Luz, SaturninoMasoodian, Masood2008-12-052008-12-052007Luz, S. & Masoodian, M.(2007). Visualisation of Parallel Data Streams with Temporal Mosaics. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference Information Visualization, July 04-06,2007(pp. 197-202). Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1535Despite its popularity and widespread use, timeline visualisation suffers from shortcomings which limit its use for displaying multiple data streams when the number of streams increases to more than a handful. This paper presents the Temporal Mosaic technique for visualisation of parallel time-based streams which addresses some of these shortcomings. Temporal mosaics provide a compact way of representing parallel streams of events by allocating a fixed drawing area to time intervals and partitioning that area according to the number of concurrent events. A user study is presented which compares this technique to a standard timeline representation technique in which events are depicted as horizontal bars and multiple streams are drawn in parallel along a vertical axis. Results of this user study show that users of the temporal mosaic visualisation per- form significantly better at detecting concurrency, interval overlaps and inactivity than users of standard timelines.application/pdfenThis article has been published in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference Information Visualization, July 04-06,2007. © 2007 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.computer sciencevisualisationTemporal Mosaic techniqueConference Contribution10.1109/IV.2007.127