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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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`This year VAST gave out a 10 year test of time award, InfoVis a 10 and 20 year award, and
`SciVis a 14, 15 and 25 year award.
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`VAST
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`2012:
`Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study
`Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer
`DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.219
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`ndings helping other organizations to evaluate the costs/benets of visual analytics more
`effectively. These studies take a lot of work, recruiting people, coding the results, they make
`it look easy! Before this work we struggled to nd the vocabulary to use, now we have
`framings that are easy to remember and conceptualise the space nicely. The paper provided
`the vocabulary for authors to use. The paper has received an impressive quantity of citations
`and patent citations, is still relevant today, and continues to be cited frequently.
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`Committee: Jonathan C. Roberts (Chair), Claudio Silva, Jo Wood, Torsten Möller
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`InfoVis
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`2002:
`SpaceTree: supporting exploration in large node link tree, design evolution and empirical
`evaluation.
`Catherine Plaisant, Jesse Grosjean, Benjamin B Bederson.
`DOI: 10.1109/INFVIS.2002.1173148
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`This paper introduced an interactive tree exploration technique that has been highly
`inuential on later techniques and widely applied in different application areas, from
`biology to document visualization. Implementations of techniques inspired by SpaceTree are
`found in popular visualization toolkits, such as D3. The semantic zoom design is an
`interesting precursor to “scented widgets” which are found in many modern user interfaces.
`Arguably this highly cited paper was more rigorous and innovative in its approach compared
`to its contemporaries and was likely a trailblazer for a more “modern” style of VIS paper. In
`particular, it included a rigorous empirical study which was relatively rare for InfoVis papers
`at the time. Furthermore, it included greater discussion and reection on the design process
`compared to contemporary and earlier papers that tended to focus on just the nal result.
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`Committee: Tim Dwyer (chair), Lyn Bartram, Steven Franconeri
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`2012
`Design Study Methodology: Reections from the Trenches and the Stacks
`Michael Sedlmair, Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner
`DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.213
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`This paper was the rst to bring the methodology of design studies to the visualization
`community of researchers and practitioners, setting a comprehensive framework for
`developing and deploying visualization solutions to real-world problems. The authors
`reected on their own extensive experience as well as a thorough literature survey of related
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`itself), this paper provided a principled foundation for how to think about the entire design
`process from problem analysis through the choice of visualization solutions to validation
`and reection on both outcomes and method, setting the stage for further practice and
`research. The impact of this paper has been extensive both within and beyond the Vis
`community, in research, education and practice. Evidence of impact beyond our own eld is
`that over half the citations of this paper come from outside Visualization-focused forums,
`including HCI, UX, bioinformatics, engineering, climate science, health and numerous
`domains, and it continues to be cited. This paper continues to be standard reading in many
`visualization and visual analytics courses around the world. Design study methods are now
`the “gold standard” in approaching visualization solutions to real-world problems.
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`Committee: Tim Dwyer (chair), Lyn Bartram, Steven Franconeri
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`SciVis
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`1997:
`ROAMing terrain: Real-time Optimally Adapting Meshes
`Mark Duchaineau, Murray Wolinsky, David E. Sigeti, Mark C. Miller, Charles Aldrich, Mark B.
`Mineev-Weinstein
`DOI: 10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663860
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`In the 1990s, the ood of available satellite and other remote-sensing data drove the need
`for effective tools to render terrains efciently. Cited over 1400 times, this paper solved
`many of the outstanding issues by introducing split-merge operations for triangle bintrees,
`guaranteeing mesh consistency in a simple and elegant fashion. The work introduced in this
`paper profoundly inuenced the state of the art for terrain rendering in lms, games, ight
`simulation and remote sensing and continues to inuence research efforts today.
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`Committee: Hamish Carr, Kelly Gaither, Gerik Scheuermann, Kristi Potter
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`2007:
`Efcient Computation and Visualization of Coherent Structures in Fluid Flow Applications.
`Christoph Garth, Florian Gerhardt, Xavier Tricoche, Hans Hagen
`DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70551
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`This paper introduced foundational work analyzing uid ows. One of the long-standing
`problems in visualizing uids is vector visualization, namely the detection and display of
`signicant boundaries such as separatrices in uid-ow simulations. In 2007, two papers
`simultaneously approached this problem from a new angle: extracting coherent structures by
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`for much of the subsequent work and is consistently cited every year as fundamental work
`that continues to be built upon today.
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`Committee: Hamish Carr (chair), Kelly Gaither (chair), Gerik Scheuermann, Kristi Potter
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`2008
`A practical approach to Morse-Smale complex computation: Scalability and generality
`Attila Gyulassy, Peer-Timo Bremer, Bernd Hamann, and Valerio Pascucci
`DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.110
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`This paper introduced the use of Digital Morse Theory in the visualization domain as part of
`the now decades-long application of computational topology to data analysis and
`visualisation at scale. This topic has seen consistent support from the Department of Energy
`as one of the approaches needed for exascale analysis, and has driven deep algorithmic
`improvements. In this paper, the authors resolved massive complexity in the existing
`techniques by applying a simple discrete model of gradient analysis that could readily be
`computed at scale. Cited 231 times, this paper made multiple further developments feasible
`and established Morse-Smale Complexes as a rst-class tool in the kit of techniques we
`apply to data, and continues to be relevant to anyone working with topological visualization.
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`Committee: Hamish Carr (chair), Kelly Gaither (chair), Gerik Scheuermann, Kristi Potter
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