Jason Dykes
recent (and not so recent) news ...

I attended the 6th 'Data Viz' meeting in June at Jacobs University Bremen.

The meeting followed on from successful workshops in Germany and New Jersey where work and progress in statistical graphics was discussed. This meeting focussed on "Information Visualization in Today's Multimedia Society" and included interesting and innovative presentations from some of the world'd best known researchers in Information Visualization and Statistical Graphics.

I changed my title to "is a treemap more than just a tree?" following heated discussion about this particular form of layout. Can a 2D layout of a tree be justified? I argued that it can if we use the two dimensions to represent two dimensional orderings, and that our spatial squarified layout algorithm achieves this - allowing us to see geography and hierarchy concurrently in large data sets. To an extent, the clue is in the name ... 'treemap' - but the map needs to be effective.

There was a real focus on 'R' at the meeting and some interesting work using techniques that are familiar to cartographers and geographers involving animation of spatio-temporal data and an R implementation of proximity brushing.

news from May 2008 ... fieldwork - lake district 2008

news from May 2008 ... cartographic journal paper

Susanne Bleisch, Stefan Nebiker and I have had a paper accepted for publication in The Cartographic Journal.

The paper 'Evaluating the effectiveness of representing numeric information through abstract graphics in 3D desktop virtual environments' compares use of 2D and 3D graphics for basic estimation and comparison tasks and presents evidence that such tasks are no less effectively performed in our 3D environment than is the case in 2D. However, tasks take longer in 3D environments than when performed in 2D. Susanne's ongoing PhD work is evaluating whether these efficiency losses are offset by gains not measured in our tests. The work was originally presented at the August 2007 ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments meeting in Helsinki :

• http://kartoweb.itc.nl/icavis/2007/

news from May 2008 ... agile meeting, girona spain

Aidan Slingsby and I spent time at the AGILE 2008 meeting in Girona, Spain.

The meeting contained a number of interesting talks on current issues in Geographic Information and the best paper prize was won by a visualization paper that used a series of interesting real-time transformations to show planimetric and oblique views of an urban data set concurrently and seamlessly. Ed Parsons of Google presented a useful keynote lecture on Google's approaches to spatially organising information.

The meeting was held in the beautiful Centre Cultural La Merce and all sorts of entertainment was laid on including a 'human tower'! The meeting was preceded by an ICA Commission on Geovisualization workshop on 'GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change' at which we presented a paper on 'Using Treemaps for Variable Selection in Spatio-Temporal Visualization'.

news from May 2008 ... ica geovisualization commission - dynamics

I was involved in organising a workshop on 'GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change' at the AGILE 2008 meeting in Girona, Spain.

The workshop was arranged as part of the continuing efforts of the ICA Commission on Geovisualization to develop, promote and encourage informed geovisualization research.

The workshop was held at the beautiful Centre Cultural La Merce and consisted of 20 short presentations and four discussion sessions with opportunities for additional demos and informal discussion. A number of presentations will be written up in due course and published as full papers in the Information Visualization journal.

Some of the participants lined up on the steps for a snapshot!

news from May 2008 ... ica geovisualization commission - presentation

Aidan Slingsby presented some of our work on using treemaps in the process of exploring a large spatio-temporal data set at the workshop on 'GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change'.

Our paper 'Using Treemaps for Variable Selection in Spatio-Temporal Visualization' shows how treemaps and spatial treemaps can be used to provide concurrent overview and detail in spatial hierarchies and to select focii when combining attributes for analysis. We detect a number of broad and specific patterns in a spatio-temporal data set containing details of road use amongst couriers in London. The data are made available by the ecourier courier company.

The workshop was held in Girona, Spain in association with AGILE 2008. We are planning to write the work up for publication in the Information Visualization journal later this year.

news from April 2008 ... geograph visualization in zurich

Jo Wood, Alistair Edwardes, Ross Purves and I are continuing the work that won the Best Paper award at GISRUK 08.

We recently spend a long weekend in Zurich further analysing the data and developing techniques to explore relationships between the terms used to describe imagery in the 'Geograph' collection and how this varies spatially.

UZH were holding an open day during the visit as shown here.

Our ongoing work will be reported in the academic literature shortly ...

news from April 2008 ... Best Paper Prize - GISRUK 08

I was awarded the Best Paper prize for paper that I presented at GISRUK 08.

