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May 15, 2008
vizNET 2008
le> http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2008/05/15/viznet-2008/ The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques
7th-9th May, Loughborough University
Here I am! I’m Manuela, the new Visup purchase, as interaction and communication designer, and from now on I will be responsible for the infovis section of this blog.
First of all I want to thank John O’Brien for asking me to participate at the conference presenting our work, enveloped with M. Barbieri, C. Benedetti, V.Ceruti, S. Deambrosis, E. Fontana, G. Musella, during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano: the italian hospital system map. You can download here the pdf version of my presentation so I’ll not tell so much more about that. Thanking all the participants (especially prof. Vitiello, of Loughborough University, for being interested in our work!), I can start to write my thoughts on each presentation.
Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Research School of Systems Engineering SEIC, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department) welcome all of us, telling that “Information Visualization is more than a method of computing, but is a process of transforming information into a visual.”
Dr. Julie Tolmie (JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Kings Visualisation Lab of London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities) have introduced the themes, the attendees and the aim of the event: "vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities.”
Showcase video presentation
First of all, there have been projected the video of the attendees.
M. Graham, P.Craig, J.Kennedy: Information Visualization @ Napier University
They have enveloped Information Visualization (IV), an application of data visualization techniques to abstract data. One interesting example of their works, is TAXVIS (taxonomy Visualization). Here you can download the open-source java application.
T.Corby, G. Bailey: Cyclone.soc
Their abstract: “Is an immersive artwork that combine internet debates between extremist religious and political groups with visualizations of severe weather conditions. Streamed live, different newsgroup postings are fitted to the atmospheric topologies of a number of cyclonic weather fronts of differing strengths, giving the overall effect of the conversational churn and eddy of argument and counter-argument.”
N.Zonta, A.Brancale: ZODIAC
Zodiac is an open-source application, is a molecular modelling package that supports the real time interaction with molecules, using haptic devices.
M. Cohen, K. Brodlie, N. Phillips: The volume in focus
A video on a research that examined how focus and context techniques originally proposed for information visualization, can be adapted for volume visualization. It will be a very useful tool for surgery fields.
G. Novakovic: Fugue
Fugue is a scientifically informed art project based on the functions of the immune system, expressed in both sound and visuals in real time, using interactive digital technology.
First presentation turn (day1 - day2)
Dr. Julie Tolmie
Her short speech was about the intersections in visualizations practice. She told us that our aim “is to facilitate both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts & humanities and the sciences & engineering”.
Prof. Roy Kolawsky
Presents the Efas Project (Improving air traffic management of SEIC). NATS Ltd. has forecast that UK air traffic will increase by 45% by 2015. They are studying systems that reduce the environmental impact of growth in air traffic and evaluate their effectiveness, using an Airport Synthetic Environment simulation tool. The Route Builder and the Visualization Tool enables exploration via a graphic interface of alternative arrival and departure routes around an airport.
Here you can read the publications of the SEIC (Systems Engineering Innovation Centre).
Dr. Sara de Freitas (Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry)
Her presentation provide an overview of the variety of different applications for using serious games and virtual worlds. These are the key areas and the aims of this field:
. new models of learning and training
. blending virtual and real experience (mixed reality)
. major incident and multi-agency training
. culture, art and tourism (city vis and art installations)
. public policy development (urban design)
. science educational
. research and collaboration.
She takes two examples which are developed by the SGI:
. SciLands (science city in Second Life)
. Forest walk (3D virtual environment)
Prof. Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds)
Ken Brodlie’s speech was really interesting. He keeps a lesson about the theories of the data visualizations in terms of graphs and diagrams. Expecially the first part of his presentation reports graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood. For me, the main good thought expressed is that “The visualization it must be used as a powerful communication media.”
He reports many good examples of abstract data visualization: Treemap, Humble Graph and Envisioning Information.
Dr. T.Corby, Mr. G. Baily (Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media, University of Westminster)
Their presentation was about data visualization as art, information aesthetics. In the website, you can find many interesting projects. Especially one have attract my attention: MESH, a browsable environment, a network of linked images which grow out of the softwares exposure to social and cultural data materials.
Dr. Stuart Dun (King’s College London)
He talked about the interpretive and reconstructive nature of information and knowledge based on archaeological and historical data: “any exercise in the visualization of that data is in itself an act of interpretation”.
John O’Brien (Loughborough University)
In his first speech he talked about the developments in commodity gaming in serious applications, especially the OGRE (Object-oriented Graphic Engine).
More interesting for me was his second presentation about the web based visualization. He discussed how advancements in grid computing and internet browser technology has lead to a new online collaboration techniques for visualization. There were many good examples of this: Dataplace (graph and maps of demographic data), Swivel (collaborative website allowing users to find correlations within datasets), Dubbledb (graphs delivered using FusionCharts).
G. Novakovic (University College of London) and Prof. Fred Yeardon (Loughborough University) was the other two presenters of the day. Gordana Novakovic (that I want to thank for her kindness!) has explain to us her Fugue artistic application, instead of the more technical field of Prof. Yeardon, who talked about application of motion capture data in sports biomechanics research.
Second presentation/workshop turn (day3)
Skrikanth Nagella (Science and Technology Facilities Council, e-Science Centre)
This was an hands-on tutorial/workshop that wants to teach how to use visualization cluster, including information on using VNC and VirtualGL.
Day three of vizNET 2008 will explore and identify a series of Grand Challenges as perceived by attendees. This kind of interactive approach “is vitally important for the visualization community to define the long-term aims of the visualization discipline, independently from the short-term pull and technology push”, like said prof. Roy S. Kalawsky. This stimulated a debate and create a research roadmap that will identify the requirements of visualization research and focused attention on key scientific challenges and others:
- make people understand the important rule of information visualization
- interdisciplinary and real collaboration between the different fields
- formalization of visualization methods
- access to data
- more attention at audiovisualization.
These are only few points that emerged form the workshops, I hope that John will post online each one on the vizNET08 website!
