Navinchandra K. Patel, Simon P. Campion, T. Fernando
{"title":"Evaluating the use of virtual reality as a tool for briefing clients in architecture","authors":"Navinchandra K. Patel, Simon P. Campion, T. Fernando","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028845","url":null,"abstract":"The paper evaluates the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) technology at presenting architectural design during the client design review stages of a construction project. A live project from UK House Building Sector was adopted for the evaluation. The work identified a suitable case study, created a 3D model, formulated a presentation strategy for the design review of the architectural design and conducted a qualitative/quantitative evaluation of the VR technology. The results show that VR technology is highly effective as a tool for presenting architectural design, appropriately conveying the spatial dimensions, contextual information and realism of the architectural design to the clients.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"160 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":"128436743","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":"Tracking knowledge of emergent domains","authors":"A. Al-Thubaity, Khurshid Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028849","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge is communicated through the so-called semiotic systems: written text, images, mathematical and chemical symbols, and so on. The knowledge of emergent domains is yet to standardize its symbol systems which simply adds to the (creative) chaos inherent in such emergent systems. The analysis of change in written text, amongst the most changeable semiotic system at the lexical level at least, may reveal a consensus in the use of terms. Terms denote concepts and textually help us to understand how knowledge evolves in an emergent domain. The emergent domain of semiconductor physics, specifically nano-structured tunnel diodes, is studied as an exemplar. This is our attempt to establish a method, which covers a broad range of texts, journal articles, patent documents and state-of-the-art review papers, to observe the emergence of a new domain. In each of the four knowledge conversion phases a domain community appears to prefer certain lexical items and uses an appropriate text type.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"1211 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120934182","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":"Sound glyphs representing inheritance relationships","authors":"Noritaka Osawa","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028750","url":null,"abstract":"An auralization technique for representing inheritance relationships in an object-oriented programming language is proposed. The inheritance relationships are represented by inclusion relationships of sound passages, which are called sound glyphs. A prototype system using this technique can assign unique sound glyphs to all classes in Java 2 standard edition version 1.2.2 whose class library has more than 1,500 classes and constitutes a practical class hierarchy. Experiments with three types of sound glyphs were conducted, in which accuracy with one type of sound glyph of about 71 % was obtained, a level more than twice that expected for random answers. This shows that sound glyphs can help one to recognize relationships among classes. Since a sound glyph is transient, we need to use not only the sound glyph but also textual representation in order to understand the meaning of a class. Sound glyphs can be used with visual representations because they have different modalities. The features of sound glyphs are discussed.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"30 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":"121318443","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 large hierarchies with information pyramids","authors":"K. Andrews","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028871","url":null,"abstract":"Information pyramids compactly visualise large hierarchical structures in three dimensions using pyramid-like structures, which grow upwards as the hierarchy deepens. A plateau represents the root of the tree; other, smaller plateaus arranged on top of it represent its subtrees. Separate glyphs are used to represent leaf nodes such as files or documents and navigational facilities are provided for interactive exploration. Two generations of information pyramids prototype are described and discussed.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"14 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":"122918334","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":"Design and reconstruction of fractal surfaces","authors":"Eric Tosan, É. Guérin, A. Baskurt","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028793","url":null,"abstract":"A method for the design and reconstruction of rough surfaces is introduced. A fractal model based on projected IFS attractors allows the definition of free form fractal shapes controlled with a set of points. Ibis flexible model has good fitting properties for recovering surfaces. The approximation is formulated as a non-linear fitting problem and resolved using a modified LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT minimisation method. The main applications are shape design, shape reconstruction and geometric data compression.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"116 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":"124134331","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}
G. Sisias, C. Dobson, R. Phillips, M. Fagan, C. Langton
{"title":"Histomorphometric algorithms for the direct derivation of morphological indices of simulations of strain-adaptation in cancellous bone","authors":"G. Sisias, C. Dobson, R. Phillips, M. Fagan, C. Langton","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028834","url":null,"abstract":"A set of algorithms has been developed and applied, in order to quantify the morphology of structures produced by our work on computer simulation of cancellous bone remodelling. The set of algorithms is organised in three themes, based on the set of metrics they compute. The first one deals with the direct derivation of basic metrics such as the trabecular thickness, separation and number. The second deals with the area/volume distribution of bone and marrow, while the third one considers surface roughness and perimeter/area. The algorithms were tested on sample sections of cancellous bone and applied to a simulation of strain adaptation incorporating complex multi-axial loading. The metrics have shown to be independent of structural anisotropy, in contrast to some established methods that assume certain morphologies.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"82 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":"126280315","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":"Computer aided chair design system using form features","authors":"Mio Matsumoto, H. Aoyama","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028768","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with \"computer aided chair design system\" based on form features of chair elements that constructs the 3D product model of a chair from a sketch drawn by a designer. In design processes of a chair a designer usually wants to express his/her idea of the form and structure of a chair by drawing sketches because sketching is one of the most desired manners for expressing designer idea. Besides, CAD data of a chair are essential in its manufacturing processes. In this study, a system is proposed to construct the 3D CAD data of a chair by arranging the form features of chair elements with fitting them on a-sketch. The system enables designers to easily make the 3D chair models from their idea sketches and to evaluate the design-form by figures from the various visual angles.","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":"125179855","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":"On visualizing the Semantic Web in MS office","authors":"Christian Fillies, York Sure-Vetter","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028811","url":null,"abstract":"This article gives an impression of how existing RDFS based Semantic Web knowledge Web services can already now be integrated in the creation process of semantic nets in MS Visio with SemTalk. We present two examples: looking up object names in WordNet and using Ontobroker as an inference engine on ECCMA ontologies. This article shows how different 2D visualization techniques such as DAMLVisio or simple Visio shapes can be applied to Semantic Web models in order to address a broad range of users with very different expectations of the notation.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"15 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":"122355763","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":"Visualising a fund manager flow graph with columns and worms","authors":"Tim Dwyer, P. Eades","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028770","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a paradigm for visualising time dependent flow in a network of objects connected by abstract relationships (a graph) by representing time in the third dimension. We show two variants of the paradigm, one in which the elements of the graph are shown as vertical columns of varying width and another which emphasises centrality with bending \"worms\". We demonstrate these techniques by visualising the movements of Fund Managers within the UK Stock Market in terms of their changing share ownership over time.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"105 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":"127015675","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":"Tailoring dynamic ontology-driven web documents by demonstration","authors":"José Antonio Macías Iglesias, P. Castells","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028826","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present DESK, an authoring tool for the automatic customisation of the front-end of web applications as a result of changes that users perform in dynamically generated HTML pages. Our authoring tool uses domain knowledge and presentation knowledge stored in PEGASUS, an automatic web page generation system for rendering ontology-driven knowledge. DESK automatically detects the differences between original and modified web pages and uses heuristics to infer additional knowledge for modelling the context of each change. DESK uses an explicit user model to identify which user can perform each kind of change to the web presentation.","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":"130357865","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}