{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Swarm Systems in the Visualization of Consumption Patterns","authors":[{"name":"Catarina Maçãs","slug":"catarina-macas","given":"Catarina","family":"Maçãs","affiliation":""},{"name":"Pedro Cruz","slug":"pedro-cruz","given":"Pedro","family":"Cruz","affiliation":""},{"name":"Pedro Martins","slug":"pedro-martins","given":"Pedro","family":"Martins","affiliation":""},{"name":"Penousal Machado","slug":"penousal-machado","given":"Penousal","family":"Machado","affiliation":""}],"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.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/349","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0349.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/349.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/bibtex/349","volume":{"slug":"2015","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2015","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/","year":2015,"location":"Buenos Aires, Argentina","dates":"25–31 July 2015","editors":"Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge","isbn":"978-1-57735-738-4","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Arts","track":"Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Arts","number":349,"pages":{"first":2466,"last":2471},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}