Conclusions
Even if there was too much emphasis on Second Life (in which I don’t see this strong innovation) and 3D visualization, I have really enjoyed listening and observing other works, opinions and points of view from various professional subjects.
Manuela Ciancilla
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Posted by InfoVis at 3:44 PM | Comments (0)
vizNET 2008
le> http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2008/05/15/viznet-2008/ The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques
7th-9th May, Loughborough University
Here I am! I’m Manuela, the new Visup purchase, as interaction and communication designer, and from now on I will be responsible for the infovis section of this blog.
First of all I want to thank John O’Brien for asking me to participate at the conference presenting our work, enveloped with M. Barbieri, C. Benedetti, V.Ceruti, S. Deambrosis, E. Fontana, G. Musella, during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano: the italian hospital system map. You can download here the pdf version of my presentation so I’ll not tell so much more about that. Thanking all the participants (especially prof. Vitiello, of Loughborough University, for being interested in our work!), I can start to write my thoughts on each presentation.
Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Research School of Systems Engineering SEIC, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department) welcome all of us, telling that “Information Visualization is more than a method of computing, but is a process of transforming information into a visual.”
Dr. Julie Tolmie (JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Kings Visualisation Lab of London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities) have introduced the themes, the attendees and the aim of the event: "vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities.”
Showcase video presentation
First of all, there have been projected the video of the attendees.
M. Graham, P.Craig, J.Kennedy: Information Visualization @ Napier University
They have enveloped Information Visualization (IV), an application of data visualization techniques to abstract data. One interesting example of their works, is TAXVIS (taxonomy Visualization). Here you can download the open-source java application.
T.Corby, G. Bailey: Cyclone.soc
Their abstract: “Is an immersive artwork that combine internet debates between extremist religious and political groups with visualizations of severe weather conditions. Streamed live, different newsgroup postings are fitted to the atmospheric topologies of a number of cyclonic weather fronts of differing strengths, giving the overall effect of the conversational churn and eddy of argument and counter-argument.”
N.Zonta, A.Brancale: ZODIAC
Zodiac is an open-source application, is a molecular modelling package that supports the real time interaction with molecules, using haptic devices.
M. Cohen, K. Brodlie, N. Phillips: The volume in focus
A video on a research that examined how focus and context techniques originally proposed for information visualization, can be adapted for volume visualization. It will be a very useful tool for surgery fields.
G. Novakovic: Fugue
Fugue is a scientifically informed art project based on the functions of the immune system, expressed in both sound and visuals in real time, using interactive digital technology.
First presentation turn (day1 - day2)
Dr. Julie Tolmie
Her short speech was about the intersections in visualizations practice. She told us that our aim “is to facilitate both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts & humanities and the sciences & engineering”.
Prof. Roy Kolawsky
Presents the Efas Project (Improving air traffic management of SEIC). NATS Ltd. has forecast that UK air traffic will increase by 45% by 2015. They are studying systems that reduce the environmental impact of growth in air traffic and evaluate their effectiveness, using an Airport Synthetic Environment simulation tool. The Route Builder and the Visualization Tool enables exploration via a graphic interface of alternative arrival and departure routes around an airport.
Here you can read the publications of the SEIC (Systems Engineering Innovation Centre).
Dr. Sara de Freitas (Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry)
Her presentation provide an overview of the variety of different applications for using serious games and virtual worlds. These are the key areas and the aims of this field:
. new models of learning and training
. blending virtual and real experience (mixed reality)
. major incident and multi-agency training
. culture, art and tourism (city vis and art installations)
. public policy development (urban design)
. science educational
. research and collaboration.
She takes two examples which are developed by the SGI:
. SciLands (science city in Second Life)
. Forest walk (3D virtual environment)
Prof. Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds)
Ken Brodlie’s speech was really interesting. He keeps a lesson about the theories of the data visualizations in terms of graphs and diagrams. Expecially the first part of his presentation reports graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood. For me, the main good thought expressed is that “The visualization it must be used as a powerful communication media.”
He reports many good examples of abstract data visualization: Treemap, Humble Graph and Envisioning Information.
Dr. T.Corby, Mr. G. Baily (Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media, University of Westminster)
Their presentation was about data visualization as art, information aesthetics. In the website, you can find many interesting projects. Especially one have attract my attention: MESH, a browsable environment, a network of linked images which grow out of the softwares exposure to social and cultural data materials.
Dr. Stuart Dun (King’s College London)
He talked about the interpretive and reconstructive nature of information and knowledge based on archaeological and historical data: “any exercise in the visualization of that data is in itself an act of interpretation”.
John O’Brien (Loughborough University)
In his first speech he talked about the developments in commodity gaming in serious applications, especially the OGRE (Object-oriented Graphic Engine).
More interesting for me was his second presentation about the web based visualization. He discussed how advancements in grid computing and internet browser technology has lead to a new online collaboration techniques for visualization. There were many good examples of this: Dataplace (graph and maps of demographic data), Swivel (collaborative website allowing users to find correlations within datasets), Dubbledb (graphs delivered using FusionCharts).
G. Novakovic (University College of London) and Prof. Fred Yeardon (Loughborough University) was the other two presenters of the day. Gordana Novakovic (that I want to thank for her kindness!) has explain to us her Fugue artistic application, instead of the more technical field of Prof. Yeardon, who talked about application of motion capture data in sports biomechanics research.
Second presentation/workshop turn (day3)
Skrikanth Nagella (Science and Technology Facilities Council, e-Science Centre)
This was an hands-on tutorial/workshop that wants to teach how to use visualization cluster, including information on using VNC and VirtualGL.
Day three of vizNET 2008 will explore and identify a series of Grand Challenges as perceived by attendees. This kind of interactive approach “is vitally important for the visualization community to define the long-term aims of the visualization discipline, independently from the short-term pull and technology push”, like said prof. Roy S. Kalawsky. This stimulated a debate and create a research roadmap that will identify the requirements of visualization research and focused attention on key scientific challenges and others:
- make people understand the important rule of information visualization
- interdisciplinary and real collaboration between the different fields
- formalization of visualization methods
- access to data
- more attention at audiovisualization.
