Research Groups
Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada)
- John Dill http://www.siat.sfu.ca/faculty/John-Dill/
- Brian Fisher http://www.siat.sfu.ca/faculty/Brian-Fisher/
- Social Cognition and Interactive Expertise in Natural and Computational Environments (SCIENCE) http://interaction-science.iat.sfu.ca/
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
- Ronald A. Rensink http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~rensink/
- Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) http://www.magic.ubc.ca/
Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, US)
- Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE) http://www.purdue.edu/dp/vaccine/
VACCINE is dedicated to creating methods and tools to analyze and manage vast amounts of information for mission areas of homeland security. They have many Mission Driven Research Projects (MDRPs) which they focus their work in.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, US)
- Information Interfaces Group http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/
- Georgia Tech Computer Graphics Interest Group (TechGraph) http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/
University of North Carolina (Charlotte, North Carolina, US)
- The Charlotte Visualization Center http://www.viscenter.uncc.edu/
The Pennsylvania State University (State College, Pennsylvania, US)
- GeoVISTA Center http://www.geovista.psu.edu/
GeoVISTA’s specific mission is to coordinate integrated and innovative research in Geographic Information Science (GIScience), with an emphasis on geovisualization. The focus is on developing powerful human-centered methods and technologies that allow scientists and decision makers to solve scientific, social, and environmental problems through computer-supported, visually-enabled analysis of the growing wealth of geospatial data.
Palo Alto Research Center – PARC (Palo Alto, California, US)
- User Interface Research group http://www2.parc.com/istl/groups/uir/
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Washington, US)
- Cognitive Informatics research and development in human information interaction http://www.pnl.gov/coginformatics/hii_applications.stm
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland, US)
- Human-Computer Interaction Lab – HCIL http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/research/
University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany)
- Data Analysis and Visualization http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/en/arbeitsgruppen/infovis/
There are a large number of research projects in the area of “Exploration and visualisation of large information spaces”. The group of Databases, Data analysis and Visualization (Prof. Dr. Keim) develops novel techniques for visual analysis of business, customer, finance, demoscopic, and network data motivated by applications in customer relationship management (CRM), telecommunications, the financial mark et and network security. They focus on techniques for interactive mass data analysis applied on very large multidimensional and geographic data sets
University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems:
http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute.html
Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France)
- AVIZ http://www.aviz.fr/
Aviz is a multidisciplinary team aiming at improving the analysis and visualization of large and complex datasets by combining analysis methods with interactive visualizations. Main research areas are Visual Analytics, Human Computer Interaction and Information Visualization (they have an interesting Toolkit for information visualization).