nih/nsf visualization research challenges draft report
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NIH/NSF Visualization Research Challenges Draft Report. Chris Johnson Robert Moorhead Tamara Munzner Hanspeter Pfister Penny Rheingans Terry Yoo. Process. Workshops First workshop Sept 2004 Second workshop May 2005 Input from panelists and invited speakers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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NIH/NSF Visualization Research ChallengesDraft Report
Chris JohnsonRobert MoorheadTamara MunznerHanspeter PfisterPenny Rheingans
Terry Yoo
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Process
Workshops• First workshop Sept 2004• Second workshop May 2005• Input from panelists and invited speakers• Limited room, chose representative sample
Report Drafts• First draft April 2005• Penultimate draft report available Oct 2005• Feedback before Nov 11 useful• Final version by late 2005
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Thanks to Participants
Panelists: Maneesh Agrawala, Liz Bullitt, Steve Cutchin, David Ebert, Thomas Ertl, Steve Feiner, Bob Galloway, Mike Halle, Pat Hanrahan, Chuck Hansen, Helwig Hauser, Karl Heinz Hoehne, Ken Joy, Arie Kaufman, Daniel Keim, David Laidlaw, Ming Lin,Bill Lorensen, Alan MacEachren, Kwan-Liu Ma, Chris North, Art Olson, Catherine Plaisant, Jerry Prince, Will Schroeder, Jack Snoeyink, John Stasko, Barbara Tversky, Matthew Ward, Colin Ware, Turner Whitted, Jarke van Wijk
Guest Speakers: Felice Frankel, Alyssa Goodman, Leslie Loew, Wayne Loschen, Patrick Lynch
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Why This Report?
Original 1987 NSF report jumpstarted field• Time for a follow-on; it’s been 18 years
Graphics hardware now commodity• Repurpose all that rendering energy
NSF justifiably looking for other agencies to partner in funding visualization
Malaise perceived by some• Field losing momentum/focus/drive
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Panel Overview
Report on report• Chris Johnson, Tamara Munzner, Penny Rheingans
Panelists• Bill Lorensen, Jarke van Wijk, David Laidlaw
Audience comments/feedback
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Report Structure
Value of Visualization
Process of Visualization
Power of Visualization
Roadmap
State of the Field
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Value of Visualization
Definition• Helps people explore or explain data through
software systems that provide static or interactive visual representations
• Human perceptual system in loop
Enabling technology for other disciplines• Statistics analogy: also discipline itself• Necessary (but not sufficient)
Information big bang
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Process of Visualization: Moving Beyond Moore’s Law
Issues that won’t get addressed by waiting• Collaboration with application domains• Integrating with other methodologies• Examining why and how visualizations work• Exploring new visualization techniques
systematically• Designing interaction
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Process of Visualization: Determining Success
Quantitative• Time, memory performance• Quantitative user study with metrics on abstract task
Qualitative• Anecdotal evidence: eureka moments• User community size• Qualitative user studies: ethnographic analysis,
longitudinal field studies, informal usability evaluation• Conceptual framework
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Process of Visualization: Open Science
Need for repositories• Reproducibility• Open science: open data + open source• Data and task• Curation and maintenance
Advocacy• Often not our data to give
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Refine
Evaluate
SolveInform
Design
DriveDrive
Transitional / Techniques
Applied / Problems(Driving Tasks & Data)
Basic / Principles
Process of Visualization: Achieving Our Goals
Disproportionate percentage of current research is transitional technique refinement
Balanced vis portfolio should also be driven by applied problems and grounded in basic research
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Power of Visualization
Transforming Health BioinformaticsSurgical supportPrevention and policyBiological imagingPersonalized medicine
Transforming Science and Engineering Physical sciencesGeoSciencesEngineeringSocial sciences
Transforming Life Mass marketSecurityBusinessEducation
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Road Map
Short term: policy• Reviews for proposals, papers, promotion
• Acknowledge/accommodate interdisciplinary and enabling nature of vis
• Need in domain areas for validation and vis of results
• Add small percentage for vis in domain areas• More commensurate with benefit than current situation
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Road Map
Medium term: direction• Fund pilot program to encourage vis and domain
people to work together• Foster collaboration• Lower entry barriers
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Road Map
Long term: investment• Long-term funding commitment• Coordinated investment across agencies• Support for core and collaborative research• Increase emphasis on:
• Curated data repositories• Emerging technologies: displays, interaction• Foundational research
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State of the Field: Other Reports
NVAC• Establish intellectual foundations for new field• Very specific domain focus on security• Complementary and synergistic
PITAC• Aimed at congressional level
Many other
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State of the Field: Infrastructure
Hardware• Polygon hw is commodity, volume hw exists• Display technology now improving rapidly
Networking is commodity
Software• Commercial and open source thriving
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State of the Field: Funding Patterns
Concerns about decline in money for long-range research
Not enough funding to meet needs
Few enduring funding sources for collaborative research
Distribution of funding sources do not reflect potential benefits to application areas
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What’s Missing On Purpose
Comprehensive survey/bibliography of all good vis work
Examples of bad visualization
Definitions of infovis vs. scivis
NVAC book recapitulation
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Success Stories
Sidebars with picture, paragraph, reference• Current set gathered with help from panelists• Open to change if we get better ones from you
• Need picture, paragraph (what is it, why is it successful, future challenges), reference
• Criteria (final curatorial decisions made by us)• Better coverage of research areas• More compelling image• Greater application impact
Via email before Nov 11 to Terry Yoo ([email protected])
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What Now
Panelists• Bill Lorensen• Jarke van Wijk• David Laidlaw
Live feedback from you at microphones• Also, email feedback by Nov 11
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Helpful, Not Helpful, Offline Email
I like it, ship it.You left my work out…
• please cite it (and it’s useful to back up our arguments)• please cite it (and it’s gratuitous)
I disagree with finding X…• because it’s wrong / not supported / counterproductive • because it picks on my work
Sections X and Y are strong, • but Z is repetitive / weak / buzzwordy / handwavy• but rewrite the whole thing my way• except, yuk, I don’t want to do user studies• but there’s a typo/grammar/fact error on page W
I have a fabulous success story