Lectures and Courses (summer term 2010)
Information Visualization (InfoVis)
Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund Dachselt, Dipl.-Medieninf. Mathias Frisch, Dipl.-Ing. Martin Spindler
Lectures every Monday 15:00-17:00Courses: Friday 13:00-15:00 in G29-K059 (no weekly date, project work)
Room G29-335
4 semester hours/week, ECTS credits: 5
Lecture in GermanLearning 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
Schedule
| Datum | Montage (V) | Datum | Freitage (Ü) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29.03.2010 | Introduction & Foundation | 02.04.2010 | Good Friday |
| 05.04.2010 | Easter Monday | 09.04.2010 | Introduction, Announcement Exercise 1 |
| 12.04.2010 | No Lecture | 16.04.2010 | Presentation of Exercise 1 Results, Announcement Exercise 1 & 2 |
| 19.04.2010 | Perception & Cognition | 23.04.2010 | Introduction to visualization toolkits |
| 26.04.2010 | Encoding of values | 30.04.2010 | Consultation |
| 03.05.2010 | Encoding of Values | 07.05.2010 | Consultation |
| 10.05.2010 | Encoding Relations: Trees & Networks | 14.05.2010 | Consultation |
| 17.05.2010 | Zooming & Panning | 21.05.2010 | Interim Presentation (Excercise 2 + 3) |
| 24.05.2010 | Whit Monday | 28.05.2010 | Interim Presentation (Excercise 2 + 3) |
| 31.05.2010 | Focus & Context Techniques | 04.06.2010 | Consultation |
| 07.06.2010 | Focus & Context Techniques | 11.06.2010 | Additional Lecture, Room: G22a-R216 |
| 14.06.2010 | Temporal Aspects | 18.06.2010 | Consultation |
| 21.06.2010 | Time-based Visualizations | 25.06.2010 | Final Presentation Exercise 3 |
| 28.06.2010 | Time-based Visualizations, lecture wrap-up | 02.07.2010 | Final Presentation Exercise 3 |
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 7th, at 10 am (sharp) in G29/307.
A list of control questions from the last year for preparing your examination
Best Project Award
The most successfull project was elected by all course members within the final presentation of the course project:
Team 11 - Jasmin Wedig, Karolin Winger, and Jens Hoernecke: Tube-Maps
Team 12 - Julius Müller, Tobias Günther, and Rene Zimmermann: 3D Scatterplots- Team 07 - Patrick Saalfeld, Tobias Hann, and Martin Zschoyeen: Geo-referenced Data
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).
- Further literature hints are given during the lecture.
Documents
You can download additional documents here (restricted access).