3 November 2006

Information Visualization Survey (1973-2006)

Visual Language Workshop at MediaLab. (1973) 1982 3d graphics are coming along. Writing Stuff

Information Design. edward tufte The visual display of quantitative information 1983 envisionung information 1990 visual explanations 1997 beautiful evidence 2006

they come form graphic design and data display, early books about communication. idiosynranic? - Nicholas’ word again. It really communicates what’s happening over time. He has been around doing this for twenty years.

Information Understanding Richard Saul Wurman Information Architects, 1996 Information Anxiety, 1990 He coined the word information architect. He calls himself a proseffional dummy. Asks lots of questions. He calls what he does the understanding the bussiness. Louis Kahn affected so many people. He was an architect. Build a chair, what is a chair? He is always questioning. 1975. Richard Saul comes from that school.

Information Space Michael Benedikt cyberSpace: first steps, 1992. - he is a teacher at university of texas at austin. he started to take some CG ideas and mash them up with information. He was capturing them more in more abstract than information visualization workspace. Research Stuff

Xerox PARC became InXight 1983 - present Stuart Card Jock Mackinlay RamanaRao Radins in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, 1999 University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab, 1983- present Ben Shneiderman

This whole world of visualization is connected to graphics and interaction.

Visible Language Workshop MIT Media Lab, 1973 - 1995 Muriel Cooper

check this dept. Columbia University, Computer Graphics and user Interfaces Lab, 1990-present *Steve Feiner* check this dept. PIIM, 2001 - present? [http://piiim.newschool.edu/](http://piiim.newschool.edu/) *Brad Paley* [TextArc](http://textarc.com) information design is shifting to computational art. *Ben Fry* - Computational Information Design, 2004

Imager Laboratuary, university of british columbia, 1989 - present.

Visual Complexity, 2005 Manuel Lima http://visualcomplexity.com/vc/ Products

ThinkMap - [http://www.visualthesaurus.com]]

The Brain - http://www.thebrain.com

Visual IO - http://www.visual-io.com/baseball

Why now? - http:*clients.stamen.com/talks/uxweek06/slides.html stamen talk