Visualising Information Structures

Speaker: Keith Andrews

6th February 2003 , 3pm , Room 519 Claremont Tower

Abstract

Information visualisation involves the visual presentation of abstract information spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and understanding. Information structures include hierarchies, networks, multidimensional tables, and collections of text documents. Techniques from information visualisation are finding increasing application in areas such as information and knowledge management and biotechnology. This talk presents some of the work in information visualisation done at the IICM over the past 10 years, embedded in the context of related work from the field as a whole. Biography Keith Andrews is an associate professor at the Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) at Graz University of Technology, in Austria. His research interests include hypermedia, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and the web. He is currently pursuing research in the emerging field of information visualisation and was co-chair of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization in 2001 and 2002.