1998 NSF Information and Data Management Workshop

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1998 NSF Information and Data Management Workshop
Research Agenda for the 21st Century
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Information Representation and Visualization
FOCUS OF THE GROUP Research to facilitate the
development of user-centric models and systems to
enable the interactive creation , exploration and
manipulation of multi-modal information.
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Information Representation and Visualization
RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Collaborative evaluation of
modes of interaction. 2. Development of
evaluation models and strengthening the
designer-user and the user-user interaction 3.
Exploitation of spatial metaphors for
interaction with non-spatial
information. 4. The use of metadata and
ontologies for effective retrieval.
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Information Representation and Visualization
RECOMMENDATIONS 5. Support for rapid
construction of visualizations by
non-experts. 6. Further support of underlying
science and technology issues, including
speech understanding, image understanding and
similarity evaluation, and quality of
service. 7. Spatial and temporal integration of
data of various scales and resolutions.
8. Scalability of access mechanisms and
summarization of results.
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Information Representation and Visualization
Interdisciplinary Applications What can we
bring to this not domain expertise -
organization integration
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Information Representation and Visualization
Interdisciplinary Workshops - to educate and
be educated - to establish contacts for future
collaborative projects - special sessions at
conferences of other disciplines
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Information Representation and Visualization
Wired Doctors Human body. Medical record
systems. Video clips of angiograms, ultrasound
probes etc Central problem of security and
guarantee that data refers to correct
patient. Use a physical swipe card attached to
patient??? Visual tools to aid medical decision
methods
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Information Representation and Visualization
Digital Village Communities providing public
access to local information - visualization
of neighborhoods - superposition of community
statistics - local navigation tourist
attractions - integrating the digital village
into the digital world
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Information Representation and Visualization
Investigation of visual metaphors for the
distributed workspace environment iconic
desktops virtual reality environments
mixed metaphor environments the challenge
of new communication and data collection
devices - mobile environment Multi-media
queries Find me the restaurants that are
open after 11pm - that are in safe areas
and look nice!
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Information Representation and Visualization
Visual integration across database
systems Developing theories for describing
metadata Multi-resolution visualization
scaleable visual queries Similarity measures for
domain specific applications Hierarchical
arrangement of visual and non-visual
information, visualization and summarizing
overviews