Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization

List of Contributors.- Introduction – the Best is Yet to Come.- Part 1: Evolving a Vision.- An Illuminated Path: The Impact of the Work of Jim Thomas.- The Evolving Leadership Path of Visual Analytics.- Part 2: Visual Analytics and Visualization.- Visual Search and Analysis in Complex Information Spaces – Approaches and Research Challenges.- Dynamic Visual Analytics – Facing the Real-Time Challenge.- A Review of Uncertainty in Data Visualization.- How to Draw a Graph, Revisited.- Using Extruded Volumes to Visualize Time-Series Data Sets.- Event Structuring as a General Approach to Building Knowledge in Time-Based Collections.- A Visual Analytics Approach for Protein Disorder Prevention.- Visual Storytelling in Education applied to Spatio-temporal Multivariate Statistics Data.- Part 3: Interaction and User Interfaces.- Top Ten Interaction Challenges in Extreme-Scale Visual Analytics.- GUI 4D – the Role and the Impact of Visual, Multimedia and Multilingual User Interfaces in ICT Applications and Services for Users Coming from the Bottom of the Pyramid – First Concepts, Prototypes, and Experiences.- Emotion in Human Computer Interaction.- Applying Artistic Color Theories to Visualization.- E-Culture and M-Culture: the Way that Communication Systems and Mobile Devices are Changing the Nature of Art, Design and Culture.- Part 4: Modeling and Geometry.- Shape Identification in Temporal Data Sets.- SSD-C: Smooth Signed Distance Colored Surface Reconstruction.- Geometric Issues in Object Manipulation in Task Animation and Virtual Reality.- An Analytical Approach to Dynamic Skin Deformation for Character Animation.- Part 5: Architecture and Displays.- The New Visualization Engine – the Heterogeneous Processor Unit.- Smart Cloud Computing.- Visualization Surfaces.- Part 6: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.- The Development of Mobile Augmented Reality.- Multimodal Interfaces for Augmented Reality.- Part 7: Technology Transfer.- Knowledge Exchange,Technology Transfer and the Academy.- Discovering and Transitioning Technology.- Technology Transfer at IBBT-EDM: a Case Study in the Computer Graphics Domain.- Building Adoption of Visual Analytics Software.- Author Index.