Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Challenges
Perception
Basics
Basics
Evaluation
Evaluation
Introduction
Introduction
Dynamic
Queries
GeoVis
Zoom
&
Pan
Interaction
Techniques
Applications
WebVis
Applications
WebVis
Time-
dependent
data
Trees
Trees
Focus
&
Context
BioVis
BioVis
Visual
Structures
Special
Data
Special
Data
1D, 2D,
3D, 4D,…
Text &
Docs
Text &
Docs
SoftVis
Graphs &
Networks
Fig. 3.
Course structure of the WS06/07 InfoVis course given by Andreas Kerren at
TU Kaiserslautern.
commercial products. Of course, this was a challenge and sometimes a little bit
subjective because of missing quality metrics or missing evaluations of tools and
techniques.
The design of the syllabus was partly influenced by courses given at Georgia
Tech and TU Vienna in 2005 as well as by the textbooks of Spence [61], Ware [71],
a pre-version of the textbook of Kerren et al. [35], and many research papers.
The course is divided into three parts which are illuminated by Figure 3:
1. In the first part, I discuss basic knowledge that is important for the design
or analysis of InfoVis concepts. As a first step, I introduce the field itself,
give motivations for the need, and present several traditional and modern
examples, mainly from Tufte's [67, 69] and Spence' books. Important is the
differentiation between InfoVis and SciVis, also, if that is not so easy in
some cases. After this introduction, a larger discussion on perception and
cognitive issues is given. Here, I provide information about the perception
of colors, textures, etc., preattentive features, and Gestalt laws. This course
component is mainly based on the topic of Ware, but also on a lot of examples
and animations that can be found in the WWW. The last lecture of this
first part describes basics, such as the InfoVis Reference Model (data tables,
visual mapping, interaction, etc.) or data types and dimensionality. These
issues are mostly based on the topic of Card et al. [8].
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