Topics and Features:
• contributions from an international collection of researchers and authors
• an introduction to the discipline of information visualisation, its current state of affairs, and its future trends
• a discussion of information visualisation’s origins, providing an important historical context for the field
• a comprehensive review of methods for shaping and rendering two and three-dimensional representations of abstract information
• the visualisation of interconnected networks of data in order to extract their causal relationships
• an approach to hierarchical structuring and re-structuring of information by applying methods of two-dimensional data mapping
• application of common metaphors for visualizing computer code
• visualisation analysis of historical events and their relationships
• a review of methods for evaluating information visualization tools, concepts, and methodologies, and recommendations for their application
Dr Francis T. Marchese is Professor of Computer Science at Pace University, New York, USA, where he is founder and director of Pace’s Center for Advanced Media, and founder and co-director of the Pace Digital Gallery.
Dr Camilla Forsell and Dr Jimmy Johansson are researchers and academics at the Norrköping Visualization Centre, and members of the Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Sweden.