vizNET 2007 Workshop- Intersections in Visualization Practices and Techniques.
Joint Event - Hosted by vizNET and 3DVisA |
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17-19 April 2007, Leicestershire, UK
“The event had a great “feel” to it – welcoming, friendly, and relaxed. I learnt a lot and it gave me a valuable overview as well as an insight into some disciplines I was less familiar with”. Alison Turner - JISC “Even though I was only able to join you for one day, I thought the meeting excellent: the mixture of backgrounds and experiences of the speakers and audience made it very stimulating indeed.” Dr. Jeremy Walton - The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, Oxford “I was enjoying it immensely and fully intend to participate in any future events.” Tom Corby - University of Westminster “Best event I have been to, perfectly balanced” Carl Smith - London Metropolitan University |
vizNET 2007 event material is available on vizNET Repository (click here to access) |
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vizNET 2007 workshop- Intersections in Visualization Practices and Techniques- aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities. The scope of the vizNET workshop covers a wide range of visualization topics that are applicable for beginner, and expert visualization users. This will be an important opportunity to present and hear about the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas, as well as their applications. The full event will include a one and a half day introductory workshop in visualization followed by a third day of expert workshops. In the introductory workshop, the first day will provide an introductory to what is visualization, and an entry level visualization through desktop tools. This will be followed by an introduction to how visualization is currently used in the cross-domain- (Scientific/Engineering and Arts/Humanities), case studies from both science/engineering and the arts/humanities will also be given. This will be followed by practical and valuable visualization demos. The second day of the introductory workshop will introduce beginners and novice visualization users to selected visualization topics which will be presented by plenary visualization expert speakers. Topics to be addressed include: Information Visualization v. Mathematical Visualization, Data Acquisition, 3D Modelling, Web-based "portal delivery" visualization, Display Technologies, Open Source Software v. Proprietary Software, Games Platforms and MMORPGS, Grid-based visualization, Documentation, and Plenary Discussion: looking for intersections between Scientific/Engineering and Arts/Humanities Visualization The third day is the visualization experts day, a series of experts workshops will be conducted, topics to be addressed in the expert workshops will be announced shortly Participants may register for the introductory workshop (days 1 and 2), the expert workshop (day 3) or the full event (days 1, 2 and 3). Registration is free, but required, as places are strictly limited. |
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Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Conference Chair) |
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Prof. Roy Kalawsky |
First Day 17 April 2007 |
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| Time | Topics | Summary | Presenter(s) | Room |
| 13:00-14:00 | Arrival- Coffee Sir Denis Rooke building- ground floor | |||
| 14:00-14:30 | Welcome and Introduction to Visualization | The first presentation will provide a whistle stop tour of the importance and role of visualization today. It will attempt to demystify some of the science behind visualization and help set the scene for the following more indepth presentations. | Prof. Roy kalawsky (Loughborough University) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 14:30-15:00 | A Rough Guide to Data Visualization – Part 1 | The talk will aim to give a broad overview of the field of data visualization, and will be in two parts. The first part will begin by looking at simple graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood and pitfalls to be avoided. We then move on to look at visualization of physical data, often called ‘scientific visualization’, where we describe the key techniques of isosurfacing and volume rendering. ">The talk will aim to give a broad overview of the field of data visualization, and will be in two parts. The first part will begin by looking at simple graphs and charts, familiar to all, but with guidance on fundamentals to be understood and pitfalls to be avoided.We then move on to look at visualization of physical data, often called ‘scientific visualization’, where we describe the key techniques of isosurfacing and volume rendering. | Prof. Ken Brodlie(University of Leeds) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break Sir Denis Rooke building- ground floor | |||
