Studies and Research
I am a PhD student of the InnoVis research group in the Interactions Lab at the University of Calgary co-supervised by Sheelagh Carpendale and Carey Williamson.
Before this i studied Computational Visualistics (Dipl.-Ing.) at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg. I have finished my Diplom project on Visual Information Exploration on the Web in 2008.
Teaching
I am the TA for SENG513 Web-based Systems (Winter 2010).
Interests
- information exploration and visualization
- semantic web and linked data
- decentralized social software and distributed communities
- space and spatiality in information retrieval
- new media, social movements, and political activism
Projects
 | Visual Information Exploration on the Web Diploma thesis, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg May 2008 |
 | Atomique Decentralized and Distributed Photo Sharing on the Web February 2007 |
 | Salami Multidimensional star coordinates April 2004 |
 | pixelle ma belle Short movie December 2003 |
Publications
Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Carey Williamson (2009)
Visual Web Exploration: Beyond Ranked Snippets and Thumbnails
Position Paper, Putting Visualization on the Web Workshop, VisWeek 2009.
Marian Dörk, Carey Williamson, and Sheelagh Carpendale (2009)
Towards Visual Web Search: Interactive Query Formulation and Search Result Visualization
WSSP 2009: WWW Workshop on Web Search Result Summarization and Presentation, 2009.
Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, Christopher Collins, and Carey Williamson (2008)
VisGets: Coordinated Visualizations for Web-based Information Exploration and Discovery
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Information Visualization 2008), 14(6), pages 1205-1212, November-December 2008.
Marian Dörk (2008)
Towards a Better VIEW: Visual Information Exploration on the Web
Diploma thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, May 2008.
Marian Dörk, Andreas Nürnberger and Javier Velasco Martín (2007)
Atomique: A Photo Repository for Decentralized and Distributed Photo Sharing on the Web
Multimedia 2007: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (September 24-29, 2007, Augsburg), pages 152-153, ACM Press, 2007.
Marian Dörk (2007)
Decentralized and Distributed Photo Sharing on the Web
Project report, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, February 2007.
Presentations
Visual Web Exploration: Beyond Ranked Snippets and Thumbnails
October 11, 2009 – Putting Visualization on the Web Workshop, VisWeek, Atlantic City
DD4D (Data Designed For Decisions) conference summary
July 17, 2009 – InnoVis Group, University of Calgary
Towards Visual Web Search: Interactive Query Formulation and Search Result Visualization
April 20, 2009 – WSSP 2009 (at WWW conference), Madrid
Social Contexts of Technology (seminar summary)
December 15, 2008 – Interactions Lab, University of Calgary
VisGets: Coordinated Visualizations for Web-based Information Exploration and Discovery
October 19, 2008 – InfoVis 2008 in Columbus, Ohio
VIEW: Visuelle Informationsexploration im Web (Diploma defense)
June 9, 2008 – Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Weblogs and the Peace Movement
August 9, 2007 – Institute for Political Science, University of Magdeburg
WWW2007 wrap-up with Tim Au Yeung
May 16, 2007 – Interactions Lab, University of Calgary
Dezentraler und verteilter Austausch von Fotos
April 13, 2007 – Information Retrieval Group, University of Magdeburg
Decentralized and Distributed Photo Sharing on the Web
March 7, 2007 – Interactions Lab, University of Calgary
Ontologie-basiertes Information sharing und Ontologie merging
June 22, 2005 – Seminar Texttechnologien und Semantic Web, Computer Science, University of Magdeburg