These are only few points that emerged form the workshops, I hope that John will post online each one on the vizNET08 website!
Conclusions
Even if there was too much emphasis on Second Life (in which I don’t see this strong innovation) and 3D visualization, I have really enjoyed listening and observing other works, opinions and points of view from various professional subjects.
Manuela Ciancilla
Events, infoVis / information visualization / infoviz Events, infoVis / information visualization / infoviz]]>
Posted by InfoVis at 3:44 PM | Comments (0)
vizNET 2008
le> http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2008/05/15/viznet-2008/ The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques
7th-9th May, Loughborough University
Here I am! I’m Manuela, the new Visup purchase, as interaction and communication designer, and from now on I will be responsible for the infovis section of this blog.
First of all I want to thank John O’Brien for asking me to participate at the conference presenting our work, enveloped with M. Barbieri, C. Benedetti, V.Ceruti, S. Deambrosis, E. Fontana, G. Musella, during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano: the italian hospital system map. You can download here the pdf version of my presentation so I’ll not tell so much more about that. Thanking all the participants (especially prof. Vitiello, of Loughborough University, for being interested in our work!), I can start to write my thoughts on each presentation.
Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Research School of Systems Engineering SEIC, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department) welcome all of us, telling that “Information Visualization is more than a method of computing, but is a process of transforming information into a visual.”
Dr. Julie Tolmie (JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Kings Visualisation Lab of London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities) have introduced the themes, the attendees and the aim of the event: "vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities.”
Showcase video presentation
First of all, there have been projected the video of the attendees.
M. Graham, P.Craig, J.Kennedy: Information Visualization @ Napier University
They have enveloped Information Visualization (IV), an application of data visualization techniques to abstract data. One interesting example of their works, is TAXVIS (taxonomy Visualization). Here you can download the open-source java application.
T.Corby, G. Bailey: Cyclone.soc
Their abstract: “Is an immersive artwork that combine internet debates between extremist religious and political groups with visualizations of severe weather conditions. Streamed live, different newsgroup postings are fitted to the atmospheric topologies of a number of cyclonic weather fronts of differing strengths, giving the overall effect of the conversational churn and eddy of argument and counter-argument.”
N.Zonta, A.Brancale: ZODIAC
Zodiac is an open-source application, is a molecular modelling package that supports the real time interaction with molecules, using haptic devices.
M. Cohen, K. Brodlie, N. Phillips: The volume in focus
A video on a research that examined how focus and context techniques originally proposed for information visualization, can be adapted for volume visualization. It will be a very useful tool for surgery fields.
G. Novakovic: Fugue
Fugue is a scientifically informed art project based on the functions of the immune system, expressed in both sound and visuals in real time, using interactive digital technology.
First presentation turn (day1 - day2)
Dr. Julie Tolmie
Her short speech was about the intersections in visualizations practice. She told us that our aim “is to facilitate both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts & humanities and the sciences & engineering”.
Prof. Roy Kolawsky
Presents the Efas Project (Improving air traffic management of SEIC). NATS Ltd. has forecast that UK air traffic will increase by 45% by 2015. They are studying systems that reduce the environmental impact of growth in air traffic and evaluate their effectiveness, using an Airport Synthetic Environment simulation tool. The Route Builder and the Visualization Tool enables exploration via a graphic interface of alternative arrival and departure routes around an airport.
Here you can read the publications of the SEIC (Systems Engineering Innovation Centre).
Dr. Sara de Freitas (Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry)
Her presentation provide an overview of the variety of different applications for using serious games and virtual worlds. These are the key areas and the aims of this field:
. new models of learning and training
. blending virtual and real experience (mixed reality)
. major incident and multi-agency training
. culture, art and tourism (city vis and art installations)
. public policy development (urban design)
. science educational
. research and collaboration.
She takes two examples which are developed by the SGI:
. SciLands (science city in Second Life)
. Forest walk (3D virtual environment)
Prof. Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds)
Ken Brodlie’s speech was really interesting. He keeps a lesson about the theories of the data visualizations in terms of graphs and diagrams. Expecially the first part of his presentation reports graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood. For me, the main good thought expressed is that “The visualization it must be used as a powerful communication media.”
He reports many good examples of abstract data visualization: Treemap, Humble Graph and Envisioning Information.
Dr. T.Corby, Mr. G. Baily (Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media, University of Westminster)
Their presentation was about data visualization as art, information aesthetics. In the website, you can find many interesting projects. Especially one have attract my attention: MESH, a browsable environment, a network of linked images which grow out of the softwares exposure to social and cultural data materials.
Dr. Stuart Dun (King’s College London)
He talked about the interpretive and reconstructive nature of information and knowledge based on archaeological and historical data: “any exercise in the visualization of that data is in itself an act of interpretation”.
John O’Brien (Loughborough University)
In his first speech he talked about the developments in commodity gaming in serious applications, especially the OGRE (Object-oriented Graphic Engine).
More interesting for me was his second presentation about the web based visualization. He discussed how advancements in grid computing and internet browser technology has lead to a new online collaboration techniques for visualization. There were many good examples of this: Dataplace (graph and maps of demographic data), Swivel (collaborative website allowing users to find correlations within datasets), Dubbledb (graphs delivered using FusionCharts).
G. Novakovic (University College of London) and Prof. Fred Yeardon (Loughborough University) was the other two presenters of the day. Gordana Novakovic (that I want to thank for her kindness!) has explain to us her Fugue artistic application, instead of the more technical field of Prof. Yeardon, who talked about application of motion capture data in sports biomechanics research.
Second presentation/workshop turn (day3)
Skrikanth Nagella (Science and Technology Facilities Council, e-Science Centre)
This was an hands-on tutorial/workshop that wants to teach how to use visualization cluster, including information on using VNC and VirtualGL.