In 'Exploring Volunteered Geographic Information to Describe Place: Visualization of the Geograph British Isles Collection' Jo Wood, Alistair Edwardes, Ross Purves and I use novel visualization techniques to analyse some of the content of 'Geograph'.

We show relationships between terms used to describe imagery in the collection and how this varies spatially - the geography of 'Geograph' if you like.

I was involved in producing six of the papers at this year's GIS Research UK conference and this is the second successive year that my work has been awarded the best paper prize at GISRUK.

news from April 2008 ... 3rd prize at GISRUK 08

Sarah Goodwin presented a paper at GISRUK 08 and won 3rd prize in the Best Paper Presented by a Young Researcher competition.

Sarah presented methods for measuring and visualizing boundary strength between enumeration units derived during her MGI dissertation. The paper 'Do Local Information Systems Hide the Bigger Picture? An analytical approach to measuring the strength of local boundaries' demonstrates and evaluates a visualization technique and concludes that local authority boundaries do tend to relate to measurable discontinuities in variables that record social characteristics - but that such relationships are spatially variant.

First prize was won by fellow MGI graduate Anna Mason!

My work with Jo Wood, Alistair Edwardes and Ross Purves on 'Visualizing the Geograph British Isles Collection' won the Best Paper award at GISRUK 08 to complete an impressive hat-trick for the giCentre at City!

news from April 2008 ... GISRUK 08 - spatial treemaps

I was involved in producing six of the papers at this year's GIS Research UK conference, including work with Jo Wood on techniques for ordering and spatially arranging treemaps.

The paper 'From Slice and Dice to Hierarchical Cartograms: Spatial Referencing of Treemaps' proposes new enhancements to a popular visualization technique that map hierarchical data efficiently whilst retaining geographic structure and relationships.

Related work with Jo Wood, Alistair Edwardes and Ross Purves on 'Visualizing the Geograph British Isles Collection' won the Best Paper award at GISRUK 08.

news from April 2008 ... GISRUK 08 - geovisualization prototyping

I was involved in producing six of the papers at this year's GIS Research UK conference, including work with David Lloyd and Rob Radburn on our efforts to use, evaluate and develop human-centred approaches to visualization in local government.

'Mediating Geovisualization to Potential Users and Prototyping a Geovisualization Application' is part of David's ongoing EPSRC Industrial CASE PhD studentship.

My work with Jo Wood, Alistair Edwardes and Ross Purves on 'Visualizing the Geograph British Isles Collection' won the Best Paper award at GISRUK 08.

news from April 2008 ... GISRUK 08 - visualizing insurance data

I was involved in producing six of the papers at this year's GIS Research UK conference, including work on using Google Earth for visualization in the insurance industry.

The paper identified some possibilities for exploratory analysis and graphical presentation using Google Earth and is part of our contribution to the Willis Research Network :

• http://www.willisresearchnetwork.com/

My work with Jo Wood, Alistair Edwardes and Ross Purves on 'Visualizing the Geograph British Isles Collection' won the Best Paper award at GISRUK 08.

news from March 2008 ... iko and fred at two!

The boys were two years old on March 3rd.

We celebrated with a quick trip to the French Alps where there was pretty good snow and some sunshine.

We all enjoyed tobogganing and sliding down mountains in various ways!

Here we all are in our snow glasses and goggles!

news from January 2008 ... spatial diary - 2007

I have been keeping an online record of where I am and when ... a spatial diary if you like. You can access this on a weekly basis from my homepage and view the locations in Google Earth.

Here is a map showing locations, by week, for all of 2007

• spatial diary - 2007

news from December 2007 ... phd examination - annu maaria nivala

I acted as an opponent for Annu-Maaria Nivala's PhD defence at the Helsinki University of Technology along with Kaisa Vaananen-Vainio-Mattila.

Annu-Maaria's PhD consisted of a collection of published papers describing her work in developing and evaluating applications for mobile cartography and a doctoral dissertation entitled 'Usability perspectives for the design of interactive maps'. The work contains interesting case studies and documents some useful perspectives on mobile mapping and the application of Human-Centred approaches in developing usable mobile cartography.

• http://annumaaria.googlepages.com/myresearchlife

news from November 2007 ... university of manchester - keynote presentation

My Keynote Presentation at the ACM SIGGRAPH University of Manchester Professional Chapter was entitled 'Interesting? Aesthetic? Useful? GeoVisualization Perspectives and Examples'.

