Information Visualization

Jim Hollan

University of California, San Siego

Email: hollan[at]cogsci.ucsd.edu

Homepage of author: http://hci.ucsd.edu/hollan/

Homepage of course: http://hci.ucsd.edu/220/index.htm

• Title of course: Information Visualization

• Aimed at what category of students: Computer Science Students

• Objectives of the course:
  • This seminar provides an introduction to current research in the new field of information visualization. Information visualization has origins dating to the beginnings of symbolic representation, and 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 we 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.

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