- Commercial Applications / Companies :
- Visual Insights,
interactive data visualization software to help business managers
quickly uncover and analyze trends and patterns in their corporate
data.
- Inxight Software, producing
advanced information visualisation technologies.
- Dynamic Diagrams
are a leading company in information architecture for online information,
including designing web site maps and navigation tools.
- CLEARweb, another web site
mapping application.
- Astra
SiteManger, yet another web site mapping and management tool.
- Thinkmap, information visualisation
technology from Plumb Design.
- Internet Cartographer,
by Inventix Software, is a tool that maps web browsing.
- WebBrain visual browsing
Web directory by TheBrain.com.
- Map.Net is a visual directory
that uses 2D information maps and 3D fly through cityscape to represent
the Web. The underlying categorisation of the Web is provided by
the Open Directory which is spatialised using Antarcti.ca's
Visual Net technology.
- Research Work :
-
"Towards "Virtual Reality" : Explorations in Spatializing Web Content",
by Brygg Ullmer, MIT, USA.
-
Populated Information Terrains, details on visualization techniques
being employed by the Communications Research Group at the University
of Nottingham, UK.
-
Visualizing the Information Space of Hypermedia Systems, research
activities at the Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center at
Georgia Tech, USA.
- Webspace
Visualization, by Ed H. Chi at the The Geometry Center, University
of Minnesota, USA.
- The research
of Andreas Dieberger into many interesting aspects of spatial
navigation metaphors and methods for the WWW.
- WebMap
- A Graphical Hypertext Navigation Tool, paper by Peter Dömel
from the The Second International WWW Conference Fall '94 in Chicago.
- WEBSOM (Self-Organizing
Map for Internet Exploration), at the Neural Networks Research Centre
of Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
-
GeoSpace: An Interactive Visualization System for Exploring Complex
Information Spaces. By Ishantha Lokuge and Suguru Ishizaki,
Visible Language Workshop, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, USA.
- Maps of information spaces
produced by Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA, including
"ET-Map", an information map of the space occupied by the URLs of
over 100,000 entertainment related web pages.
- Sitemap
maps part of the web space. It was developed by Xia Lin.
- Ptolomaeus - the
Web cartographer, a nice tool for graphing the hierarchical
structure of Web sites being developed by Fabio Vernacotola and
colleagues in the Department of Informatica ed Automazione at the
University of Roma Tre, Italy.
- CyberAtlas
project by the Guggenheim Museum's web site, with the aim "...to
commission and collect a series of maps of cyberspace, with a particular
focus on sites related to visual art and culture."
- IOD4 Web Stalker,
an experimental web browser which includes an interesting mapping
function.
- InfoViz
: Visualization of Dataspaces, project lead by Dr Rolf Daßler,
University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. Interesting information
visualisation project, plus a comprehensive repository on many other
projects and tools.
- Information
Architecture - shaping knowledge into form - research project
by William Neviett and Mark A. Foltz in the Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory at MIT.
- Chat
Circles is a abstract visual interface to real-time conversations
on the Internet. It is being developed by Fernanda B. Viégas and
Judith Donath, Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Lab.
- Information visualisation research by the User
Interface Research Group at Xerox PARC.
- The Human-Computer
Interaction Lab, at the University of Maryland lead by Ben Shneiderman.
One of leading research groups in user interfaces and information
visualisation.
- A range of information
visualization research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
USA.
- Fiore, A. and Smith, M., 2001, "Tree
Map Visualizations of Newsgroups", Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-94,
4th October 2001 (Word doc format). You can also try out their treemaps
of Usenet at Netscan.
- A useful collection of position
papers and slides from the Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries
Workshop, 28th June 2001, Roanoke, VA, USA.
- Reinventing
Email, a project by the Collaborative User Experience group
at the IBM Watson Reseach Center. See their recent paper for more
information. Rohall, S.L., Gruen, D., Moody, P. & Kellerman,
S., 2001, "Email
Visualizations to Aid Communications", Proceedings of
the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2001,
22-23rd October 2001, San Diego, pp. 12-15.
