Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, Stockholms universitet/KTH
Principles for Visualisation
Literature
There is a lot of authors writing of Information Visualization. Here is a list of the most famous ones:
- Ben Shneiderman Professor at the University of Maryland.
- Bederson and Shneiderman: The Craft of Information Visualization - readings and reflections, Kaufman Publisher 2003.
- Robert Spence Professor Emeritus of Informations Engineering at Imperial Collage in London.
- Professor Spence is the author of the book Information Visualization, whith a perspective of cognition and mental models.
- Edward Tufte Professor Emeritus at Yale University.
- Edward Tufte is the author of a mass of awarded books in information design and visualization
- Colin Ware is Director of the Data Visualization Research Lab.
He is the author of the book used in this course, see below.
Course book
The book, Information Visualization - perception for design, used in this course is written by Colin Ware. This book is choosen because of its broad perspective on this topic.
