CURRICULUM VITAE
of
Colin Ware
Director: Data Visualization Research Lab
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Chase Ocean Engineering Building
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
Phone (603) 862 1138
Email:
DEGREES:
B.Sc. (Psychology) (1972) - Durham University, England
M.A. (Psychology) (1973) - Dalhousie University
Ph.D. (Psychology) (1980) - University of Toronto
M.Math(Computer Science)(1985) - University of Waterloo
RANK AND DEPARTMENT/FACULTY:
Professor: Department of Computer of Computer Science, UNH
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Data Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics
CITIZENSHIPS: USA (Naturalized), Canadian (Naturalized), and British
DATE OF BIRTH: 11 February 1950
SOCIAL SECTRITY NUMBER: 001 94 5772
MARITAL STATUS: Married (Dianne Ramey) NUMBER OF CHILDREN: Two
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
1980-83 - Research Associate at the National Research Council, Division of
Physics.
Aug 14 1985 - Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick
July 1 1989 - Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick
July 1 1995-99 - Professor of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick
(currently adjunct prof)
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
Information Display
I have a long term interest is the application of theories of perception and cognition to the problem of the effective interactive display of information. The visual channel provides the broadest possible bandwidth into the human brain, but to be useful an information displays must be matched to human visual processing capabilities. Data can be systematically mapped to color, texture, the elements of form, simple motion and stereoscopic depth and my students and I have explored these mappings in a long series of studies. Another long standing interest is a theoretical understanding of dynamic stereoscopic displays. While static stereopsis has been extensively investigated, dynamic stereo displays have not. Yet moving stereo images can be more easily perceived (there are fewer stereoblind observers for moving image displays). Moving stereo displays can potentially provide the best possible basis for understanding spatial data. My book, Information Visualization: Perception for Design (1st and 2nd Editions) consolidated the work that has been done on the perceptual foundations of visualization and has helped established perception-based visualization as a significant sub-discipline. The most important addition in the second edition is a theory of visual thinking presented in the final chapter.
Spatial Interaction
Fast computer graphics now makes it possible to interactive with and navigate 3D "micro worlds" displayed on the screen of the graphics workstation. To be really useful, these environments need new interactive techniques and input devices to make navigation and object manipulation easy. Issues we have investigated include eye-hand coordination, the effects of lag, reaching in 3D and 2D and many studies of effective navigation techniques. As part of this research program, I invented the “Bat” a six degree-of-freedom input device and my students and I have developed a number of different ways of using this device. Current work includes issues in eye-hand coordination and visual/haptic interaction. Most recently I have developed (with Rick Komerska) a set of haptic state surface interaction methods that use pressure to encode state information.
Ocean Mapping: Interactive Visualization and Data Fusion
At UNH I direct the Data Visualization Research Lab (DVRL) which has the primary mandate develop new manipulation and display techniques understanding oceanographic data. We work with flow modelers, biologists, ocean engineers and hydrographers. My lab is part of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping.
My research in Ocean Mapping provides a valuable reality check on what might otherwise be ideas aired only in scholarly publications. Our work has a number of applications in the fusion of data from remotely operated and autonomous undersea vehicles as well as visualizing data that has relevance to environmental mapping and charting for navigation. Prior research in this area lead to Fledermaus, a commercial product further developed and marketed by Interactive Visualization Systems Inc. This is the leading 3D visualization software used in oceanography. I am currently leading the development GeoZui3D, a sophisticated geographical virtual environment to investigate issues of visualization and interaction, especially with real-time data sources. This allows for free navigation in space as well as time. It is used by whale ethologists, engineers designing autonomous submersibles and flow modelers, among others.
RESEARCH GRANTS:
2010 - NSF Interactive Causal Networks. $148,282 (3 years)
2009 - ONR Tools to compare diving-animal kinematics with acoustic behavior and exposure. $143,000 (2 years)
2007 - Granite State Technology Innovation Grant. ‘Climate and Change’
Visualization for immersive Full Dome environments. $44,000. With SkyScan.
