Lessons and courses ideas

Tutorial on web usage for chemistry

• Ideas from the Brown Bag and the AdvChemViz courses. Goal is to make the users aware of the possibilities offered by the web. Which tools for a possible course on Web page creation for chemists?

Immersive Visualization and Virtual Reality

• Visualize to understand.
• Problems with 3D perception.
• Interact to understand.
• Hw and sw for immersive visualization.
• Immersive user interfaces.

Animation for Scientific Visualization

• Animation to build a mental image of the phenomena.
• Why animate?
• Rules for an effective movie.
• Risks (movie: "The Danger of Glitziness and other Visualization Faux Pas").
• Movie analysis: "Study of a Numerically Modeled Severe Storm" and others created by CSCS.
• Applications: Xgobi and its Grand Tour.

Information Visualization

• Information Visualization scope and goals.
• Differences with Scientific Visualization.
• Multidimensional data.
• Techniques.
• Information Visualization applications analysis (Parallel Coordinates, Xgobi, Visual Recurrence Analysis).
• Human perception role in Information Visualization.

Visual communication

• Definition
• Process
• Message parts
• Difference with Infographics (eg. Alberto Cairo)
• See what he know
• Optical illusions
• Visual language (design, info)