Day three of vizNET 2008 will explore and identify a series of Grand Challenges as perceived by attendees. This kind of interactive approach “is vitally important for the visualization community to define the long-term aims of the visualization discipline, independently from the short-term pull and technology push”, like said prof. Roy S. Kalawsky. This stimulated a debate and create a research roadmap that will identify the requirements of visualization research and focused attention on key scientific challenges and others:
- make people understand the important rule of information visualization
- interdisciplinary and real collaboration between the different fields
- formalization of visualization methods
- access to data
- more attention at audiovisualization.
These are only few points that emerged form the workshops, I hope that John will post online each one on the vizNET08 website!
Conclusions
Even if there was too much emphasis on Second Life (in which I don’t see this strong innovation) and 3D visualization, I have really enjoyed listening and observing other works, opinions and points of view from various professional subjects.
Manuela Ciancilla
Events, infoVis / information visualization / infoviz Events, infoVis / information visualization / infoviz]]>
Posted by InfoVis at 3:44 PM | Comments (0)
vizNET 2008
le> http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2008/05/15/viznet-2008/ The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques
7th-9th May, Loughborough University
Here I am! I’m Manuela, the new Visup purchase, as interaction and communication designer, and from now on I will be responsible for the infovis section of this blog.
First of all I want to thank John O’Brien for asking me to participate at the conference presenting our work, enveloped with M. Barbieri, C. Benedetti, V.Ceruti, S. Deambrosis, E. Fontana, G. Musella, during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano: the italian hospital system map. You can download here the pdf version of my presentation so I’ll not tell so much more about that. Thanking all the participants (especially prof. Vitiello, of Loughborough University, for being interested in our work!), I can start to write my thoughts on each presentation.
Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Research School of Systems Engineering SEIC, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department) welcome all of us, telling that “Information Visualization is more than a method of computing, but is a process of transforming information into a visual.”
Dr. Julie Tolmie (JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Kings Visualisation Lab of London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities) have introduced the themes, the attendees and the aim of the event: "vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities.”
Showcase video presentation
First of all, there have been projected the video of the attendees.
M. Graham, P.Craig, J.Kennedy: Information Visualization @ Napier University
They have enveloped Information Visualization (IV), an application of data visualization techniques to abstract data. One interesting example of their works, is TAXVIS (taxonomy Visualization). Here you can download the open-source java application.
T.Corby, G. Bailey: Cyclone.soc
Their abstract: “Is an immersive artwork that combine internet debates between extremist religious and political groups with visualizations of severe weather conditions. Streamed live, different newsgroup postings are fitted to the atmospheric topologies of a number of cyclonic weather fronts of differing strengths, giving the overall effect of the conversational churn and eddy of argument and counter-argument.”
N.Zonta, A.Brancale: ZODIAC
Zodiac is an open-source application, is a molecular modelling package that supports the real time interaction with molecules, using haptic devices.
M. Cohen, K. Brodlie, N. Phillips: The volume in focus
A video on a research that examined how focus and context techniques originally proposed for information visualization, can be adapted for volume visualization. It will be a very useful tool for surgery fields.
G. Novakovic: Fugue
Fugue is a scientifically informed art project based on the functions of the immune system, expressed in both sound and visuals in real time, using interactive digital technology.
First presentation turn (day1 - day2)
Dr. Julie Tolmie
Her short speech was about the intersections in visualizations practice. She told us that our aim “is to facilitate both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts & humanities and the sciences & engineering”.
Prof. Roy Kolawsky
Presents the Efas Project (Improving air traffic management of SEIC). NATS Ltd. has forecast that UK air traffic will increase by 45% by 2015. They are studying systems that reduce the environmental impact of growth in air traffic and evaluate their effectiveness, using an Airport Synthetic Environment simulation tool. The Route Builder and the Visualization Tool enables exploration via a graphic interface of alternative arrival and departure routes around an airport.
Here you can read the publications of the SEIC (Systems Engineering Innovation Centre).
Dr. Sara de Freitas (Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry)
Her presentation provide an overview of the variety of different applications for using serious games and virtual worlds. These are the key areas and the aims of this field:
. new models of learning and training
. blending virtual and real experience (mixed reality)
. major incident and multi-agency training
. culture, art and tourism (city vis and art installations)
. public policy development (urban design)
. science educational
. research and collaboration.
She takes two examples which are developed by the SGI:
. SciLands (science city in Second Life)
. Forest walk (3D virtual environment)
Prof. Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds)
Ken Brodlie’s speech was really interesting. He keeps a lesson about the theories of the data visualizations in terms of graphs and diagrams. Expecially the first part of his presentation reports graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood. For me, the main good thought expressed is that “The visualization it must be used as a powerful communication media.”
He reports many good examples of abstract data visualization: Treemap, Humble Graph and Envisioning Information.
Dr. T.Corby, Mr. G. Baily (Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media, University of Westminster)
Their presentation was about data visualization as art, information aesthetics. In the website, you can find many interesting projects. Especially one have attract my attention: MESH, a browsable environment, a network of linked images which grow out of the softwares exposure to social and cultural data materials.
Dr. Stuart Dun (King’s College London)
He talked about the interpretive and reconstructive nature of information and knowledge based on archaeological and historical data: “any exercise in the visualization of that data is in itself an act of interpretation”.
John O’Brien (Loughborough University)
In his first speech he talked about the developments in commodity gaming in serious applications, especially the OGRE (Object-oriented Graphic Engine).
More interesting for me was his second presentation about the web based visualization. He discussed how advancements in grid computing and internet browser technology has lead to a new online collaboration techniques for visualization. There were many good examples of this: Dataplace (graph and maps of demographic data), Swivel (collaborative website allowing users to find correlations within datasets), Dubbledb (graphs delivered using FusionCharts).
