The rise of the Information Age and the ascendancy of
Computer Graphics come together in the area of Information
Visualization, where interactive graphical interfaces are used
for revealing structure, extracting meaning, and navigating large
and complex information worlds.
Increasing amounts of data and information and the availability
of fast digital network access (e.g., in the information highway
environment) have created a demand for querying, accessing, and
retrieving information and data. However, information technology
will not transform business, science, medicine, engineering, and
education if the users cannot use it easily and efficiently.
Technology must come to the users, taking their needs into
account. If we do not involve the users, we will develop useless
systems. One of the concerns of this field is the
human-information interface, and how advances in interactive
computer graphics hardware, mass storage, and data visualization
could be used to visualize information.
