Data sculptures are an increasingly popular form of physical visualization whose purposes
are essentially artistic, communicative or educational. But can physical visualizations help …

This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of
information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces …

Immersive Analytics is a quickly evolving field that unites several areas such as
visualisation, immersive environments, and human-computer interaction to support human …

This tutorial book features an augmented selection of the material presented at the GI-
Dagstuhl Research Seminar on Human-Centered Visualization Environments, HCVE 2006 …

Collaborative visual analysis tools can enhance sensemaking by facilitating social
interpretation and parallelization of effort. These systems enable distributed exploration and …

In our last Computer Graphics issue, Greg Johnson contributed an interesting survey article
on collaborative visualization. Another perspective on this hard problem is discussed by Bill …

Data surrounds each and every one of us in our daily lives, ranging from exercise logs, to
archives of our interactions with others on social media, to online resources pertaining to our …

Visualization tools are often specialized for specific tasks, which turns the user's analytical
workflow into a fragmented process performed across many tools. In this paper, we present …

We present WeSpace--a collaborative work space that integrates a large data wall with a
multi-user multi-touch table. WeSpace has been developed for a population of scientists …

Although data visualization tools continue to improve, during the data exploration process
many of them require users to manually specify visualization techniques, mappings, and …