G. Novakovic (University College of London) and Prof. Fred Yeardon (Loughborough University) was the other two presenters of the day. Gordana Novakovic (that I want to thank for her kindness!) has explain to us her Fugue artistic application, instead of the more technical field of Prof. Yeardon, who talked about application of motion capture data in sports biomechanics research.
Second presentation/workshop turn (day3)
Skrikanth Nagella (Science and Technology Facilities Council, e-Science Centre)
This was an hands-on tutorial/workshop that wants to teach how to use visualization cluster, including information on using VNC and VirtualGL.
Day three of vizNET 2008 will explore and identify a series of Grand Challenges as perceived by attendees. This kind of interactive approach “is vitally important for the visualization community to define the long-term aims of the visualization discipline, independently from the short-term pull and technology push”, like said prof. Roy S. Kalawsky. This stimulated a debate and create a research roadmap that will identify the requirements of visualization research and focused attention on key scientific challenges and others:
- make people understand the important rule of information visualization
- interdisciplinary and real collaboration between the different fields
- formalization of visualization methods
- access to data
- more attention at audiovisualization.
These are only few points that emerged form the workshops, I hope that John will post online each one on the vizNET08 website!
Conclusions
Even if there was too much emphasis on Second Life (in which I don’t see this strong innovation) and 3D visualization, I have really enjoyed listening and observing other works, opinions and points of view from various professional subjects.
Manuela Ciancilla
Events, infoVis / information visualization / infoviz Events, infoVis / information visualization / infoviz]]>
Posted by InfoVis at 3:44 PM | Comments (0)
vizNET 2008
le> http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2008/05/15/viznet-2008/ The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques
7th-9th May, Loughborough University
Here I am! I’m Manuela, the new Visup purchase, as interaction and communication designer, and from now on I will be responsible for the infovis section of this blog.
First of all I want to thank John O’Brien for asking me to participate at the conference presenting our work, enveloped with M. Barbieri, C. Benedetti, V.Ceruti, S. Deambrosis, E. Fontana, G. Musella, during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano: the italian hospital system map. You can download here the pdf version of my presentation so I’ll not tell so much more about that. Thanking all the participants (especially prof. Vitiello, of Loughborough University, for being interested in our work!), I can start to write my thoughts on each presentation.
Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Research School of Systems Engineering SEIC, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department) welcome all of us, telling that “Information Visualization is more than a method of computing, but is a process of transforming information into a visual.”
Dr. Julie Tolmie (JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Kings Visualisation Lab of London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities) have introduced the themes, the attendees and the aim of the event: "vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities.”
Showcase video presentation
First of all, there have been projected the video of the attendees.
M. Graham, P.Craig, J.Kennedy: Information Visualization @ Napier University
They have enveloped Information Visualization (IV), an application of data visualization techniques to abstract data. One interesting example of their works, is TAXVIS (taxonomy Visualization). Here you can download the open-source java application.
T.Corby, G. Bailey: Cyclone.soc
Their abstract: “Is an immersive artwork that combine internet debates between extremist religious and political groups with visualizations of severe weather conditions. Streamed live, different newsgroup postings are fitted to the atmospheric topologies of a number of cyclonic weather fronts of differing strengths, giving the overall effect of the conversational churn and eddy of argument and counter-argument.”
N.Zonta, A.Brancale: ZODIAC
Zodiac is an open-source application, is a molecular modelling package that supports the real time interaction with molecules, using haptic devices.
M. Cohen, K. Brodlie, N. Phillips: The volume in focus
A video on a research that examined how focus and context techniques originally proposed for information visualization, can be adapted for volume visualization. It will be a very useful tool for surgery fields.
G. Novakovic: Fugue
Fugue is a scientifically informed art project based on the functions of the immune system, expressed in both sound and visuals in real time, using interactive digital technology.
First presentation turn (day1 - day2)
Dr. Julie Tolmie
Her short speech was about the intersections in visualizations practice. She told us that our aim “is to facilitate both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts & humanities and the sciences & engineering”.
Prof. Roy Kolawsky
Presents the Efas Project (Improving air traffic management of SEIC). NATS Ltd. has forecast that UK air traffic will increase by 45% by 2015. They are studying systems that reduce the environmental impact of growth in air traffic and evaluate their effectiveness, using an Airport Synthetic Environment simulation tool. The Route Builder and the Visualization Tool enables exploration via a graphic interface of alternative arrival and departure routes around an airport.
Here you can read the publications of the SEIC (Systems Engineering Innovation Centre).
Dr. Sara de Freitas (Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry)
Her presentation provide an overview of the variety of different applications for using serious games and virtual worlds. These are the key areas and the aims of this field:
. new models of learning and training
. blending virtual and real experience (mixed reality)
. major incident and multi-agency training
. culture, art and tourism (city vis and art installations)
. public policy development (urban design)
. science educational
. research and collaboration.
She takes two examples which are developed by the SGI:
. SciLands (science city in Second Life)
. Forest walk (3D virtual environment)
Prof. Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds)
Ken Brodlie’s speech was really interesting. He keeps a lesson about the theories of the data visualizations in terms of graphs and diagrams. Expecially the first part of his presentation reports graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood. For me, the main good thought expressed is that “The visualization it must be used as a powerful communication media.”
He reports many good examples of abstract data visualization: Treemap, Humble Graph and Envisioning Information.
Dr. T.Corby, Mr. G. Baily (Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media, University of Westminster)
Their presentation was about data visualization as art, information aesthetics. In the website, you can find many interesting projects. Especially one have attract my attention: MESH, a browsable environment, a network of linked images which grow out of the softwares exposure to social and cultural data materials.
Dr. Stuart Dun (King’s College London)
He talked about the interpretive and reconstructive nature of information and knowledge based on archaeological and historical data: “any exercise in the visualization of that data is in itself an act of interpretation”.
John O’Brien (Loughborough University)
In his first speech he talked about the developments in commodity gaming in serious applications, especially the OGRE (Object-oriented Graphic Engine).
