Cognitive Science 220: Information Visualization Seminar

This seminar provides an introduction to selected current research in the new field of information visualization. Information visualization has origins dating to the beginnings of symbolic representation. It involves a diverse set of disciplines, ranging across computer science, epistemology, graphic design, linguistics, psychology, and semiology to newer perspectives emerging from cognitive science. As a field, it has grown dramatically in the last few years. We may be in the midst of a paradigm shift in how to think about information, one that starts to view information as being much more dynamic and reactive to the nature of our tasks, activities, and even relationships with others.

The goal of the seminar is not a comprehensive survey of information visualization but rather to help prepare you to propose an original research project in an information visualization area you find of interest. See the syllabus for more details.

Professor:

Jim Hollan, Phone: 858.534.8156 Office: 159 CSB Office Hours: By appointment
Email: hollan at cogsci.ucsd.edu Web: http://hci.ucsd/hollan

Announcements: Class is currently scheduled to meet on Thursday 1:00 to 3:50 in the DCOG-HCI Lab (CRB 100). On the first day of class we can discuss alternative meeting times if this time is not possible for some participants. I have created a blog for the seminar. Click on the discussion link above or go to cogsci220 dot blogspot dot com. Reading assignments will be posted on the blog. You should have received an email invitation to the blog. Let me know if you didn't.

Seminar Participants Steve Barrera Michael Caloud Chris Coggan Emma Dannin Brynn Evans Daniel Gobera Steve Henty Divya Kumar Derek Lomas Adrienne Moore Erik Pukinskis Adam Tierney Robert Twomey Nate White Ayhan Aytes

Quotes:

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -- Herb Simon A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making. -- Jacques Bertin