Knowledge Visualization Currents, 2013 From Text to Art to Culture

Part I: Knowledge Visualization Background

What is an Effective Knowledge Visualization?
Martin J. Eppler

What Is Knowledge Visualization?
Stefan Bertschi, Sabrina Bresciani, Tom Crawford, Randy Goebel, Wolfgang Kienreich, Martin Lindner, Vedran Sabol, and Andrew Vande Moere

Part II: Text

Tables and Early Information Visualization
Francis T. Marchese

Contract Clarity and Usability through Visualization
Helena Haapio

From Culture to Text to Interactive Visualization of Wine Reviews
Andreas Kerren, Mimi Kyusakova, and Carita Paradis

Part III: Art

Colorscore: Visualization and Condensation of Structure of Classical Music
Aki Hayashi, Takayuki Itoh, and Masaki Matsubara

The Implications of David Hockney’s Thesis for 3D Computer Graphics
Theodor Wyeld

Practice of Using Virtual Reconstruction in the Restoration of Monumental Painting
Tatiana Laska, Irina Tsimbal, Sergey Golubkov, and Yulia Petrova

Part IV: Culture

Mediation of Knowledge Construction of Historic Sites
Kristine Deray, and Michael Day

Memory, Difference, and Information
Andrew P. Lucia, Jenny E. Sabin, and Peter Lloyd Jones

Cultural Data Sculpting
Sarah Kenderdine, Jeffrey Shaw, and Tobias Gremmler

Dr. Francis T. Marchese is Professor of Computer Science at Pace University, New York, USA, where he is the founder and director of Pace’s Center for Advanced Media and the Pace Digital Gallery. Dr. Ebad Banissi is Professor of Business Informatics at London South Bank University, UK, where he heads the Visualisation and Graphics Research Unit.

Presents the state of the art in visualization research and development

Highlights research developing at key intersections with other disciplines and its applicability to addressing complex real-world problems

Discusses how visualization researchers are addressing complex issues of representation in knowledge, art, and culture