More interesting for me was his second presentation about the web based visualization. He discussed how advancements in grid computing and internet browser technology has lead to a new online collaboration techniques for visualization. There were many good examples of this: Dataplace (graph and maps of demographic data), Swivel (collaborative website allowing users to find correlations within datasets), Dubbledb (graphs delivered using FusionCharts).
G. Novakovic (University College of London) and Prof. Fred Yeardon (Loughborough University) was the other two presenters of the day. Gordana Novakovic (that I want to thank for her kindness!) has explain to us her Fugue artistic application, instead of the more technical field of Prof. Yeardon, who talked about application of motion capture data in sports biomechanics research.
Second presentation/workshop turn (day3)
Skrikanth Nagella (Science and Technology Facilities Council, e-Science Centre)
This was an hands-on tutorial/workshop that wants to teach how to use visualization cluster, including information on using VNC and VirtualGL.
Day three of vizNET 2008 will explore and identify a series of Grand Challenges as perceived by attendees. This kind of interactive approach “is vitally important for the visualization community to define the long-term aims of the visualization discipline, independently from the short-term pull and technology push”, like said prof. Roy S. Kalawsky. This stimulated a debate and create a research roadmap that will identify the requirements of visualization research and focused attention on key scientific challenges and others:
- make people understand the important rule of information visualization
- interdisciplinary and real collaboration between the different fields
- formalization of visualization methods
- access to data
- more attention at audiovisualization.
These are only few points that emerged form the workshops, I hope that John will post online each one on the vizNET08 website!
Conclusions
Even if there was too much emphasis on Second Life (in which I don’t see this strong innovation) and 3D visualization, I have really enjoyed listening and observing other works, opinions and points of view from various professional subjects.
Manuela Ciancilla
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vizNET 2008
le> http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2008/05/15/viznet-2008/ The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques
7th-9th May, Loughborough University
Here I am! I’m Manuela, the new Visup purchase, as interaction and communication designer, and from now on I will be responsible for the infovis section of this blog.
First of all I want to thank John O’Brien for asking me to participate at the conference presenting our work, enveloped with M. Barbieri, C. Benedetti, V.Ceruti, S. Deambrosis, E. Fontana, G. Musella, during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano: the italian hospital system map. You can download here the pdf version of my presentation so I’ll not tell so much more about that. Thanking all the participants (especially prof. Vitiello, of Loughborough University, for being interested in our work!), I can start to write my thoughts on each presentation.
Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Research School of Systems Engineering SEIC, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department) welcome all of us, telling that “Information Visualization is more than a method of computing, but is a process of transforming information into a visual.”
Dr. Julie Tolmie (JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Kings Visualisation Lab of London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities) have introduced the themes, the attendees and the aim of the event: "vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities.”
Showcase video presentation
First of all, there have been projected the video of the attendees.
M. Graham, P.Craig, J.Kennedy: Information Visualization @ Napier University
They have enveloped Information Visualization (IV), an application of data visualization techniques to abstract data. One interesting example of their works, is TAXVIS (taxonomy Visualization). Here you can download the open-source java application.
T.Corby, G. Bailey: Cyclone.soc
Their abstract: “Is an immersive artwork that combine internet debates between extremist religious and political groups with visualizations of severe weather conditions. Streamed live, different newsgroup postings are fitted to the atmospheric topologies of a number of cyclonic weather fronts of differing strengths, giving the overall effect of the conversational churn and eddy of argument and counter-argument.”
N.Zonta, A.Brancale: ZODIAC
Zodiac is an open-source application, is a molecular modelling package that supports the real time interaction with molecules, using haptic devices.
M. Cohen, K. Brodlie, N. Phillips: The volume in focus
A video on a research that examined how focus and context techniques originally proposed for information visualization, can be adapted for volume visualization. It will be a very useful tool for surgery fields.
G. Novakovic: Fugue
Fugue is a scientifically informed art project based on the functions of the immune system, expressed in both sound and visuals in real time, using interactive digital technology.
First presentation turn (day1 - day2)
Dr. Julie Tolmie
Her short speech was about the intersections in visualizations practice. She told us that our aim “is to facilitate both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts & humanities and the sciences & engineering”.
Prof. Roy Kolawsky
Presents the Efas Project (Improving air traffic management of SEIC). NATS Ltd. has forecast that UK air traffic will increase by 45% by 2015. They are studying systems that reduce the environmental impact of growth in air traffic and evaluate their effectiveness, using an Airport Synthetic Environment simulation tool. The Route Builder and the Visualization Tool enables exploration via a graphic interface of alternative arrival and departure routes around an airport.
Here you can read the publications of the SEIC (Systems Engineering Innovation Centre).
Dr. Sara de Freitas (Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry)
Her presentation provide an overview of the variety of different applications for using serious games and virtual worlds. These are the key areas and the aims of this field:
. new models of learning and training
. blending virtual and real experience (mixed reality)
. major incident and multi-agency training
. culture, art and tourism (city vis and art installations)
. public policy development (urban design)
. science educational
. research and collaboration.
She takes two examples which are developed by the SGI:
. SciLands (science city in Second Life)
. Forest walk (3D virtual environment)
Prof. Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds)
Ken Brodlie’s speech was really interesting. He keeps a lesson about the theories of the data visualizations in terms of graphs and diagrams. Expecially the first part of his presentation reports graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood. For me, the main good thought expressed is that “The visualization it must be used as a powerful communication media.”
He reports many good examples of abstract data visualization: Treemap, Humble Graph and Envisioning Information.
Dr. T.Corby, Mr. G. Baily (Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media, University of Westminster)
Their presentation was about data visualization as art, information aesthetics. In the website, you can find many interesting projects. Especially one have attract my attention: MESH, a browsable environment, a network of linked images which grow out of the softwares exposure to social and cultural data materials.
Dr. Stuart Dun (King’s College London)
He talked about the interpretive and reconstructive nature of information and knowledge based on archaeological and historical data: “any exercise in the visualization of that data is in itself an act of interpretation”.
