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14th
International Conference on Information Visualisation – IV10 Keynotes
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Martin
Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College.
Oxford University Mikael
Jern, Professor at University of
Linkoping and Director at National
Center for Visual Analytics NCVA at Linköping University, Sweden Alfred Inselberg, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel and Senior Fellow in Visualization, San Diego SuperComputing Center, San Diego, California, USA David McCandless, http://www.informationisbeautiful.net , London UK Ari
Ide-Ektessabi, http://www.kyotoheritage.jp,
Kyoto University, Japan Brian Drohan2, Georges
Grinstein1, John
Sharko2, Chris
Lawrence2, Kevin
Hughes2 1University of
Massachusetts, Lowell MA 2Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA  |
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Splashing around: some structural
intuitions in art and science
Professor
Martin Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the
History of Art at Trinity College. Oxford University
Abstract
Certain kinds of art and science originate in the intuiting of deep structures that lie behind appearance. Some of the structures are predominantly static, relying upon the fundamental forms of geometry; some are the result of process, like folding; others disclose the process itself, like splashing. These themes run across key aspects of visualization in art, architecture, design and various sciences from the Renaissance to the age of computers.
Biography of speaker: Martin Kemp
He was trained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute, London. He was British Academy Wolfson Research Professor (1993-98). For more than 25 years he was based in Scotland (Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews). He has held visiting posts in Princeton, New York, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Montreal and Harvard (I Tatti).
He has written, broadcast and curated
exhibitions on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present
day. Books include, The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from
Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale University Press), and The Human Animal in Western
Art and Science (Chicago 2007). He has published extensively on Leonardo da
Vinci, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci. The marvellous works of
nature and man (1989 and 2006). His book on the new Leonardo portrait is to be
published in 2010.
He has curated and co-curated a series
of exhibitions on Leonardo and other themes, including Spectacular Bodies at
the Hayward Gallery in London and Leonardo da Vinci. Experience, Experiment,
Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2006 and Seduced. Sex and Art from
Antiquity to Now, Barbican Art Gallery London, 2007. He was also guest curator
for Ca 1492 at the National Gallery in Washington in 1992.
Increasingly, he has focused on issues
of visualization, modelling and representation. He writes a regular column
Nature (published as Visualisations, OUP, 2000) and developed as Seen and
Unseen, OUP 2006, in which his concept of “structural intuitions” is
explored). He is currently writing a
book on Iconic Images from Christ to DNA.
Explore, Collaborate and
Publish Large Spatio-Temporal Official Statistics
Professor
Mikael Jern National Centre for Visual
Analytics, ITN, Linkoping University, Campus Norrkoping, S-60174 Norrkoping,
Sweden
Abstract
Official statistics such as demographics,
environment, health, social-economy and education from national and
sub-national sources are a rich and important source of information for many
important aspects of life and should be considered to be more used and
acknowledged in education. Educators and their students would be able to get
informed and at the same time participate in increasing the knowledge on how
life is lived and can be improved. Public statistics databases, e.g. EuroStat,
OECD, Worldbank, WHO and numerous national statistics bureaus etc. can be
reached on the Internet. This is producing what is often called information
overload and causing people to be increasingly faced with the problems of
filtering and interpreting enormous quantities of information. We know that
official statistics are used as a more or less important background for
decisions especially in government administration and policy making. However,
in education, official statistics are much less recognized and used than they
ought to be and among the informed public they are even 
less
used.
The Internet provides a communication
infrastructure which offers the opportunity to also participate in the
production of content. A better understanding of how educators and their
students can elicit better user understanding and participation by exploiting
dynamic web-enabled geovisual analytics and its associated science of
perception in learning is the focus of this presentation in relation to the use
of multidimensional spatio-temporal statistical data. Public available Web
tools (Open eXplorer) are
explained that help and engage educators to communicate progress initiatives
measuring economic, social, educational, health and environmental developments
to students and citizens. NCVA has since 2008 in close research collaboration
with OECD
developed and evaluated geovisual analytics tools for exploring and communicating
statistical information. Storytelling
and publishing statistics news in blogs or digital newspapers are examples of
our latest research direction. Means are explained how the author (educator) 1)
select spatio-temporal and multidimensional national or sub-national
statistical data, 2) explore and discern trends and patterns, 3) then
orchestrate and describe metadata, 4) collaborate with colleagues to confirm
and 5) finally publish essential gained insight and knowledge embedded as
dynamic visualization “Vislet”
in blogs or web pages with associate metadata. The author can guide the reader
in the directions of both context and discovery while at the same time follow
the analyst’s way of logical reasoning. We are moving away from a clear
distinction between authors and readers affecting the process through which
knowledge is created and the traditional models which support editorial work.
Value no longer relies solely on the content but also on the ability to access
this information. Audiences are increasingly gathered around Web enabled
technologies and this distribution channel is, more than ever, in control of
the information value chain.
