W O L F G A N G A I G N E R, MSc

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1 priv.-doz. dipl.-ing. dr. techn. W O L F G A N G A I G N E R, MSc Wolfgang Aigner is an expert in Information Visualization (InfoVis) and Visual Analytics (VA), particularly in the context of time-oriented data. He performs research on concepts, methods, and software prototypes that support humans in dealing with large and complex information structures, to make them more comprehensible, facilitate exploration, and enable knowledge discovery. Wolfgang served as reviewer and program committee member for various scientific conferences, symposia, and journals, and acted as co-chair and advisor for scientific workshops. Wolfgang has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and presented his research at international venues. Further, he is the lead author of the recently published book Visualization of Time-Oriented Data (Springer, 2011) that is devoted to a systematic view of this topic. He has received national awards for his research work, was awarded a Top Cited Article from Pergamon/Elsevier, and received a best paper honorable mention at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). He is also the founder and coordinator of a public Wiki to collect and share information on InfoVis ( Additionally, he encourages young people to take their place in science and research by leading award-winning collaborative research projects and internships with pupils of technical high schools (HTL). Research Interests Information Visualization (InfoVis) Interfacedesign Visual Analytics Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Interaction Design User-Centered Design Usability work experience Lecturer Senior Researcher Assistant Professor (Univ.assistent) Senior Research Associate and Deputy Head of Department Researcher Web Designer and Developer 11/2013-Present St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten Department Technology Lecturer in the Media Technology (Bachelor) and Digital Media Technologies (Master) programs Senior researcher at the Creative\Media/Technologies 11/2013-Present Vienna University of Technology Vienna Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST) Research associate 5/ /2013 Vienna University of Technology Vienna Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems (ISIS) Deputy head of Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST) project acquisition and team leader in research projects lecturer for Master s and Bachelor s courses 3/2006-4/2010 Danube University Krems Krems Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering (ike) Establishment of the new department project acquisition and team leader in research projects participation in the development and management of study programs establishment of the research focus Visual Analytics 8/2003-2/2006 Vienna University of Technology Vienna Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems (ISIS) Scientific researcher in the project Asgaard 1/ /2005 teamanagement Naarn Outdoor- and Team-Training Agency Concept, design and implementation of a website

2 Database Application Designer and Programmer User Interface Designer and Programmer Author 9/1999-3/2003 Graf Reisen Vienna Travel Agency Design and implementation of a database application database administration IT support and maintenance 7/1995-8/1999 Steyr Daimler Puch Steyr Engineering Center Steyr, Simulation and Software Department User Interface Design and Implementation for technical simulation software 4/ /1995 CDA Verlags- und HandelsgesmbH Perg Magazine CD Austria Authoring of articles on computer games education Habilitation Postgraduate MSc PhD MSc University entrance diploma 4/ /2013 Vienna University of Technology Practical Computer Science venia docendi for practical computer science Habilitation thesis on Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis: Visual Analytics With a Focus on Time 10/2007-7/2009 Danube University Krems Communication and Management with distinction Master thesis on Assessing the Role and Value of Interactivity in Visual Business Intelligence A User s Perspective 10/2003-2/2006 Vienna University of Technology Computer Science with distinction PhD thesis Visualization of Time and Time-Oriented Information: Challenges and Conceptual Design (Supervisors: Heidrun Schumann & Silvia Miksch) 10/1997-6/2003 Johannes Kepler University Linz Vienna University of Technology San Jose State University, USA Computer Science with distinction Master thesis on Interactive Visualization of Time-Oriented Treatment Plans and Patient Data 1/1991-6/1996 Establishment of Secondary Technical Education (HTL) Steyr Electronics / Computer Engineering with distinction publications 1 68 publications book: 1 book chapter: 5 journal: 16 conference & workshop: 46 Citations 833 h-index 13 career achievements Awards 2012 Best Paper Honorable Mention at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2010 Top Cited Article in Computers and Graphics (Pergamon/Elsevier) 2010 Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition of the Lower Austrian Government and the Lower Austrian Federal Economic Chamber for the research project VisuExplore 1 Number of citations and h-index taken from Google Scholar (January 6, 2014). 2

