Aidan Slingsby
Senior Lecturer in Visual and Analytic Computing

giCentre, Department of Computer Science, City, University of London


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Journal articles

2022

Dykes, J. , Abdul-Rahman, A., Archambault, D. , Bach, B., Borgo, R., Chen, M., Enright, J., Fang, H., Firat, E., Freeman, E., Gonen, T., Harris, C., Jianu, R. , John, N. W., Khan, S., Lahiff, A., Laramee, R. S., Matthews, L., Mohr, S., Nguyen, P., Rahat, A. A. M., Reeve, R., Ritsos, P. D., Roberts, J. C., Slingsby, A. , Swallow, B., Torsney-Weir, T., Turkay, C., Turner, R., Vidal, F., Wang, Q., Wood, J. and Xu, K. (2022). Visualization for Epidemiological Modelling: Challenges, Solutions, Reflections & Recommendations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 380(2233), 20210299. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0299 [details]

Chen, M., Abdul-Rahman, A., Archambault, D. , Dykes, J. , Slingsby, A. , Rtisos, P. D., Torsney-Weir, T., Turkay, C., Bach, B., Borgo, R., Brett, A., Fang, H., Jianu, R. , Khan, S., Laramee, R. S., Nguyen, P. H., Reeve, R., Roberts, J., Vidal, F., Wang, Q., Wood, J. & Xu, K. (2022). RAMPVIS: Answering the Challenges of Building Visualisation Capabilities for Large-scale Emergency Responses. Epidemics, doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100569 [details]

2019

Beecham, R. & Slingsby, A. (2019). Characterising labour market self-containment in London with geographically arranged small multiples. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, doi: 10.1177/0308518x19850580 [details]

Demsar, U., Slingsby, A. and Weibel, R. 2019. Introduction to the special section on Visual Movement Analytics. Information Visualization, 18(1), pp. 133-137. doi: 10.1177/1473871618810849. [details]

2018

Beecham, R., Slingsby, A. & Brunsdon, C. (2018). Locally-varying explanations behind the United Kingdom’s vote to the Leave the European Union. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 16, pp. 117-136. [details]

2017

Turkay, C., Slingsby, A., Lahtinen, K., Butt, S. & Dykes, J. (2017). Supporting Theoretically-grounded Model Building in the Social Sciences through Interactive Visualisation. Neurocomputing. [details].

2016

Beecham, R., Dykes, J., Meulemans, W., Slingsby, A., Turkay, C. & Wood, J. 2016. Map LineUps: effects of spatial structure on graphical inference. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2598862 [details].

Meulemans, W., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A., Turkay, C. & Wood, J. 2016. Small Multiples with Gaps. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2598542 [details].

Slingsby, A. & van Loon, E. (2016). Exploratory Visual Analysis for Animal Movement Ecology. Computer Graphics Forum, 35(3). [details | DOI | software | video]

Beecham, R., Rooney, C., Meier, S., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A., Turkay, C., Wood, J. & Wong, B.L.W. (2016). Faceted Views of Varying Emphasis (FaVVEs): a framework for visualising multi-perspective small multiples. Computer Graphics Forum: the international journal of the Eurographics Association, 35(3) [details]

Mason, J., Klippel, A., Bleisch, S., Slingsby, A. & Deitrick, S. (2016). Special issue introduction: Approaching spatial uncertainty visualization to support reasoning and decision making. Spatial Cognition & Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16 (2), pp97-105. [details]

2015

Goodwin, S., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A. & Turkay, C. (2015). Visualizing Multiple Variables Across Scale and Geography. Paper presented at the IEEE VIS 2015, 25-10-2015 - 30-10-2015, Chicago, USA. [details]

2014

Slingsby, A., Kelly, M. & Dykes, J. (2014). Featured graphic. OD maps for showing changes in Irish female migration between 1851 and 1911. Environment and Planning A, 46(12), pp. 2795-2797. [details]

Turkay, C., Slingsby, A., Hauser, H., Wood, J. & Dykes, J. (2014). Attribute Signatures: Dynamic Visual Summaries for Analyzing Multivariate Geographical Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics [details]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. & Radburn, R. 2014. Designing an Exploratory Visual Interface to the Results of Citizen Surveys. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, doi: 10.1080/13658816.2014.920845 [details]

