Book description
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.
*Presents key ideas, novel interfaces, and major applications of information visualization tools, embedded in inspirational prototypes.
*Techniques can be widely applied in scientific research, digital libraries, data mining, financial data analysis, business market studies, manufacturing production control, drug discovery, and genomic studies.
*Provides an "insider" view to the scientific process and evolution of innovation, as told by the researchers themselves.
*This work comes from the prominent and high profile University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
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Introduction
- THE IMPORTANCE OF FLOW
- EVALUATING OUR WORK
- WORKING WITHIN A BROADER COMMUNITY OF SCIENTISTS
- THE MARYLAND WAY FOR INFORMATION VISUALIZATION
- 1 Choose a Good Driving Problem
- 2 Become Immersed in Related Work
- 3 Clarify Short-Term and Long-Term Goals
- 4 Balance Individual and Group Interests
- 5 Work Hard
- 6 Communicate with Internal and External Stakeholders
- 7 Get Past Failures. Celebrate Successes!
- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
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Chapter 1: Database Discovery with Dynamic Queries
- Introduction to Database Discovery with Dynamic Queries
- Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic Query Filters with Starfield Displays
- DYNAMIC QUERIES FOR VISUAL INFORMATION SEEKING
- Temporal, Geographical and Categorical Aggregations Viewed through Coordinated Displays: A Case Study with Highway Incident Data
- Broadening Access to Large Online Databases by Generalizing Query Previews
- Dynamic Queries and Brushing on Choropleth Maps
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Chapter 2: Seeing the World Through Image Libraries
- Introduction to Seeing the World Through Image Libraries
- User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human
- Direct Annotation: A Drag-and-Drop Strategy for Labeling Photos
- PhotoMesa: A Zoomable Image Browser Using Quantum Treemaps and Bubblemaps
- A Photo History of SIGCHI: Evolution of Design from Personal to Public
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Chapter 3: Preserving Context with Zoomable User Interfaces
- Introduction to Preserving Context with Zoomable User Interfaces
- Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information?
- Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java
- Zoomable user interfaces as a medium for slide show presentations
- Navigation Patterns and Usability of Zoomable User Interfaces with and without an Overview
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Chapter 4: The World’s Information in Digital Libraries
- Introduction to The World’s Information in Digital Libraries
- Bringing Treasures to the Surface: Iterative Design for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program
- Building an Electronic Learning Community: From Design to Implementation
- Visualizing Digital Library Search Results with Categorical and Hierarchical Axes
- Designing a Digital Library for Young Children: An Intergenerational Partnership
- The International Children’s Digital Library: Viewing Digital Books Online
- Chapter 5: Making Sense of the World Wide Web
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Chapter 6: Understanding Hierarchical Data
- Introduction to Understanding Hierarchical Data
- Visual decision-making: Using treemaps for the Analytic Hierarchy Process
- Hierarchical Visualization with Treemaps: Making Sense of Pro Basketball Data
- Visual Information Management for Network Configuration
- Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies
- Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items
- SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation
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Chapter 7: Innovating the Interaction
- Introduction to Innovating the Interaction
- Fisheye Menus
- LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records
- Interactive Exploration of Time Series Data
- Excentric Labeling: Dynamic Neighborhood Labeling for Data Visualization
- A Fisheye Calendar Interface for PDAs: Providing Overviews for Small Displays
- Interactively Exploring Hierarchical Clustering Results
- Snap-Together Visualization: A User Interface for Coordinating Visualizations via Relational Schemata
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Chapter 8: Theories for Understanding Information Visualization
- Introduction to Theories for Understanding Information Visualization
- Image-Browser Taxonomy and Guidelines for Designers
- The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations
- Supporting Creativity with Advanced Information-Abundant User Interfaces
- Inventing discovery tools: combining information visualization with data mining
- Appendix A: Videos
- Appendix B: Project Pages
- Appendix C: Software
- Appendix D: HCIL Technical Report Listing (1993–2002)
- Author Index
- Key Terms Index
Product information
- Title: The Craft of Information Visualization
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2003
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780080503288
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