Grant applied for May 17th. Awarded for July 1 start.
2006 - BBN subcontract to GI2Vis program Cognitive Systems Theory
Development – Visual Thinking $50,236
2003-7 - NSF Information Technology Reaseach Grant. Perceptual Optimization for Data Visualization, Ware (Lead PI), House (Texas A&M), Laidaw (Brown), Proehl (Dartmouth), 1,000,000 (3 yrs)
2001 - CICEET Bathymetric Modeling and Interactive 3-D Visualization of Great Bay Estuary. Mayer, Ware, Armstrong, (2 yrs) 178,115
2001 - SeaCoast Science Center 3D Exhibit system 50,000
2000- ongoing- NOAA Data Visualization Research Lab 160,000 pa
2000-3 - NSF (3 years) (Ware (PI) and Mayer) 148,000 pa
Multi-Scale Interaction with 3D data environments.
1999 - NSERC Operating Grant - 42,000 pa
Visually Mediated Human-Computer Interaction
1998 - NSERC Equipment Grant - 61,000
Workstations for Visualization research
1998-1999 - NSERC Operating Grant - 39,000 pa
Visually Mediated Human-Computer Interaction
1996-97 - TeleLearning NCE Principal Investigator - 00,000
Project 5.3 (No funding needed).
1996-97 - NSERC Collaborative R&D Grant
Software Management, Interpretation
and Debugging using 3D graphics. - 55,237
1996-97 - NSERC Strategic Operating Grant - 64,500
Interactive Stereo Computer Graphics
Environment (year 1 of 3)
Ware (PI), & Booth (at UBC)
(The amount represents the UNB share)
1993-98 - NSERC Operating Grant - 31,000pa
Visually Mediated Human-Computer Interaction
1995-96 - NSERC Collaborative R&D Grant
Software Management, Interpretation
and Debugging using 3D graphics.
BNR share awarded, Sept 1, 1995 - 35,000
(NSERC Share pending approval)
1995-96 - NSERC Strategic Operating Grant - 68,000
Software Visualization using 3D
Interactive Displays (year 3)
1995-96 - NSERC Equipment Grant - 29,560
High Resolution Stereo Projects
1994-95 - NSERC Strategic Operating Grant - 72,500
Software Visualization using 3D
Interactive Displays (year 2)
1993-94 - NSERC Strategic Operating Grant - 68,000
Software Visualization using 3D
Interactive Displays(year 1)
1991-92 - NSERC Equipment Grant - 61,488
Graphics Workstation
1992-93 - NSERC Equipment Grant - 51,590
Scientific Visualization Research
Equipment
1991-94 - NSERC Strategic Grant - 440,000
Hydrographic Ground Truthing. Wells, Lee, Nickerson, Ware, Derenyi, Mayer, Vanicek, Hay.
1991 - Challenge 91 - 2,240
1990-93 - NSERC Operating Grant - 27,000pa
Visually Mediated Human-Computer Interaction
1990-91 - NSERC Equipment Grant - 49,941
3D Interaction Workstation
1989-90 - NSERC Operating Grant - 18,000
Visually Mediated Human-Computer Interaction
1988-91 - NSERC Strategic Operating Grant - 327,000
Ocean Mapping: Integrated Interpretation Tools
(Principal Investigator:
5 other Co-investigators)
1989 - Sun Microsystems Equipment Grant - 79,100
1988-89 - NSERC Strategic Equipment Grant - 139,848
Ocean Mapping Facility
1988-89 - Academic Development Fund - 500
1988-89 - University Research Fund - 1,171
1988-89 - NSERC Operating Grant - 18,000
Visually Mediated Human-Computer Interaction
1988 - Challenge '88 - 2,320
1988-89 - Academic Development Fund - 500
1987-88 - NSERC Operating Grant - 18,000
1987 - University Research Fund - 1,218
1986-87 - Challenge '87 - 2,030
1986-87 - Academic Development Fund - 700
1985-86 - NSERC Operating Grant - 15,000
1986 - University Research Fund - 1,000
1986 - Challenge '86 - 1,824
CONTRACTS:
2002-3 Kinetic Visualization: Motion induced perceptual grouping. BBN, 50,000
