The importance of information visualization as a means of transforming data into visual, understandable form is now embraced across university campuses and research institutes worldwide. Yet the role of designers in this field of activity is often overlooked by the dominant scientific and technological interests in data visualization, and a corporate culture reliant on off-the-shelf visualizati...

Virtual reality is emerging as a viable technology for data display and exploration. We describe the technology and discuss its advantages and limitations as a technique for biomedical visualization. Several task applications are suggested. We conclude with a discussion of the technological requirements for bringing this approach to fruition. Index Terms Biomedical visualization, inclusion, vir...

Volumetric imaging modalities are increasingly being used in surgical applications. However, visualizing the 3D information contained in these datasets effectively on a 2D display is a challenging problem. Most important issues to overcome are the occlusion of different anatomical features of each other and the difficulty of visualizing the depth information of a given pixel in a 2D image. More...

Starting with a selective retrospective of the history of software visualization, I will identify various trends and paradigms of previous and current research. In particular, I will discuss examples of applying visualization techniques to analyze the past and present state of software as well as to predict its future development. I will argue that prediction is an important task, but that soft...

In this paper we present SpyGlass, a modular and extensible visualization and remote interaction framework for wireless sensor networks. These networks have typically no means of visualizing their state, visualization is therefore a key issue to develop and operate these networks. Data emitted by individual sensor nodes is collected by the visualization software and passed to a flexible multi-l...

Spatial visualisation skills and interpretations are critical in the design professions, but traditionally difficult to effectively teach. Visualization and multimedia presentation studies show positive improvements in learner outcomes for specific learning domains. But the development and translation of a comparative visualization pedagogy between disciplines is poorly understood. This researc...

This paper presents the concept of alternative presentation components in the context of mobile visualization. A criterion for distinguishing between media with respect to their preparation for the presentation of information is introduced and the conventional visualization pipeline is extended to accommodate the needs of mobile information presentation. The concept is illustrated by some examp...

Computer-assisted interactive visualization has become a valuable tool for discovering the underlying meaning of tabular data, including categorical tabular data. The capabilities of the more traditionally mundane kinds of pictures like scatter plots can be expanded to usefully depict categorical tabular data by incorporating annotations and transforms, and by integrating the extensions into an...

This paper presents an interactive visualization framework for heterogeneous geospatial data developed in context of an interdisciplinary research project that aims at the risk analysis of sea-dumped chemical weapons in the Baltic Sea. In the focus of the analysis are geophysical, hydrographical, geochemical, and biological data acquired on research cruises as well as data produced by toxic com...

More and more, the products of statistical analysis that we encounter in our everyday lives come in the form of data visualizations. Visualizations have the advantage of being easier to interpret for many people, but they also give the impression of being a form of absolute truth. As with any presentation method, though, visualizations can be manipulated by their creators to show the story they...