Section: Application Domains

Panorama

Research in visual analytics can profit from the challenges and requirements of real-world datasets. Aviz develops active collaboration with users from a range of application domains, making sure it can support their specific needs. By studying similar problems in different domains, we can begin to generalize our results and have confidence that our solutions will work for a variety of applications.

We apply our techniques to important medical applications domains such as bioinformatics and brain studies. In particular, we are interested in helping neuroscientists make sense of evolving functional networks, in the form of weighted and/or dynamic graphs.

Other application domains include:

• Digital Humanities in general, and in particular with the Cendari European project with historians from most European countries, and the joint project with Microsoft Research and Inria on Graph Visualization;

• Genealogy, in cooperation with North Carolina State University;

• Digital Libraries, in cooperation with the French National Archives and the Wikipedia community.