Knowledge Visualization Currents: From Text to Art to Culture

ISBN-13: 9781447143024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Francis T. Marchese; Ebad Banissi

Opis

Lying at the intersection of education, art, and cultural heritage, visualization is a powerful tool for representing and interpreting complex information.This unique text/reference reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples of applied knowledge visualization from disciplines as varied as law, business management, the arts and humanities. With coverage of theoretical and practical aspects of visualization from ancient Sumerian tablets through to twenty-first century legal contracts, this work underscores the important role that the process of visualization plays in extracting, organizing, and crystallizing the concepts found in complex data.Topics and features: contains contributions from an international selection of preeminent authorities; presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments; examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents; discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions; investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church; describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms.This interdisciplinary collection of the state of the art in knowledge visualization will be of considerable interest to researchers from a broad spectrum of backgrounds in both industry and academia.

Recenzje

“This may be the most readable anthology that I have ever read. Kudos to the editors, who must have turned a global kaleidoscope of writing styles into an incredibly consistent example of best practices for technical writing, worthy of use for teaching good writing. In fact, from the top-down, the organization, syntax, and even the vocabulary are strikingly clear.” (Chaim Scheff, ACM Computing Reviews, Apr 12 2013, Review #: CR141132)

Spis treści

Part I: Knowledge Visualization Background

What is an Effective Knowledge Visualization?
Martin J. Eppler

What Is Knowledge Visualization?
Stefan Bertschi, Sabrina Bresciani, Tom Crawford, Randy Goebel, Wolfgang Kienreich, Martin Lindner, Vedran Sabol, and Andrew Vande Moere

Part II: Text

Tables and Early Information Visualization
Francis T. Marchese

Contract Clarity and Usability through Visualization
Helena Haapio

From Culture to Text to Interactive Visualization of Wine Reviews
Andreas Kerren, Mimi Kyusakova, and Carita Paradis

Part III: Art

Colorscore: Visualization and Condensation of Structure of Classical Music
Aki Hayashi, Takayuki Itoh, and Masaki Matsubara

The Implications of David Hockney’s Thesis for 3D Computer Graphics
Theodor Wyeld

Practice of Using Virtual Reconstruction in the Restoration of Monumental Painting
Tatiana Laska, Irina Tsimbal, Sergey Golubkov, and Yulia Petrova

Part IV: Culture

Mediation of Knowledge Construction of Historic Sites
Kristine Deray, and Michael Day

Memory, Difference, and Information
Andrew P. Lucia, Jenny E. Sabin, and Peter Lloyd Jones

Cultural Data Sculpting
Sarah Kenderdine, Jeffrey Shaw, and Tobias Gremmler

O autorze

Dr. Francis T. Marchese is Professor of Computer Science at Pace University, New York, USA, where he is the founder and director of Pace’s Center for Advanced Media and the Pace Digital Gallery. Dr. Ebad Banissi is Professor of Business Informatics at London South Bank University, UK, where he heads the Visualisation and Graphics Research Unit.