• http://kato.mvc.mcc.ac.uk/rss-wiki/ACM_SIGGRAPH_Chapter

I introduced a number of presentations and tried to identify a 'sweet spot' whereby applications were academically interesting, well designed and used to generate ideas and knowledge. The presentation was beamed to ACM SIGGRAPH chapters in Bristol and London.

news from November 2007 ... uc davis - visit to vidi

Aidan Slingsby and I visited the Kwan-Liu Ma's VIDI research group at UC Davis during Vis/InfoVis 2007

• http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/

Particularly impressive were the demonstrations of LIDAR data visualization and use in a CAVE environment and Chad Jones' combination of SciViz and InfoViz views for visually interrogating data simulating the behaviour of more than a million particles in real time. The former application enabled us to browse a data sets of 35 million points in real time, select subsets and fit surfaces.

news from October 2007 ... infovis 07 - paper presented

I was involved in writing two of the four papers presented at the 'Geographic Visualization' session at IEEE InfoVis 2007 in Sacramento, California.

• InfoVis 07 : Geographic Visualization

'Interactive visual exploration of a large spatio-temporal data set: reflections on a geovisualization mashup' described the work that Jo Wood, Aidan Slingsby, Keith Clarke and I have been undertaking to graphically explore data sets representing mobile information requests for go2 directory systems.

Here the focus was on evaluating Google Earth and the broader 'mashup' approach for geovisualization.

news from August 2007 ... maps and the internet - paper presented

Aidan Slingsby provided a cartographic perspective on using Google Earth for tag maps in a paper at the Warszawa Symposium of the ICA Maps and the Internet Commission.

• http://maps.unomaha.edu/ica/

'Mashup cartography: cartographic issues of using Google Earth for tag maps' describes the work that that Jo Wood, Keith Clarke, Aidan and I have been undertaking to present the text used in mobile information requests spatially with Google Earth in our exploration of data collected by go2 directory systems.

news from August 2007 ... co-chair of ica commission on geovisualization

Gennady Andrienko and I are chairing the new ICA Commission on Geovisualization, as approved by the 2007 meeting of the ICA in Moscow.

The Commission will run from 2007-2011 and focus on the use of interactive cartography to support the visual analysis of complex, voluminous and heterogeneous spatio-temporal information.

• http://geoanalytics.net/ica/

We will be organising international workshops and symposia, publishing research and logging activities to promote, develop and report upon the use of cartographic visualization. The Commission will encourage multi-disciplinary activity and perspectives and develop research goals.

news from August 2007 ... ica commission helsinki - phd papers presented

David Lloyd and Susanne Bleisch presented papers at the ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments meeting in Helsinki to report preliminary findings in their PhD studies.

• http://kartoweb.itc.nl/icavis/2007/

Susanne's paper - 'Evaluating the effectiveness of representing numeric information through abstract graphics in desktop 3D environments' - shows that certain groups of users are able to estimate symbol sizes when using virtual environments despite the use of depth cues.

David's paper - 'Mediating potential users of a geovisualization application to geovisualization experts using a scenario' - described our use of scenarios in specifying geovisualization applications with Leicestershire County Council.

news from August 2007 ... ica commission helsinki - paper presented

I presented a paper at the ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments meeting in Helsinki that describes work undertaken with Clare Flood of the Rethink Mental Health charity to visualize their annual audit.

• http://kartoweb.itc.nl/icavis/2007/

The paper, entitled 'road/map : Geovisualization Insights in a Mental Health Charity Operations Audit', describes our application, and its evaluation. Data analysts at Rethink found the techniques and their implementation useful and participated in a number of episodes of insight and exploration when using the software.

news from July 2007 ... zurich visualization summit

I was co-organiser of the 'GeoVisualization' strand of the 2007 'Visualization Summit' in Zurich.

• http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jad7/vizSummit/

The summit aimed to identify achievable new research goals and was attended by 17 academic colleagues with expertise in GeoVisualization.

Our work was presented to a wider audience of visualization experts participating in 9 parallel streams with foci across the domain of Information Visualization.

news from July 2007 ... iv07 zurich - paper presented

Aidan Slingsby and I presented a paper at the gIV07 symposium at IV07 in Zurich

• http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV07/

Our paper, entitled 'Interactive Tag Maps and Tag Clouds for the Multiscale Exploration of Large Spatio-temporal Datasets', shows how direct links between representations of information and geography can help generate insights when participating in geovisualization.
Jo Wood, Keith Clarke, Aidan and I use Google Earth to present the text used in mobile information requests spatially in our exploration of data collected by go2 directory systems..

news from July 2007 ... giv07 zurich - session organised

I was co-organiser of the gIV07 symposium at IV07 in Zurich along with Gennady Andrienko and Mikael Jern.