2013

Slingsby, A., Beecham, R. and Wood, J. 2013. Visual Analysis of Social Networks in Space and Time using Smartphone Logs Pervasive and Mobile Computing 9 (6), pp848-864. [details]

Walker, R., Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Xu, K., Wood, J., Nguyen, P., Stephens, D., Wong, W. and Zheng, Y. 2013. An Extensible Framework for Provenance in Human Terrain Visual Analytics Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 19 (12), pp2139-2148. [details]

Goodwin, S., Dykes, J., Jones, S., Dillingham, I., Dove, G., Duffy, A., Kachkaev, A., Slingsby, A., and Wood, J. 2013. Creative User-Centered Visualization Design for Energy Analysts and Modelers. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 19 (12), pp2516-2525. [details]

Zhang, Q., Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Kraak, M.J., Blok, C.A. and Ahas, R. (2013). Visual analysis design to support research into movement and use of space in Tallinn: a case study. Information Visualization. [details]

2012

Wood, J., Isenberg, P., Isenberg, T., Dykes, J., Boukhelifa, N. & Slingsby, A. 2012. Sketchy rendering for information visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(12) [details]

2011

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. 2011. Exploring Uncertainty in Geodemographics with Interactive Graphics. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(12), pp2384-2391 [paper]

Wood, J., Badawood, D., Dykes, J. and Slingsby, A. 2011. BallotMaps: Detecting name bias in alphabetically ordered ballot papers. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(12), pp2384-2391. [paper]

Wood, J., Slingsby, A. and Dykes, J. 2011. Visualizing the dynamics of London’s bicycle hire scheme. Cartographica, 46(4), pp239-251. [paper]

2010

Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Slingsby, A. 2010 Rethinking Map Legends with Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 16(6), pp890-899 [details | video] Honorable mention

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. 2010. Rectangular Hierarchical Cartograms for Socio-Economic Data, Journal of Maps, v2010, 330-345. DOI: 10.4113/jom.2010.1090 [details].

Wood, J., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A. 2010. Visualization of Origins, Destinations and Flows with OD Maps, The Cartographic Journal 47 (2) pp117-129. DOI:10.1179/000870410X12658023467367 [details]

Slingsby, A., Wood, J. and Dykes, J. (2010) Treemap Cartography for showing Spatial and Temporal Traffic Patterns, Journal of Maps, v2010, 135-146. DOI: 10.4113/jom.2010.1071 [details | demo].

2009

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. 2009. Configuring Hierarchical Layouts to Address Research Questions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6), Nov-Dec 2009, pp977-984 [details | video] Honorable mention

2008

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. & Wood, J., 2008. Using treemaps for variable selection in spatio-temporal visualisation. Information Visualization 7 (3-4), 210-224. [details]

2007

Wood, J, Dykes, J., Slingsby, A. and Clarke K. 2007. Interactive visual exploration of a large spatio-temporal data set: reflections on a geovisualization mashup. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 13 (6), pp1176-1183, November/December 2007. [details]


Journal articles | Conference contributions | Books

Conferences and workshops

2022

Bunks, C., Weyde, T. , Slingsby, A. 2022. Visualization of Tonal Harmony for Jazz Lead Sheets. Paper presented at the Eurovis 2022, 13-17 Jun 2022, Rome, Italy. [details]

Morgades, P., Slingsby, A. & Moat, J. 2021. Assessing the Geographical Structure of Species Richness Data with Interactive Graphics. In: Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis). . Geneva, Switzerland: The Eurographics Association. ISBN 978-3-03868-148-9 doi: 10.2312/envirvis.20211085 [details]

2018

Slingsby, A. 2018. Tilemaps for Summarising Multivariate Geographical Variation. Workshop on Summarisation, VIS 08, Berlin, Oct 2018.[details]

Slingsby, A. , Paterson, A., Rigby, M., Grace, K., Nguyen, P. , Perin, C. , Turkay, C. and Aljasem, D. 2018. Poster: Characterising Farms by the Movement of Animals through Them, VIS 08, Berlin, Oct 2018. [details]

2017

Slingsby, A. and van Loon, E. 2017. Visual Characterisation of Temporal Occupancy for Movement Ecology. Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis), Barcelona, June 2017.[details]