| 16:00-16:30 | Cross-domain: Introduce science/Engineering and Arts/Humanities to how visualization is currently used in their domains | This talk will traverse domains by first examining the historical impact of visualisation on western music, in particular spatial notation and the evolution of polyphony. We then examine contemporary examples with a view articulating new and traditional research questions for the Arts and Humanities in the visualization problem solving environments of the Sciences and Engineering. The next part of the session will introduce the surgery session which will be held on the last day of the event (19th April). This surgery session will be an open workshop to discuss any visualization issues people would like to pose to a panel of experts. | Dr. Julie Tolmie (Kings College London), Dr. Nijad Al-Najdawi (Loughborough University) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 16:30-17:00 | Attendee perspectives | A 5 minutes person opportunity to explain who the attendees are, their background and what they are hoping to get from the vizNET event | Prof. Roy kalawsky (Loughborough University) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 17:00-18:00 | Demos (Stereoscopic, and Grid visualization) | Demos | Dr. Martin Turner(University of Manchester), Mr. John O'Brien (Loughborough University), Mr. Ian Holmes (Loughborough University) | SEIC seminar room 1 |
| 19:00 | Burleigh court resturant |
Second Day 18 April 2007 |
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| Time | Topics | Summary | Presenter(s) | Room |
| 9:00-9:30 | Arrival - Coffee Sir Denis Rooke building- ground floor | |||
| 9:30-10:00 | A Rough Guide to Data Visualization – Part 2 | In the second part of the ‘Rough Guide’ we discuss visualization of tables of data, that is, tables of observations, each observation comprised of values of a number of variables (as in census data). Here we are looking for relationships amongst the variables, and we discuss scatter plots, parallel coordinates and glyph techniques. Finally we look at visualization of structured data, such as information hierarchies – examples of these being computer filestores and web pages. | Prof. Ken Brodlie - University of Leeds | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 10:00-10:30 | Mathematical Visualisation in the Sonic, Visual and Performing Arts | This talk will examine mathematical visualisation as it is used in the sonic, visual and performing arts. Mathematical visualisation is the generation and/or transformation of data using mathematical structures and mappings. Following on from yesterday’s discussion of early polyphony, we begin by providing an historical context for early abstraction in film. We then examine visual programming environments for synchronous composition of sound and image in live performance, in particular the use of Pure Data for physical modelling by French artists, chdh. We then look at a text based environment for visual and responsive structures, Processing, where the emphasis is on interaction rather than synchronous sound and image. We discuss briefly the communities of practice, and give pointers to visual mathematical resources detailing mappings and structures. Time permitting, we focus on the increasing importance of data capture and its (artistic) representation, giving further examples. | Dr. Julie Tolmie (Kings College London) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Data Acquisition | Application of Laser scanning or LiDAR, ground Penetrating Radar and seismic data acquisition technologies and techniques has enabled the 3D visualisation of many facets of the landscape or built environment based on real world measurements. Case studies from the Trent Tame 'Where Rivers Meet' project, North Sea Paleolandscape survey, Restoring the Ancient Stabiae, and San Giovanni in Laterano survey, will look to illustrate the potential of such 3D acquisition and visualisation developments and the way in which they have enhanced the understanding of the subject matter. | Dr. Stephen Wilkes (University of Birmingham) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break Outside Murdoch | |||
| 11:30-12:00 | 3D Modelling | The first part of this session will look at 3D modelling and the creation of real-time scenes. Examples will be given of photorealistic 3D modelling of outdoor scenes. (The second part of this session): Fundamental to the 3D visualisation process are the component parts that make up the image, animation or world that is presented to the viewer, of those components the core is the model itself. As we move away from the traditional use of 3D as simple illustrations to becoming research and visual hypothesis themselves the process of creating models must be approached in a different way. This talk will highlight the disparity between the use of 3D models as a purely illustrative technique and their emerging use in cognitive modelling processes. It will further consider the implications of recording the visualisation process and how this paradata can be used to further debate and understating. | Prof. Roy Kalawsky (Loughborough University), Mr. Drew Baker (King's College London) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 12:00-1:00 | Display Technologies | This session will introduce the different display technologies that are frequentoy encountered by the visualization user. In particular the benefits and disadvantages of each candidate display technology will be discussed. | Prof. Roy kalawsky (Loughborough University) | SEIC Murdoch room |
| 13:00-14:00 | Carvery Lunch- Sir Denis Rooke first floor resturant | |||
| 14:00-14:30 | Review of Classes of Visualization System: with respect to the options from both open-source and proprietary developers | Disparate visualization systems have grown from specific needs and often from either the research or commercial camps; and therefore have to satisfy different purposes and requirements. This short presentation will give a brief show-and-tell of various systems, highlighting some of the differences and advantages of each. There will also be an attempt to class the visualization tools into specific types understandable by software designers. Throughout this presentation there will also be some test comparison studies that will come from alternative fields to the usual scientific and information visualization genres; medical to scientific to mathematical needs, architecture to military to archaeology as well as consider some issues on how they can be exploited for artistic purposes. | Dr. Martin Turner (University of Manchester) | SEIC Murdoch room |
