Mission Statement
With the decreasing costs of display technologies, large,
high-resolution displays are becoming more common. This creates an
opportunity for information visualizations to take advantage of the
additional screen space. Designs are no longer limited to traditional desktop
displays. The purpose of this workshop is to determine how to take advantage
of these displays, determine what challenges currently exist, and to
determine the most critical research directions.
Accepted Position Papers and Slides
Byungil Jeong,
Ratko Jagodic, Luc Renambot, Rajvikram Singh, Andrew
Johnson, and Jason Leigh. Scalable
Graphics Architecture for High-Resolution Displays. PDF, PPT
Richard May and Jim Thomas. Large
Displays: Will it ever be enough? PDF, PPT
Tao Ni and Doug A. Bowman. Designing Effective Interaction with Large High-Resolution Displays.
PDF
Chris North, Bob Ball, Beth Yost, and Tao Ni. Virginia Tech Gigapixel Research
PPT
George Robertson. Visualization on Large Displays. PPT
Workshop Overview
Goals
1.
Bring together experts
working with large, high-resolution displays to share personal insights
regarding this technology.
2.
Determine the potential these
displays hold for changing and advancing information visualization
techniques.
3.
Identify research
directions and challenges.
The product of this workshop will be a whitepaper appropriate for
publication and guide for funding agencies.
Technical
Scope
This workshop is specifically
interested in:
1.
How to perceptually take
advantage of large, high-resolution displays when designing information
visualizations.
2.
New information
visualization techniques that might be developed for these displays.
3.
Understanding potential
challenges and research areas when designing for these displays, that have
been identified through experience.
However, the following issues are out
of the scope of this workshop:
1.
Technical issues when
building a large, high-resolution display.
2.
Algorithms and system
architectural designs for creating visualizations appropriate for large,
high-resolution displays.
Position Paper Submission
Deadline
If interested in participating, please submit a position paper
by October 10 to north@vt.edu.
Details
Position papers should be less than 4
pages in length and should include answers to the following questions:
1.
Background: Briefly
include any related projects that you have worked on regarding information
visualization with large, high-resolution displays.
a.
What current technologies
are you using for your large, high-resolution displays?
b.
What types of applications
are you running?
c.
What was your rational for
such applications?
d.
Describe how successful
(or unsuccessful) your applications have been.
e.
What lessons have you
learned from working with these technologies?
f. List of any
related publications.
2.
Position Statement: What
future directions do you foresee for information visualization with regard to
large, high-resolution displays?
3.
What reasons and motivations
do you have for participating in this workshop?
All accepted position statements will
be posted on this site.
Workshop Schedule
There will be a projector and laptop
available for presentations, but most of the workshop will be conducted in a round
table format to facilitate communication among participants. After the
workshop we will post all accepted position statements, slides from
presentations, and a summary of the workshop for future reference. The
tentative schedule is as follows:
1.
Introduction of workshop
attendees.
a.
Please come prepared to
give a brief presentation/overview of yourself and your work (3 slides, 5
minutes total)
2.
Review of current
state-of-the-art regarding large, high-resolution displays.
a.
Short
discussion/presentation of attendees display technologies
b.
Discuss other well-known
displays that were not presented by workshop attendees.
3.
Discussion on possible
uses of large, high-resolution displays for information visualization. These
could include both single and multiple user applications.
4.
Hands on activity:
a.
Possibly using InfoVis contest data set.
b.
Comparing designs that
participants might create for a normal desktop monitor to a large,
high-resolution display.
5.
Discuss the potential
these displays have for changing and advancing information visualization
techniques.
a.
Visual scalability of
current techniques on large, high-resolution displays.
b.
Virtual versus physical
navigation issues.
6.
Break out session: break
into three smaller groups based on emerging themes to identify specific
research directions and challenges.
Workshop Organizers
Chris North,
Virginia Tech, north@cs.vt.edu, http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north
George Robertson,
Microsoft, ggr@microsoft.com, http://research.microsoft.com/~ggr/
Robert Ball,
Virginia Tech, rgb6@vt.edu, http://people.cs.vt.edu/~rgb6
Beth Yost,
Virginia Tech, beyost@vt.edu, http://people.cs.vt.edu/~beyost
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