Institute for Visualization & Perception Research

The Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR) is an interdisciplinary group whose research and contract activities focus on the development of tools, systems, displays and interactive techniques that enable individuals and groups to explore collaborative data sets by visual and other perceptual means.

Our goal is to facilitate and improve the exploration of various types of data, including massive, distributed and complex data sets. Areas in which we have worked include medicine (clinical trials, high-through-put screening, drug discovery), health, education, economics, crime statistics, network monitoring, satellite imagery, and homeland security.

Our work - which is both theoretical and applied - draws from the fields of computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, artificial intelligence, psychology and design arts.

The specific goals of the IVPR are:

• To apply knowledge of perception to the development of visualization technologies.
  
  
• To train visualization and visual analytics scientists.
  
  
• To disseminate visualization technology.
  
  
• To provide consultation in visualization to industry and government.
   

With its expertise in the areas of highly interactive visualization of complex data, including collaborative and distributed visualization, the IVPR can support the management, analysis, exploration and development of information systems.

Weave: With our partners in the multi-region Open Indicators Consortium (OIC), the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research lab has developed Weave (Web-based Analysuis and Visualization Environment). Weave's core code is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), and the Weave API under the Mozilla Public License (MPLv1.1). The web-based Weave platform enables users, from novices to advanced researchers, to analyze, visualize and disseminate data and indicators at nested levels of geography from any location at any time.  The Weave code is available for download. Please visit the Weave Project page which provides everything needed to install Weave.