2002-3 SeaCoast Science Center. Stereoscopic exhibit control software. 48,000
2001 Boeing: Perceptual issues in displays of Aircraft Maintenance Manuals. 11,000
1994 SatLantic: Man machine interface for Transportable Radarsat Terminal
Ware, Mayer 10,500
1993-94 Horler Information: System for the visualization of Digital Elevation Maps 19,000
1993 Questar Tangent: Methods for the Graphical Representation of Error
Mayer, Ware. 2,000
1991-92 Universal Systems Ltd: Hydrographic Data Cleaning System
Wells, Ware, Nickerson and Lee, 80,000
1991 Optech Ltd: Hydrographic Data Cleaning System. 7,324
1990-91 Fisheries and Oceans: Data Processing for Large Bathymetric Data Sets II. Wells, Ware, Nickerson and Lee. 42,500
1991 Optech Ltd: Hydrographic Data Processing System. 7,324
1990 Fisheries and Oceans: Data Processing for Large Bathymetric Data Sets I. Wells, Ware, Nickerson and Lee. 35,600
1990 Fisheries and Oceans: Automatic Error Detection and Correction for Hydrographic Data. (Principal Investigator), Ware, Fellows and Wells, 20,000
PUBLICATIONS:
1. PAPERS IN PREPARATION AND SUBMITTED:
Weinrich, M. Friedlaender, A., Cholewiak, D., Hurst, T., Parks, S., Thompson, M., Ware, C., and Wiley, D. Underwater Behavior of Associated Humpback Whales on their Feeding Grounds
in the Southern Gulf of Maine: Cooperation, Commensalism, or Parasitism?
Ware, C. and Arsenault, R. Target Finding with a Spatially Aware Hand-Held Chart Display, Human Factors (submitted).
Tyson, R.B., Friedlaender, A.S., Ware, C., Stimpert, A.K., and Nowacek, D.P. (submitted)
In synch? Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) mother and calf foraging behavior: insights from multi-sensor suction cup tags
1. BOOKS:
Ware, C. (2008) Visual Thinking for Design. Morgan Kaufman.
Ware, C (2004) Information Visualization: Perception for Design. 2nd Edition. Morgan Kaufman. San Francisco, 485 pages.
Ware, C. (2000) Information Visualization: Perception for Design. Morgan Kaufman. December, 435 pages.
3. PAPERS PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS:
1. Wiley, D., Ware, C. Bocconcelli, Cholewaik, D., Friedlaender, A., Thompson, M. and Weinrich, M. (2011) Underwater components of humpback whale bubble-net feeding. Behaviour, 148 575-602.
2. Canning, C., Crain, D, Eaton, Jr.T.S, , Nuesslya, K. Friedlaender,A., Hurst, T.,
Parks, S., Ware, C., Wiley, D, and Weinrich, M. (in press) Population-Level Lateralized Feeding Behaviour in North Atlantic Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), Animal Behavior. 82(4), 901-909.
3. Pineo, D., and Ware, C. (2011) Data visualization optimization via a computational model of human perception. ACM Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 17(3), 292-300.
4. Ware, C. Friedlaender, A.S. , Nowacek, D.P. (2011) Shallow and Deep Lunge Feeding of Humpback Whales in Fjords of the West Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Mammal Science. 227(3) 587-605.
5. Pineo, D., and Ware, C. (2010) Neural Modeling of Flow Rendering Effectiveness, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. 7(3). 20:1-20:15.
6. Ware, C. (2009) Quantitative texton sequences for legible bivariate maps. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 15(6) 1523-1529.
7. Hazen, E.L., Friedlaender, A.S., Michael A. Thompson, Ware, C. Weinrich,M.T., Halpin, P.N and Wiley, D.N. (2009)Fine-scale prey aggregations and foraging ecology of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) Marine Ecology Progress Series. 395. 75-89.
