Research Perspectives in Information Visualization

Group Discussion, April 1st 2002

Scalability

Higher density on desktop and PDAs

Learning time

Simplify use and understanding of inforvis

Advertise

make it popular

3D

On flat screeen and using stereovision. Problems with perspective deformation conflicting with the interpretation of sizes, occulsion and navigation.

Multimodality

How to use sound and haptics for information seeking?

Visualization of Multidimensional Data

Already some techniques (VisDB, Parallel Coordinates, Mihalisin)

Visualization of ad-hoc data structures

Lot of work on specific domains

More Information Visualization Techiques

More Distortion Techniques

More Aggregation Techniques

Aggregation consistent visually accross aggregation levels

Visualization of Algorithms

Animation in Visualization

Animation transition between views and animation for information seeking and discovery

Debugging and Visualization

Visualization with Time

Real-time data or monitoring

Network Visualization

Still not quite satisfactory for most data

Integrating Invormation Visualization with the Desktop

Some trials with treemaps and ZUI but no success so far.