3 2010 Sparkling Science Award of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BM.WF) for the cooperative research project HorizonVis with the school HTBL Krems 2008 Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition of the Lower Austrian Government and the Lower Austrian Federal Economic Chamber for the research project DisCō 2004 Award of Special Recognition of the Austrian Society of Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI) Invited presentations Program committee member 2013 Invited talk at Expertcluster for Informatioin Design, Vienna (Austria): How to Graph Badly 2013 Keynote at Forum Media Technology, St. Poelten (Austria): Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis 2013 School of Data, Vienna (Austria): Effective Use of Open Data 2012 MOVE REAL: Modelling and visualising spatial dynamics, Fréjus (France): Maybe... Maybe not: Uncertainty in Time-Oriented Data Visualization (together with Theresia Gschwandtner) 2012 Eurographics/IEEE Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2012): Bertin was Right: An Empirical Evaluation of Indexing to Compare Multivariate Time-Series Data Using Line Plots 2008 Technology talks Alpbach (Austria): Facing Information Overload in Patient Care 2008 Keynote at Workshop Interactive Visual Exploration of Electronic Health Records, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland (USA): Gaining New Medical Insights through Interactive Visual Exploration IVAPP: International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications InfoVis: IEEE Conf. on Information Visualization EuroVAST, EuroVA: EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics 2013 EuroVis: Eurographics/IEEE Conf. on Visualization Short papers 2013 I-KNOW: International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies 2012 EuroVis: Eurographics/IEEE Conf. on Visualization TAVA: Special Track on Theory and Applications of Visual Analytics VAST: IEEE Conf. on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2010 IDAMAP: Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Biomedicine and Pharmacology Journal reviewer Peer reviewed journals: Computer Graphics Forum, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Information Visualization Journal, Computers & Graphics, Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies, The Cartographic Journal, Decision Analysis, Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, Human Factors, Information Sciences, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems Conference reviewer 3

4 Peer reviewed conferences & workshops: International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW), Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP), Conference on Simulation and Visualization (SimVis), International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV), IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), IEEE Visualization Conference (Vis), ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), IEEE Pacific Visualization (PacificVis), ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM SIGGRAPH, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) Scientific community since 2006 Founder and coordinator of the InfoVis:Wiki Co-creator of The TimeViz Browser A Visual Survey of Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented Data survey.timeviz.net 2008 Co-chair of IEEE VisWeek 2008 Workshop Body of Knowledge for Visual Analytics Education 2008 Advisor of HCIL workshop on Interactive Visual Exploration of Electronic Health Records (EHRViz 2008) teaching activities and supervision Lectures and courses at St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Lectures and courses at Vienna University of Technology 2013 Introduction to Computer Science EINFO, VO (Lecture), 1.0 ECTS 2013 Mobile Applications MOBAW, LB (Integrated Lecture), 3.0 ECTS 2013 Introduction to Applied Media Informatics EAMI, SE (Seminar), 5.0 ECTS 2013 Project 1: Scenarios and Prototyping P-SPT, PT (Project), 5.0 ECTS 2013 Media Technology Project 1 MTP1, PT (Project), 4.0 ECTS 2014 Interactive Installations IAI, UE (Lab), 3.0 ECTS 2014 Graphics Design - Designing for New Media GDP, SE (Seminar), 4.0 ECTS 2014 Hardware Usability HAWAU, UE (Lab), 3.0 ECTS 2014 Media Technology Project 2 MTP1, PT (Project), 5.0 ECTS 2014 Native Mobile Application Development NMAD, SE (Seminar), 4.0 ECTS 2014 Project 2: Development and User Testing PT2, PT (Project), 5.0 ECTS 2014 Project 2: Designing for New Media PT2, PT (Project), 5.0 ECTS 2014 Technology and Methods for Interactive Systems Implementation TUI, SE (Seminar), 4.0 ECTS since 2003 Information Visualization , VO (Lecture), 3.0 ECTS 4

5 since 2003 Information Visualization , UE (Exercise), 1.5 ECTS Information Design and Visualization , VU (Lecture with Exercises), 3.0 ECTS Seminar in Visualization , SE (Seminar), 3.0 ECTS Project in Visual Computing , PR (Project), 9.0 ECTS Seminar on Media Informatics , SE (Seminar), 3.0 ECTS since 2012 From Design to Software , PR (Project), 6.0 ECTS since 2012 From Design to Software , PR (Project), 6.0 ECTS since 2012 Management of Software Projects , VU (Lecture with Exercises), 3.0 ECTS Project in Software Engineering & Internet Computing , PR (Project), 12.0 ECTS Seminar on Medical Informatics , SE (Seminar), 3.0 ECTS Project in Medical Informatics , PR (Project), 12.0 ECTS Bachelor Thesis , PR (Project), 10.0 ECTS 2002 XML, XSL and Web Applications , VU (Lecture with Exercises), 3.0 ECTS Advisor since Master s theses, 10 Bachelor s theses, and 12 student projects research grants From 2002 Wolfgang was involved in the acquisition and execution of a number of funded basic and applied research projects at national and international levels. Wolfgang worked in interdisciplinary and international teams where he designed, implemented, and evaluated user- and task-oriented visualization and interaction methods for different application domains and user groups. Running grants Expired grants KAVA-Time: Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics Methods for Time-Oriented Data Austrian Science Fund (FWF) PI EXPAND: EXploratory Visualization of PAtent Network Dynamics Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology Co-author of proposal & co-investigator CVAST: Laura Bassi Centre of Excellence for Visual Analytics Science and Technology Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth Co-investigator & deputy project manager first 4 years next 3 years under negotiation HypoVis: Modeling Hypotheses with Visual Analytics Methods to Analyze the Past and Forecast the Future Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Co-author of proposal & co-investigator ViENA: Visual Enterprise Network Analytics Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology Co-author of proposal & group leader VisuExplore: Gaining New Medical Insights through Visual Exploration Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Lead author of proposal & group leader 5