• http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV07/

The 'GeoVisualization and Information Visualization' theme aimed to explore synergies between information visualization and geovisualization.
The symposium consisted of four papers that were broad in scope and dealt with interactive spatial data consolidation, specific new views, visualization in education and software architectures for dynamic linking and exploration.

news from May 2007 ... dagstuhl seminar - information visualization

I participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar on 'Information Visualization - Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation' at Schloss Dagstuhl in May 2007.

• http://www.dagstuhl.de/programm/kalender/semhp/?semid=30839

The meeting provided an excellent means for meeting international colleagues in beautiful surroundings and enabled me to learn a lot and discuss key issues. My contribution, entitled 'situating geovisualization' considered a number of issues that may make spatial information 'special' and identified some contributions from cartography that may be of use to Information Visualization.

news from April 2007 ... gisruk 2007 - best paper

My work with Chris Brunsdon was rewarded with the best paper prize at GISRUK 07, the 15th national GIS research conference.

We develop and describe 'geowigs' - geographically weighted interactive graphics - to explore relationships between multiple variables and scale across space.

More than 70 papers were presented at the conference with contributions from across the UK, Ireland and overseas. The digital proceedings, including our paper, are available online : GISRUK 2007 Proceedings.

news from April 2007 ... gisruk 2007 : best paper

My work with Chris Brunsdon was rewarded with the best paper prize at GISRUK 07, the 15th national GIS research conference.

We develop and describe 'geowigs' - geographically weighted interactive graphics - to explore relationships between multiple variables and scale across space.

More than 70 papers were presented at the conference with contributions from across the UK, Ireland and overseas. The digital proceedings, including our paper, are available online : GISRUK 2007 Proceedings.

news from January 2007 ... spatial diary : 2006

I have been keeping an online record of where I am and when ... a spatial diary if you like. You can access this on a weekly basis from my homepage and view the locations in Google Earth.

Here is a map showing locations, by week, for all of 2006

• spatial diary - 2006

news from November 2006 ... ieee vast 2006 - visual analytics education panel

I attended the inaugural IEEE symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology in Baltimore.

The meeting included all sorts of exciting techniques and technologies for visual analytics and the Visual Analytics Education session was of particular interest. The conference reception was held in the Baltimore Science Centre in the Inner Harbour.

news from November 2006 ... ieee infovis 2006 - geographic visualization session

I am a member of the program committee for IEEE Information Visualization and chaired the geographic visualization session at the 2006 meeting in Baltimore.

The session contained four excellent papers on local pixel placement for cartograms, the worldmapper project, visualizing map sources and scale-based map labeling.

InfoVis was a very inspiring meeting with all sorts of innovative and effective graphics and interactions and a hugely interesting art show.

news from November 2006 ... ieee vis 2006 - education workshop

I attended the 2006 Visualization in Baltimore and contributed a position paper to a workshop on visualization education for 'non-technical majors'.

The workshop was coordinated by Holly Rushmeier of Yale and resulted in all sorts of discussion over the key issues faced by those teaching and learning visualization. It is likely to result in a White Paper on teaching and learning in visualization.

The meeting was held at the Hyatt Regency in the Inner Harbour and included the cutting edge of visualization technology and design.

news from October 2006 ... clip conference 2006 - presentation

Robert Radburn and I were invited to contribute to the 2006 CLIP meeting. Our presentation entitled 'can visualization in local authority research improve policy?' described the work being undertaken by Leicestershire County Council and City University to use graphics to inform policy.

The Central and Local Government Information Partnership is designed to support the use of statistical information in government and encourage good practice. The meeting was held in Westminster, just off Millbank, and followed by a rooftop reception.

news from July 2006 ... Jane's ride across America

Jane Tomlinson's latest feat of endurance is a phenomenally impressive bike-ride across America. I have been mapping her progress.

Jane's husband Mike sends the GPS tracks collected on the bikes on a daily basis. I then load them into an online database and serve the results in a format that can be viewed using Google Earth.

You can see the maps, find out more and make a donation using these links :

• http://gps.soi.city.ac.uk/jane/
• http://www.janesappeal.com

news from July 2006 ... paper presented at iv06 in London

Stephanie Marsh and I presented our work on Geovisualization Usability at the IV06 meeting.

