Swarm Systems in the Visualization of Consumption Patterns

Maçãs, Catarina; Cruz, Pedro; Martins, Pedro; Machado, Penousal

Swarm Systems in the Visualization of Consumption Patterns

Catarina Maçãs, Pedro Cruz, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Arts. Pages 2466-2471.

Abstract

Information Aesthetics is an emerging sub-field of Data Visualization that aims to engage the viewers and lure them into decode the visualization. The introduction of self-organising systems can aid the creation of these visual representations through the exploration of emergent patterns. In this paper, we apply a swarm based system as a method to create emergent visualizations of data that convey meaningful information in an inciting way, exploring the boundaries between Data Visualization and Information Aesthetics. The approach is used to visually convey the consumption patterns in 729 Portuguese hypermarkets over the course of two years. The analysis of the experimental results focuses on the ability of the emergent visualizations to communicate information while engaging the viewer with organic visuals.

Catarina Maçãs, Pedro Cruz, Pedro Martins, and Penousal Machado. 2015. Swarm Systems in the Visualization of Consumption Patterns. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-15. IJCAI, 2466–2471. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/349

@inproceedings{ijcai2015p349,
  title     = {Swarm Systems in the Visualization of Consumption Patterns},
  author    = {Maçãs, Catarina and Cruz, Pedro and Martins, Pedro and Machado, Penousal},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-15}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
  editor    = {Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge},
  pages     = {2466--2471},
  year      = {2015},
  month     = {7},
  note      = {Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Arts},
  url       = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/349},
}

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