“Visualizing the Flow of Users on a Wireless Network” by Kamolov, Machado and Miguel Cruz
Conference:
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Entry Number: 110
Title:
- Visualizing the Flow of Users on a Wireless Network
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Abstract:
This information visualization project depicts the flow of users within the various access points of the eduroam network of the University of Coimbra. The developed application allows the visualization of an interactive graph (see Figure 1), which covers a certain time span, and animates the changes in the network’s flow of information over time. The nodes of the graph represent access points and the links represent transitions of users between them. A transition is registered when a user stops the connection to an access point and connects to another one. Clustering is used to merge access points that are deeply connected, promoting the visual clarity of the artifact while providing additional information to the viewer.
References:
1. Stasko, J. and Zhang, E., 2000. Focus+context display and navigation techniques for enhancing radial, space-filling hierarchy visualizations. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, IEEE, pp. 57–65.
Acknowledgements:
This research is partially funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, project SUM with reference PTDC/EIAEIA/ 113933/2009.
