NIH-NSF Visualization Research Challenges Report

U.S. National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD, U.S.A., January 2006

Editors: C. Johnson, R. Moorhead, T. Munzner, H. Pfister, P. Rheingans, and T. S. Yoo

In this report, the authors describe some of the remarkable achievements that visualization enables and discuss the major obstacles blocking the discipline's advancement. Their findings and recommendations reflect not only information gathered from visualization and applications scientists during the two workshops on Visualization Research Challenges but also input from the larger visualization community.

Contents

1 Executive Summary
2 The Value of Visualization
3 The Process of Visualization
         3.1 Moving Beyond Moore's Law
         3.2 Determining Success
         3.3 Supporting Repositories and Open Standards
         3.4 Achieving Our Goals
4 The Power of Visualization
         4.1 Transforming Health Care
         4.2 Transforming Science and Engineering
         4.3 Transforming Life
5 Roadmap
6 State of the Field
        6.1 Other Reports
        6.2 National Infrastructure
        6.2.1 Visualization Hardware
        6.2.2 Networking
        6.2.3 Visualization Software

40 pages, 8.5" x 11" Softcover, January 2006
ISBN 0-7695-2733-7
Catalog # R0235, $25.00 Members / List