Slingsby, A. and van Loon, E. 2017. Temporal tile-maps for characterising the temporal occupancy of places: A seabird case study. Proceedings of Geographical Research UK (GISRUK), Manchester, April 2017. [details]

Beecham, R., Slingsby, A., Brunsdon, C. and Radburn, R. 2017. Spatially varying explanations behind the UK's vote to leave the EU. Proceedings of Geographical Research UK (GISRUK), Manchester, April 2017. [details]

2016

Turkay, C., Slingsby, A., Lahtinen, K., Butt, S. & Dykes, J. (2016). Enhancing a Social Science Model-building Workflow with Interactive Visualisation. Paper presented at the The European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2016), 27-29 Apr 2016, Bruges, Belgium. [details]

2015

Lahtinen, K., Slingsby, A., Dykes, J.A., Butt, S, Fitzgerald, R. 2015. Informing Non-Response Bias Model Creation in Social Surveys with Visualisation. Poster presented at the IEEE VIS 2015, Chicago, USA. [details]

Henkin R., Slingsby A., Dykes, J.A. 2015. Exploring Temporal Granularities with Visualization. Poster presented at the IEEE VIS 2015, Chicago, USA. [details]

Dykes J.A., Rooney C., Beecham R., Turkay C., Slingsby A., Wood J., Wong W. Multi-Perspective Synopsis with Faceted Views of Varying Emphasis Poster presented at the IEEE VIS 2015, Chicago, USA. [details]

Beecham R., Dykes J.A., Slingsby A., Turkay C. Supporting crime analysis through visual design Poster presented at the IEEE VIS 2015, Chicago, USA. [details]

2014

Slingsby, A., Tate, N. and Fisher, P.. 2014 Visualisation of Uncertainty in a Geodemographic Classifer Workshop on Visually-Supported Reasoning with Uncertainty at GIScience 2014, Vienna, Austria

Henkin, R., Slingsby A., and van Loon, E. E. 2014 Designing Interactive Graphics for Exploring Sea-Bird Foraging Trips Workshop on Analysis of Movement Data at GIScience 2014, Vienna, Austria

Goodwin, S., Dykes, J. and Slingsby, A. 2014. Visualizing the Effects of Scale and Geography in Multivariate Comparison. Poster presented at the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 09-11-2014 - 14-11-2014, Paris, France. [details]

Turkay C., Slingsby, A., Hauser, H., Wood, J., and Dykes, J. 2014. Interactive Generation of Visual Summaries for Multivariate Geographical Data Analysis Workshop on GeoVisual Analytics: Interactivity, Dynamics, and Scale at GIScience 2014, Vienna, Austria

Goodwin, S., Dykes, J. and Slingsby, A. 2014 Visualizing the Effects of Scale and Geography in Multivariate Comparison.Workshop on GeoVisual Analytics: Interactivity, Dynamics, and Scale at GIScience 2014, Vienna, Austria

2013

Kölzsch, A., Slingsby, A., Wood, J., Nolet, B.A. and Dykes, J. 2013. Visualisation design for representing bird migration tracks in time and space. Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis), July 2013, Leipzig, Germany. [details]

Slingsby, A. and van Loon, E. 2013. Visual Analytics for Exploring Changes in Biodiversity. Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis), July 2013, Leipzig, Germany. [details]

Kelly, M., Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. & Wood, J. (2013). Historical Internal Migration in Ireland. Paper presented at the GIS Research UK (GISRUK), Apr 2013, Liverpool, UK.. [details]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Radburn, R. (2013). An Exploratory Interface to Public Data for Citizens. Paper presented at the GeoViz Hamburg: Interactive Maps that Help People Think, 6 - 8 Mar 2013, HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany.

Slingsby, A. and Radburn, R. (2013). Green Spaces: Interactively Mapping the Results of a Public Consultation. Paper presented at the GeoViz Hamburg: Interactive Maps that Help People Think, 6 - 8 Mar 2013, HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany. [details]

2012

Slingsby, A. & Dykes, J. (2012). Experiences in involving analysts in visualisation design. Paper presented at the BELIV'12: Beyond Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization, 14-15 Oct 2012, Seattle, USA. [details]

Kachkaev, A., Dillingham, I., Beecham, R., Goodwin, S., Ahmed, N. and Slingsby, A. 2012. Monitoring the Health of Computer Networks with Visualization - VAST 2012 Mini Challenge 1 Award: "Efficient Use of Visualization". IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 14 - 19 Oct 2012, Seattle, Washington, USA. [paper] Award winner.

