PROCESSILLVIS

Illustrative Visualization of Processes

Coordinatore	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN    more  Organization address address: Karlsplatz 13 city: WIEN postcode: 1040 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Werner Cognome: Purgathofer Email: send email Telefono: 4315880000000 Fax: 4315880000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Austria [AT]
Totale costo	100˙000 €
EC contributo	100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG
Funding Scheme	MC-CIG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-09-01   -   2017-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN  Organization address address: Karlsplatz 13 city: WIEN postcode: 1040 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Werner Cognome: Purgathofer Email: send email Telefono: 4315880000000 Fax: 4315880000000	AT (WIEN)	coordinator	100˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The central focus the research is to understand visual abstraction. Understanding means 1. to identify meaningful visual abstractions, 2. to assess their effectiveness for human perception and cognition and 3. to formalize them to be executable on a computational machinery. The outcome of the investigation is useful for designing visualizations for a given scenario or need, whose effectiveness can be quantified and thus the most understandable visualization design can be effortlessly determined.

The science of visualization has already gained some understanding of structural visual abstraction. What has not been given sufficient scientific attention to, is advancing the understanding of procedural visual abstraction, in other words investigating visual means that convey what things do or how things work. This missing piece of knowledge would be very useful for visual depiction of processes and dynamics that are omnipresent in science, technology, but also in our everyday lives.

Upcoming project will therefore investigate theoretical foundations for visualization of processes. Physiological processes that describe the complex machinery of biological life will be picked as a target scenario. The reason for this choice is two-fold. Firstly, these processes are immensely complex, are carried-out on various spatial and temporal levels simultaneously, and can be sufficiently understood only if all scales are considered. Secondly, physiological processes have been modeled as a result of intensive research in biology, systems biology, and biochemistry and are available in a form of digital data. The goal will be to visually communicate how physiological processes participate on life by considering the limitations of human perceptual and cognitive capabilities. Solving individual visualization problems of this target scenario, the research will provide first pieces of understanding of procedural visual abstractions that are generally applicable, beyond the biology domain.'