Human perceptual skills are remarkable, but largely underutilized by current graphical user interfaces. The next generation of animated GUIs and visual data mining tools can provide users with remarkable capabilities if designers follow the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra:

But this is only a starting point in the path to understanding the rich set of information visualizations that have been proposed. Two other landmarks are:

• Direct manipulation: visual representation of the objects and actions of interest and rapid, incremental, and reversible operations
  
  
• Dynamic queries: user controlled query widgets, such as sliders and buttons, that update the result set within 100msec.
  

These are shown in the FilmFinder (and its commercial version- Spotfire), the Visible Human Explorer (for National Library of Medicine's anatomical data), NASA EOSDIS (for environmental data), and LifeLines (for medical records and personal histories).

Program

Keynote Panel: Visualization of Information: Where We Are and Where Do We Go From Here

Visions, People and Notations by Bob Spence

The Eyes Have It: Understanding Information Visualization by Ben Shneiderman (in video)

Session 3: Applications Across International Boundaries

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