Slingsby, A., Kelly, M., Dykes, J. & Wood, J. 2012. Maps for Studying Historical Internal Migration in Ireland. Poster presented at the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis), 14 - 19 Oct 2012, Seattle, Washington, US [abstract | video].

Zhang, Q., Wood, J., Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Kraak, M-J, Blok, A., Ahas, R. 2012. Design Considerations for Visualizing Context Sequences of Moving Objects. GeoVisual Analytics: Time to Focus on Time Workshop at the GIScience conference. Columbus OH, USA.

Slingsby, A., Beecham, R. Wood, J. 2012. Visual analysis of social networks in space and time. Nokia Data Challenge Workshop, Pervasive 2012, Newcastle, June 2012 [paper | video] Award winner.

2011

Koh, L.C., Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Kam, T.S. 2011. Developing and Applying a User-Centered Model for the Design and Implementation of Information Visualization Tools, 15th International Conference Information Visualisation; 3rd International Symposium Information Visualization Evaluation, IEEE Computer Society, London University, L. [details]

Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Slingsby, A., 2011 Sharing Graphics and Insights with Microblogs. Analytic Provenance workshop at CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada, May 2011

Slingsby, A., Strachan, J., Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Vidale, P-L. 2011 Designing Interactive Graphics for Validating and Interpreting Storm Track Model Outputs. GeoViz workshop, Hamburg, Germany, March, 2011 [details]

Wood, J., Slingsby, A. and Dykes, J. 2011 Visualizing Bicycle Hire Model Distributions. GeoViz workshop, Hamburg, Germany, March, 2011 [details]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. 2011 Poster/demo: Hierarchical Data Explorer (HiDE) for Exploring Data and Tweeting Insights. EuroVis 2011, Bergen, Norway, June 2011 [abstract]

Slingsby, A., Strachan, J., Vidale, P-L., Dykes, J., Wood, J. 2011 Browsing large natural hazard event sets. European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 2011 [abstract]

Slingsby, A., Daniell, J., Dykes, J., Wood, J. 2011 Sharing insights on the impact of natural disasters on Twitter. European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 2011 [abstract | poster]

Daniell, J., Khazai, B., Slingsby, A., Wenzel F., 2011 A Country-by-Country Building Inventory and a Building Vulnerability Index for use in different Natural Disaster applications European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 2011

2010

Wood, J., Slingsby, A. and Dykes, J. 2010 Designing visual analytics systems for disease spread and evolution. in MacEachren, A. and Miksch, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 285-286 [details | entries] Award winner

Slingsby, A., Strachan, J., Vidale, P-L., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. 2010 Making Hurricane Tracks Accessible. Discovery Exhibition, VisWeek 2010 [entry | poster] Award winner

Radburn, R., Beecham, R., Dykes, J., Wood, J., Slingsby, A. 2010 Using Spatial Tree Maps in Local Authority Decision Making and Reporting. Discovery Exhibition, VisWeek 2010 [entry]

Slingsby, A., Wood, J., Dykes, J. Clouston, D., Foote, M. 2010. Visual analysis of sensitivity in CAT models: interactive visualisation for CAT model sensitivity analysis, Proceedings of Accuracy 2010, [details]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Radburn, R. 2010. OAC Explorer: Interactive exploration and comparison of multivariate socioeconomic population characteristics, proceedings of GIS Research UK (GISRUK 2010), pp167-174 [details | more details] Award winner

Clarke. J., Dykes. J., Hemsley-Flint. F., Medyckyj-Scott. D., Sietinsone. L., Slingsby. A., Urwin. T., Wood. J. 2010. vizLegends: Re-Imagining Map Legends with Visualization, proceedings of GIS Research UK (GISRUK 2010), pp311-318 [details]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Foote, M. 2010 Risk Management Collaboration through Sharing Interactive Graphics in Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-15648, EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria [abstract | session]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. 2010. Poster: Tweeting Visualizations for Collaborative Visual Analysis IEEE InfoVis conference, VisWeek, Salt Lake City, USA [abstract | poster].

