“What we aim for in the end is some sort of mechanism, that tells us, whether the users understood, what they were looking at.”
Jakob Karolus is a researcher at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems at the University of Stuttgart working in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Within the project SFB-TRR 161 “Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing” he wants to find out how different visualizations influence the eyemovement patterns of people.
Smartphones take our holiday pictures, send a reminder of upcoming appointments, and help us find the way to a meeting point. Cars are learning to see, computer generated images entertain us in cinemas and video games, and we view new products online in 3D before purchase.
Individuals, companies, organizations, and governments deal with information and data on a daily basis, in professional and private contexts. One of our great challenges is to extract the relevant information from ever increasing amounts of data produced by sensors, simulation, or as output from databases and information systems. Visual presentation is one of the key elements in extracting and communicating information. With this Visual Computing BLOG, we want to discuss fundamental questions of visual computing and the latest research developments.
