Paul Rosenthal

Paul Rosenthal
University of Rostock · Institute of Computer Science

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October 2016 - present
University of Rostock
Position
  • Visiting Professor for Human-centered Data Analytics
October 2010 - September 2016
Chemnitz University of Technology
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
September 2005 - August 2008
Universität Greifswald
Position
  • Research Associate
Education
August 2005 - March 2009
Constructor University Bremen gGmbH
Field of study
  • Computer Science
October 2000 - June 2005
Universität Greifswald
Field of study
  • Mathematics

Publications

Publications (69)
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With increasing digitization, the security and privacy aspects of information are a non-negotiable factor in information system design and operation. Especially the human factor of information systems is a pivotal role in information security and increasingly relevant in establishing user-privacy concepts. More often than not, their knowledge about...
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Information about the wind situation is crucial for en-route air traffic controllers. In this paper, we compare several glyph designs for showing wind direction and speed by the means of an empirical study. The different designs are based on arrows, wind barbs, and text. During the study, we are measuring response times and accuracy. Moreover, we c...
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Annotations in Visual Analytics (VA) have become a common means to support the analysis by integrating additional information into the VA system. That additional information often depends on the current process step in the visual analysis. For example, the data preprocessing step has data structuring operations while the data exploration step focus...
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Background Anti-VEGF drugs are currently used to treat macular diseases. This has led to a wealth of additional data, which could help understand and predict treatment courses; however, this information is usually only available in free text form.ObjectiveA retrospective study was designed to analyze how far interpretable information can be obtaine...
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With increasing digitization, the security and privacy aspects of information are a nonnegotiable factor in information system design and operation. Especially the human factor of information systems is a pivotal role in information security and increasingly relevant in establishing user-privacy concepts. More often than not, their knowledge about...
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A supervisor, working in an area control center in air traffic control has direct impact on the performance of the air traffic controllers. Thus, he/she has to be well informed about the situation within the center. In order to support the supervisors work, researchers try to measure the air traffic controllers’ cognitive workload and stress. Withi...
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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables noninvasive high-resolution 3D imaging of the human retina, and thus plays a fundamental role in detecting a wide range of ocular diseases. Despite the diagnostic value of OCT, managing and analyzing resulting data is challenging. We apply two visual analysis strategies for supporting retinal assessment in...
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Ergonomics deals with the analysis and design of work processes. To identify ergonomically critical situations, appropriate evaluation options have to be developed to enable an efficient analysis process. Nowadays, such analyses are typically carried out with the help of digital models of the surrounding area and virtual humans. These produce a mul...
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The work of a supervisor, working in an area control center in air traffic control, seems to be rarely addressed by research. Within this paper, we present a preliminary study that deals with the supervisors decision making process, current practices and interfaces. Based on this study, we derived design guidelines to the development of a visualiza...
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The development of pedagogical agents has been focused on the empirical relevance of outward appearance and the voiced conveyance of information. Rather than following these steps of analysing agents’ looks, the following paper is focused on having pedagogical agents function proactively in regard to the environment the learner is situated in. This...
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Cognitive technology is leaving the lab and entering the world of the everyday. Systems such as knowledge navigators, conversational agents, and intelligent personal assistants are increasingly incorporated into real-world systems. This success of cognitive technologies poses novel methodological challenges for interdisciplinary teams tasked with t...
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The StayCentered Project at Technische Universität Chemnitz aims for assisting air traffic controllers in stressful traffic situations. Therefore, we are seeking to comprehend air traffic controllers’ principles of operation within the dyadic team structure. First exploratory research revealed insights into air traffic controllers’ practices, their...
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In this paper, we discuss the issues of the current state of the art in optical coherence tomography with respect to reproducibility. We present our findings about the internal computations and data storage methods of the currently used devices. The gained knowledge was used to implement a tool to read a variety of OCT file formats and reproduce th...
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A human being is more flexible and adaptive than any technology. Nevertheless, the right support systems at the right time can bring large benefits. But how can we know when someone could benefit from technological support? The StayCentered project is working on the idea of collecting physiological data to assess the mental state of an air traffic...
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Im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts an der Technischen Universität Chemnitz wurde das digitale Menschmodell „The Smart Virtual Worker“ (SVW) entwickelt. Mit der Entwicklung werden eine signifikante Reduktion im Simulationsaufwand sowie eine Erweiterung integrierter arbeitswissenschaftlicher Bewertungsmethoden in digitalen Menschmo...
