Knowledge Visualization Currents: From Text to Art to Culture

This text reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples from various disciplines, highlighting the important role that visualization plays in extracting and organizing the concepts found in complex data. Features: presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments; examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents; discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions; investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church; describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms. Dr. Francis T. Marchese is Professor of Computer Science at Pace University, New York, USA, where he is the founder and director of Pace's Center for Advanced Media and the Pace Digital Gallery. Dr. Ebad Banissi is Professor of Business Informatics at London South Bank University, UK, where he heads the Visualisation and Graphics Research Unit. Part I: Knowledge Visualization Background What is an Effective Knowledge Visualization? Martin J. Eppler What Is Knowledge Visualization? Stefan Bertschi, Sabrina Bresciani, Tom Crawford, Randy Goebel, Wolfgang Kienreich, Martin Lindner, Vedran Sabol, and Andrew Vande Moere Part II: Text Tables and Early Information Visualization Francis T. Marchese Contract Clarity and Usability through Visualization Helena Haapio From Culture to Text to Interactive Visualization of Wine Reviews Andreas Kerren, Mimi Kyusakova, and Carita Paradis Part III: Art Colorscore: Visualization and Condensation of Structure of Classical Music Aki Hayashi, Takayuki Itoh, and Masaki Matsubara The Implications of David Hockney's Thesis for 3D Computer Graphics Theodor Wyeld Practice of Using Virtual Reconstruction in the Restoration of Monumental Painting Tatiana Laska, Irina Tsimbal, Sergey Golubkov, and Yulia Petrova Part IV: Culture Mediation of Knowledge Construction of Historic Sites Kristine Deray, and Michael Day Memory, Difference, and Information Andrew P. Lucia, Jenny E. Sabin, and Peter Lloyd Jones Cultural Data Sculpting Sarah Kenderdine, Jeffrey Shaw, and Tobias Gremmler