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`To improve the future, we must reect on our past. The IEEE VIS Test of Time Award is an
`accolade given to recognize articles published at previous conferences whose contents are
`still vibrant and useful today and have had a major impact and inuence within and beyond
`the visualization community.
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`By making the awards at the conference opening we hope to encourage researchers to aim to
`produce work that is forward looking and has transformational potential. We’re trying to
`build on our heritage to establish an ambitious future by making it clear at the conference
`opening that we want participants to aspire to be writing the papers that will be relevant in
`10 and 20 years.
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`Papers are selected for each of the three conferences (VAST, InfoVis and SciVis) by Test of
`Time Awards committees, appointed by the VIS Steering Committee.
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`The decisions are based on objective measures such as the numbers of citations, and more
`subjective ones such as the quality and longevity and inuence of ideas, outreach, uptake
`and effect not only in the research community, but also within application domains and
`visualization practice.
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`VAST currently considers conferences 10 years prior to the current conference, InfoVis 10 and
`20 years prior, and SciVis 15 and 25 years prior.
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`VAST
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`2011:
`SensePlace2: GeoTwitter analytics support for situational awareness.
`Alan M. MacEachren, Anuj Jaiswal, Anthony C. Robinson, Scott Pezanowski, Alexander
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`The paper has over 400 citations, and is still regularly cited today as an early example of
`visual analytics for aggregated social media data. Published when Twitter was still ramping
`up, the paper described using tweets and their location data for situation awareness during
`emergencies. It includes a survey of emergency practitioners and a useful discussion of
`situation awareness. This work led to important discussions of the ethics of location-based
`data in crisis situations.
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`Committee: Brian Fisher, Shixia Liu, Catherine Plaisant (chair), Jonathan Roberts
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`InfoVis
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`2001:
`Ordered Treemap Layouts.
`Ben Shneiderman & Martin Wattenberg.
`DOI: 10.1109/INFVIS.2001.963283
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`followup journal paper
`Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies.
`Benjamin B. Bederson, Ben Shneiderman, Martin Wattenberg. ACM TOG 21(4):833-854 2002
`DOI: 10.1145/571647.571649
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`This paper represents foundational work that underlies modern treemap algorithms. The
`2001 InfoVis paper introduced a method to retain the order of items while also producing
`rectangles with low aspect ratios, similar to squaried tree maps. The approach addressed a
`critical problem of layout stability, where changes in the data set could result in dramatic
`discontinuous changes in the treemap layout. With trends towards interaction as a critical
`component of InfoVis system design, and the need to handle updating data, mechanisms to
`ensure layout stability were an important and long lasting contribution to InfoVis. Also
`notable are the introduction of meaningful metrics for assessing layout quality and a
`systematic and rigorous evaluation of several different treemap algorithms against those
`metrics; as such, the paper can also be commended as an early exemplar of algorithm
`quality benchmarking. The followup journal version paper also introduced the quantum
`treemap approach suitable for laying out images within the generated rectangles, and
`included a user study to assess human performance benets of the new algorithms. These
`two papers in combination have been cited over 1000 times (June 2021, Google Scholar), and
`were an important step towards the current widespread adoption of the treemap family of
`techniques.
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`Committee: Tamara Munzner (chair), Tim Dwyer, Melanie Tory
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`DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.185
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`The sheer number of citations for this paper – over 3300 according to Google Scholar in June
`2021, the most for any InfoVis paper so far by a signicant margin – make it an easy
`recommendation for the 2011 Test of Time award. This system paper proposed a new
`framework, called “D3”, with unprecedented exibility for creating web-based visualizations
`using a novel mechanism for binding data to HTML elements. D3’s novel approach to
`dynamic data updates and support for interactivity was featured through many compelling
`examples. Viewed with the benet of ten-year hindsight, the phenomenal inuence of D3,
`not only to the eld of data visualization research, but also to the practical uptake of
`interactive visualization on the web, is a larger story of the remarkable efforts of the authors.
`The open-source D3 system beneted greatly from the previous experiences of the authors in
`developing visualization frameworks such as Protovis (2009) and Prefuse (2005). D3 was
`supported by an amazing ecosystem of champions and developers, led tirelessly by the
`authors. Bostock later worked closely with the New York Times, using D3 to create
`visualizations that allowed journalists to immerse readers in data-rich stories as never
`before. By creating a framework that was compelling and easy for web developers to use to
`author interactive visualizations, the authors have undeniably helped to bring data
`visualization to the mainstream. This paper is a cornerstone contribution to this conference
`specically and more generally to the success of our eld as a whole.
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`Committee: Tamara Munzner (chair), Tim Dwyer, Melanie Tory
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`SciVis
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`1996:
`The Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Toolkit for 3D Graphics and
`Visualization.
`William J. Schroeder, Kenneth M. Martin, William E. Lorensen.
`DOI: 10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567752
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`followup book
`The Visualization Toolkit: an Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics.
`Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen.
`ISBN: 978-1930934191
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`This work describes the design and inspiration for a system that has become an open source
`foundation for visualization work worldwide. The Visualization Toolkit, VTK, is so pervasive it
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`much so that the toolkit may be underrepresented in an analysis of citations alone. Among
`systems papers, this paper stands out as an example of work that shifted our eld and
`anchored the open and transparent nature of our science.
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`Committee: Hamish Carr, Issei Fujishiro, Penny Rheingans, Terry Yoo (chair)
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`2006:
`Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization.
`Marco Tarini, Paolo Cignoni, Claudio Montani.
`DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.115
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`This paper has received over 450 citations and is prominent both within the scientic
`visualization community as well as outside our direct community with 200 citations across
`the IEEE publications. The paper represents work that is not tied to a level of technology or
`research domain. It considers the problems of illustrating three dimensional structure in real
`time and considers the problem at differing levels of complexity, scale, and detail. It is an
`elegant treatment of a difcult problem and a model of effective presentation of lasting
`results in visualization research.
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`Committee: Issei Fujishiro, Penny Rheingans, Terry Yoo (chair)
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