Biography of speaker: Mikael Jern
1970-1976, Prof Jern worked with Professor Hertz at
University of Lund. Together they invented the Colour Graphics System based on
the first ink jet plotter for raster based visualisation software in the world.
1980, he founded UNIRAS addressing industry with a more general-purpose raster
graphics approach. UNIRAS became a world leading supplier of Visual Data
Analysis. Jern coordinated several EC projects in the domain of knowledge-based
information visualization and also consulted with the EC Commission as a
technical expert. He has published more than 200 technical papers and books in
visual computing and visualization application areas. SIGGRAPH 1993, he was
elected "pioneer of computer graphics" based on his breaking new
ground research together with Hertz in raster graphics. 1999, he was appointed
professor in information visualization at Linkoping University. In 2008, he
founded NCVA (Swedish National Center for Visual Analytics) with support from
the Swedish Knowledge Foundation to focus research on web-enabled geovisual
analytics concepts. In close collaboration with OECD, he has created awareness
and interest for dynamic information visualization to explore and communicate
large spatio-temporal and multivariate regional statistical data. He is now a
frequent speaker at international statistical conferences
Professor Mikael Jern, National Centre for
Visual Analytics, ITN
Linkoping University, Campus
Norrkoping, S-60174 Norrkoping, Sweden
Parallel
Coordinates are better than they look!
Professor Alfred Inselberg,
Adjunt Professor at School of
Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
www.math.tau.ac.il/
˜ aiisreal
Abstract
With parallel coordinates (abbr. k-coords) the
perceptual barrier imposed by our 3-dimensional habitation is breached enabling
the visualization of multidimensional problems. The representation of
N-dimensional points by polygonal lines is deceptively simple and additional
ideas are needed to represent multivariate relations. In this talk, a panorama
of highlights from the foundations to the most recent results, and interlaced
with applications, are intuitively developed. This is also an opportunity to
demystify some subtleties. <fuller version of abstract is available in pdf
format from: Parallel Coordinates are better than
they look!) >
Biography of
speaker: Alfred Inselberg
Adjunt Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Senior Fellow in Visualization, San Diego SuperComputing Center, San Diego, California, USA. Further details are available from http://www.sdsc.edu/~nerona/Inselberg_A2/biography.html
David
McCandless,
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net , London UK
Abstract
In an age of info overload,
visualized information has incredible potential to help us understand and
navigate a fast-moving, fast-changing world.
The demand for clear,
beautiful, condensed designed information has never been greater. The use of
visual forms of information is a rising trend across many disciplines: science,
design, journalism and web. At the same time, daily exposure to the web
is creating a incredibly visually-literate population. Could the two be
linked?
David will explore the
exciting potential of this merging of design, information, text and story. And
the strange - and often wonderfully unexpected - things that happen when you
visualise data, knowledge and ideas. Using examples from his new book and blog,
he'll share thoughts on what makes a successful information visualisation and
journalistic tips, especially for researchers, on how to zero in on interesting
data and subjects. And, admitting that his book is as full of mistakes as it is
successes, he'll also go through some of the common pitfalls, traps and FAILS
that dog this young design form.
Finally, he’ll share what he
loves about the form, unveil some new work and reveal the ways designing
information has forced him to reconsider his own ideas and views of the world.
Biography
of speaker: David McCandless
David McCandless is a London-based
author, data-journalist and information designer, working across print,
advertising, TV and web. His design work has appeared in over forty
publications internationally including The Guardian, Wired and Die Zeit.
Recently, he has championed the use of infographics and data visualisations to
explore new directions for journalism and design - and to discover new stories
in the seas of data swamping and surrounding us. His blog and book Information
Is Beautiful are dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge, data - all
with the minimum of text. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net | @infobeautiful
How Can Analytical Imaging
Contribute to Preservation of Cultural Heritages?
Professor
Ari Ide-Ektessabi, http://www.kyotoheritage.jp,
Kyoto University, Japan
Abstract
We present our recent research
results on developing an integrated system for digitizing, analyses, and
displaying of cultural heritage assets. The three basic components of this system
are non-contact digitizers, software for analysis of pigments, and a zooming
viewer for displaying the large files.
1. Grabbing images
The scanners produce high resolution, good color quality digital images of large artworks. Eleven of such systems have already been designed and manufactured which are used on site for various projects for digitizing Japanese and Koreans important cultural heritage, by museums and temples. Three color (RGB) digitization, eight color (multi-band) digitization, infrared (IR) imaging are possible with minimum damage from light sources to the artwork. In addition, polarized light imaging can also be employed, allowing golden and shiny metallic surfaces to be accurately scanned.
2. Analyzing images
Using simulation software on the digital image files, colorimetric curves and spectral data with micrometer special resolution can be obtained. The colorimetric and spectral information will provide museums and researchers with rich and crucial information on historical degradation of colors, and deep understanding for conservation and restoration of art objects. For example in cases of pigments used in ancient Japanese artworks, for example, a database with more than 1000 hues was developed as a model to be used containing colorimetric information, allowing researchers to estimate the materials used in such paintings. By continuously adding new data, the system can be expanded and developed into an international database for the analysis of ancient art, covering Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Persian, Indian, Chinese and other world heritage assets.
