Seminar-News: Information MappingInformation MappingSneak Peek von Edward Tuftes neuem Buch- (Found July 2, 2008 ) »Beautiful Evidence« wird der neue Titel von Edward Tufte heissen. Einen kleinen Vorgeschmack gibt es auf seiner Website.http://seminare.design.fh-aachen.de/imap/2004/03/07#a279 Five years of plasticbag.org: The Visualisations- (Found July 2, 2008 ) A few days ago I put up a dump of every post ever published on plasticbag.org for people to rip apart as they pleased. I thought some people might decide to visualisations or to analyse word frequency or link frequency or whatever. To be honest, I've not had the most overwhelming response ever (but then again it's not like I was giving away free chocolate bars or anything), but I've really enjoyed the stuff I have received.http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2004/11/five_years_of_plasticbagorg_the_visualisations.... Flowmaps, The Imaginaries of Global Integration- (Found July 2, 2008 ) How did the globalizing world of the 1990s become visible as a unified political-economic system And what happens, when a world becomes visiblehttps://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/bhflowmaps/ Zipdecode- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Sogenannte "Ad-Hoc-Queries" sind Suchinterfaces bei denen mit jedem Tastendruck die anzeige der Suchergebnisse aktualisiert wird (bekanntes Beispiel ist die Song-Suche in iTunes).Zipdecode von Ben Fry ist ein visuelles Hilfsmittel zum geographischen Suchen von Postleitzahlen in Nordamerika: jeder Tastendruck löst einen Zoomvorgang aus.http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/ Datafountain: Money translated to water- (Found July 2, 2008 ) »This fountain is connected to money currency rates on the internet. It is realtime! Refreshed every five seconds. This mobile fountain measures 5x4x3 meters. The relation between money and water is evident. On our datafountain we display the Yen, Euro and Dollar (¥€$). Currency rates are closely interconnected; their interdependence is visible in water. The design of the casing was kept as minimal as possible. The water is the thing to look at and listen to.«http://www.koert.com/work/datafountain/ MapTools.org- (Found July 2, 2008 ) »MapTools.org, a resource for users and developers in the open source mapping community, and a home to many open source projects. The projects that are hosted here offer essential services including: latest downloads, CVS repositories for source code, bug lists, community mailing lists, and project documentation.«http://www.maptools.org/ Hazard Maps- (Found July 2, 2008 ) »The Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) kartographiert extreme Naturereignisse von der lokalen bis zur landesweiten Ebene« via Fundsachenhttp://www.hazardmaps.gov/atlas.php The tale of the vibrating shoes- (Found July 2, 2008 ) »Researchers at National ICT Australia, a consortium of universities and government departments, created the size-10 brogues to demonstrate alternative computing interfaces. "We're using the shoes as a bit of fun but also to show people that we can output information from a computer in other ways than through a screen," says Professor Peter Eades."« via datensicht Newshttp://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1289551.htm biodetection- (Found July 2, 2008 ) »biological information visualization: a special sort of plant that changes color when it detects explosive substances in the soil, with the potential to be used to discover & remove hidden landlines.« via information aesthetics cph127 aresa.dkhttp://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/04/biodetection.html scents of space- (Found July 2, 2008 ) »a smell 'visualization', which utilizes alternative human senses to convey evocative & memorable experiences. computer-controlled fragrance dispensers stimulate the human olfactory system, while colored lights animate & augment the space.« haque.co.uk information aestheticshttp://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/03/scents_of_space.html |