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Fig. 29.3 A distributed weather analysis and emergency warning system, a visualization scenario
running on top of the ZAPP framework [ 61 ]
29.4 Outlook
Scalable devices are the future! Analysts agree that the future of home computing
lies in small computers such as pads, tablets, or small notebooks, and visualization
labs around the globe invest significant amounts of money in tiled display systems
hardware and research. But will that ultimately influence the way we interact with
data in the long term? While such things are always hard to predict, we do believe
that the added value of high-resolution and collaborative large-displays as well as
the ease of use of mobile computers make those devices the ideal platform for con-
venient visualization , already few works exist to combine the best of both worlds
and allow the control and interaction on large display walls with mobile computers
(see Fig. 29.3 ).
Acknowledgments The work presented in this paper was made possible in part by the NIH/NCRR
Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing, P41-RR12553-10 and by Award Number
R01EB007688 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Engineering, as well as
the Intel Visual Computing Institute and the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and
Interaction” at the Saarland University. The content is under sole responsibility of the authors.
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