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Increasing amounts of data and information and the availability of fast digital network access (e.g., the World Wide Web) have created a demand for querying, accessing, and retrieving information and data. Unlike most scientific numerical data, information is abstract having no physical form or representation. Information visualization involves the conversion of the abstract into convrete visual representations using among others computer graphics and imaging techniques.

Information visuialization is an increasingly important research area and is crucial for the success of the information revolution. Effective visulaizations will enable users from all walks of life to use the information highway wasily and efficiently.

The workshop on "Visualization of Information and Data: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?" will focus on all aspects of visualizing information and how users interact with digital information. It will foster an exchange of ideas on all aspects of information visualization and human-information interaction. The goals of the workshop are to bring together some of the most active and well known researchers and developers in Information Visualization from Europe, the United States, and Canada to spend two days of intensive brain-storming and accomplish the following:

The scope of the meeting and workshop on "Data And Information Visualization: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here - Scientific and Technological Issues" is to bring together most active and well known researchers and developers in Information Visualization from Europe, US, and Canada. The program consists of Keynote and Capstone addresses, main lectures, and a keynote panel, and presentations of scientific and technical papers, posters, and demonstrations. The extensive program and the planned discussions will draw the state of the art of this important technology and outline potential future directions. This publication contains the program, abstracts of some of the talks, and short papers describing the short presentations and posters.

We would like to thank the many volunteers from the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean who spent many hours and days in making this Workshop a reality. Among them are Mrs. Judy Brown, Dr. J.-P. Caliste, Mrs. Bernice Dubois, Dr. Stephen G. Eick, Dr. Mountaz Hasecoet-Zizi, Prof. Hans Hagen, and Mr. Ari Pernick. We are grateful for the generous support of the French Ministère de l'Education Nationale de l'Enseignment Supéreur de la Recherche, especially, Mr. J. P. Hochard Director, who made possible this meeting, the US Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), the US National Science Foundation (NSF), University of Kaiserslautern, Univeristy of Iowa, CODATA France, the CODATA France, the CODATA Data/Information Technology and Visualization Task Group, and the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Human-Centered Information Systems.


J.-E. Dubois N.D. Gershon J.-J. Royer

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