- Commercial Applications / Companies
:
- Visual
Insights, interactive data visualization software to help
business managers quickly uncover and analyze trends and patterns in
their corporate data.
- Inxight
Software, producing advanced information visualisation
technologies.
- Dynamic
Diagrams are a leading company in information architecture
for online information, including designing web site maps and
navigation tools.
- CLEARweb,
another web site mapping application.
- Astra
SiteManger, yet another web site mapping and management tool.
- Thinkmap,
information visualisation technology from Plumb Design.
- Internet
Cartographer, by Inventix Software, is a tool that maps web
browsing.
- WebBrain
visual browsing Web directory by TheBrain.com.
- Map.Net
is a visual directory that uses 2D information maps and 3D fly through
cityscape to represent the Web. The underlying categorisation of the
Web is provided by the Open Directory which is spatialised using Antarcti.ca's
Visual Net technology.
- Research Work :
-
"Towards "Virtual Reality" : Explorations in Spatializing Web Content",
by Brygg Ullmer, MIT, USA.
-
Populated Information Terrains, details on visualization
techniques being employed by the Communications Research Group at the
University of Nottingham, UK.
-
Visualizing the Information Space of Hypermedia Systems,
research activities at the Graphics, Visualization & Usability
Center at Georgia Tech, USA.
- Webspace
Visualization, by Ed H. Chi at the The Geometry Center,
University of Minnesota, USA.
- The
research of Andreas Dieberger into many interesting aspects
of spatial navigation metaphors and methods for the WWW.
- WebMap
- A Graphical Hypertext Navigation Tool, paper by Peter
Dömel from the The Second International WWW Conference Fall
'94 in Chicago.
- WEBSOM
(Self-Organizing Map for Internet Exploration), at the Neural Networks
Research Centre of Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
-
GeoSpace: An Interactive Visualization System for Exploring Complex
Information Spaces. By Ishantha Lokuge and Suguru Ishizaki,
Visible Language Workshop, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA.
- Maps
of information spaces produced by Hsinchun Chen, University
of Arizona, USA, including "ET-Map", an information map of the space
occupied by the URLs of over 100,000 entertainment related web pages.
- Sitemap
maps part of the web space. It was developed by Xia Lin.
- Ptolomaeus -
the Web cartographer, a nice tool for graphing the
hierarchical structure of Web sites being developed by Fabio
Vernacotola and colleagues in the Department of Informatica ed
Automazione at the University of Roma Tre, Italy.
- CyberAtlas
project by the Guggenheim Museum's web site, with the aim
"...to commission and collect a series of maps of cyberspace, with a
particular focus on sites related to visual art and culture."
- IOD4
Web Stalker, an experimental web browser which includes an
interesting mapping function.
- InfoViz
: Visualization of Dataspaces, project lead by Dr Rolf
Daßler, University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam.
Interesting information visualisation project, plus a comprehensive
repository on many other projects and tools.
- Information
Architecture - shaping knowledge into form - research project
by William Neviett and Mark A. Foltz in the Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory at MIT.
- Chat
Circles is a abstract visual interface to real-time
conversations on the Internet. It is being developed by Fernanda B.
Viégas and Judith Donath, Sociable Media Group, MIT Media
Lab.
- Information visualisation research by the User
Interface Research Group at Xerox PARC.
- The
Human-Computer Interaction Lab, at the University of Maryland
lead by Ben Shneiderman. One of leading research groups in user
interfaces and information visualisation.
- A range of information
visualization research at Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, USA.
- Fiore, A. and Smith, M., 2001,
"Tree
Map Visualizations of Newsgroups", Technical Report
MSR-TR-2001-94, 4th October 2001 (Word doc format). You can
also try out their treemaps of Usenet at Netscan.
- A useful collection of position
papers and slides from the Visual Interfaces to
Digital Libraries Workshop, 28th June 2001, Roanoke, VA, USA.
- Reinventing
Email, a project by the Collaborative User Experience group
at the IBM Watson Reseach Center. See their recent paper for more
information. Rohall, S.L., Gruen, D., Moody, P. &
Kellerman, S., 2001, "Email
Visualizations to Aid Communications", Proceedings
of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2001,
22-23rd October 2001, San Diego, pp. 12-15.
- Commentary and Research Papers:
- Three
Dimensional Information Visualisation. A comprehensive review
of information visualisation techniques written by Peter Young, whilst
with the Visualisation Research Group, University of Durham, UK.
- Gloor P. , 1997, Elements
of Hypermedia Design : Techniques for Navigation &
Visualization in Cyberspace, (Birkhauser). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- "Mapping
Web Sites", a fascinating seminar by Paul Kahn, Dynamic
Diagrams, on the design of navigation maps for Web sites. Includes lots
of example of different styles of Web site maps.
- Anders P., 1998, Envisioning
Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Space, (New
York: McGraw Hill). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Card S.K., MacKinlay J. &
Shneiderman B., 1999, Readings
in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think,
(Morgan Kaufman Publishers). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Jacobson R., 1999 Information
Design, (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Chen C., 1999, Information
Visualisation and Virtual Environments,
(Springer-Verlag: London). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Munro A.J., Höök K.
