Lectures and Courses (summer term 2011)
Information Visualization (InfoVis)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund Dachselt, Dipl.-Medieninf. Mathias Frisch, Dipl.-Ing. Martin Spindler
Lectures every monday 13:00-15:00Courses: thuesdays, 09:00-11:00 in room G29-335 (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 | Monday (V) | Datum | Thuesday (Ü) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04.04.2011 | Introduction & Foundation | 05.04.2011 | Introduction, Announcement Exercise 1 |
| 11.04.2011 | Perception & Cognition | 12.04.2011 | Presentation of Exercise 1 Results, Announcement Exercise 1 & 2 |
| 18.04.2011 | Perception & Cognition | 19.04.2011 | Lecture (Encoding of Values) |
| 25.04.2011 | Easter Monday | 26.04.2011 | Consultation |
| 02.05.2011 | Encoding of values | 03.05.2011 | Consultation (mandatory) |
| 09.05.2011 | canceled | 10.05.2011 | Consultation |
| 16.05.2011 | Encoding Relations: Trees & Networks | 17.05.2011 | Presentation (Excercise 2) |
| 23.05.2011 | Consultation | 24.05.2011 | Presentation (Excercise 2) |
| 30.05.2011 | Zooming & Panning | 31.05.2011 | Focus & Context Techniques |
| 06.06.2011 | Focus & Context Techniques | 07.06.2011 | Consultation |
| 13.06.2011 | Whit Monday | 14.06.2011 | Consultation (mandatory) |
| 20.06.2011 | Temporal Aspects | 21.06.2011 | Consultation |
| 27.06.2011 | Time-based Visualizations | 28.06.2011 | Final Presentation Exercise 3 |
| 04.07.2011 | lecture wrap-up | 05.07.2011 | 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. Date of examination: 27.7.2011, 9.00-11.00 am, G29/307.
Date for the re-examination:
17.02.2012 – 9.00 am – room G29-335
A list of control questions from the last year for preparing your examination
Best Project Award
Team H - Steven Ladewig, Alexander Steinecke and Kevin Thiel: Off-Screen Visualization
Team F - Markus Jüttner, Timo Lüddecke and Jonas Singe: Graph LensesTeam A - Lisa Wertig, Judith Junge and Florian Bäthge: Off-Screen VisualizationLiterature
- Preim, B., Dachselt, R.: Interaktive Systeme 1: Grundlagen, Graphical User
Interfaces, Informationsvisualisierung. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, ISBN:
978-3-6420-5401-3.
Online version: Chapter 11 & Chapter 12 - 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).