3. Displaying images
The digital image files produced by the high-resolution scanners have sizes between 20GB and 200 GB, depending on image parameters. These immense files can be displayed using a specially designed viewer software, allowing detailed viewing in very high-resolution, on computers and workstations.
Biography of speaker: Ari Ide-Ektessabi
Ari Ide-Ektessabi was born in 1952. He was a student in Faculty of
Electronics Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan during 1973-1983, and obtained
his PhD in electronics engineering. His field of research was designing systems
of charged particle beams for fabrication and analysis of surfaces and
materials. He joined Kyoto University as an associate professor in 1991 and as
a professor in 2001. He was the leader of four major projects related to
developing advanced technologies (hardware and software) in art and cultural
heritage as follows:
1. Development of High-resolution Large Flatbed
Scanner for Digitizing Large Artworks and Non-Destructive Pigment Estimation - Japan Science and Technology Agency, Comprehensive
Support Program for Creation of Regional Innovation: Key Seed Projects for
Regional R&D, FY 2004-2007
2. An Integrated System for Secure and Dynamic
Display of Cultural Heritage - Japan Science and Technology
Agency, Comprehensive Support Program for Creation of Regional Innovation:
Regional R&D Resources Utilization, FY 2006-2008
3. Developing the
Technical Foundation for International Digital Museum - The Feasibility Study
Program 2009, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
(MEXT), Realization of the System and Basic Technical Elements of Digital
Museum
4. International Joint
Research on High Resolution Digitization of Asian World Heritage - Japan Special
Coordination Funds for Promotion of Science and Technology, Asia-Africa Science
and Technology Strategic Cooperation Promotion Program, FY 2009-2011
He published more than 200 papers in material processing, analytical
techniques using accelerators, charged particle beams and synchrotron
radiation.
His book on application of synchrotron radiation (Springer, Heidelberg 2007)
gives a detailed account of application of high energy x-rays to high
resolution imaging at single cell level.
His current interest is focused on “Science and Technology for Art” the
topic of 10 symposia that he organized during the last 5 years.
Brian Drohan PhD2, Georges
Grinstein PhD1, John
Sharko PhD2, Chris
Lawrence2, Kevin
Hughes MD2
1University of
Massachusetts, Lowell MA
2Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
Abstract
The
multidisciplinary approach to breast cancer treatment in a comprehensive breast
center model can deliver a high standard of care for the patient, but it also
generates a wide range of patient data that are typically left as disparate
silos, and not organized or analyzed for any clinician to help with patient
care. We have developed a method for the synthesis of radiology, surgery,
pathology, medical oncology, and genetics information from a patient medical
history in a timeline paradigm with elements of clinical decision support and
quality indicators to help with decision making. A model for structuring data
from the many disparate sources was developed to support enriched probing
interactions. Summary views of the current knowledge from each discipline were
also tightly integrated. To support the surgical management workflow, the
prototype lifelines were integrated into existing clinical software,
incorporating all the relevant events, decisions, and data elements.
KEYWORDS: Patient timeline, Electronic Health
Records, Clinical Decision Support
Georges Grinstein is Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Head of its Bioinformatics and
Cheminformatics Program, Co-director of its Institute for Visualization and
Perception Research, and of its Center for Biomolecular and Medical
Informatics. His research interests are broad and include computer
graphics, visualization, data mining, virtual environments, and user interfaces
with the emphasis on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex
information systems, most often biomedical in nature. He received his Ph.D. in
Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978.
He has over 30 years in academia with extensive
private consulting, over 100 research grants, products in use nationally and
internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and
conferences, founded several companies, and has been the organizer or chair of
national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in
Visualization, and in Data Mining (co-chair IEEE Visualization Conferences, co-chair
CHI Microarray Data Analysis Conferences, program committee AAAI
conferences in Knowledge Discovery and Databases, co-chair IEEE Workshops on
the Integration of Databases and Visualization, co-chair IEEE and AAAI
Workshops on the Integration of Data Mining and Visualization, co-chair ACM
workshop on the Psychological and Cognitive Issues in the Visualization of
Data, and co-chair SPIE Visual Data and Exploration and Analysis Conferences.)
He is on the editorial boards of several journals
in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, has been a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO
Expert, and a technology consultant for various government agencies.
Brian Drohan
is a Biomedical Engineering doctoral student. As part
of a group of UMass Lowell Bioinformatics students, Brian has worked with Dr.
Kevin Hughes of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Avon Comprehensive
Breast Evaluation Center. His work has focused on data analysis of patient
records and the real time identification of high risk cancer patients through
quantitative risk analysis. Working with the HL7 standards organization, Brian
is collaborating on the development of a model for family history data aimed at
providing clinical information systems interoperability. Other research
activities include correlating gene expression as measured with quantitative
PCR with phenotypic response to heat stress in fruit flies.
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