An ontological approach to visualization resource management

Authors:
Richard Potter;Helen Wright
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, The University of Hull, Hull, UK;Department of Computer Science, The University of Hull, Hull, UK
Venue:
DSVIS'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Interactive systems: Design, specification, and verification
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The desire for increasingly intuitive and immersive visualization systems has created a need for diverse resources that support the human-computer interface. Visualization laboratories have growing sets of these specialised resources and managing them has become a complicated and lengthy task. Choosing and utilising resources in a given visualization requires extensive information about each to be available. This paper presents an ontological approach to the description of resources, their capabilities, and their software interfaces. Using this ontology, a software design for the support of resource detection, choice and utilisation is presented. By breaking the dependency of visualizations on specific resources, adaptability and portability is improved.