Title :
Top 10 unsolved information visualization problems
Author_Institution :
Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
The top 10 unsolved problems list described in this article is a revised and extended version of information visualization problems. These problems are not necessarily imposed by technical barriers, rather, they are problems that might hinder the growth of information visualization as a field. The first three problems highlight issues from a user-centered perspective. The fifth, sixth, and seventh problems are technical challenges in nature. The last three are the ones that need tackling at the disciplinary level. The author broadly defines information visualization as visual representations of the semantics, or meaning, of information. In contrast to scientific visualization, information visualization typically deals with nonnumeric, nonspatial, and high-dimensional data.
Keywords :
data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; graphical user interfaces; high-dimensional data; information visualization; user-centered perspective; visual representation; Character generation; Decoding; Graphics; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Physics education; Psychology; Systems engineering and theory; Terrorism; Visualization; Cognition; Communication; Computer Graphics; Databases, Factual; Information Storage and Retrieval; Models, Theoretical; User-Computer Interface; Vision;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCG.2005.91
