Lectures and Courses (summer semester 2009)
Information Visualization (InfoVis)
Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund Dachselt, Dipl.-Medieninf. Mathias Frisch, Dipl.-Inf. Marcus Nitsche
Lectures every Monday 15:00-17:00 (starts March 30th, no lecture on April 6th)Courses as project work, some meetings on Fridays 13:00-15:00 (starts April 3rd) in G29-K059
Room G29-335
4 semester hours/week, ECTS credits: 5
Lecture in German (partly English slides)Learning objectives and competencies
- Understanding and basic knowledge in the field of human perception and cognitive abilities
- Applicable knowledge of essential techniques in interactive information visualization
- Ability to select and develop suitable visualization and interaction techniques dependent on tasks and users
- Systematic analysis and evaluation of existing solutions for information visualization
- Genereal knowledge in the field of scientific working
Contents
- Pychology of perception and cognitive basics
- Visualization pipeline, data types, visualization tasks, challenges
- Spectrum of interactive information visualizations for structural and hierarchical visualization (graphs, trees, stacks, networks etc.), time and geographic visualization
- Basic techniques for the management of large information spaces: zoomable user interfaces, multiple views, detail and context techniques
- Toolkits for information visualization
- Evaluation of InfoVis solutions
Courses
The courses comprise a theoretical part (seminar) in which the students read scientific papers to deepen the topics of the lecture and to lay the foundation for their project. In the second half of the term, student groups (3-4 people) are implementing a specific solution applying their knowledge about InfoVis solutions. The specific topics will be announced at the beginning of the course. At the end of the term, each group is presenting their results in a 20 minutes talk with an additional demonstration. The solution shall be described in a short document.
The award for the best course project was given to group B "Geo-referenced Data" with Wolfgang Büschel, Sebastian Kleinau, Thomas Matzdorf, and Jana Schumann. Congratulations!
Schedule
| Date | Mondays (Lecture) | Date | Fridays (Course) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30.3.2009 | Introduction & Foundation | 03.4.2009 | Introduction, announcement of project topics |
| 06.4.2009 | No Lecture | 10.04.2009 | Good Friday |
| 13.04.2009 | Easter Monday | 14.04.2009 | Introduction to scientific work methods |
| 17.04.2009 | Consultation | ||
| 20.04.2009 | Perception & Cognition | 24.04.2009 | Introduction to visualization toolkits |
| 27.04.2009 | Encoding of Values | 01.05.2009 | May Day |
| 04.05.2009 | Encoding of Values | 08.05.2009 | Trees & Networks |
| 11.05.2009 | Trees & Networks | 15.05.2009 | Interim Presentation |
| 18.05.2009 | Focus & Context Techniques | 22.05.2009 | Consultation |
| 25.05.2009 | Whit Holidays | 29.05.2009 | Whit Holidays |
| 01.06.2009 | Whit Monday | 05.06.2009 | Consultation |
| 08.06.2009 | Focus & Context Techniques | 12.06.2009 | Consultation if required |
| 15.06.2009 | Zoom & Pan Techniques | 19.06.2009 | Consultation if required |
| 22.06.2009 | Time Aspects | 26.06.2009 | Consultation if required |
| 29.06.2009 | Time-based Visualizations | 03.07.2009 | Final Presentations |
| 06.07.2009 | Time-based Visualizations, lecture wrap-up | 10.07.2009 | Final Presentations |
Examination
A written examination will take place at the end of the semester. Besides the grade for this exam, the evaluated course results are also proportionately included in the overall grade of this module (ca. 40%). Thus, the participation in the courses is a prerequisite for the successful completion of this module. Examination will take place on Wednesday, July 22nd, at 11 am (sharp) in G29/307.
A list of control questions for preparing your examination
Literature
- Spence, R.: Information Visualization: Design for Interaction, 2nd edition. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs (2007).
- Colin Ware. Information Visualization: Perception for Design, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco (2004).
- Mazza, Riccardo: Introduction to Information Visualization, Springer London (2009), online version.
- Card, S. K., Mackinlay, J. D., and Shneiderman, B., editors. Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (1999).
- Schumann, H., Müller, W.: Visualisierung – Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer, Heidelberg (1999).
- Tufte, E.: Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire (1990).
- The slides of the individual lectures can be downloaded here (restricted access)
- Further literature hints are given during the lecture.
Please enroll via e-mail (your name, e-mail address, matriculation number and course of studies). Thus, we can plan the accompanying courses in a better way and inform you about any changes.