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Evaluating Colour in Concept Diagrams (2022)
Conference Proceeding
McGrath, S., Blake, A., Stapleton, G., Touloumis, A., Chapman, P., Jamnik, M., & Shams, Z. (2022). Evaluating Colour in Concept Diagrams. In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 13th International Conference, Diagrams 2022, Rome, Italy, September 14–16, 2022, Proceedings (168-184). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15146-0_14

This paper is the first to establish the impact of colour on users' ability to interpret the informational content of concept diagrams, a logic designed for ontology engineering. Motivation comes from results for Euler diagrams, which form a fragment... Read More about Evaluating Colour in Concept Diagrams.

Minimising line segments in linear diagrams is NP-hard (2022)
Journal Article
Chapman, P., Sim, K., & Hao Chen, H. (2022). Minimising line segments in linear diagrams is NP-hard. Journal of Computer Languages, 71, Article 101136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cola.2022.101136

Linear diagrams have been shown to be an effective method of representing set-based data. Moreover, a number of guidelines have been proven to improve the efficacy of linear diagrams. One of these guidelines is to minimise the number of line segments... Read More about Minimising line segments in linear diagrams is NP-hard.

Interactivity in Linear Diagrams (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Chapman, P. (2021). Interactivity in Linear Diagrams. In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28–30, 2021, Proceedings (449-465). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86062-2_47

Linear diagrams have been shown to be an effective method for representing set-based data. Moreover, design principles have been empirically developed that, when followed, improve the efficacy of linear diagrams. These principles are task-independent... Read More about Interactivity in Linear Diagrams.

Drawing Algorithms For Linear Diagrams (Supplementary) (2020)
Dataset
Chapman, P., & Sim, K. (2021). Drawing Algorithms For Linear Diagrams (Supplementary). [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2021.2748170

This folder contains the material to go with the article: Peter Chapman, Kevin Sim, Huanghao Chen (2021) Drawing Algorithms for Linear Diagrams. The code, the benchmark set of diagrams, the dataset of algorithms applied to the benchmark set, an... Read More about Drawing Algorithms For Linear Diagrams (Supplementary).

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 11th International Conference, Diagrams 2020, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24–28, 2020, Proceedings (2020)
Conference Proceeding
(2020). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 11th International Conference, Diagrams 2020, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24–28, 2020, Proceedings. In A. Pietarinen, P. Chapman, L. Bosveld-de Smet, V. Giardino, J. Corter, & S. Linker (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54249-8

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2020, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August 2020.* The 20 full papers and 16 short papers presented together with... Read More about Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 11th International Conference, Diagrams 2020, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24–28, 2020, Proceedings.

Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams dataset (2019)
Dataset
Hou, T., & Chapman, P. (2019). Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams dataset. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2019.2275800

Clutter in a diagram can be broadly defined as how visually complex the diagram is. It may be that different users perceive clutter in different ways, however. Moreover, it has been shown that, for certain types of diagrams and tasks, an increase in... Read More about Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams dataset.

The efficacy of Euler diagrams and linear diagrams for visualizing set cardinality using proportions and numbers (2019)
Journal Article
Stapleton, G., Chapman, P., Rodgers, P., Touloumis, A., Blake, A., & Delaney, A. (2019). The efficacy of Euler diagrams and linear diagrams for visualizing set cardinality using proportions and numbers. PLOS ONE, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211234

This paper presents the first empirical investigation that compares Euler and linear diagrams when they are used to represent set cardinality. A common approach is to use area-proportional Euler diagrams but linear diagrams can exploit length-proport... Read More about The efficacy of Euler diagrams and linear diagrams for visualizing set cardinality using proportions and numbers.

Towards Diagram-Based Editing of Ontologies (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Chapman, P., & Roberts, W. (2018). Towards Diagram-Based Editing of Ontologies. In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (699-703). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_62

Ontology creation and editing involves multiple stakeholders, not all of whom may be mathematically trained. Whilst ontology editors, such as Protege, are extensible with visualisation tools to enhance understanding of the ontology, these tools are s... Read More about Towards Diagram-Based Editing of Ontologies.

Visualizing ALC Using Concept Diagrams (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Stapleton, G., Delaney, A., Compton, M., & Chapman, P. (2018). Visualizing ALC Using Concept Diagrams. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78102-0_6

This paper addresses the problem of how to visualize axioms from ALC using concept diagrams. We establish that 66.4% of OWL axioms defined for ontologies in the Manchester corpus are formulated over ALC, demonstrating the significance of considering... Read More about Visualizing ALC Using Concept Diagrams.

Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Hou, T., Chapman, P., & Blake, A. (2016). Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation. In W. Kuhn, & R. Ferrario (Eds.), 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2016) (211-224). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-660-6-211

Comprehension of justifications is known to be difficult for even experienced ontology engineers, and much more so for other stakeholders. In this paper, we present two methods for displaying justifications using concept diagrams: using multiple conc... Read More about Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation.

Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Hou, T., Chapman, P., & Oliver, I. (2016). Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams. In 2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing. https://doi.org/10.1109/vlhcc.2016.7739661

Clutter in a diagram can be broadly defined as how visually complex the diagram is. It may be that different users perceive clutter in different ways, however. Moreover, it has been shown that, for certain types of diagrams and tasks, an increase in... Read More about Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams.

Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams. (2015)
Journal Article
Rodgers, P., Stapleton, G., & Chapman, P. (2015). Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 22(6), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/2810012

This paper presents the first design principles that optimize the visualization of sets using linear diagrams. These principles are justified through empirical studies that evaluate the impact of graphical features on task performance. Linear diagr... Read More about Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams..

Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams. (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Alqadah, M., Stapleton, G., Howse, J., & Chapman, P. (2014). Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams. In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 8th International Conference, Diagrams 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, July 28 – August 1, 2014. Proceedings (108-122). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44043-8_15

Euler diagrams, used to visualize data and as a basis for visual languages, are an effective representation of information, but they can become cluttered. Previous research established a measure of Euler diagram clutter, empirically shown to correspo... Read More about Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams..

Visualizing Sets: An Empirical Comparison of Diagram Types. (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Chapman, P., Stapleton, G., Rodgers, P., Micallef, L., & Blake, A. (2014). Visualizing Sets: An Empirical Comparison of Diagram Types. In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (146-160). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44043-8_18

There are a range of diagram types that can be used to visualize sets. However, there is a significant lack of insight into which is the most effective visualization. To address this knowledge gap, this paper empirically evaluates four diagram type... Read More about Visualizing Sets: An Empirical Comparison of Diagram Types..