Graphics, Visualization
and the
Social Sciences
Workshop
8 & 9 May 1997
Burleigh Court
Loughborough University
Contents
Section 1
Executive Summary and Recommendations
Background to the Workshop — Anne Mumford
Graphics Visualization and the Social Sciences —David Unwin
References, Contacts and Acronyms
Section 2 (only available in paper version)
Visualizing Spatial Development Through Agent-Based Simulations — M. Batty 1
Developing a Visualization Gateway to Census Data at MIDAS — J. Carter 5
Using (Geo)Graphical Environment on the World Wide Web to Improve Public 11
Participation in Social Science Research — S. Carver
Design Visualisation and Communication: The Application of Computer Aided 15
Design and Animation in Landscape Design Teaching — A. Clayden
Visualising Urban Environments for Planning and Design 19
M. Dodge, A. Smith and S. Doyle
Visualisation Software, Complex Datasets and the Social Sciences 25
B. Francis and J. Pritchard
coMentor. A Collaborative WWW-Based Virtual Environment to Support 31
Social Science Students — G. Gibbs, C. Skinner and A. Teal
Seeing Structures and Colouring Up Theories — B. Hillier 39
Hypermedia Representations of an Ethnography Opening Pandora's Box? 59
B. Holbrook, B. Dicks, A. Coffey and P. Atkinson
Supporting Flexible Manipulation and Presentation of Statistics — R. Inder 63
Visualisation of Fuzzy Boundaries of Geographic Objects 69
B. Jiang and M. Batty
Using Java to Animate an Exploratory Spatial Analysis Tool 75
J. Macgill and S. Openshaw
Virtual Reality and Case-Based Reasoning: An Application for Intelligent 79
Training — L. Oliveira and I. Watson
The Handling of Maps in a Visual Archive for the Social Sciences 83
I. D. H. Shepherd
Visualising Past Geographies: The use of Animated Cartograms to Represent 95
Long-Run Demographic Change in Britain — H. Southall and B. White
Graphics, Visualisation and the Social Sciences — D. J. Unwin 103
New Graphical Displays that use Colour — G. J. G. Upton 109
Simulations of Urban Growth with Models of Pollution Property Rights and 115
Subcentre Formation — C. J. Webster and F. Wu
The Visualisation of Geographical Data using SAGE 123
S. Wise, J. Ma and B. Haining
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