Title
GameFlow: Narrative Visualization of NBA Basketball Games.
Abstract
Although basketball games have received broad attention, the forms of game reports and webcast are purely content-based cross-media: texts, videos, snapshots, and performance figures. Analytical narrations of games that seek to compose a complete game from heterogeneous datasets are challenging for general media producers because such a composition is time-consuming and heavily depends on domain experts. In particular, an appropriate analytical commentary of basketball games requires two factors, namely, rich context and domain knowledge, which includes game events, player locations, player profiles, and team profiles, among others. This type of analytical commentary elicits a timely and effective basketball game data visualization made up of different sources of media. Existing visualizations of basketball games mainly profile a particular aspect of the game. Therefore, this paper presents an expressive visualization scheme that comprehensively illustrates NBA games with three levels of details: a season level, a game level, and a session level. We reorganize a basketball game as a sequence of sessions to depict the game states and heated confrontations. We design and implement a live system that integrates multimedia NBA datasets: play-by-play text data, box score data, game video data, and action area data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this scheme with case studies and user feedbacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TMM.2016.2614221
IEEE Trans. Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
Games,Data visualization,Videos,Trajectory,Statistical analysis,Visualization,Heating
Video game design,Game mechanics,Computer science,Game art design,Game design,Game design document,Level design,Game Developer,Multimedia,Game development tool
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
11
1520-9210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.61
8
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Chen1119392.00
Tianyi Lao2130.96
Jing Xia36611.85
Xinxin Huang4371.88
Biao Zhu5131.30
Wanqi Hu6191.70
Huihua Guan7402.61