8. Friedlaender, A.S., Hazen, E.L., Nowacek, D.P., Halpin, P.N. Ware, C., Weinrich, M.T., Hurst, T., and Wiley, D. (2009) Diel Changes in Humpback Whale (Megaptera Novaeangliae) feeding behaivior in response to sand lance (Ammodytes SPP.) Behavior and Distribution. Marine Ecology Progress Series.395, 91-100.
9. Ware, C. Gilman, A.T., and Bobrow, R.J. (2008) Visual Thinking with an Interactive Diagram. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. 5223. 118-126. Also presented at the 5th international Diagrams Conference, Herrsching, Germany, Sept.
10. Ware, C. (2008) Towards a perceptual theory of flow visualization. IEEE Computer graphics and Applications.28(2),6-11.
11. Ware, C. and Mitchell, P. (2008) Visualizing Graphs in Three Dimensions. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. 5(1). 2:1-15.
12. Ware, C., Arsenault, R., Plumlee, M. & Wiley D. (2006) Visualizing the Underwater Behavior of Humpback Whales. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/August issue. 14-18.
13. Plumlee M., and Ware, C. (2006) Cognitive costs of zooming versus using multiple windows. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. 13(2) 1-31.
14. House, D.H. Bair, A., and Ware, C. (2006) An approach to the perceptual optimization of complex visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12(4) 509- 521.
15. Sullivan, B.M., Ware, C. and Plumlee, M. (2006), Linking audio and visual information while navigating in a virtual reality kiosk display, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. 15:2, 217-241.
16. Ware, C., and Bobrow, R., (2005) Supporting visual queries on medium sized node-link diagrams. Information Visualization. 4 (1), 49-58.
17. Komerska R., and Ware, C. (2004) Haptic state-surface interactions. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. November/December 52-59.
18. Ware, C., and Bobrow, R. (2004). Motion to support rapid interactive queries on Node-Link diagrams. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. 1, 1-15.
19. Doerner, R., and Ware, C (2004). Visual Interactive Stimuli Techniques: Exploring Data Using Behavioral Animation, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 15, 161-181.
20. Arsenault, R., and Ware, C. (2004) The Importance of Stereo, Eye Coupled Perspective and Touch for Eye-Hand Coordination. Presence:Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. 13(5), 549-559.
21. Kosara, R., Healey, C.G., Interrante, V., Laidlaw, D.H., and Ware, C. (2003) Thoughts on User Studies: Why, How and When. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. July, 20-25.
22. Bartram, L., Ware, C. and Calvert, T. (2003) Moticons: Detection, Distraction and Task. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, special issue on Notifications and Interruptions, 58(5), pp. 515-545.
23. Irani, P. and Ware, C. (2003) Diagramming Information Structures using 3D Perceptual Primitives. ACM Transactions on CHI. ACM Press. 1-19
24. Ware, C., and Purchase, H., Colpoys L. and McGill, M. (2002) Cognitive Measurements of Graph Aesthetics. Information Visualization. vol 1. 103-110.
25. Laramee and Ware, C., Rivalry (2002) Rivalry and Interference with a Head Mounted Display. ACM Transactions on CHI. 9(3) 1-14.
26. Bartram, L., and Ware, C., (2002) Filtering and Brushing with Motion. Information Visualization, vol 1 (1) 66-79.
27. Ware, C. (2001) Designing with a 2 1/2D Attitude. Information Design Journal 10(3) 255-262.
28. Irani, P., Ware, C. and Tingley, M. (2001) Using Perceptual Syntax to Enhance Semantic Content in Diagrams. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. September, 76-85.
29. Ware, C. and Rose, J. (1999) Rotating virtual objects with real handles. ACM Transactions on CHI. Rotating virtual objects with real handles, 6(2) 162-180
30. Parker, G., Franck, G and Ware, C. (1998) Visualization of large nested graphs in 3D. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 9, 299-317
31. Ware, C. Gobrecht, C. and Paton, M (1998) Dynamic adjustment of stereo display parameters. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. 28(1) 56-65.