InfraVis – The Swedish Research Infrastructure for Visualization Support
Paper i 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.
Författare
T. Weinkauf
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)
M. Romero
Linköpings universitet
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)
L. Besançon
Linköpings universitet
J. Ahlstedt
Lunds universitet
F. Berendt
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)
Monica Billger
Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Arkitekturens teori och metod
K. Danielsson
Umeå universitet
M. B. Davies
Lunds universitet
H. Filipsson
Lunds universitet
S. Gelfgren
Umeå universitet
Andreas Kerren
Linnéuniversitetet
Linköpings universitet
E. Larsson
Lunds universitet
Fabio Latino
Chalmers, Fysik, E-commons
E. Liliequist
Umeå universitet
I. Nyström
Uppsala universitet
K. Paulsson
Lunds universitet
M. Podkorytova
Umeå universitet
B. Pirzamanbein
Lunds universitet
M. Sjöström
Mittuniversitetet
A. Sopasakis
Lunds universitet
B. Thuresson
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)
J. Westin
Göteborgs universitet
A. Ynnerman
Linköpings universitet
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,
Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)
Datavetenskap (datalogi)
DOI
10.2312/visgap.20251157