6 VisMaster: Mastering the Information Age European Union Coordination Action Co-author of proposal & co-investigator Mainly travel costs were financed DisCō: Visual DIScovery and COmmunication of complex time patterns in non regularly gathered multigranular and multivariate data Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology Co-author of proposal & group leader Asgaard: Gaining New Medical Insights through Temporal Data Abstraction and Clinical Protocols Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Co-investigator in2vis: Interactive Information Visualization: Exploring and supporting human reasoning processes Viennese Science, Research, and Technology Fund (WWTF) Co-investigator selected publications 2 Book (Springer) TVCG C&G CGF TVCG CGF Visualization of Time-Oriented Data Aigner, W., Miksch, S., Schumann, H., and Tominski, C. Human-Computer Interaction. Springer Verlag, 1st edition, Wolfgang Aigner is the lead author of this book that is devoted to a systematic view on this topic and is the first of its kind. It is aimed at scientists as well as at practitioners seeking information on how their time-oriented data can best be visualized in order to gain valuable insights. It has been very well received by the community and especially the recently created companion website (survey.timeviz.net) was praised. Within the 1st year after its publication, more than 400 copies were sold or downloaded. Visual Methods for Analyzing Time-Oriented Data Aigner, W., Miksch, S., Müller, W., Schumann, H., and Tominski, C. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(1):47 60, IF: This article in the prestigious TVCG journal is a reference work that covers visualization, automated methods, and user- centered analysis. It also received interest from outside the community and has been cited more than 100 times. Visualizing Time-Oriented Data A Systematic View Aigner, W., Miksch, S., Müller, W., Schumann, H., and Tominski, C. Computers & Graphics, 31(3): , IF: This journal article is a precursor to the book listed above. It received great interest, has been cited more than 100 times, and was awarded a Top Cited Article from Pergamon/Elsevier. EvalBench: A Software Library for Visualization Evaluation Aigner, W., Hoffmann, S., and Rind, A. Computer Graphics Forum, 32(3), 2013, forthcoming. IF: It is widely acknowledged that there is a need for a solid evaluation infrastructure to encourage visualization researchers to carry out evaluations of their methods and tools. To support them in their efforts, the paper presents the design, prototypical implementation, and application of the open source software library EvalBench. Reinventing the Contingency Wheel: Scalable Visual Analytics of Large Categorical Data Alsallakh, B., Aigner, W., Miksch, S., and Gröller, E. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(12): , IF: This recent paper is one of only 10 selected papers to be part of a IEEE TVCG special issue from the VAST conference. Moreover, it received a best paper honorable mention at the top-level venue VisWeek. Bertin was Right: An Empirical Evaluation of Indexing to Compare Multivariate Time-Series Data Using Line Plots 2 A full list of publications and open access pre-/post-prints of most publications are available from aigner/publications; Impact Factors (IF) taken from Thomson Reuters (April 2, 2013). 6

7 Aigner, W., Kainz, C., Ma, R., and Miksch, S. Computer Graphics Forum, 30(1): , IF: This work presented empirical evidence for a principle for the 1st time that was proposed more than 40 years ago. The journal paper was selected as one out of two invited talks at EuroVis AIIM CareVis: Integrated Visualization of Computerized Protocols and Temporal Patient Data Aigner, W. and Miksch, S. Artifical Intelligence in Medicine (AIIM), 37(3): , IF: This is early work of Wolfgang regarding electronic health record visualization. It was invited for a journal publication after being presented at a workshop and lead to many fruitful international cooperations. other information Memberships ACM IEEE OCG Languages German native English fluent January 7,