[4eyes] Fwd: [Students] Basak Alper's Dissertation Proposal Presentation

[Basak Alper]

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From: Kris Listoe <kris at mat.ucsb.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Subject: [Students] Basak Alper's Dissertation Proposal Presentation
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Please reserve this date and time for Basak Alper's dissertation proposal
presentation:

Title:  2D - 3D Hybrid Techniques for Information and Scientific
Visualization

Date: Monday, February 13, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Location: TBA
Committee: Joann Kuchera-Morin (Co-chair, MAT), Tobias Hollerer (Co-chair,
MAT), George Legrady (MAT), Nathalie Henry-Riche


 Abstract:
> To date information and scientific visualizations have evolved into
> two sub disciplines of visualization that are quite distinct from each
> other. A separation between these fields was justified because of
> significant differences in the type of problems and the corresponding
> data sets tackled by each. This separation led to a gap between the
> software tools, hardware technologies and visual languages adopted.
> However, information visualization techniques can find appropriate
> uses in scientific visualization applications of high dimensional data
> sets that consist of physical/spatial/structural components and
> additional abstract dimensions. Similarly, 3D graphics rendering
> methods which are readily adopted in scientific visualizations, can be
> used to enhance 2D information visualizations for improved
> functionality. This thesis is motivated by the goal of developing
> synergy between scientific and information visualization, which would
> enable researchers and developers to build visualization tools that
> leverage the key advantages afforded by each of these sub-disciplines.
>
> The goal of this thesis is to find appropriate uses for 3D graphics
> technologies within the bounds of 2D information visualizations. To
> this end, we examine: (i) the use of stereoscopic depth in 2D
> node-link diagrams to support adjacency and accessibility tasks; (ii)
> the use of lighting and shadows to improve the readability of
> overlapping set representations. Additionally, the goal  is to also
> define novel interaction metaphors and interface solutions to bridge
> 2D and 3D visualizations. These are explored via two applications –
> (i) the integration of multiple displays to present 3D visualization
> on a large display and associated 2D textual information and/or
> visualizations on personal tablet devices, (ii) coordinated
> visualization of 3D structural networks and 2D abstract networks to
> support interpretation of these data sets in relation to each other.


Kris Listoe
Graduate Program Assistant
Media Arts & Technology
(805) 893-2887
kris at mat.ucsb.edu



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