The entirety of Ben Fry’s acknowledgments page for his master’s thesis. A picture is worth a thousand thanks. Post script—he didn’t get to do this for his PhD thesis (it’s just a normal “thanks mom and dad!” page).

Man, do I ever wish I was going to Pervasive this year. First of all, it’s in Sydney Australia. I so so want to get down there. Second, there are some really good workshops that will take place the weekend before the conference. I’m helping to review submissions for the Pervasive Expression workshop, organized by […]

Next week, I’ll be in the Netherlands for the Sensami symposium. This symposium is organized by the largest technical universities in Holland through their computer science student organizations (on a side note, I’d just like to say how I love democratic socialist countries where student unions have so much power and money!). I’ll also be […]

The Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation
Catherine Plaisant
There are 4 traditional methods for evaluation of Information Visualization:

Controlled Experiments comparing design elements - compare specific widgets, compare mappings of information to graphical display
Usability Evaluation of a tool - used to provide feedback on the problems users encounter with a tool
Controlled Experiments comparing two (or more) tools - […]

Authors: Pederson E., Sokoler, T.
“We have developed a prototype architecture that makes up the technical framework for further use studies. The prototype encompasses capture of auditory and visual data, abstraction of such data into compact streams, synthesizing of auditory, visual and haptic imagery from streams of abstract data, and finally display at the receiving end […]