{"title":"Visual 3D computer graphic design-simulation in technology education","authors":"Patrick Connolly, William A. Ross","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028785","url":null,"abstract":"Ideally, freshman level students entering technology and engineering programs should possess an innate or intuitive understanding of the relationship between interacting physical objects and the mathematical and graphical fundamentals that describe that interaction. Developing and refining an understanding of that relationship is an important foundational preparation for students preparing for occupations in these fields. Historically, the development of that process has been accomplished predominantly through numerical mathematical means that often necessitate presenting important principles to students as numerical or nonvisual abstractions. The objective of this paper is to describe initial efforts to develop highly graphical visual, spatial, audile, motion-based methods which address a vital emerging goal in applied computer graphics instruction; problem solving through 3D computer graphic design-simulation.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128464670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualisation of the Semantic Web: Topic Maps visualisation","authors":"B. L. Grand, Michel Soto","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028798","url":null,"abstract":"Topic Maps provide a bridge between the domains of knowledge representation and information management by building a structured semantic network above information resources. Our research at LIP6 aims at visualizing this semantic layer efficiently, which is a critical issue as Topic Maps may contain millions of elements. This paper is divided into two parts. First, we depict briefly basic Topic Maps concepts. Then, we discuss Topic Maps visualisation requirements and we study how existing visualisation techniques may be applied to Topic Maps representation. We conclude by giving a few directions that could lead to the \"ultimate\" Topic Map visualisation tool.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123421621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Caballer, D. Guerrero, V. Hernández, J. Román, M. A. Raya, J. A. Gil, J. M. Rubio
{"title":"High performance virtual reality distributed electronic commerce: application for the furniture and ceramics industries","authors":"M. Caballer, D. Guerrero, V. Hernández, J. Román, M. A. Raya, J. A. Gil, J. M. Rubio","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028823","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an e-commerce tool that extends the conventional online store with a new section called room planner, a web application which is embedded in the virtual store. It allows the specification of the geometry of the room, placement of the objects and selection of the point of view. Then a realistic picture of the scene can be obtained. This functionality is very suitable for the furniture and ceramics sectors. In order to generate the images a parallel radiosity illumination algorithm has been implemented, which can be used in low-cost platforms such as a cluster of PCs, so that these technologies are affordable also for SMEs.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"3 19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129113481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FaceSpace: a facial spatial-domain toolkit","authors":"S. DiPaola","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028763","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a visual development system for exploring \"face space\", both in terms of facial types and animated expressions. Imagine an n-dimensional space describing every humanoid face, where each dimension represents a different facial characteristic. Within this continuous space, it would be possible to traverse a path from any face to any other face, morphing through faces along that path. It is also possible to combine elements of this space to create an expressive, emotive, talking 3D synthetic face of any given facial type. This development toolkit, called FaceSpace, is based on a hierarchical parametric approach to facial animation and creation. We present our early results on exploring a face space and the relationships between different facial types, as well as creating an additive language of hierarchical expressions, emotions and lip-sync sequences by using combined elements of a facial domain.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116371165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VICO: a tool for supporting visual comparisons of different pine-beetle management approaches","authors":"A. C. Duta, M. Carpendale, K. Barker","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028782","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a visual tool for comparing different mountain pine-beetle management approaches is presented. This comparison tool gives the users the possibility of viewing their information, but more importantly it provides the ability to visually see the similarities and the differences between two simulations. This tool can help users to make decisions regarding their future actions against beetle attacks. The technique used is based on colour indexing combined with the mapping of the strategies into colour histograms. The system is entitled VICO from the phrase Visual Comparison.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115566151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An environment for studying the impact of spatialising sonified graphs on data comprehension","authors":"R. Ramloll, S. Brewster","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028773","url":null,"abstract":"We describe AudioCave, an environment for exploring the impact of spatialising sonified graphs on a set of numerical data comprehension tasks. Its design builds on findings regarding the effectiveness of sonified graphs for numerical data overview and discovery by visually impaired and blind students. We demonstrate its use as a test bed for comparing the approach of accessing a single sonified numerical datum at a time to one where multiple sonified numerical data can be accessed concurrently. Results from this experiment show that concurrent access facilitates the tackling of our set multivariate data comprehension tasks. AudioCave also demonstrates how the spatialisation of the sonified graphs provides opportunities for sharing the representation. We present two experiments investigating users solving set data comprehension tasks collaboratively by sharing the data representation.