| 14:30-15:00 | Using game-based visualisation to support exploratory learning approaches with serious games applications | The presentation will include an introduction to the Four Dimensional Framework (de Freitas and Oliver, 2006), a framework designed to support designers developing game-based learning more effectively. The presentation will also showcase the first demonstrator emerging from the £2 million UK Department of Trade and Industry's part-funded Serious Games project - the Triage Trainer. The presentation will also include a consideration of some future uses of game-based learning, including alternate reality gaming and mobile gaming, considering their applicability for learning and training. | Dr. Sara De Freitas (Birkbeck University) | SEIC Murdoch room |
| 15:00-15:30 | Web-based portal delivery visualization | Contemporary artists working within the field of New Media have utilised the Internet as creative space for the past decade. Although the majority of Internet Art projects utilise 2D visualisation technologies, advances in consumer-level computer graphics and processing have afforded artists working in the medium the potential to incorporate 3D content into such artworks. This talk will provide an overview of the main code technologies that are currently used by artists (VRML/X3D, Shockwave and Java/Processing) to create 3D artefacts and worlds for the web. It will then consider the emergence of multi-user 3D environments (such as Second Life) and the possibilities for artists to transition isolated, single-user artworks into forms that embrace the notion of virtual public space. | Mr. Michael Takeo Macgruder (King's College London) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break Sir Denis Rooke building- ground floor | |||
| 16:00-16:30 | Grid-based visualization | This session will explore what is meant by the Grid and the role that visualization has to play in this. We will seek to outline some of the technical, social and creative benefits and challenges such an approach brings. | Prof. Nick Avis (Cardiff university), Dr. Gregory Sporton (Birmingham Institute of Art and Design) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 16:30-17:00 | Documentation of a Visualization Project | This session will explore how documentation can be used to address significant issues that arise out of the use of visualisation technologies in research contexts, including those of archiving and preserving digital assets and of ensuring intellectual transparency. It will consider some of the challenges and major initiatives regarding the production of metadata (cataloguing information) and paradata (documentation of interpretative processes) appropriate for visualisation projects with particular reference to arts and humanities contexts. | Dr. Hugh Denard (Kings College London) - 3DVisA | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 17:00-17:45 | Plenary Discussion: looking for intersections between Scientific/Engineering and Arts/Humanities Visualization | This session will be an open plenary discussion looking for intersections in visualization practices and techniques. Questions for surgery workshop to be handed in. | Dr. Julie Tolmie ((Kings College London)) Session Chair | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 19:00 | Dinner - Harvester |
Third Day 19 April 2007 |
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| Time | Topics | Summary | Presenter(s) | Room |
| 9:00-10:00 | Arrival - Coffee Sir Denis Rooke building- ground floor | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Workshop 1 - Visualization Using Commodity Clusters, and Entry level visualization through desktop tools | When scalability and amount of data requiring to be transferred for visualization and analysis become bottlenecks, the locality of visualization processing becomes an important factor to support the quality of system response for near real time data analysis. Visualization on and alongside the national computational grid and the technical challenges that are associated with it are hot topics of current research within the visualization community. This presentation will explain our approach and demonstrate some of our visualization services based on commodity cluster with open source software stack. The second part of the workshop will demonstrate and discuss the support provided by a sample of commercial and some non commercial desktop tools with easy interfaces to getting started with visualization. | Dr. Lakshmi Sastry, Mr. Srikanth Nagella ( Rutherford Appleton Laboratories) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break Sir Denis Rooke building- ground floor | |||
| 11:30-12:00 | Workshop 2 - Commissioning and Managing Interdisciplinary Visualisation Projects | This workshop will explore some of the ways in which the different disciplinary backgrounds of artists, scientists, engineers, computer scientists and humanities researchers shape their assumptions about and understanding of the nature and purpose of visualisation technologies and of the relationship between the roles of thinkers and doers. Participants will be invited to discuss how collaborative, interdisciplinary projects can anticipate, stimulate and exploit the evolution of interdisciplinary skills and knowledge bases in the course of a project, including what processes may aid in translating terms and concepts across disciplinary boundaries. | Dr. Hugh Denard (Kings College London) - 3DVisA | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 12:00-12:30 | Workshop 3(a)- Visualization as Interface: Enabling the Construction of Effective Learning Designs workshop 3(b) Websites Usability and Accessibility |