'Evaluating a Geovisualisation Prototype with Two Approaches: Remote Instructional Vs. Face-to-Face' was co-authored by Fenia Attilakou, from whose dissertation results the work originated.

The 10th International Conference on Information Visualization was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and included keynote lectures by Menno-Jan Kraak and Daniel Keim.

news from July 2006 ... computer graphics and applications special issue

A special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications focuses on geovisualization. Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Alan MacEachren and are guest editors.

Five papers on geovisualization were selected from those submitted for consideration by an international panel of reviewers. They deal with a range of topics including, virtual reality, augmented reality, web-based cartography and haptic interfaces to GIS.

The special issue was produced as part of the ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments. It contains a short editorial by Theresa, Alan and I and a 'Visualization Viewpoint' by Prof. Menno-Jan Kraak, chair of the Commission.

news from June 2006 ... position paper presented at national centre for e-social science

Stephanie Marsh, David Lloyd and I attended a two-day agenda-setting workshop on geovisualization in the social sciences in Manchester.

We presented a position paper on our use of geovisualization in research and teaching and participated in debate at the meeting over the use of geovisualization in the social sciences.

The meeting, hosted by the National Centre for e-Social Science included keynote lectures by Michael Friendly, Jonathan Roberts, Mike Batty and Mike Goodchild and will be reported in an edited book. State of the art audiovisual facilities were used including connections to the AccessGrid.

news from March 2006 ... ceus special issue and editorial

I acted as editor for a recent issue of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (vol 30,2).

Papers authored by Chris Brunsdon, David Manley, Mitch Langford, Josh Kent, Alan MacEachren and their colleagues are included and address issues associated with the analysis, evaluation and use of geographic information.

The editorial is entitled 'Progress in our representation of geographic phenomena and our evaluation, use and analysis of geographic information' and develops themes drawn from the contributing papers.

news from May 2006 ... three months already

Emma and I became parents for the first time in March with the arrival of Fred and Isaac.

We've had a few hiccups, and learned quite a lot (!) but we're all doing fine three months on and ... and are almost sleeping through the night!

The guys are now at the stage where their random arm wavings might almost be attempts to grab things (!)

Some early photos are available for those who are interested.

news from March 2006 ... presentations at gisruk 2006

David Lloyd and Susanne Bleisch presented their research at the 14th national GIS research conference in Nottingham.

Susanne presented the results of her user tests with the GeoNOVA software - 'Planning Hikes Virtually How Useful are Web-based 3D Visualizations?' - showing that some users feel confident in using 3d maps for hike planning despite misinterpreting some aspects of the representation.

David's paper - 'Investigating catchment area anomalies for a north England store' - presented statistical and visual analysis of spending patterns and related data to hypothesize about causes of anomalies identified by a major retailer.

news from March 2006 ... new arrivals

I recently became a father for the first time ... and second time.

Isaac and Fred are fine and Emma is recovering well. I have taken some paternity leave and vacation to help us all adjust to life at home.

I have put some pictures and more details online for those who are interested.

news from February 2006 ... new phd candidate at giCentre

Susanne Bleisch began studies for a PhD at the giCentre this month.

An MGI graduate, Susanne will be developing the work that she undertook as part of her Masters dissertation entitled "Planning Hikes Virtually: Assessment of the Usefulness of Realistic 3D Visualizations" in which the GeoNOVA 3D visualization software was evaluated with a particular user group.

A part-time PhD candidate, Susanne will be working at the Institute for Geomatics Engineering of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). She will be supervised by Stephan Nebiker at FHNM and Jason Dykes at City University.

news from December 2005 ... end of term for mgi

The end of term for MGI students was celebrated with a giClub trip to the ice rink at Greenwich Maritime - this image shows some spatial data collected with a GPS receiver during the event.

More details about the MGI programmes and giClub activities are available online :

• masters degrees in geographic information systems / management
• mgi recent news

news from October 2005 ... Industrial Case Award at giCentre - new PhD student

David Lloyd has been appointed to work on an EPSRC funded Industrial CASE to conduct research in using geovisualization in evidence-based policy.

The work involves a collaboration between Leicestershire County Council and City University that will draw upon expertise in Geovisualization and Human Computer Interaction Design to design, develop and evaluate visualization tools in the context of policymaking in local government.

