Innovative Design and Creation of Visual Interfaces: Advancements and Trends

Innovative Design and Creation of Visual Interfaces: Advancements and Trends

Ben Falchuk, Adérito Fernandes-Marcos

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 411

ISBN13: 9781466602854|ISBN10: 1466602856|EISBN13: 9781466602861

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0285-4

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Computer graphics and digital design have come a long way in recent years, and it is difficult to keep up with the latest trends in software development and output.

Innovative Design and Creation of Visual Interfaces: Advancements and Trends offers the cutting-edge in research, development, technologies, case studies, frameworks, and methodologies within the field of visual interfaces. The book has collected research from around the world to offer a holistic picture of the state of the art in the field. In order to stay abreast of the latest trends, this volume offers a vital resource for practitioners and academics alike.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Volume 1

Chapter 1

NRU (“near you”): Real-World Interaction with a Mobile Phone (pages 1-12)

Mathias Dahlström, Richard Lewis Jones, Marko Balabanovic

NRU (“near you”) is a new mobile phone application for finding nearby activities. The application displays restaurants, bars, cafes, and so forth close to the user, on a display that updates as the user rotates it and moves it around...

Chapter 2

Aesthetic Expectations for Information Visualization (pages 13-33)

Anna Ursyn

This article explores the landscape of creative endeavors in the new media art and reflects on aesthetics of information visualization. When using computer based information visualization to show data interactively in many...

Chapter 3

Organix: Creating Organic Objects from Document Feature Vectors (pages 34-46)

Robert J. Hendley, Barry Wilkins, Russell Beale

This paper presents a mechanism for generating visually appealing but also effective representations for document visualisation. The mechanism is based on an organic growth model which is driven by features of the object to be...

Chapter 4

Tangible Interfaces for Art Restoration (pages 47-58)

Leonardo Bonanni, Maurizio Seracini, Xiao Xiao, Matthew Hockenberry, Bianca Cheng Costanzo, Andrew Shum, Romain Teil, Antony Speranza, Hiroshi Ishii

Few people experience art the way a restorer does: as a tactile, multi-dimensional and ever-changing object. The authors investigate a set of tools for the distributed analysis of artworks in physical and digital realms. Their work...

Chapter 5

Calligraphic Video: Using the Body’s Intuition of Matter (pages 59-75)

Sha Xin Wei

Since 1984, Graphical User Interfaces have typically relied on visual icons that mimic physical objects like the folder, button, and trash can, or canonical geometric elements like menus, and spreadsheet cells. GUI’s leverage our...

Chapter 6

World-in-Miniature Interaction for Complex Virtual Environments (pages 76-90)

Ramón Trueba, Carlos Andujar, Ferran Argelaguet

Object occlusion is a major handicap for efficient interaction with 3D virtual environments. The well-known World in Miniature (WIM) metaphor partially solves this problem by providing an additional dynamic viewpoint through a...

Chapter 7

TagClusters: Enhancing Semantic Understanding of Collaborative Tags (pages 91-106)

Ya-Xi Chen, Rodrigo Santamaría, Andreas Butz, Roberto Therón

Many online communities use TagClouds, an aesthetic and easy to understand visualization, to represent popular tags collaboratively generated by their users. However, due to the free nature of tagging, such collaborative tags have...

Chapter 8

Magnet Mail: A Visualization System for Emails (pages 107-118)

Paulo Castro, Adriano Lopes

Magnet Mail (MM) is a visualization system for emails based on a zoomable interface and on manipulation of objects. Users are able to search, analyze and understand relations among email messages as long as they provide searching...

Chapter 9

An Assistant Interface to Design and Produce a Pop-Up Card (pages 119-130)

Sosuke Okamura, Takeo Igarashi

This article describes an assistant interface to design and produce pop-up cards. A pop-up card is a piece of folded paper from which a three-dimensional structure pops up when opened. The authors propose an interface to assist the...

Chapter 10

Organ Augmented Reality: Audio-Graphical Augmentation of a Classical Instrument (pages 131-147)

Christian Jacquemin, Rami Ajaj, Sylvain Le Beux, Christophe d’Alessandro, Markus Noisternig, Brian F.G. Katz, Bertrand Planes

This paper discusses the Organ Augmented Reality (ORA) project, which considers an audio and visual augmentation of an historical church organ to enhance the understanding and perception of the instrument through intuitive and...

Volume 2

Chapter 11

Line Drawings that Appear Unsharp (pages 149-162)

Hans Dehlinger

A straight line, pen-drawn and executed on a pen-plotter, is by default sharp and crisp. This is the nature of a straight line between two points. Likewise, drawings generated from such lines are by definition sharp. This paper...

Chapter 12

Materials of the Data Map (pages 163-175)

Brian Evans

Data mapping is the essence of being human. This report follows the process of data mapping; the transmission of a structured utterance from one domain to another. It starts with signals in the world and moves through experience and...

Chapter 13

Digital Images: Interaction and Production (pages 176-191)

Linda Matthews, Gavin Perin

The valence of any visual paradigm and its accompanying technologies is subject to the contingencies of political regimes and cultural shifts. The instigation, implementation and even reconfiguring of any associated technological...

Chapter 14

Creative Interfaces: Development of New Integrated and Visual Solutions (pages 192-219)

Ioana Armiano

Recent developments in process interaction solutions are helping companies and educational institutions to reduce training costs, enhance visualization, and increase communication. Service personnel can make more informed decisions...

Chapter 15

Criteria for the Creation of Aesthetic Images for Human-Computer Interfaces: A Survey for Computer Scientists (pages 220-250)

Gabriele Peters

Interaction in modern human-computer interfaces is most intuitively initiated in an image-based way. Often images are the key components of an interface. However, too frequently, interfaces are still designed by computer scientists...

Chapter 16

On Not Being Able to Draw a Mousetrap (pages 251-267)

James Faure Walker

A hundred years ago officers entering the Royal Navy took an exam where they had to draw a mouse-trap. At the time there was much discussion, and some despair, about competence, and about teaching. For amateurs, drawing manuals...

Chapter 17

User Experiences and Differences in Viewing Architectural Images with Various Interfaces (pages 268-290)

David Fonseca, Oscar García, Marc Pifarré, Eva Villegas

This paper proposes an empirical approach to the visualization phase of architectural images, employing established concepts, methodologies, and measurement techniques found in media psychology and user-centered studies. The paper...

Chapter 18

Rain Simulation in Dynamic Scenes (pages 291-305)

Anna Puig-Centelles, Nicolau Sunyer, Oscar Ripolles, Miguel Chover, Mateu Sbert

Rain is a complex phenomenon and its simulation is usually very costly. In this article, the authors propose a fully-GPU rain simulation based on the utilization of particle systems. The flexibility of CUDA allows the authors to...

Chapter 19

A Simple Physically-Based 3D Liquids Surface Tracking Algorithm (pages 306-317)

Gonçalo N. P. Amador, Abel J. P. Gomes

Navier-Stokes-based methods have been used in computer graphics to simulate liquids, especially water. These physically based methods are computationally intensive, and require rendering the water surface at each step of the...

Chapter 20

Accurate Infrared Tracking System for Immersive Virtual Environments (pages 318-343)

Filipe Gaspar, Rafael Bastos, Miguel Sales

In large-scale immersive virtual reality (VR) environments, such as a CAVE, one of the most common problems is tracking the position of the user’s head while he or she is immersed in this environment to reflect perspective changes in...

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