The first part of this workshop will investigate the pedagogically effective design of a series of reusable and mobile learning objects. These objects are designed to enhance the engagement and deepen the learning experience of users through the incorporation of a number of distinct visualization techniques. An archeological learning environment will be explored from the point of view of its novel approach to using visualization as an interface into its complex dataset. The subsequent process of data-mining hierarchies of evidence (intellectual transparency) in the quest for constituent parts, key narratives and evolutions of form will be demonstrated. The methodology for the generation of dynamic visualizations on mobile phones will also be summarized using a series of sports science learning objects. The second part of this workshop will discuss the usability and accessibility issues in websites design | Mr. Carl Smith (London Metropolitan University and Dr. Nijad Al-Najdawi (Loughborough University) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 12:30-1:30 | Carvery Lunch-Sir Denis Rooke first floor resturant | |||
| 14:00-15:00 | Workshop 4- e-Viz API to aid Computational Steering and Visualization | e-Viz is an EPSRC project aimed at developing an advanced environment for enabling visual supercomputing; the principle investigator is Prof Nigel John at the University of Wales, Bangor and incorporating researchers at the University of Wales, Swansea, the University of Leeds and the University of Manchester. The focus of the work to be presented is the specific development carried out between the Universities of Manchester and Leeds. This work aims at creating a selection of visualization services using different applications and toolkits, such as VTK, VMD and ParaView. A library and accompanying API has been coded that enables a developer to create an abstract wrapper around visualization applications, providing a steerable interface to different visualization parameters, and dealing with the capture and delivery of remotely rendered visuals. One key feature is that there is a reconfigurable user interface that connects to the abstract visualization wrapper giving the user a common interface to a range of remote visualization services. | Mr. Mark Riding (University of Manchester) | SEIC seminar room 2 |
| 15:15:30 | Coffee break Sir Denis Rooke building- ground floor | |||
| 15:30-16:30 | Workshop 5 - Surgery | An open workshop to discuss any visualization issue people want to discuss with a panel of experts | vizNET Team | SEIC seminar room 2 |
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Registration Note: Accommodation costs must be paid when registering and by cheque made payable to “Loughborough University”. (NB - no credit card facilities are available for payment) Programme Day One: Evening dinner will be held at 7.00 pm at Burleigh Court. Day Two: Evening dinner TBA. Day Three: TravelBy car, Loughborough University is located a mile east from Junction 23 of the M1 along the A512, and the easiest access to campus is via West Entrance. If you are travelling by train, Kinch Bus Number 7 provides a service to the campus every 20 minutes. The last stop is approximately 5 – 10 minutes walk from Holywell Park. Taxis are readily available from the station and will cost around £7. Further details can be found at: Local Taxi services include:ABC: 01509 611771
Parking Your car can be left either at Holywell Park or Burleigh Court car parks for the duration of the conference. Both are controlled by campus security services but please note that parking is at your own risk. Important note: The Holywell Park car park closes at 21:00. Should you require your car after this time please ensure that it is left in Burleigh Court’s car park. Accommodation at Burleigh Court At check-in, please give your name and the name of this event so that you may be allocated the correct room. Any personal expenses you may have incurred must be paid for upon departure. Burleigh Court accepts most International credit cards and will issue a receipt. You must check-out by 10.00 hrs on the day of departure. Note: Delegates have been allocated rooms as requested wherever possible. Occasionally some delegates may be placed in The Lodge. A swimming pool and gym are available for guests and you may wish to bring suitable clothing. The Sir Denis Rooke Building at Holywell Park is a five minute walk away. Campus staff will be happy to direct you though you may wish to bring an umbrella! Campus Facilities A chemist is located within the Students Union. Wireless Network Access DeparturePlease check out of your room by 10.00 hrs. Burleigh Court will be happy to store your luggage while you attend the workshop. Click here to download Loughborough University campus map. For Dennis Brooke building location, See No. ref 4, Building ref SDR, name ref: B7
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vizNET 2007 Event Registration Conference registraion has now closed. Please refer to vizNET 2008
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Prof. Roy S. Kalawsky (Conference Chair) Dr. Nijad Al-Najdawi (vizNET Conference Facilitator) Dr. Julie Tolmie (3DVisA Conference Facilitator) |
