[Sigia-l] Information Visualization

[Johndan Johnson-Eilola]

Right. We need to be careful, though, not to fall into a "tool" trap: 
visualizations aren't simply a means to an end, they are also, in some 
cases, the end itself. While certainly we can often abstract "meaning" 
from "visualization", in some cases that abstraction changes meaning 
(maybe it always changes meaning).

So while we need to get beyond info retrieval, I'm interested in what 
things will look like/work like when we get to apps that support 
information work much more generally (with retrieval, visualization, 
and architecture available in fluid ways) and in a broad range of 
end-user apps.

- Johndan


On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 05:16 PM, Karl Fast wrote:

>
>> It strikes me that visualization is always (and only) the means to
>> an end--understanding the information. It's not the end itself.
>
> Bingo.
>
> Vannevar Bush's seminal paper, "As We May Think," is one of the most
> cited documents in the information visualization literature.
>
> Don't forget that he called it "As We May Think," and not "As We May
> Find Things."
>
> If infoviz is going to deliver it must move 'beyond retrieval.'
>
> But retrieval is tough and we've been so obsessed with it for so
> long that it's hard to think about the problem in any other way.
>
>
>
> --karl
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