Using visual texture for information display

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

teaches graphic design at Yale and is well qualified to write and illustrate a book about graphic design, the often overlooked component of technical writing which accompanies text, photographs , and drawings. He is also the founder of Graphics Press. Tufte starts his book with historical and recent examples of graphic excellence: age-adjusted cancer rates for every county in the contiguous Uni...

Visual information display in AR-environments

This paper describes a literature study concerning the representation of visual aids and cues in an Augmented Reality (AR) environment. An overview is given of current scientific knowledge about visual information display in 2Dand 3Dinterfaces that is specifically useful for current and future ARinterfaces. An important element is the peripheral sight, as this is one of the least explored possi...

The visual display of temporal information

The detection of temporal relationships among time-ordered patient data is an important, but difficult, clinical task. Large volumes of computer-stored clinical data offer the possibility of aiding in the early detection of subtle trends and states, but the presence of irrelevant data can obscure relevant findings and relationships. We present a formal system for representing complex temporal d...

Tactons: Structured Tactile Messages for Non-Visual Information Display

Tactile displays are now becoming available in a form that can be easily used in a user interface. This paper describes a new form of tactile output. Tactons, or tactile icons, are structured, abstract messages that can be used to communicate messages non-visually. A range of different parameters can be used for Tacton construction including: frequency, amplitude and duration of a tactile pulse...

Tactons : structured vibrotactile messages for non-visual information display