Marian Dörk

I'm a PhD candidate in the InnoVis group and Interactions Lab at the University of Calgary. My supervisors are Sheelagh Carpendale and Carey Williamson. In my research, I explore the use of visualization for information seeking.

I studied Computational Visualistics (Dipl.-Ing.) at Universität Magdeburg and have undertaken research at Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and Universidad de Chile. I have offered web solutions for more than ten years.

I was the teaching assistant for Web-based Systems (SENG513) in 2010 and 2011.

I enjoy riding my bike in the city, growing food in a community garden, and taking pictures of streetart. I sporadically update my visual journal, photostream, and status. I once played with animated GIFs and thresholding.

Contact me via email: mdmariandoerk.de

Research

While information on the Web is becoming increasingly abundant, diverse, and dynamic, web-based graphics and interactivity are becoming more and more advanced. In order to find better ways for making sense of growing information spaces, I seek to harness emerging technological trends on the Web. In particular, I design innovative information visualizations, create interactive exploration systems, and study the role of visualization in information seeking.

Interests

– Human-computer interaction
– Information visualization
– Information seeking and encountering
– Web architecture and performance
– Distributed online communities
– Urban activism and civic engagement

Travels

Feb 5-12, 2012: Toronto, iConference 2012
Jan 8-10, 2012: Berlin and Potsdam
Oct-Dec, 2011: Seattle, Microsoft Research
Oct 20, 2011: Mountain View, HCIR 2011

Publications

2012

Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Carey Williamson. Visualizing Explicit and Implicit Relations of Complex Information Spaces. Information Visualization, Sage, 11(1), pages 5-21, Jan 2012. Published online Nov 9, 2011.

2011

Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Carey Williamson. Exploring Growing Information Spaces. HCIR 2011: Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, 4 pages, Oct 2011.
Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Carey Williamson. Mapping Influence of Philosophers Across Interests and Epochs. Poster at AITF Tech Futures Summit 2011, Banff, Aug 2011. Best poster award.
Jagoda Walny, Jonathan Haber, Marian Dörk, Jonathan Sillito, and Sheelagh Carpendale. Follow that Sketch: Lifecycles of Diagrams and Sketches in Software Development. VISSOFT 2011: Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, September 2011.
Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Carey Williamson. The Information Flaneur: A Fresh Look at Information Seeking. CHI 2011: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, pages 1215-1224, May 2011.
Marian Dörk and David Monteyne. Urban Co-Creation: Envisioning New Digital Tools for Activism and Experimentation in the City. HCI, Politics, and the City (CHI 2011 workshop), 4 pages, May 2011.
Marian Dörk, Maria Bakardjieva, and Jonathan Sillito. Civic Engagement, a Proposed Project. HCI, Politics, and the City (CHI 2011 workshop), 3 pages, May 2011.
Jonathan Haber, Miguel Nacenta, Uta Hinrichs, Marian Dörk, Remy Dautriche, and Sheelagh Carpendale. Let’s All Go to the Lunch Table: Performance in Interactive Semi-Public Spaces. Performative Interaction in Public Space (CHI 2011 workshop), 4 pages, May 2011.
Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Carey Williamson. EdgeMaps: Visualizing Explicit and Implicit Relations. Proceedings of VDA 2011: Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, IS&T/SPIE, 12 pages, Jan 2011. Best paper award.

2010

Marian Dörk, Daniel Gruen, Carey Williamson, and Sheelagh Carpendale. A Visual Backchannel for Large-Scale Events. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings InfoVis 2010), 16(6), pages 1129-38, Nov/Dec 2010.
Marian Dörk. Information Visualization for Web-based Search and Exploration (Poster). IEEE VisWeek 2010 Doctoral Colloquium, 4 pages, Oct 2010.

2009

Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Carey Williamson. Visual Web Exploration: Beyond Ranked Snippets and Thumbnails. Position Paper, Putting Visualization on the Web Workshop, 1 page, VisWeek 2009.
Marian Dörk, Carey Williamson, and Sheelagh Carpendale. Towards Visual Web Search: Interactive Query Formulation and Search Result Visualization. WSSP 2009: WWW Workshop on Web Search Result Summarization and Presentation, 4 pages, 2009.

2008

Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, Christopher Collins, and Carey Williamson. VisGets: Coordinated Visualizations for Web-based Information Exploration and Discovery. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings InfoVis 2008), 14(6), pages 1205-1212, Nov/Dec 2008.
Marian Dörk. Towards a Better VIEW: Visual Information Exploration on the Web. Diploma thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, May 2008.

2007

Marian Dörk, Andreas Nürnberger, and Javier Velasco Martín. Atomique: A Photo Repository for Decentralized and Distributed Photo Sharing on the Web. Demo at MULTIMEDIA 2007: Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Multimedia, ACM, pages 152-153, 2007.
Marian Dörk. Decentralized and Distributed Photo Sharing on the Web. Project report, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, February 2007.