Basic Idea

What are PlanningLines?

• further development of LifeLine/GANTT chart
• visualizing temporal (planning) activities
• hierarchical decomposition
• temporal uncertainties

What is Piccolo?

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Our Prototype

• Task hierarchy is imported from an MS Project file
  
• Randomly generated temporal uncertainties can be added
  
• Two basic visualization methods:
• Encapsulated LifeLines using transparency
• Expand / collapseable LifeLines+ and PlanningLines
  
• Overview+Detail visualization
• Smooth zooming and panning
• Semantic zoom
• Auto zoom + pan by clicking on tasks
• Interactive exploration aid

Screenshots

Implementation Details

1. Time model
2. Task hierarchy
3. User Interface

Downloads

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References

1. Wolfgang Aigner and Silvia Miksch. Supporting Protocol-Based Care in Medicine via Multiple Coordinated Views, to appaear in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV 2004). IEEE, 2004.
   
2. Wolfgang Aigner. Interactive Visualization of TimeOriented Treatment Plans and Patient Data. Master’s thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna, Austria, May 2003. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2(4):217–228, 1998.
3. Benjamin B. Bederson, Jon Meyer, Lance Good. Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST), 2000, p. 171-180
4. Luca Chittaro and Carlo Combi. Visual Definition of Temporal Clinical Abstractions: A User Interface Based on Novel Metaphors. In Proceedings of AIME 01: 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2101, pages 227–230, 2001.
   
5. Robert Kosara, Peter Messner, and Silvia Miksch. Time and Tide Wait for No Diagram. Technical Report Asgaard-TR-2001-2, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2001.
6. Robert Kosara and Silvia Miksch. Visualizing Complex Notions of Time. In Jean Roberts, editor, Proceedings of the Conference on Medical Informatics (MedInfo 2001), pages 211–215, 2001.
7. C. Plaisant, B. Milash, A. Rose, S. Widoff, and B. Shneiderman. LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories. In Proceedings CHI’96 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 221–227, New York, 1996. ACM Press.
   
8. Catherine Plaisant, Richard Mushlin, Aaron Snyder, Jia Li, Dan Heller, and Ben Shneiderman. LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records. In Proceedings of the 1998 American Medical Informatic Association Annual Fall Symposium, pages 76–80, November9– 11 1998. pages 110–119. ACM Press, 2000.