sbc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Steve B Cousins) (12/15/88)
Does anyone have any pointers to work on the display of temporal information? I've been trying to compile a list of different display methods to use in building a front end to a temporal reasoning system. For example, calendars are one way to display time, and time lines (like you see in history books) are another. I guess some people must have looked into this, but I haven't been able to find any references so far. Thanks in advance. Steve Cousins sbc@wucs1.WUSTL.EDU Medical Informatics Group Washington University
spf@whuts.ATT.COM (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm) (12/16/88)
> Does anyone have any pointers to work on the display of temporal > information? I've been trying to compile a list of different > display methods to use in building a front end to a temporal reasoning > system. For example, calendars are one way to display time, and > time lines (like you see in history books) are another. I guess > some people must have looked into this, but I haven't been able > to find any references so far. For time-series data, you might be interested in a dynamic display my colleagues and I have been investigating. Dynamic Representation of Multivariate Time Series Data J.J.Mezrich, S.P.Frysinger, and R.Slivjanovski J. of the American Statistical Assocation Vo.79/Num385 March 1984 We used auditory and visual displays to represent each time sample of the time series, and "played" the resulting "frames of data" in sequence to display the whole time series. Among other interesting aspects of this display (especially the use of sound), it allowed the data analyst to - vary the speed of the display - vary the direction of the display (forward or back in time; they don't sound/look the same!) - augment individual variables (through color and timbre) Hope this helps! Steve Frysinger ***** You can say I wanna be free. I can say someday I will be. -- James Taylor