Visualizing for the Non‐Visual: Enabling the Visually Impaired to Use Visualization

The majority of visualizations on the web are still stored as raster images, making them inaccessible to visually impaired users. We propose a deep‐neural‐network‐based approach that automatically recognizes key elements in a visualization, including a visualization type, graphical elements, labels, legends, and most importantly, the original data conveyed in the visualization. We leverage such extracted information to provide visually impaired people with the reading of the extracted information. Based on interviews with visually impaired users, we built a Google Chrome extension designed to work with screen reader software to automatically decode charts on a webpage using our pipeline. We compared the performance of the back‐end algorithm with existing methods and evaluated the utility using qualitative feedback from visually impaired users.     

复杂目标近场电磁散射的可视化计算方法

首次介绍了复杂目标近场散射计算的可视化方法。采用非均匀有理Ｂ样条曲面（ＮＵＲＢＳ）精确构造任意形状散射体，结合几何体近场透视变换和Ｚ－Ｂｕｆｆｅｒ技术实现了基于Ｗｉｎｄｏｗｓ平台的近场散射计算。提出广义雷达散射截面的概念并给出的若干算例。该方法充分利用了计算机３Ｄ图形设备的几何运算能力，运算速度快，严谨高，可扩展性好。     

Targeting optimum resource allocation using reverse problem formulations and property clustering techniques

Decoupling the constitutive equations from the balance and constraint equations allows for reformulating a conventional forward problem into two reverse problems. The first reverse problem is the reverse of a simulation problem, where the process model is solved in terms of the constitutive (synthesis/design) variables instead of the process variables, thus providing the synthesis/design targets. The second reverse problem (reverse property prediction) solves the constitutive equations to identify unit operations, operating conditions and/or products by matching the synthesis/design targets. Visualization of the problem is achieved by employing recently developed property clustering techniques, which allows a high-dimensional problem to be visualized in two or three dimensions. The clusters by definition satisfy intra-stream and inter-stream conservation through linear “mixing” rules, which allows for the development of consistent additive rules along with their ternary representation.     

Design of thermophoretic probe for precise particle sampling

We proposed a design methodology for improved thermophoretic probes that can sample particles with high spatial resolution. A bending vibration analysis for the instantaneous motion of a probe has been done together with direct observation of the probe motion and flow disturbance for systematic study of the effect of different designs on particle sampling. Direct observation of the motion of thermophoretic sampling probes revealed that the probe with a low stiffness would result in inaccurate particle sampling. Based on these, the thermophoretic sampling probe was modified to minimize probe vibration and flow disturbance and this modified design was confirmed to sample particles with higher spatial resolution than the original one by examining transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of particles collected in a flame.     

液压系统设计与试验的虚拟样机技术

本文在介绍了虚拟样机技术的基础上，分析和阐述了开发具有虚拟样机功能的液压系统设计与试验软件的模型。     

Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) studies of liquid-liquid flows. Part I: Flow structures and phase inversion

A non-intrusive dye tracing technique, laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), has been applied to investigate the co-current flow of two immiscible organic-aqueous liquid flows in a vertical pipe. This technique allowed detailed visualization of the dynamic evolution of the flows. Flow structures in liquid-liquid flows at high dispersed phase fraction were revealed which had not been seen before. In pipe flow, an unstable range was found in the flow pattern map in which oil-in-water (o/w) and water-in-oil (w/o) dispersions could co-exist. Secondary dispersions (o/w/o and w/o/w) were observed for most volume fractions and velocities, especially in the unstable range. It was observed that, when the flow is in the unstable region, both w/o/w and o/w/o secondary dispersions could appear in the same set of experiments. It was found that this unstable range in the pipe flow, in spite of the similar appearance, was different to the ambivalent range seen in agitated systems. The one-dimensional drift flux model of Wallis (1969) for dispersed flow and a laminar model for co-current downward annular flow, were also applied to predict the in situ oil holdup; good agreement was obtained.     

Visual Analysis of Trajectories in Multi‐Dimensional State Spaces

Multi‐dimensional data originate from many different sources and are relevant for many applications. One specific sub‐type of such data is continuous trajectory data in multi‐dimensional state spaces of complex systems. We adapt the concept of spatially continuous scatterplots and spatially continuous parallel coordinate plots to such trajectory data, leading to continuous‐time scatterplots and continuous‐time parallel coordinates. Together with a temporal heat map representation, we design coordinated views for visual analysis and interactive exploration. We demonstrate the usefulness of our visualization approach for three case studies that cover examples of complex dynamic systems: cyber‐physical systems consisting of heterogeneous sensors and actuators networks (the collection of time‐dependent sensor network data of an exemplary smart home environment), the dynamics of robot arm movement and motion characteristics of humanoids.     

远程用户体验评估综述:工具、方法和挑战

远程用户体验评估允许评估人员和用户在时间和(或)空间上分离,它具有经济、便捷、对用户打扰少,能在真实环境中对大量多样的用户进行研究等特点,被认为是解决传统用户体验评估问题的一个理想方案,并逐渐成为人机交互领域中一个热门的研究课题。首先介绍了远程用户体验评估的概念和分类;然后描述了远程评估的研究概况;接着提出了远程评估工具的系统架构,并依据系统架构,详细描述了数据采集、分析和呈现的各种方法;最后,总结了远程评估所面对的挑战以及未来的研究方向。     

Lerisk－i*框架自动建模与编辑工具介绍

在需求工程中,基于主体的i*建模框架(主要包括策略依赖模型及策略推理模型)已经成为最常用的早期需求建模与分析的工具之一,而且关于i*建模框架的编辑工具开发也有很多相关的研究工作。然而现有的这些工具往往只提供诸如模型图编辑、存储等基本功能,而笔者需要在需求工程小组的项目中为对需求文本进行建模的结果进行模型可视化,同时提供编辑存储及自动布局功能,并开发出新的基于i*建模框架的工具。文中首先对主流的i*建模工具进行了调研,研究了建模工具的基本功能,同时分析了其功能的不足点,在此基础上提出了新工具设计的功能补充点;然后对i*框架的布局问题进行介绍并详细描述了其自动布局算法的实现,给出了可视化工具的详细设计;最后在此工具的基础上,进行了实际需求文本的建模及模型编辑功能的实验,并将此工具与主流工具的功能进行对比,以展示本工具的功能特点。