Fig. 1

GS-EpiViz consists of four major components: display panel, control panel, xy plot, and matrix view. Display panel in the top left allows users to select different matrix displays: binary matrix, time duration matrix, reorder binary matrix, and reorder time duration matrix. Control panels allow users to design different control scenarios based on the whole population and selected population. XY plot displays the accumulated infected cases over time based on the simulation of agent-based epidemic models. The matrix view visualizes different matrix displays with class information on the bottom and on the right. Black cells in the matrix view represent human interactions at the individual level, and white cells indicate there are no human interactions. a Displays the binary network with rows and columns organized by grade and class from 1st grade class A at the top left to 5th grade class B in the lower right. b Displays the reordered binary network with new class numbers on the bottom and on the right. c Displays the reorder time duration network matrix with the average time duration values in each cell. d Displays a simulated influenza infection according to the parameters in Table 1 on the matrix view and XY plot. Yellow indicates that individuals are in an exposed state, red indicates an infectious state, and the blue indicates a recovery state