The Craft of Information Visualization

Readings and Reflections
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-55860-915-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1008 g

Since the beginning of the computer age, researchers from many disciplines have sought to facilitate people's use of computers and to provide ways for scientists to make sense of the immense quantities of data coming out of them. One gainful result of these efforts has been the field of information visualization, whose technology is increasingly applied in scientific research, digital libraries, data mining, financial data analysis, market studies, manufacturing production control, and data discovery.

This book collects 38 of the key papers on information visualization from a leading and prominent research lab, the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Celebrating HCIL's 20th anniversary, this book presents a coherent body of work from a respected community that has had many success stories with its research and commercial spin-offs.

Each chapter contains an introduction specifically written for this volume by two leading HCI researchers, to describe the connections among those papers and reveal HCIL's individual approach to developing innovations.

Zielgruppe

HCI practitioners, usability engineers, software developers, Web page designers and developers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bederson, Benjamin B

Shneiderman, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion User Interface Design & Benutzerfreundlichkeit
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion Informationsvisualisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Interface Design, Interaktionsdesign, Application Design

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Database Discovery with Dynamic Queries
Chapter 2. Seeing the World Through Image Libraries
Chapter 3. Preserving Context with Zoomable User Interfaces
Chapter 4. The World's Information in Digital Libraries
Chapter 5. Making Sense of the World Wide Web
Chapter 6. Understanding Hierarchical Data
Chapter 7. Innovating the Interaction
Chapter 8. Theories for Understanding Information Visualization
Appendix A: Video Reports
Appendix B: Project Pages
Appendix C: Software for Downloading
Appendix D: Full Tech Report Index
Author Index
Key Terms Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shneiderman, Ben
Ben Shneiderman is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL), and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Shneiderman lectures and consults internationally, while serving on corporate advisory boards and producing widely used textbooks. He was made a Fellow of the ACM in 1997, elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001, and received the ACM CHI (Computer Human Interaction) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

Bederson, Benjamin B
Benjamin B. Bederson is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, where he is also Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. Prior to UM he was an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, and worked in the Interactive Media and Computer Graphics Research Group at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Dr. Bederson received his Ph. D. in Computer Vision and Robotics from New York University. He has published extensively, and is well known for the widely used software he developed including the Pad++, Jazz and Piccolo toolkits for Zoomable User Interfaces.