The work build upon Robert Radburn's successful use of data graphics in the local authority and Fenia Attilakou's MGI dissertation at City.

David and Robert are pictured outside City Hall following a presentation at the "Developing Best Practice for Presenting Statistics" in London.

news from December 2005 ... Developing Best Practice for Presenting Statistics

David Lloyd of the giCentre, Robert Radburn of Leicestershire County Council and I presented a paper entitled "geovisualization @ lcc / city" at City Hall. The paper described collaborative work that that is currently being undertaken as part of David's EPSRC funded PhD.

We are using techniques from Human Computer Interaction Design to evaluate bespoke geovisualization software for use in local government in conjunction with Robert's group at Leicestershire County Council. The work build upon Robert's successful use of data graphics in the local authority and Fenia Attilakou's MGI dissertation at City.

The meeting was organized by the Association of Regional Observatories and included presentations from CASA, GeoWise, the GLA and the Office of National Statistics to more than 60 delegates.

news from September 2005 ... National Teaching Fellowship Awards

I received a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy in September 2005. The award was presented at a dinner in central London by Bill Rammell, Minister for Higher Education.

New teaching fellows are awarded funding for use in projects that will make a significant contribution to their learning and teaching. I will use the award to develop my work in using visualization in teaching and learning, which draws directly upon my research in interactive cartography and geovisualization.

• cityNews article
• he academy news article

news from September 2005 ... mgi begins at giCentre

A new term and academic year began at City with a new influx of MGI students.

Induction week involved students taking advantage of their new GPS receivers to navigate around Regent's Park. More details about the MGI programmes are available online :

• masters degrees in geographic information systems / management

news from September 2005 ... industrial case award at giCentre

Leicestershire County Council and City University have been awarded a prestigious Industrial CASE studentship by the EPSRC to fund research in using geovisualization in evidence-based policy.

The work will draw upon expertise in Geovisualization and Human Computer Interaction Design to design, develop and evaluate visualization tools in the context of policymaking in local government.

We are currently in the process of selecting candidates to join the giCentre in London from October 2005 and spend 3 months on placement with the Research and Information Team at Leicestershire County Council.

Full details on the project and the institutions are available online.

• industrial case research

news from August 2005 ... phd research Studentship available

Leicestershire County Council and City University have been awarded a prestigious Industrial CASE studentship by the EPSRC to fund research in using geovisualization in evidence-based policy.

We are looking for well-qualified and highly motivated candidates with a good research record, excellent communication skills, initiative and experience in Geovisualization and Human Computer Interaction Design to participate in full-time PhD research. The work will involve designing, developing and evaluating visualization tools in the context of policymaking in local government.

The successful candidate will join the giCentre in London from October 2005 and spend 3 months on placement with the Research and Information Team at Leicestershire County Council.

Full details on the project, the institutions, eligibility considerations are available online along with applications procedures and forms:

• phd research studentship : applications invited

news from July 2005 ... iv05 Meeting at Greenwich

I attended the 9th Information Visualization conference at Greenwich University (iv05). I participated in the GeoVisualization symposia and chaired the 'Knowledge Visualization in Organisations' session.

The chaos following the London bombings meant that I presented a paper by Fotis Liarokapis and colleagues from the LOCUS project at City on 'Mobile Augmented Reality Techniques for GeoVisualization'.

news from June 2005 ... National Teaching Award

I have been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy. A total of 50 lecturers were chosen from 187 nominations submitted by higher education institutions across England and Northern Ireland.

Awards are made to those who demonstrate an ability to influence and inspire their students, to inspire their colleagues and to demonstrate a reflective approach to their teaching and to the support of learning.

Each recipient will be awarded funding for use in projects that will make a significant contribution to their learning and teaching. I will use the National Teaching Fellowship award to develop my work in using visualization in teaching and learning, which draws directly upon my research in interactive cartography and geovisualization.

• cityNews article

news from May 2005 ... Exploring Geovisualization published by Elsevier

Edited by Jason Dykes, Prof. Alan MacEachren (Penn State University, USA) and Prof. Menno-Jan Kraak (ITC, the Netherlands) it contains 36 edited and fully peer reviewed chapters that report upon the state of the art in disciplines that contribute to this exciting and rapidly evolving field.

The book contains contributions from key scientists in a number of fields and aims to establish common ground between relevant disciplines that can share knowledge and develop common techniques.

It contains a thematic density map of the topics covered within the 700 pages on the front cover.

More details are available from the Elsevier web site.

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