- Commentary and Research Papers:
- Three
Dimensional Information Visualisation. A comprehensive review
of information visualisation techniques written by Peter Young,
whilst with the Visualisation Research Group, University of Durham,
UK.
- Gloor P. , 1997, Elements
of Hypermedia Design : Techniques for Navigation & Visualization
in Cyberspace, (Birkhauser). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- "Mapping
Web Sites", a fascinating seminar by Paul Kahn, Dynamic Diagrams,
on the design of navigation maps for Web sites. Includes lots of
example of different styles of Web site maps.
- Anders P., 1998, Envisioning
Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Space, (New York: McGraw
Hill). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Card S.K., MacKinlay J. & Shneiderman B., 1999, Readings
in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, (Morgan
Kaufman Publishers). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Jacobson R., 1999 Information
Design, (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Chen C., 1999, Information
Visualisation and Virtual Environments, (Springer-Verlag:
London). [Buy
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- Munro A.J., Höök K. & Benyon D. (Eds.), 1999, Social
Navigation of Information Space, (Springer: Berlin). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Burgoyne P. & Faber L., 1999, Reload:
Browser 2.0 - The Internet Design Project, (Laurence King
Publishing). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Ware C., 2000, Information
Visualization: Perception for Design, (Morgan Kaufman Publishers).
[Buy
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- Herman I., Melançon G. & Marshall M.S., 2000, "Graph
Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: a Survey",
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
Vol. 6, No. 1, pages 24-43.
- Browser
Bashers, by Daniel Lyons. Forbes Magazine, 15th May 2000.
- Benford S., Taylor, I., Brailsford, D., Koleva, B., Craven,
M., Fraser, M., Reynard G. and Greenhalgh, C., 1999, "Three
Dimensional Visualization of the World Wide Web", ACM
Computing Surveys, December 1999.
- Spence R., 2000, Information
Visualization (Addison-Wesley / ACM Press). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Kahn, P., 2001, Mapping
Websites (Rotovision). [Buy
the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research]
- Skupin, A. 2000, "From
Metaphor to Method: Cartographic Perspectives on Information Visualization".
In Roth, S.F., and Keim, D.A. (Eds.) Proceedings IEEE Symposium
on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2000), 9-10th October
2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, pages 91-97. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer
Society.
- Fabrikant, S.I., 2000, "Spatialized
Browsing in Large Data Archives", Transactions in GIS,
Vol. 4, No. 1, pages 65-78.
- Fabrikant S.I. & Buttenfield B.P., 2001, "Formalizing
Semantic Spaces for Information Access", Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, Vol. 91, No. 2, pages 263-280.
- Gibbs W.W., 2001, "A
Wide Web of Worlds: New Internet Browsers Add an Extra Dimension
- But Little Depth", Scientific American, October
2001. Also, see the follow-on discussion thread on Slashdot about
3D
Web browsing.
- Cockburn A. & McKenzie B., 2001, "3D
or Not 3D? Evaluating the Effect of the Third Dimension in a Document
Management System". Proceedings of ACM CHI'2001 Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 434-441.
- Site Map
Usability, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 6th January 2002. There
is also a full report from the Nielsen Norman Group called
"Site Map Usability: 30 design guidelines based on usability
studies with people using site maps".
- Other Good Meta-Lists on Visualising Information Space :
- Infovis.org provides details
on the IEEE Information Visualization Symposium series and a infovis
mailing list.
- Visual
Browsing in Web and Non-Web Databases, an excellent summary
report "of projects, research, products and services that describe
or apply information visualization technologies for enhancing use
and access to Web databases". Compiled and maintained Gerry McKiernan
and Peter J. Wasilko, Iowa State University, USA.
- OLIVE - On-line Library
of Information Visualization Environments, edited by Michael
Reed and Dan Heller, University of Maryland College Park, USA.
- Information
Visualization Resources by Gary Ng, University of Manchester.
- Information Visualisation
Lecture Notes by Keith Andrews, Institute for Information Processing
and Computer Supported New Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology,
Austria.
- Inf@Vis magazine
by Juan C. Dürsteler, Infovis.net.
- Nooface, a blog covering
'post-PC interfaces'. Includes lots of stories on information visualisation
and cyberspace mapping.
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