John O’Brien (Loughborough University)
In his first speech he talked about the developments in commodity gaming in serious applications, especially the OGRE (Object-oriented Graphic Engine).
More interesting for me was his second presentation about the web based visualization. He discussed how advancements in grid computing and internet browser technology has lead to a new online collaboration techniques for visualization. There were many good examples of this: Dataplace (graph and maps of demographic data), Swivel (collaborative website allowing users to find correlations within datasets), Dubbledb (graphs delivered using FusionCharts).
G. Novakovic (University College of London) and Prof. Fred Yeardon (Loughborough University) was the other two presenters of the day. Gordana Novakovic (that I want to thank for her kindness!) has explain to us her Fugue artistic application, instead of the more technical field of Prof. Yeardon, who talked about application of motion capture data in sports biomechanics research.
Second presentation/workshop turn (day3)
Skrikanth Nagella (Science and Technology Facilities Council, e-Science Centre)
This was an hands-on tutorial/workshop that wants to teach how to use visualization cluster, including information on using VNC and VirtualGL.
Day three of vizNET 2008 will explore and identify a series of Grand Challenges as perceived by attendees. This kind of interactive approach “is vitally important for the visualization community to define the long-term aims of the visualization discipline, independently from the short-term pull and technology push”, like said prof. Roy S. Kalawsky. This stimulated a debate and create a research roadmap that will identify the requirements of visualization research and focused attention on key scientific challenges and others:
- make people understand the important rule of information visualization
- interdisciplinary and real collaboration between the different fields
- formalization of visualization methods
- access to data
- more attention at audiovisualization.
These are only few points that emerged form the workshops, I hope that John will post online each one on the vizNET08 website!
Conclusions
Even if there was too much emphasis on Second Life (in which I don’t see this strong innovation) and 3D visualization, I have really enjoyed listening and observing other works, opinions and points of view from various professional subjects.
Manuela Ciancilla
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vizNET 2008
le> http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2008/05/15/viznet-2008/ The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques
7th-9th May, Loughborough University
Here I am! I’m Manuela, the new Visup purchase, as interaction and communication designer, and from now on I will be responsible for the infovis section of this blog.
First of all I want to thank John O’Brien for asking me to participate at the conference presenting our work, enveloped with M. Barbieri, C. Benedetti, V.Ceruti, S. Deambrosis, E. Fontana, G. Musella, during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano: the italian hospital system map. You can download here the pdf version of my presentation so I’ll not tell so much more about that. Thanking all the participants (especially prof. Vitiello, of Loughborough University, for being interested in our work!), I can start to write my thoughts on each presentation.
Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Research School of Systems Engineering SEIC, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department) welcome all of us, telling that “Information Visualization is more than a method of computing, but is a process of transforming information into a visual.”
Dr. Julie Tolmie (JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Kings Visualisation Lab of London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities) have introduced the themes, the attendees and the aim of the event: "vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities.”
Showcase video presentation
First of all, there have been projected the video of the attendees.
M. Graham, P.Craig, J.Kennedy: Information Visualization @ Napier University
They have enveloped Information Visualization (IV), an application of data visualization techniques to abstract data. One interesting example of their works, is TAXVIS (taxonomy Visualization). Here you can download the open-source java application.
T.Corby, G. Bailey: Cyclone.soc
Their abstract: “Is an immersive artwork that combine internet debates between extremist religious and political groups with visualizations of severe weather conditions. Streamed live, different newsgroup postings are fitted to the atmospheric topologies of a number of cyclonic weather fronts of differing strengths, giving the overall effect of the conversational churn and eddy of argument and counter-argument.”
N.Zonta, A.Brancale: ZODIAC
Zodiac is an open-source application, is a molecular modelling package that supports the real time interaction with molecules, using haptic devices.
M. Cohen, K. Brodlie, N. Phillips: The volume in focus
A video on a research that examined how focus and context techniques originally proposed for information visualization, can be adapted for volume visualization. It will be a very useful tool for surgery fields.
G. Novakovic: Fugue
Fugue is a scientifically informed art project based on the functions of the immune system, expressed in both sound and visuals in real time, using interactive digital technology.
First presentation turn (day1 - day2)
Dr. Julie Tolmie
Her short speech was about the intersections in visualizations practice. She told us that our aim “is to facilitate both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts & humanities and the sciences & engineering”.
Prof. Roy Kolawsky
Presents the Efas Project (Improving air traffic management of SEIC). NATS Ltd. has forecast that UK air traffic will increase by 45% by 2015. They are studying systems that reduce the environmental impact of growth in air traffic and evaluate their effectiveness, using an Airport Synthetic Environment simulation tool. The Route Builder and the Visualization Tool enables exploration via a graphic interface of alternative arrival and departure routes around an airport.
Here you can read the publications of the SEIC (Systems Engineering Innovation Centre).
Dr. Sara de Freitas (Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry)
Her presentation provide an overview of the variety of different applications for using serious games and virtual worlds. These are the key areas and the aims of this field:
. new models of learning and training
. blending virtual and real experience (mixed reality)
. major incident and multi-agency training
. culture, art and tourism (city vis and art installations)
. public policy development (urban design)
. science educational
. research and collaboration.
She takes two examples which are developed by the SGI:
. SciLands (science city in Second Life)
. Forest walk (3D virtual environment)
Prof. Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds)
Ken Brodlie’s speech was really interesting. He keeps a lesson about the theories of the data visualizations in terms of graphs and diagrams. Expecially the first part of his presentation reports graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood. For me, the main good thought expressed is that “The visualization it must be used as a powerful communication media.”
He reports many good examples of abstract data visualization: Treemap, Humble Graph and Envisioning Information.
Dr. T.Corby, Mr. G. Baily (Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media, University of Westminster)
Their presentation was about data visualization as art, information aesthetics. In the website, you can find many interesting projects. Especially one have attract my attention: MESH, a browsable environment, a network of linked images which grow out of the softwares exposure to social and cultural data materials.
