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K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries2 Welcome! To the First International Workshop “Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries – Its Past, Present, and Future” at the First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries3 Why visual interfaces now? Today’s digital libraries are Content rich, multimedia, multilingual collections. Distributed and accessed world wide 24/7. Huge & growing. Visual interfaces to DLs draw on progress in the new field of Information Visualization. Major strategy: Shift user’s mental load from slow reading to faster perceptual processes such as visual pattern recognition.

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries4 Information Visualization “… is a process of transforming data and information that are not inherently spatial, into a visual form allowing the user to observe and understand the information.” (Source: Gershon and Eick, First Symposium on Information Visualization) “… the use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition.” (Source: Card et al., Readings in Information Visualization)

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries5 Facts about Information Visualization Rooted in geography, scientific visualization. Not even 10 years old. Growing fast. Far reaching (IR, WWW, DL, HCI). Interdisciplinary nature: computer graphics, electronic engineering, information systems, geography, information science, … Tremendous potential to improve/change information access, process, management.

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries6 Information Visualization is facilitated by Decreasing cost of storage and computing power. The explosion of information available digitally (on the WWW). Fast graphics processors. Larger hard disk sizes -> more information available quickly. High resolution color monitors. Alternative user interfaces Idesk, CAVE (2 hands, audio, 3D). Rapidly expanding connectivity between systems. Work is becoming more ‘knowledge-oriented’. Increasing visual intelligence. The mismatch between computer displays and the human perceptual system. The mismatch between computer controls and human motor functions.

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries7 Well designed visualizations … Reduce visual search time (e.g. by exploiting low level visual perception). Provide a better understanding of a complex data set (e.g., by exploiting data landscape metaphors). Reveal relations otherwise not being noticed (e.g., by exploiting the mind’s ability to see relationships in physical structures). Enable to see a data set from several perspectives simultaneously. Are effective sources of communication.

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries8 Pre-attentive processing Count the 4’s in the table. Lightness is pre-attentively processed. So are line orientation, curvature, length, width, size, collinearity, spatial grouping, added marks, numerosity, color hue, intensity, motion, stereoscopic depth convex/concave shape from shading, …

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries9 Well designed visualizations … Reduce visual search time (e.g. by exploiting low level visual perception). Provide a better understanding of a complex data set (e.g., by exploiting data landscape metaphors). Reveal relations otherwise not being noticed (e.g., by exploiting the mind’s ability to see relationships in physical structures). Enable to see a data set from several perspectives simultaneously. Are effective sources of communication.

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries10 Recent Books

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries11 Why Visual Interfaces for DL’s? To create intuitive user interfaces. To provide rapid and efficient access to enormous amounts of multi-media knowledge and information. To analyze document collections in new ways. To leverage information (annotations, digital dog ears, footsteps) from previous users. To facilitate information sharing & collaborations.

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries12 Today’s Schedule 9:15am Invited Talk by Stephen Eick, Visual Insights 10:00am Open Discussion: The Role of Visual Interfaces in Digital Libraries; Self Introduction of WS Participants; Identification of Important Issues to be Addressed. 10:45am Break & Software Demos 11:30am Presentation of 4 Papers (15min + 5min) and General Discussion Buzydlowsky et al.: Co-Cited Author Analysis as an Interface for Digital Libraries Weiss-Lijn et al.: Supporting Document Use Through Interactive Visualization of Metadata Buchanan et al.: Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries Sullivan: Hilbert Problems in Visual Interface Development/ Evaluation 12:50 - 2:00pm Lunch Break

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries13 Today’s Schedule cont. 2:00pm Presentation of 4 Papers (15min + 5min) and General Discussion Skupin: Cartographic Considerations for Map-like Interfaces to Digital Libraries Cai: GeoVIBE: A Visual Interface to Geographic Digital Library Boyack et al.: Analysis of the Overlap Between the Fields of Cognitive Psychology, Information Visualization, and Human Computer Interaction Using VxInsightTM Christel: Accessing News Video Libraries through Dynamic Information Extraction, Summarization, and Visualization 3:30pm Break & Software Demos 4:00pm Expert Panel: Challenges and Opportunities with Howard White, Sougata Mukherjea and others 5:00pm Summary and Conclusion by Chaomei Chen 5:30pm Close

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries14 Software Demos VGeo Virtual Reality demo by Virtual Reality Software & Consulting LVis - Digital Library Visualizer by Katy Börner et al. Starwalker by Chaomei Chen VxInsightTMby Kevin W. Boyack Visual Interfaces for Associative Retrieval by Xia Lin et al. Gridvis by Mischa Weiss-Lijn Integrated Data and Metadata Browsing by Mark Derthick GeoVIBE by Guoray Cai Librarea a 3-D virtual library project by Jack Colbert FullView by Lorraine Normore

K. BörnerJCDL WS Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries15 Invited Talk Visualizing On-line Activity Stephen G. Eick, Visual Insights Dr. Eick has served as the founder and CTO of Visual Insights since its inception in He was hired as part of Bell Labs in 1991 with the charter of creating and managing the data visualization research group. His research has focused on creating novel, interactive visualization to extract information latent in large databases. Acknowledgement: This talk was sponsored by - Virtual Reality Software & Consulting.