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Selected References from Dr. Katherine McCain's presentation:
Information Visualization: an Introduction

Card, Stuart K. 1996. Visualizing Retrieved Information: A Survey. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications 16(2): 63-67. Also available on the Web: http://www.computer.org/pubs/cg%26a/report/g20063.htm

Domik, Gitta. 1996. Tutorial on Visualization. [Powerpoint slides of tutorial with strong technical/computer science content] http://www.education.siggraph.org/materials/hypervis/domik/folien.htm

Gershon, Nahum. 1994. From Perception to Visualization. In: L. Rosenblum et al., editors, Scientific Visualization 1994: Advances and Challenges. New York: Academic Press

Kumar, Vijay; Furuta, Richard; Allen, Robert B. 1996. Interactive Interfaces for Knowledge-Rich Domains. [Deals with representing timelines] http://superbook.bellcore.com/PAPERS/RBA/TL2/ep96.html

Lamping, John; Rao, Ramana; Pirolli, Peter. 1995. A Focus+Context Technique Based on Hyperbolic Geometry for Visualizing large Hierarchies. CHI '95: Proceedings of the ACM/SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. May 7-11, 1995. Denver, CO. NY: ACM Press. [Discussion of hyperbolic cone trees] Also available as Web document: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chi95/proceedings/papers/l_bdy.htm

Walker, Graham. 1995. Challenges in Information Visualization. British Telecommunications Engineering 14 (April): 17-25. also available on the Web: http://www.labs.bt.com/innovate/informat/infovis/intro.htm

White, Howard D. and Katherine W. McCain. 1997. Visualization of Literatures. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology 32:3-72.

Young, Peter. 1996. Three Dimensional Information Visualization. Computer Science Technical Report No. 12/96 Department of Computer Science, University of Durham. [good review -- lots of experimental systems] http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs3py/pages/work/Documents/lit-survey/IV-Survey/index.html

Web Sites of Particular Interest:

Inxight. 1997. InXight. VizControls Technology [Information on their products -- especially "VisControls" which includes most of the context-maintaining tools mentioned in talk] http://www.inxight.com/products/html

Kahn, Paul. 1997. Dynamic Diagrams. [Set of links to various live and canned demos of information visualization tools] http://dynamicdiagrams.com/seminars/mappingdc/maptoc.htm#toc

McKiernan, Gerry. 1997. The Big Picture: Visual Browsing in Web and Non-Web Databases. [Links to a variety of sources demonstrating visualization] http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/BigPic.htm

Semio. 1997. Product Demonstration: SemioMap [interactive demo of their concept/semantic network mapping tool. Database is unspecified but seems to be a very large set of Web documents.] http://www.semio.com/demo/demo1.html

SiteMap 1996. Xia Lin's demos of various Kohonen map displays and links to other visualization sites. http://lislin.gws.uky.edu/Sitemap/

SPIRE 1997. Screen shots of Galaxy and Themescape -- two visualization technologies developed at Pacific Northwest Laboratories -- now spun off (in part?) by ThemeMedia (which has no such information available). http://multimedia.pnl.gov:2080/showcase/?it_content/spire.node

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