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APRIL 14, 2004
Presented at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda, Maryland
BEN SHNEIDERMAN & CATHERINE
PLAISANT
(ben@cs.umd.edu) ; (plaisant@cs.umd.edu)
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA
COURSE
OVERVIEW
OBJECTIVES
Enable attendees to:
- recognize the seven types of information visualizations and which
combination is best for a given problem domain.
- distinguish between scientific and information visualization
- learn guidelines for successful designs
- see demos of novel visualizations
- understand opportunities for successful visualizations
CONTENT AND BENEFITS
Information visualization has rapidly emerged as a potent technology to
support human decision making. The latest generation of visual data mining
tools and animated GUIs take advantage of human perceptual skills to produce
striking results. This tutorial will show examples of successful uses of
information visualization technology, plus recent research breakthroughs and
hints of what's to come. Our emphasis will be on examples of government
statistical data sets and we will highlight the challenges of providing
universally usable interface designs.
Information visualization techniques empower users to perceive important
patterns in large data sets, identify areas that need further scrutiny, and
make sophisticated decisions. But looking at information is only a start.
Users also need to manipulate and explore the data, using real-time tools to
zoom, filter, and relate the information - and undo if they make a mistake.
Information visualization tools can aid in any situation that's characterized
by large amounts of multi-dimensional or rapidly changing data, e.g.
demographic trends, economic data analysis, health statistics, homeland
security.
The lectures are enhanced by
a large number of live demonstrations, and with time for question asking and
discussion.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Information professionals who must manage, present, interpret, and explore
vital databases. Designers of advanced tools for decision support and
business intelligence.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
BEN SHNEIDERMAN
is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science Founding Director
(1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/
), and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems
Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected
as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He
received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Ben Shneiderman is the author
of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer
Interaction (3rd ed. 1998)
http://www.awl.com/DTUI/ . His move into information visualization
helped spawn the successful company Spotfire
http://www.spotfire.com/ . He was an advisor for
www.smartmoney.com where his treemap idea was the basis for the marketmap.
He is currently an advisor for ILOG, Clockwise3D, and the HiveGroup.
With S. Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information
Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999). Leonardo's Laptop: Human
Needs and the New Computing Technologies appeared in October 2002, and his
new book with B. Bederson, The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings
and Reflections, was published in April 2003.
CATHERINE PLAISANT
is Associate Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of the
University of Maryland. She earned a Doctorat d'Ingénieur degree in France in
1982 and has 15 years of experience in developing and evaluating user
interfaces. In 1988 she joined the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
Since then she has been leading projects on public access information systems,
digital government, home technologies, telemedicine and information
visualization and exploration.
Catherine Plaisant has been an Associate Member of the University of Maryland
Graduate Faculty since 1991. She supervises computer science graduate and
undergraduate students and occasionally library school and psychology
students.
Dr. Plaisant has published more than 80 papers, mainly in computer science and
human-computer interaction journals or proceedings. She is a Member of
the Computer Science Special Editorial Board of Interacting with Computers,
Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, Oxford (1992- ), Information Visualization
Journal, and the editor of the HCIL video series (1991-..). She has been
principal investigator of contracts and grants with: National Science
Foundation, National Center for Health Statistics, Library of Congress,
National Library of Medecine, NASA, Census, World Bank, Hughes Network
Management, General Electric, IBM, and the Maryland Dept. of Juvenile Justice.
AGENDA:
INFORMATION VISUALIZATION
Session 1) The case for Information Visualization
Seven types by information visualizations (1-, 2-, 3-, multi-dimensional,
temporal, tree, and network data)
Seven user tasks in processing complex data (overview, zoom, filter,
details-on-demand, relate, history, and extract)
Direct manipulation (visual representation of the objects and actions of
interest and rapid, incremental, and reversible operations)
Dynamic queries, Spotfire & Dynamaps (Dynamic queries are user controlled
query widgets, such as sliders and buttons, that update the result set within
100msec)
Visual Information Seeking mantra: Overview first, Zoom and filter, then
Details on demand
Universal Usability
-- Break --
Session 2)
Structured data
Multidimensional and multivariate data
Temporal data visualization
Hierarchical and tree structured data
Network information visualization
Zooming interfaces
Focus+Context vs Overview+Detail
Coordination of visualizations
SCHEDULE
| WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 14, 2004 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Check-In |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Class |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Morning Break |
| 10:45 - 12:15 |
Class |
| 12:15 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:00 |
Class |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Afternoon Break |
| 3:15 - 4:45 |
Class |
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BOOK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bederson, B. and Shneiderman,
B., The Craft of Information Visualization:
Readings and
Reflections,
Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (2003).
http://www.mkp.com/craft
Card, S., Mackinlay, J., and
Shneiderman, B., Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to
Think, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (1999).
