Authors:
Marcus Kossatz
;
Sebastian Utzig
;
Simon Schneegans
;
Felix Lauer
;
Tobias Westphal
;
Jens Geelhaar
;
Bernd Froehlich
and
Patrick Riehmann
Affiliation:
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Keyword(s):
Historical Visualization, Glyph-based Visualization, Time-dependent Visualization, Information Visualization,
Visualization Applications, Interface and Interaction Techniques for Visualization, GIS, HGIS.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Abstract Data Visualization
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
General Data Visualization
;
Glyph-Based Visualization
;
Information and Scientific Visualization
;
Interface and Interaction Techniques for Visualization
;
Time-Dependent Visualization
;
Visualization Applications
Abstract:
HistoGlobe is an interactive historical geographic information system (HGIS) that provides students with
gathered and curated historical information for self-study and aids teachers during history classes. The system
visually integrates temporal and spatial aspects of historical events, as well as affiliations and alliances of
states, routes of historic people and groups, and finally, detailed multimedia information. HistoGlobe relies
on familiar interfaces such as globes and timelines but augments them with new techniques including directly
manipulable moving entities such as troops and a direction-preserving presentation of treaties and other collaborations
based on routing lenses. A field study with 12th graders revealed an overall solid usability of the
system and inspired the development of further features.