Dr. Stuart Dun (King’s College London)
He talked about the interpretive and reconstructive nature of information and knowledge based on archaeological and historical data: “any exercise in the visualization of that data is in itself an act of interpretation”.
John O’Brien (Loughborough University)
In his first speech he talked about the developments in commodity gaming in serious applications, especially the OGRE (Object-oriented Graphic Engine).
More interesting for me was his second presentation about the web based visualization. He discussed how advancements in grid computing and internet browser technology has lead to a new online collaboration techniques for visualization. There were many good examples of this: Dataplace (graph and maps of demographic data), Swivel (collaborative website allowing users to find correlations within datasets), Dubbledb (graphs delivered using FusionCharts).
G. Novakovic (University College of London) and Prof. Fred Yeardon (Loughborough University) was the other two presenters of the day. Gordana Novakovic (that I want to thank for her kindness!) has explain to us her Fugue artistic application, instead of the more technical field of Prof. Yeardon, who talked about application of motion capture data in sports biomechanics research.
Second presentation/workshop turn (day3)
Skrikanth Nagella (Science and Technology Facilities Council, e-Science Centre)
This was an hands-on tutorial/workshop that wants to teach how to use visualization cluster, including information on using VNC and VirtualGL.
Day three of vizNET 2008 will explore and identify a series of Grand Challenges as perceived by attendees. This kind of interactive approach “is vitally important for the visualization community to define the long-term aims of the visualization discipline, independently from the short-term pull and technology push”, like said prof. Roy S. Kalawsky. This stimulated a debate and create a research roadmap that will identify the requirements of visualization research and focused attention on key scientific challenges and others:
- make people understand the important rule of information visualization
- interdisciplinary and real collaboration between the different fields
- formalization of visualization methods
- access to data
- more attention at audiovisualization.
These are only few points that emerged form the workshops, I hope that John will post online each one on the vizNET08 website!
Conclusions
Even if there was too much emphasis on Second Life (in which I don’t see this strong innovation) and 3D visualization, I have really enjoyed listening and observing other works, opinions and points of view from various professional subjects.
Manuela Ciancilla
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Posted by InfoVis at 3:44 PM | Comments (0)
vizNET 2008
le> http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2008/05/15/viznet-2008/ The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques
7th-9th May, Loughborough University
Here I am! I’m Manuela, the new Visup purchase, as interaction and communication designer, and from now on I will be responsible for the infovis section of this blog.
First of all I want to thank John O’Brien for asking me to participate at the conference presenting our work, enveloped with M. Barbieri, C. Benedetti, V.Ceruti, S. Deambrosis, E. Fontana, G. Musella, during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano: the italian hospital system map. You can download here the pdf version of my presentation so I’ll not tell so much more about that. Thanking all the participants (especially prof. Vitiello, of Loughborough University, for being interested in our work!), I can start to write my thoughts on each presentation.
Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Research School of Systems Engineering SEIC, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department) welcome all of us, telling that “Information Visualization is more than a method of computing, but is a process of transforming information into a visual.”
Dr. Julie Tolmie (JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Kings Visualisation Lab of London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities) have introduced the themes, the attendees and the aim of the event: "vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities.”
Showcase video presentation
First of all, there have been projected the video of the attendees.
M. Graham, P.Craig, J.Kennedy: Information Visualization @ Napier University
They have enveloped Information Visualization (IV), an application of data visualization techniques to abstract data. One interesting example of their works, is TAXVIS (taxonomy Visualization). Here you can download the open-source java application.
T.Corby, G. Bailey: Cyclone.soc
Their abstract: “Is an immersive artwork that combine internet debates between extremist religious and political groups with visualizations of severe weather conditions. Streamed live, different newsgroup postings are fitted to the atmospheric topologies of a number of cyclonic weather fronts of differing strengths, giving the overall effect of the conversational churn and eddy of argument and counter-argument.”
N.Zonta, A.Brancale: ZODIAC
Zodiac is an open-source application, is a molecular modelling package that supports the real time interaction with molecules, using haptic devices.
M. Cohen, K. Brodlie, N. Phillips: The volume in focus
A video on a research that examined how focus and context techniques originally proposed for information visualization, can be adapted for volume visualization. It will be a very useful tool for surgery fields.
G. Novakovic: Fugue
Fugue is a scientifically informed art project based on the functions of the immune system, expressed in both sound and visuals in real time, using interactive digital technology.
First presentation turn (day1 - day2)
Dr. Julie Tolmie
Her short speech was about the intersections in visualizations practice. She told us that our aim “is to facilitate both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts & humanities and the sciences & engineering”.
Prof. Roy Kolawsky
Presents the Efas Project (Improving air traffic management of SEIC). NATS Ltd. has forecast that UK air traffic will increase by 45% by 2015. They are studying systems that reduce the environmental impact of growth in air traffic and evaluate their effectiveness, using an Airport Synthetic Environment simulation tool. The Route Builder and the Visualization Tool enables exploration via a graphic interface of alternative arrival and departure routes around an airport.
Here you can read the publications of the SEIC (Systems Engineering Innovation Centre).
Dr. Sara de Freitas (Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry)
Her presentation provide an overview of the variety of different applications for using serious games and virtual worlds. These are the key areas and the aims of this field:
. new models of learning and training
. blending virtual and real experience (mixed reality)
. major incident and multi-agency training
. culture, art and tourism (city vis and art installations)
. public policy development (urban design)
. science educational
. research and collaboration.
She takes two examples which are developed by the SGI:
. SciLands (science city in Second Life)
. Forest walk (3D virtual environment)
Prof. Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds)
Ken Brodlie’s speech was really interesting. He keeps a lesson about the theories of the data visualizations in terms of graphs and diagrams. Expecially the first part of his presentation reports graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood. For me, the main good thought expressed is that “The visualization it must be used as a powerful communication media.”
He reports many good examples of abstract data visualization: Treemap, Humble Graph and Envisioning Information. <