Chen, Chaomei, Information
Visualisation and Virtual Environments, Springer Verlag, Berlin (1999)
Chen,
Chaomei, Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest
for Knowledge Visualisation, Springer Verlag (2003).
Fayyad, Usama, Grinstein,
Georges and Wierse, Andreas, Information Visualization in Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (2001).
Spence, Robert,
Information Visualisation, Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA (2001).
Tufte, Edward, The Visual
Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT (1983).
Tufte, Edward, Envisioning
Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT (1990).
Tufte, Edward, Visual
Explanations, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT (1997).
Wainer, Howard, Visual
Revelations, Copernicus-Springer Verlag, New York (1997).
Ware, Colin, Information Visualization:
Perception for Design, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (1999)
Wilkinson, Leland, The
Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing), Springer Verlag (August
1999).
WEBSITES
InfoVis Listserv
http://www.infovis.org
Online Library of Information Visualization Environments
http://otal.umd.edu/Olive
Univ of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil
Information Visualization Resources
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ngg/InfoViz/
LOCATION
The course will be held at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, One Bethesda Metro
Center, at Wisconsin Avenue and Old Georgetown Road in Maryland. The hotel is
in the heart of Maryland's high-tech corridor, just 6 miles from downtown
Washington, D.C., with convenient access to the Capital Beltway and Metro
Subway. The Hyatt is accessible via the Metro Red Line at the Bethesda Metro
stop. For overnight
room reservations, call the Hyatt Regency Bethesda at 301-657-1234. There is a
parking garage located directly underneath the Hotel which offers both valet
and self-parking. The garage is not owned or operated by the Hyatt Regency
COURSE
MATERIALS
JPSM group lunches and refreshments are included in the course fee.
Registrants will be provided with “The Craft of Information Visualization:
Readings and Reflections”, and a course pack containing detailed course notes.
REGISTRATION
Online registration is
required. JPSM Home Page:
http://www.jpsm.org. Click on “JPSM Short
Courses” for online registration. Confirmation of registration and
instructions will be sent after the registration form has been processed.
Registration is not firm until you receive a confirmation letter. Payment by
credit card is required. Post registration payment should be done online using
the student’s registration number. Please note registration number. The
registration deadline is April 5, 2004.
CANCELLATION
Please notify JPSM as soon as possible if you need to cancel your
registration. Cancellation requests should be done online. You will be fully
reimbursed if you cancel by April 5, 2004. Cancellation on April 6,
2004 will require a $100 administrative fee, the remainder
will be reimbursed. Cancellation on or after April 7, 2004 is subject
to the full fee amount
FELLOWSHIPS
The Joint Program in Survey Methodology strives to increase the number of
survey professionals from groups traditionally under-represented in the
field. As part of this effort, a limited number of competitive fellowships
are available to African-Americans, Latinos, Hispanic Americans, and
Native American Indians for the short course.
The registrant must be a US citizen or permanent
resident. The applicants should submit:
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A 500-word essay describing their
reasons for wanting to attend this short course and how their
participation will enhance their chosen career path. The essay should
indicate the applicant’s background (i.e.
African-American,
Latino, Hispanic American, or Native American Indian).
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A recommendation written by a person
knowledgeable about the applicant’s aptitude and interest in survey
methodology.
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The course online registration form.
If you are applying for a fellowship, please be certain to register early.
Applications are due before March 17, 2004. JPSM will evaluate the
applications and inform the successful applicants by March 24, 2004.
The fellowship covers the registration fee, materials to be distributed
during the course and the JPSM group continental breakfasts, lunches and
breaks.
JPSM
CITATION PROGRAM
The citation program is built around the JPSM two-day short courses. The
program is designed to provide the working professional, or student, with
state of the art knowledge, current principles and practices of complex
surveys and provide practical skills of day-to-day utility. Completion of the
citation involves taking a semester length JPSM credit-bearing course
"Fundamentals in Survey Methodology" and eight JPSM short courses, of which
four must be from the core courses. For information and application materials
visit the website http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/certcitat.htm
or call 301-314-7911.
INQUIRIES
Questions for this course should be directed to the JPSM Short Course,
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street,
Room 4050, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, Phone: (800) 937-9320, Fax: (734)
764-8263, Email:
jpsmshort@isr.umich.edu .
CERTIFICATE
AND CITATION PROGRAMS:
http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/certcitat.htm
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