysis of Genomic Data, Institute of Biological Engineering Annual Conference, 2008.

2007

• Remco Chang, Ginette Wessel, Robert Kosara, Eric Sauda, and William Ribarsky, Legible Cities: Multi-Resolution Visualization of Urban Relationships, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings InfoVis), vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1169–1175, 2007.
• Remco Chang, Mohammad Ghoniem, Robert Kosara, William Ribarsky, Jing Yang, Evan Suma, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Daniel Kern, and Agus Sudjianto, WireVis: Visualization of Categorical, Time-Varying Financial Transaction Data, IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 155–162, 2007.
• Michael Kelly and Robert Kosara, Visualization and the Nature of Representation, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), 2007.
• Robert Kosara, Visualization Criticism – The Missing Link Between Information Visualization and Art, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV), pp. 631–636, 2007.
• Olga Kulyk, Robert Kosara, Jaime Urquinza, and Ingo Wassink,, Human-Centered Aspects, in Kerren, Ebert, Meyer, Human-Centered Visualization Environments (LNCS 4417), pp. 13–76, Springer Verlag, 2007.
• Robert S. Laramee and Robert Kosara, Challenges and Unsolved Problems, in Kerren, Ebert, Meyer, Human-Centered Visualization Environments (LNCS 4417), pp. 231–256, Springer Verlag, 2007.

2006

• Helmut Doleisch, Helwig Hauser, Martin Gasser, and Robert Kosara, Interactive Focus+Context Analysis of Large, Time-Dependent Flow Simulation Data, Simulation, vol. 82, no. 12, pp. 861–865, 2006.
• Robert Kosara, Fabian Bendix, and Helwig Hauser, Parallel Sets: Interactive Exploration and Visual Analysis of Categorical Data, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 558–568, 2006.
• Gerhard Wolber and Robert Kosara, Pharmacophores from Macromolecular Complexes with LigandScout, in Langer, Hoffmann, Pharmacophores and Pharmacophore Searches, pp. 131–150, 2006.

2005

• Fabian Bendix, Robert Kosara, and Helwig Hauser, Parallel Sets: Visual Analysis of Categorical Data, IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), pp. 133–140, 2005.

2004

• Harald Piringer, Robert Kosara, and Helwig Hauser, Interactive Focus+Context Visualization with Linked 2D/3D Scatterplots, 2nd International Conference on Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV), pp. 49–60, 2004.
• Peter Votruba, Silvia Miksch, and Robert Kosara, Facilitating Knowledge Maintenance of Clinical Guidelines and Protocols, 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MedInfo), pp. 57–61, 2004.
• Robert Kosara, Fabian Bendix, and Helwig Hauser, TimeHistograms for Large, Time-Dependent Data, Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym), pp. 45–54, 2004.
• Peter Votruba, Silvia Miksch, Andreas Seyfang, and Robert Kosara, Tracing the Formalization Steps of Textual Guidelines, Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CGP), pp. 172–176, 2004.
• Robert Kosara, Gerald N. Sahling, and Helwig Hauser, Linking Scientific and Information Visualization with Interactive 3D Scatterplots, Short Communication Papers Proceedings of the 12th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Computer Vision (WSCG), pp. 133–140, 2004.
• Robert Kosara, Helmut Doleisch, Martin Gasser, and Helwig Hauser, The SimVis System for Interactive Visual Analysis of Flow Simulation Data, Virtual Product Development in Automotive Engineerin, 2004.
• Helwig Hauser and Robert Kosara, Interactive Analysis of High-Dimensional Data using Visualization, Robustness for High-dimensional Data (RobHD), 2004.

2003

• Robert Kosara, Christopher G. Healey, Victoria Interrante, David H. Laidlaw, and Colin Ware, Thoughts on User Studies: Why, How, and When, Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), Visualization Viewpoints, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 20–25, 2003.
• Robert Kosara, Helwig Hauser, and Donna L. Gresh, An Interaction View on Information Visualizatio, State-of-the-Art Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS, pp. 123–137, 2003.
• Peter Votruba, Silvia Miksch, and Robert Kosara, Linking Clinical Guidelines with Formal Representations, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), pp. 152–157, 2003.
• Johann Schrammel, Verena Giller, Manfred Tscheligi, Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, and Helwig Hauser, Experimental Evaluation of Semantic Depth of Field, a Preattentive Method for Focus+Context Visualization, Proceedings of the Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), pp. 888–891, 2003.

2002

• Robert Kosara and Silvia Miksch, Visualization Methods for Data Analysis and Planning in Medical Applications, International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol. 68, no. 1–3, pp. 141–153, 2002.
• Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, and Helwig Hauser, Focus+Context Taken Literally, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A), vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 22–29, 2002.
• Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, Andreas Seyfang, and Peter Votruba, Tools for Acquiring Clinical Guidelines in Asbru, Proceedings of the Sixth World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDPT), 2002.
• Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, Helwig Hauser, Johann Schrammel, Verena Giller, and Manfred Tscheligi, Useful Properties of Semantic Depth of Field for Better F+C Visualization, Proceedings of the Joint Eurographics – IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym), pp. 205–210, 2002.
• Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, Yuval Shahar, and Peter Johnson, AsbruView: Capturing Complex, Time-oriented Plans – Beyond Flow-Charts, in Anderson, Meyer, Olivier, Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning, 2002.

2001

• Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, and Helwig Hauser, Semantic Depth of Field, Proceedings Information Visualization (InfoVis), pp. 97–104, 2001.
• Robert Kosara and Silvia Miksch, Visualizing Complex Notions of Time, Proceedings of the Conference on Medical Informatics (MedInfo), pp. 211–215, 2001.
• Silvia Miksch, Andreas Seyfang, and Robert Kosara, Plan Management: Supporting All Steps of Protocol Development and Deployment, Proceedings of the EUNITE-Workshop on Intelligent Systems in Patient Care, pp. 35–42, 2001.
• Silvia Miksch, Robert Kosara, and Andreas Seyfang, Is Workflow Management Appropriate for Therapy Planning?, Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Computer-based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols (EWGLP 2000), pp. 53–69, 2001.
• Robert Kosara and Silvia Miksch, Metaphors of Movement: A Visualization and User Interface for Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 111–131, 2001.

2000

• Robert Kosara and Silvia Miksch, A Visualization of Medical Therapy Plans compared to Gantt and PERT Charts, Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME), pp. 153–181, 2000.

1999

• Silvia Miksch and Robert Kosara, Communicating Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans to Domain Experts Lucidly, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), pp. 1041–1051, 1999.
• Robert Kosara and Silvia Miksch, Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans in Medical Therapy Planning, Proceedings of the Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making (AIMDM), pp. 291–300, 1999.
• Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, and Christian Popow, A User Interface for Manipulating Complex, Time-Oriented Treatment Plans, HP Carevue User's Conference, 1999.

1998

• Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, Yuval Shahar, and Peter Johnson, AsbruView: Capturing Complex, Time-oriented Plans – Beyond Flow-Charts, The Second Workshop on Thinking with Diagrams 1998 (TwD), pp. 119–126, 1998.
• Silvia Miksch, Robert Kosara, Yuval Shahar, and Peter Johnson, AsbruView: Visualization of Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans, The Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS), pp. 11–18, 1998.