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The StayCentered Project at Technische Universität Chemnitz aims for assisting air traffic controllers in stressful traffic situations. Therefore we are seeking to comprehend air traffic controllers’ principles of operation within the dyadic team structure. First exploratory research revealed insights into air traffic controllers’ practices, their...
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Ergonomics is the science of human work. One goal is the adaption of work to the human, thus to create better working conditions and to avoid health risks. Increasingly often, digital human models and corresponding evaluation methods are used. Due to the mass of data and the variety of possible analyses which come along with a simulation, the inter...
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HCI’s success as a discipline is based on its ability of dealing with the problems, desires, and requirements of technology users. Through its turn to user experience, the community was able to create products whose use is pleasant and exciting. There are, however, design contexts where the corresponding focus on fostering use might be in need of a...
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Gender relations are reproduced both within HCI development processes as well as within contexts of use. Hence, theorising the subject of gender becomes part of the responsibility of HCI as a form of practice. The fledgling subfield of feminist HCI has created an epistemological basis for thinking through these challenges. The current text seeks to...
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The Stay Centered project at Technische Universitat Chemnitz has the goal to improve the overall security of air traffic controllers. Therefore, we attempt to empirically comprehend the usual controller workspace and their dyadic team structure. Within this context, the following paper describes actual interfaces and visualization, discusses recent...
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This paper describes a system for rendering large (billions of points) point clouds using a strict level-ofdetail criterion for managing the data out of core. The system is comprised of an in-core data structure for managing the coarse hierarchy, an out-of-core structure for managing the actual data and a multithreaded rendering framework that hand...
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Bildverarbeitung spielt in vielen Bereichen der Technik zur schnellen und berührungslosen Datenerfassung eine Schlüsselrolle und hat sich in vielen Anwendungen einen unverzichtbaren Platz erobert. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist dabei eine zielführende Verarbeitung der erfassten Bildsignale. Das "Forum Bildverarbeitung 2014" greift diese hochaktuellen...
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Vorgestellt wird die interaktive Installation PRMD. Diese erlaubt ein gemeinsames, performativ aufgeladenes Entdecken von Biographien wie deren intersubjektiv verbindenden Elementen. Als Verschneidung rein digitaler wie aktuell performativer Elemente, thematisiert sie gleichzeitig zeitgenössische Praxen digitaler Identitätskonstruktion wie solche b...
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Every HCI artefact reproduces a specific stance towards its users. Influential within the academic sphere is the notion of a User-Centered-Design process. However, observing actual design practice renders the assumption of the centrality of users problematic. To this end, the text conducts an exploration of the relationship between discourse within...
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Communicating tangible technology designs hinges on an adequate notion of materiality. However, academic disciplines involved employ wildly differing notions of the material. This issue effects communicative boundaries within interdisciplinary teams tasked with development of tangible digital artefacts. In order to address this problem, we provide...
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We present a case study outlining development efforts towards an interface ecology to be deployed in museums. We argue that the problem at hand calls for a highly interdisciplinary design process. Furthermore, system design in the domain of cultural education poses a unique set of challenges. At the same time few existing design methodologies are s...
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Direct rendering of large point clouds has become common practice in architecture and archaeology in recent years. Due to the high point density no mesh is reconstructed from the scanned data, but the points can be rendered directly as primitives of a graphics API like OpenGL. However, these APIs and the hardware, which they are based on, have been...
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The operation of an airline is a very complex task and disruptions to the planned operation can occur on very short notice. Already a small disruption like a delay of some minutes can cost the airline a tremendous amount of money. Hence, it is crucial to proactively control all operations of the airline and efficiently prioritize and handle disrupt...
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Scanning 3D objects has become a valuable asset to many applications. For larger objects such as buildings or bridges, a scanner is positioned at several locations and the scans are merged to one representation. Nowadays, such scanners provide, beside geometry, also color information. The different lighting conditions present when taking the variou...
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Visualization of high-dimensional data requires a mapping to a visual space. Whenever the goal is to preserve similarity relations a frequent strategy is to use 2D projections, which afford intuitive interactive exploration, e.g., by users locating and selecting groups and gradually drilling down to individual objects. In this paper, we propose a f...
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Signed distance functions (SDF) to explicit or implicit surface representations are intensively used in various computer graphics and visualization algorithms. Among others, they are applied to optimize collision detection, are used to reconstruct data fields or surfaces, and, in particular, are an obligatory ingredient for most level set methods....
