LifeFlow: visualizing an overview of event sequences (video preview)

TitleLifeFlow: visualizing an overview of event sequences (video preview)
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsWongsuphasawat K, Guerra Gómez J A, Plaisant C, Wang T, Taieb-Maimon M, Shneiderman B
Conference NameProceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems
Date Published2011///
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-0268-5
Keywordsemergency room, healthcare, Information Visualization, overview visualization, temporal categorical data, timestamped event sequences
Abstract

Event sequence analysis is an important task in many domains: medical researchers may study the patterns of transfers within the hospital for quality control; transportation experts may study accident response logs to identify best practices. In many cases they deal with thousands of records. While previous research has focused on searching and browsing, overview tasks are often overlooked. We introduce a novel interactive visual overview of event sequences called LifeFlow. LifeFlow is scalable, can summarize all possible sequences, and represents the temporal spacing of the events within sequences. In this video, we show an example of patient transfer data and briefly demonstrate how to analyze them with LifeFlow. Please see [11] or visit http:www.cs.umd.eduhcillifeflow for more detail.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1979742.1979557
DOI10.1145/1979742.1979557