July 2009

alternative visualisations of hierarchical data in 3d

tagged as:

data, edu, Generative Gestaltung, HFG Schwäbisch Gmünd, information, Interaktionsgestaltung, poster, processing, visualization

Course: 3-dimensionale Grundlagen im medialem Raum
Interaktionsgestaltung 2, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
Cooperation between Prof. Dr. Franklin Hernandez-Castro and Benedikt Groß

This course aims at imparting knowledge concerning the basic principles of the three dimensional space as well as fundamental visualisation techniques to the students. The course is divided in a lecture with practical parts.

Key aspects

conceptional development of visualisation models which are suited as demonstration of big and complex datasets
enlargen the set of information to three or more dimensions (traditional visualisation techniques examine most of the times only the possibilites of the two-dimensional space)
impart knowledge of analytical and methodical skills in three-dimensional thinking and visualisation

Subject of the project

Development of alternative visualisations of hierarchical data in the three-dimensional space

Currently all operating systems use as the only way to display data and folder structures lists and charts. The students develop new and unconventional approaches to display these data structures far away from lists and charts.