Overview
The visualization group at the UiB Department of Informatics in Bergen, Norway, researches new visualization solutions for users from different domains to enable the effective and efficient exploration, analysis, and/or presentation of data.
Main content
Datasets usually result from experimental measurements (e.g., medical image acquisition with computer tomography or seismic measurements), computational simulation (e.g., computational fluid dynamics simulation), or theoretical modeling (e.g., dynamical system modeling).
User goals include the
- presentation of valuable information to others (e.g., in a collaborative setting or for dissemination),
- the analysis of concrete hypotheses to either corroborate or to reject them (e.g., during medical diagnosis or when analyzing a new design in engineering), and
- finding new, possibly unexpected information (e.g., in the exploration of trends and outliers).
Visualization research can be categorized, e.g.,
- by distinguishing between usage domains (e.g., medical visualization, flow visualization, etc.) or
- by opposing visualization technologies (e.g., interactive visual analysis, illustrative visualization, etc.).
Here we provide an overview of our research with respect to both of these two categorizations.
15.05.2009