University of Konstanz
Graduiertenkolleg / PhD Program
Computer and Information Science

PhD Program Summer School 2006


Thinking Outside the Visualization Box


speaker Prof. Dr. Ken Joy, University of California, Davis, Cal., USA
  
date September 29, 2006
 
abstract Are we working on the correct problems? Are we addressing the new fundamental challenges that allow scientists and engineers to explore massive time-varying multi-valued data sets? Or are we pushing incremental updates to prior solutions? Currently, the field of visualization is largely driven by improvements in technology, and not by new visualization solutions that are necessary to makes fundamental advances in discovery and analysis of complex data. I believe that we need to think "outside the visualization box," identifying new "visualization" research challenges, not continue to provide incremental updates to existing solutions. In this talk, we identify several areas where "Thinking outside the visualization box" may significantly help.