The Craft of Information Visualization

Since the beginning of the computer age, researchers from many disciplines have sought to facilitate people's use of computers and to provide ways for scientists to make sense of the immense quantities of data coming out of them. One gainful result of these efforts has been the field of information visualization, whose technology is increasingly applied in scientific research, digital libraries, data mining, financial data analysis, market studies, manufacturing production control, and data discovery. This book collects 38 of the key papers on information visualization from a leading and prominent research lab, the University of Marylands Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Celebrating HCILs 20th anniversary, this book presents a coherent body of work from a respected community that has had many success stories with its research and commercial spin-offs. Each chapter contains an introduction specifically written for this volume by two leading HCI researchers, to describe the connections among those papers and reveal HCILs individual approach to developing innovations.

Benjamin B. Bederson is Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and member of the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, at the University of Maryland at College Park Ben Shneiderman is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL), and member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, at the University of Maryland at College Park