Helen C. Purchase, Daniel Archambault, Stephen Kobourov, Martin Nöllenburg, Sergey Pupyrev, Hsiang-Yun WuORCID iD
The Turing Test for Graph Drawing Algorithms
In Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD2020), pages 1-16. September 2020.
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  • Publication Type: Conference Paper
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  • Date: September 2020
  • Lecturer: Helen C. Purchase
  • Event: 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization
  • Call for Papers: Call for Paper
  • Booktitle: Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD2020)
  • Pages: 1 – 16

Abstract

DoalgorithmsfordrawinggraphspasstheTuringTest?That is, are their outputs indistinguishable from graphs drawn by humans? We address this question through a human-centred experiment, focusing on ‘small’ graphs, of a size for which it would be reasonable for someone to choose to draw the graph manually. Overall, we find that hand-drawn layouts can be distinguished from those generated by graph drawing al- gorithms, although this is not always the case for graphs drawn by force- directed or multi-dimensional scaling algorithms, making these good can- didates for Turing Test success. We show that, in general, hand-drawn graphs are judged to be of higher quality than automatically generated ones, although this result varies with graph size and algorithm.

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@inproceedings{Purchase-2020-gd,
  title =      "The Turing Test for Graph Drawing Algorithms",
  author =     "Helen  C. Purchase and Daniel Archambault and Stephen
               Kobourov and Martin N\"{o}llenburg and Sergey Pupyrev and
               Hsiang-Yun Wu",
  year =       "2020",
  abstract =   "DoalgorithmsfordrawinggraphspasstheTuringTest?That is, are
               their outputs indistinguishable from graphs drawn by humans?
               We address this question through a human-centred experiment,
               focusing on ‘small’ graphs, of a size for which it would
               be reasonable for someone to choose to draw the graph
               manually. Overall, we find that hand-drawn layouts can be
               distinguished from those generated by graph drawing al-
               gorithms, although this is not always the case for graphs
               drawn by force- directed or multi-dimensional scaling
               algorithms, making these good can- didates for Turing Test
               success. We show that, in general, hand-drawn graphs are
               judged to be of higher quality than automatically generated
               ones, although this result varies with graph size and
               algorithm.",
  month =      sep,
  event =      "28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network
               Visualization ",
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph
               Drawing and Network Visualization (GD2020)",
  pages =      "1--16",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2020/Purchase-2020-gd/",
}