Science and Smart GraphicsWissenschaft und intelligente Grafiken
Brian Fisher · it - Information Technology · 2009
Abstract As the field of informatics matures, the range of disciplines that contribute to our understanding of information systems and their use must increase. The International Symposium on Smart Graphics is one of the pioneers of this interdisciplinary scholarship of computation. The highly interactive workshop format includes participants from cognitive and perceptual sciences, art and design, and the humanities as well as the more familiar disciplines of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and computer graphics. This paper describes how the new science of visual analytics has built upon the interdisciplinary conversations that events such as Smart Graphics began. This new field of research holds a great deal of promise for a variety of application areas, and serves as an example of how the Smart Graphics approach can support other emerging fields of study.