All you need to know about Visual Thinking

Colin Ware

Current Residence: New Hampshire, United States of America Title: Director of the Data Visualization Research Lab Organization: University of New Hampshire

Ware’s book Information Visualization: Perception for Design has become the standard reference for those who with to understand what the science of perception can tell us about information display.  His new book, Visual Thinking for Design, presents and active vision approach to the process of visual reasoning. Ware also likes to build practical visualization systems. Fledermaus, a commercial 3D geospatial visualization system widely used in oceanography developed from his initial prototypes.  His visualization of global ocean currents has just appeared in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. Colin Ware is Director of the Data Visualization Research Lab. which is part of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. He has advanced degrees in both computer science (MMath, Waterloo) and in the psychology of perception (PhD,Toronto) and he has published over 120 scientific relating to perception and data visualization.