Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Chaomei Chen

   Pages 1-25

3. Finding Salient Structures

   • Chaomei Chen

   Pages 27-60

4. Spatial Layout and Graph Drawing Algorithms

   • Chaomei Chen

   Pages 61-91

5. Information Visualisation Systems and Applications

   • Chaomei Chen

   Pages 93-138

6. Individual Differences in Visual Navigation

   • Chaomei Chen

   Pages 139-174

7. Virtual Environments

   • Chaomei Chen

   Pages 175-211

8. Back Matter

   Pages 213-223

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Information Visualisation is a fast growing research field and an industry with tremendous potential. Virtual environments provide a unique medium for people to communicate and interact over computer networks. Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments links the two areas together and presents the latest research and development, highlighting the potential of information visualisation as an enabling technology in the design of new generations of virtual environments. This book will be an invaluable source of reference for courses in Information Visualisation, User Interface Design, Virtual Environments, HCI, and Information Retrieval, as well as being a useful resource for consultants and practitioners. The book contains 144 wonderful colour images of intriguing and influential works in information visualisation.

• HCI
• Hypermedia
• Layout
• VRML
• algorithms
• clustering
• cognitive science
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• information retrieval
• information visualization
• user interface
• virtual reality
• visualization
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

From the reviews of the second edition:

"Information visualization is a young academic specialty, having been practiced now for about a decade. … This book … is a survey of the state of the art. … the reader gets a broad overview of many aspects of this field. … can get a good sense of this developing field. In each chapter, Chen provides … . He is clearly excited by his field, and conveys it well in this book."(G. R. Mayforth, Computing Reviews, May, 2005)

 

In summary Information Visualization is a comprehensive text, providing a comprehensive level of information on what is essentially a limitless topic. Although not an easy read, and certainly not for the layman, the text is nevertheless an excellent tool for the researcher to have to hand. Offering a concise overview of the fundamental concepts, where this text really excels is in its focus on application, and extensive referral to ‘real-world’ examples of Information Visualization, and particularly its use in cross discipline research, If you are a novice in the field, looking for a gentle introduction, look elsewhere. If, however, you know the fundamentals and are looking for a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art, essential details on empirical grounding of techniques, and in particular a wealth of application specific information, then this is likely to be the text for you. (Terence Clifton, Informer 17, pp7-8)

• Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK

  Chaomei Chen

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