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Point-based rendering methods have proven to be effective for the display of large point cloud surface models. For a realistic visualization of the models, transparency and shadows are essential features. We propose a method for point cloud rendering with transparency and shadows at interactive rates. Our approach does not require any global or loc...
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Level-set methods have become a valuable and well-established field of visualization over the last decades. Different implemen-tations addressing different design goals and different data types exist. In particular, level sets can be used to extract isosurfaces from scalar volume data that fulfill certain smoothness criteria. Recently, such an appr...
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Point-based rendering methods have proven to be effective for the display of large point cloud surface models, basically replacing global surface reconstruction with local surface estimations, for example, via splats or implicit functions. Crucial to their performance in terms of rendering quality and speed is the representation of the local surfac...
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Point clusters occur in both spatial and non-spatial data. In the former context they may represent segmented particle data, in the latter context they may represent clusters in scatterplots. In order to visualize such point clusters, enclosing surfaces lead to much better comprehension than pure point renderings. We propose a flexible system for t...
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The IEEE Visualization Design Contests aim to foster the development of new visualization tools, techniques and solutions to existing real-world problems. This article describes the scientific questions posed for the contest for a turbulence data set, contest evaluation procedure, and the 2008 contest results. The winning entry presents a system fo...
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Surface extraction is a standard visualization method for scalar volume data. Many algorithms for surface extraction from various data structures and types exist. However, for unstructured point-based volume data, where no topology or connectivity between data points is given, most approaches propose to reconstruct the scalar field over a grid and...
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Data sets resulting from physical simulations typically contain a multitude of physical variables. It is, therefore, desirable that visualization methods take into account the entire multi-field volume data rather than concentrating on one variable. We present a visualization approach based on surface extraction from multi-field particle volume dat...
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Smooth surface extraction using partial differential equations (PDEs) is a well-known and widely used technique for visualizing volume data. Existing approaches operate on gridded data and mainly on regular structured grids. When considering unstructured point-based volume data where sample points do not form regular patterns nor are they connected...
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Point-based rendering approaches have gained a major interest in recent years, basically replacing global surface reconstruction with local surface estimations us-ing, for example, splats or implicit functions. Crucial to their performance in terms of rendering quality and speed is the representation of the local surface patches. We present a novel...
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A Yang-Mills theory in a purely symplectic framework is developed. The corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations are derived and first integrals are given. We relate the results to the work of Bourgeois and Cahen on preferred symplectic connections.
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Point-based surface representations have gained increasing interest in the computer graphics community within the last decade. Surface splatting established as one of the mai n rendering techniques for point clouds. We present a ray-tracing approach for objects whose surfaces are represented by point clouds. Our approach is based on casting rays an...
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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics is a completely mesh-free method to simulate fluid flow. Rather than representing the physical variables on a fixed grid, the fluid is represented by freely moving interpolation centers ("particles"). Apart from their position and velocity these particles carry information about the physical quantities of the con-sid...
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A Yang-Mills theory in a purely symplectic framework is developed. The corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations are derived and first integrals are given. We relate the results to the work of Bourgeois and Cahen on preferred symplectic connections.
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Isosurface extraction is a standard visualization method for scalar volume data and has been subject to research for decades. Nevertheless, to our knowledge, no isosurface extraction method exists that directly extracts surfaces from scattered volume data without 3D mesh generation or reconstruction over a structured grid. We propose a method based...
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A classification of strip ornaments is given, based on the discrete groups of symmetry mappings of a three-dimensional (arbitrarily) thin strip of infinite length and with a rectangular cross section.
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Data sets resulting from physical simulations typically contain a mul- titude of physical variables. In most cases they are highly dependent on each other and most phenomena can only be explained with a view in most of the attributes. Nevertheless we have only at most four di- mensions as domain for visualizations. Hence scientific approaches are n...
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The data of the IEEE Visualization Contest 2011 consists of dif-ferent simulations of a centrifugal pump. We will study the devel-opment and cause of vortices in the flow of this pump at deep part load. This will be done using the well-known tool Paraview and utilizing different seeding strategies for streamtubes.

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