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114897080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple views in 3D metaphoric information visualization","authors":"C. R. D. Santos, P. Gros","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028815","url":null,"abstract":"In exploring large volumes of information, more often than not, one single visualization is not sufficient for grasping the whole data set. This may be due to different reasons: the screen real-estate is limited, the user's capacity for comprehending a large data set also has limits, different views or perspectives of the same data may be needed to grasp all the details, and so on. Multiple visualizations allow the user to explore large amounts of complex information more easily and rapidly We believe that one of the strengths of 3D metaphoric information visualization will emerge from the combined use of several interacting tools, each potentially depicting different views of the information. This paper presents work done on using multiple views for the visualization of abstract information via metaphoric representations.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114647180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual exploration of communication in command and control","authors":"Pär-Anders Albinsson, M. Morin","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028769","url":null,"abstract":"Communication is a central activity in command and control. However, analysing communication using linear transcription of large amounts of sequential data is tedious and time consuming. This paper describes an alternative approach for communication analysis based on visual exploration of abstract representations of communication. It introduces a visualisation technique based on the Attribute Explorer. The technique was implemented in a visualisation component embedded in a framework for coordinated presentation of temporal data. It is demonstrated using authentic communication data from a military exercise and a rescue operation.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125964502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating learning and visualization technologies in orthopaedics establishing the Virtual Orthopaedic European University","authors":"S. Grange, J. Burrill, K. Kumar, T. Wu, T. Bunker","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028776","url":null,"abstract":"Digital technologies offer a working environment for familiarisation with new surgical procedures and management of clinical case audit. To enhance access and control of these virtual workspaces an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) based interface has been developed. This links the educational environment of the Web based training (WBT) scheme to the clinical data collection from ongoing trials in Orthopaedics. The Virtual Orthopaedic European University (VOEU) infrastructure encompasses the normal working environment of engineers and clinicians using computer assisted surgery tools adopting dedicated interactive media. The XML based interface enables users to communicate using material mediated for their specific needs allowing adaptive media based upon user experience and knowledge base. This combines declarative (factual) content with feedback from a clinical (procedural) case-based training and evaluation environment. By using the XML interface, we were able to cater for the different user hardware and software resources, media content and language of presentation, and incorporate virtual environment simulations. By constructing a framework based upon already established standards, we anticipate the applicability to other surgical disciplines. This will enable the development of networking computer architectures to assist the assimilation of multiple sources and media.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126008016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bringing production work flow to a classroom teaching","authors":"Muqeem Khan","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028824","url":null,"abstract":"It is every academic's dream that students can hold their place in the job market or in higher education. Furthermore, schools try their best to acquire equipment and human resources to help students excel. But there are many hurdles and constraints that have to be faced in an academic environment as compared to a production house. In order to get the maximum result, an instructor has to set parameters. These parameters are based on two things: Student's capabilities and their background; Resources at hand. Within the above parameters, I formed an expectation from each student. I had to have this expectation well defined because the students I was teaching had no knowledge of three-dimensional graphics at all. It was the first time they had experienced modeling, rendering, and animation, and it was the first time I had taught computer graphics. I created exercises based on design methodology that would separate ideation from the implementation process. This is important in any production related pipeline too. Regardless of required software and hardware capabilities, expectations were set in the beginning and were clear to both instructor and students. Consequently, at the end of the term both, educator and learners were satisfied with the result.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123673507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}