Wood. J., Slingsby. A., Dykes. J. 2010. Layout and Colour Transformations for Visualising OAC Data, proceedings of GIS Research UK (GISRUK 2010), pp455-462. [details]

2009

Wood, J., Slingsby, A., Khalili-Shavarini, N., Dykes, J. and Mountain, D. 2009 Visualization of Uncertainty and Analysis of Geographical Data, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp. 261-262, 2009 [details] Award winner

Wood, J., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A. and Radburn, R., (2009), "Flow trees for exploring spatial trajectories", "Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 17th Annual Conference" , (Fairbairn, D., Eds.), pp. 229-234, University of Durham, Durham, UK. [details]

Slingsby, A., Lowe, R., Dykes, J., Stephenson, D., Wood, J, Jupp, T. 2009. A Pilot Study for the Collaborative Development of New Ways of Visualising Seasonal Climate Forecasts. Proceedings of GISRUK, 1-3 April, Durham, UK [more details]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Crooks, A. 2009. The Role of Layout and Order in Treemaps for Showing Spatial and Temporal Variation in House Prices. Abstract for the GeoViz Hamburg Workshop, Hamburg, Germany. [demo | details]

2008

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J., Foote, M. and Blom, M. 2008. The Visual Exploration of Insurance Data in Google Earth. Proceedings of GISRUK08, 2nd-4th April 2008, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. [details]

2007

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Clarke, K. 2007. Mashup cartography: cartographic issues of using Google Earth for tag maps. ICA Commission on Maps and the Internet, July/August 2007, Warsaw, Poland. pp79-93. [details]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Clarke, K. 2007. Interactive Tag Maps and Tag Clouds for the Multiscale Exploration of Large spatiotemporal Datasets, 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation. July 2007. Zurich, Switzerland. pp497-504 [details]

Slingsby, A.D. 2007. A Layer-Based Data Model as a Basis for Structuring 3D Geometrical Built-Environment Data with Poorly-Specified heights, in a GIS Context. Proceedings of 10th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science. April 2007, Aalborg, Denmark, [details]

2006

Slingsby, A. and Longley, P.A. 2006. A Conceptual Framework for Describing Microscale Pedestrian Access in the Built Environment. Proceedings of GISRUK06, 5th-7th April 2006, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. [details]

2005

Slingsby, A.D. 2005. Pedestrian Accessibility in the Built Environment in the Context of Feature-Based Digital Mapping. International Conference on Computers in Urban Management and Urban Planning (CUPUM), July 2005, London, UK.

2004

Slingsby, A.D., Longley, P.A., Parker, C.A., 2004. Aspects of the Design of a Three-Dimensional National Mapping Data Framework. Proceedings of GISRUK04, 28th-30th April 2004, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. pp241-244. [details]

2003

Slingsby, A.D. 2003. An Object-Orientated Approach to Hydrological Modelling using Triangular Irregular Networks. Proceedings of GISRUK03, April 2003, London, UK. [details]


Journal articles | Conference contributions | Books

Book Chapters

2011

Saito, K., Strachan, J., Fewtrell, T., Rosser, N., Jenkins, S., Slingsby, A. and Haynes, K. 2011 Chapter 17: Tools for identifying hazards in Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction, Wisner, B., Gaillard, J.C. and Kelman, I. (eds), Rouledge.

2007

Slingsby, A. and Raper, J. 2007, "Navigable Space in 3D City Models for Pedestrians", in Oosterom, Zlatanova, Penninga and Fendel (eds), Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation), pp49-64. ISBN: 978-3-540-72134-5 [details]

Slingsby, A.D., Longley, P.A., Parker, C. A., 2007. "A New Framework for Feature-Based Digital Mapping in Three-Dimensional Space", in Lovett and Appleton (eds), GIS for Decision-Making (Innovations in GIS 12), pp29-58, CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Reports

2011

Slingsby, A. (2011). Supporting the visual analysis of the behaviour of gulls. COST-STSM-IC0903-7590 Report. European Cooperation in Science and Technology. [details]