& Benyon D. (Eds.), 1999, Social
Navigation of Information Space, (Springer:
Berlin). [Buy
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- Burgoyne P. & Faber L.,
1999, Reload:
Browser 2.0 - The Internet Design Project,
(Laurence King Publishing). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Ware C., 2000, Information
Visualization: Perception for Design, (Morgan
Kaufman Publishers). [Buy
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- Herman I., Melançon G.
& Marshall M.S., 2000, "Graph
Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: a Survey",
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
Graphics, Vol. 6, No. 1, pages 24-43.
- Browser
Bashers, by Daniel Lyons. Forbes Magazine,
15th May 2000.
- Benford S., Taylor, I., Brailsford, D.,
Koleva, B., Craven, M., Fraser, M., Reynard G. and Greenhalgh, C.,
1999, "Three
Dimensional Visualization of the World Wide Web", ACM
Computing Surveys, December 1999.
- Spence R., 2000, Information
Visualization (Addison-Wesley / ACM Press). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Kahn, P., 2001, Mapping
Websites (Rotovision). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Skupin, A. 2000, "From
Metaphor to Method: Cartographic Perspectives on Information
Visualization". In Roth, S.F., and Keim, D.A. (Eds.) Proceedings
IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2000),
9-10th October 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, pages 91-97. Los Alamitos:
IEEE Computer Society.
- Fabrikant, S.I., 2000, "Spatialized
Browsing in Large Data Archives", Transactions in
GIS, Vol. 4, No. 1, pages 65-78.
- Fabrikant S.I. & Buttenfield B.P.,
2001, "Formalizing
Semantic Spaces for Information Access", Annals of
the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 91, No. 2,
pages 263-280.
- Gibbs W.W., 2001, "A
Wide Web of Worlds: New Internet Browsers Add an Extra Dimension - But
Little Depth", Scientific American,
October 2001. Also, see the follow-on discussion thread on Slashdot
about 3D
Web browsing.
- Cockburn A. & McKenzie B.,
2001, "3D
or Not 3D? Evaluating the Effect of the Third Dimension in a Document
Management System". Proceedings of ACM CHI'2001
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages
434-441.
- Site Map
Usability, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 6th January 2002. There
is also a full report from the Nielsen Norman Group called "Site Map
Usability: 30 design guidelines based on usability studies with people
using site maps".
- Skupin A., 2002, A
Cartographic Approach to Visualizing Conference Abstracts, IEEE
Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 1, pages
50-58.
- Special
issue of the Communications of the ACM
with a number of useful review articles looking at different ways of
supporting community and building social capital online (Vol. 45, No.
4, April 2002). Two notable papers are:
- Donath J., 2002, "A Semantic
Approach to Visualizing Online Conversations", Communications
of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 4, pages 45-49.
- Smith M., 2002, "Tools for
Navigating Large Social Cyberspace", Communications
of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 4, pages 51-55.
- Kahn P., Lenk K. and Kaczmarek P.,
2002, "Applications
of Isometric Projection for Visualizing Web Sites", Information
Design Journal, Vol. 1 No. 3, pages 209-235.
- Chi E.H., 2002, "Improving
Web Usability Through Visualisation", IEEE Internet
Computing, March-April 2002, pages 64-71.
- Qvortrup L., (ed.), 2002, Virtual
Space: Spatiality in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds,
Springer: London. [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Fisher D. and Lueg C.,
(eds.), 2003, From
Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social Information Spaces,
Springer: London. [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- "Grokking
the infoviz", The Economist, 19th June
2003.
- Skupin A. and Fabrikant S.
2003, "Spatialization
methods: a cartographic research agenda for non-geographic information
visualization", Cartography and Geographic
Information Science, Vol. 30, No 2, pages 95-115.
-
Snowdon D.N., Churchill E.F., and
Frecon E. 2003, Inhabited
Information Spaces: Living with your data,
Springer.
- Other Good Meta-Lists on Visualising
Information Space :
- Infovis.org
provides details on the IEEE Information Visualization Symposium series
and a infovis mailing list.
- Visual
Browsing in Web and Non-Web Databases, an excellent summary
report "of projects, research, products and services that describe or
apply information visualization technologies for enhancing use and
access to Web databases". Compiled and maintained Gerry McKiernan and
Peter J. Wasilko, Iowa State University, USA.
- OLIVE
- On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments,
edited by Michael Reed and Dan Heller, University of Maryland College
Park, USA.
- Information
Visualization Resources by Gary Ng, University of Manchester.
- Information
Visualisation Lecture Notes by Keith Andrews, Institute for
Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM), Graz
University of Technology, Austria.
- Inf@Vis
magazine by Juan C. Dürsteler, Infovis.net.
- Nooface,
a blog covering 'post-PC interfaces'. Includes lots of stories on
information visualisation and cyberspace mapping.
- The journal of Information
Visualization, edited by Chaomei Chen.
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