Ebook: Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization

The field of computer graphics combines display hardware, software, and interactive techniques in order to display and interact with data generated by applications. Visualization is concerned with exploring data and information graphically in such a way as to gain information from the data and determine significance. Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces.

Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization provides a review of the state of the art in computer graphics, visualization, and visual analytics by researchers and developers who are closely involved in pioneering the latest advances in the field. It is a unique presentation of multi-disciplinary aspects in visualization and visual analytics, architecture and displays, augmented reality, the use of color, user interfaces and cognitive aspects, and technology transfer. It provides readers with insights into the latest developments in areas such as new displays and new display processors, new collaboration technologies, the role of visual, multimedia, and multimodal user interfaces, visual analysis at extreme scale, and adaptive visualization.

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Part 1. Evolving a Vision -- An Illuminated Path: The Impact of the Work of Jim Thomas / Chaomei Chen, Haiyan Hou, Zhigang Hu and Shengbo Liu -- The Evolving Leadership Path of Visual Analytics / Mike Kluse, Anthony Peurrung and Deborah Gracio -- Introduction-The Best Is Yet to Come / John Dill, Rae Earnshaw, David Kasik, John Vince and Pak Chung Wong -- Part 2. Visual Analytics and Visualization -- Visual Search and Analysis in Complex Information Spaces-Approaches and Research Challenges / T. von Landesberger, T. Schreck, D. W. Fellner and J. Kohlhammer -- Dynamic Visual Analytics-Facing the Real-Time Challenge / Florian Mansmann, Fabian Fischer and Daniel A. Keim -- A Review of Uncertainty in Data Visualization / Ken Brodlie, Rodolfo Allendes Osorio and Adriano Lopes -- How to Draw a Graph, Revisited / Peter Eades and Seok-Hee Hong -- Using Extruded Volumes to Visualize Time-Series Datasets / Nick Schultz and Mike Bailey -- Event Structuring as a General Approach to Building Knowledge in Time-Based Collections / William Ribarsky, Zachary Wartell and Wenwen Dou. A Visual Analytics Approach for Protein Disorder Prediction / Jaegul Choo, Fuxin Li, Keehyoung Joo and Haesun Park -- Visual Storytelling in Education Applied to Spatial-Temporal Multivariate Statistics Data / Patrik Lundblad and Mikael Jern -- Part 3. Interaction and User Interfaces -- Top Ten Interaction Challenges in Extreme-Scale Visual Analytics / Pak Chung Wong, Han-Wei Shen and Chaomei Chen -- GUI 4D-The Role and the Impact of Visual, Multimedia and Multilingual User Interfaces in ICT Applications and Services for Users Coming from the Bottom of the Pyramid-First Concepts, Prototypes and Experiences / G. Baduza, J. H. P. Eloff, D. Kok, J. Encarnação and C. Merz, et al. -- Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction / Christian Peter and Bodo Urban -- Applying Artistic Color Theories to Visualization / Theresa-Marie Rhyne -- e-Culture and m-Culture: The Way that Electronic, Computing and Mobile Devices are Changing the Nature of Art, Design and Culture / Stuart Cunningham and Peter S. Excell -- Part 4. Modelling and Geometry. Shape Identification in Temporal Data Sets / Machon Gregory and Ben Shneiderman -- SSD-C: Smooth Signed Distance Colored Surface Reconstruction / Fatih Calakli and Gabriel Taubin -- Geometric Issues of Object Manipulation in Task Animation and Virtual Reality / Daniel Thalmann -- An Analytical Approach to Dynamic Skin Deformation of Character Animation / L. H. You, H. Ugail, X. Y. You and Jian J. Zhang -- Part 5. Architecture and Displays -- The New Visualization Engine- The Heterogeneous Processor Unit / Jon Peddie -- Smart Cloud Computing / Tosiyasu L. Kunii -- Visualization Surfaces / Turner Whitted and Steven Drucker -- Part 6. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality -- The Development of Mobile Augmented Reality / Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Steven K. Feiner, Simon J. Julier, J. Edward Swan and Mark A. Livingston -- Multimodal Interfaces for Augmented Reality / Mark Billinghurst and Minkyung Lee -- Part 7. Technology Transfer -- Knowledge Exchange, Technology Transfer and the Academy / Rae Earnshaw -- Discovering and Transitioning Technology / John Dill and David J. Kasik -- Technology Transfer at IBBT-EDM: Case Study in the Computer Graphics Domain / Fabian Di Fiore, Eddy Flerackers and Frank Van Reeth -- Building Adoption of Visual Analytics Software / Nancy Chinchor, Kristin Cook and Jean Scholtz