InfraVis – The Swedish Research Infrastructure for Visualization Support
Paper in proceeding, 2025
Essentially all academic research of today relies on analysis of data from a wide range of sources. Several underpinning, and rapidly developing, technologies are supporting the analysis of this data. Visualization serves as an interface to this ecosystem of tools and methods and integrates them into environments supporting scientific workflows, effectively sharing cognitive load between computers and humans. There is, however, a gap between the state-of-the-art in visual data analysis and current wide-spread academic practice. Support for the introduction of new, improved and tailored, visual data analysis environments thus has the potential to address challenges involving large and complex data, creating competitive advantages for researchers. To fill the gap and capitalize on this opportunity, the InfraVis initiative has been created in Sweden with the mission to operate an infrastructure consisting of visualization experts, software solutions, and access to high-end visualization laboratories. Users of InfraVis are offered assistance through a national helpdesk with rapid response times as well as more in-depth projects addressing specific data and software challenges. InfraVis provides software solutions based on development within connected research groups, curation of international software and best practice, and user training in the form of courses, seminars and on-line documentation. To build an infrastructure with national coverage, we have pooled together nine visualization environments in Sweden interconnected in a nodal structure. The nodes are hosted in proximity to research environments in visualization, which enables direct access to the research front as well as to state-of-art facilities. The governance structure of InfraVis is based on the leading researchers in visualization in Sweden as well as an international advisory board.
Author
T. Weinkauf
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
M. Romero
Linköping University
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
L. Besançon
Linköping University
J. Ahlstedt
Lund University
F. Berendt
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Monica Billger
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
K. Danielsson
Umeå University
M. B. Davies
Lund University
H. Filipsson
Lund University
S. Gelfgren
Umeå University
Andreas Kerren
Linnaeus University
Linköping University
E. Larsson
Lund University
Fabio Latino
Chalmers, Physics, E-commons
E. Liliequist
Umeå University
I. Nyström
Uppsala University
K. Paulsson
Lund University
M. Podkorytova
Umeå University
B. Pirzamanbein
Lund University
M. Sjöström
Mid Sweden University
A. Sopasakis
Lund University
B. Thuresson
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
J. Westin
University of Gothenburg
A. Ynnerman
Linköping University
Visgap 2025 the Gap Between Visualization Research and Visualization Software
20251157
9783038682899 (ISBN)
2025 Workshop on the Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software, VisGap 2025
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg,
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg,
Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)
Computer Sciences
DOI
10.2312/visgap.20251157