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Dear CMSC grad students,

   Here's the course plan for my fall seminar.  Let me
know
if you have questions...Ben S

Ben Shneiderman   ben@cs.umd.edu   301-405-2680
Dept. of Computer Science       301-405-6707 fax
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742


CMSC 828S/838S  Information Visualization
Prof. B. Shneiderman
University of Maryland         Dept. of Computer
Science
Fall 1999

Class hours: Tues & Thurs 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Room: Engineering  3140, Learning Theater

Office hours: Tues & Thurs   2-3pm
Room: AVW 3177   Phone: 301-405-2680
Email: ben@cs.umd.edu

Books: Readings In Information Visualization: Using
Vision to Think,
Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, January
1999,
686 pages, ISBN 1-55860-533-9,
http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/1-55860-533-9.asp

Suggested additional reading: Designing the User
Interface, 3rd Edition,
B. Shneiderman, Addison Wesley Longman, (1998)

Topics: : What is information visualization? How is it
related to scientific visualization?  How does it
combine with data mining?  Information visualization is
emerging as an important fusion of graphics, scientific
visualization, database, and human-computer
interaction.  Dozens of innovative visualizations for
1-, 2-, 3-, and multi-dimensional data have been
proposed, along with creative designs for temporal,
hierarchical, and network data.  This seminar will
examine the design alternatives (fisheye, overviews,
dynamic queries, etc.), algorithms and data structures,
plus human factors evaluations of efficacy for a
variety of tasks and users.

Students will read current literature and conduct
collaborative projects to design, implement, and/or
evaluate existing or novel visualizations.  Mid-term
and Final exams will be given.

Homework: Students will use existing information
visualization tools, such as Spotfire, to build useful
visualizations on existing data sets, then conduct a
major team project to create or extend an information
visualization for a real-world client.  Students will
read, present and critique the papers in the textbook.

See information resource at
http://www.otal.umd.edu/Olive