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

Krist Wongsuphasawat, Taowei David Wang, John Alexis Guerra Gómez, Meirav Taieb-Maimon, Catherine Plaisant, Shneiderman Ben

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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.edu/hcil/lifeflowformoredetail.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationCHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
Pages507-510
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2011

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Keywords

  • Emergency room
  • Healthcare
  • Information visualization
  • Overview visualization
  • Temporal categorical data
  • Timestamped event sequences

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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