Development of Internet-based sonification and visualization tools

• Grant number: 00/14318-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: July 01, 2001
• End date: April 30, 2002
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
• Principal Investigator: Rosane Minghim
• Grantee: Rosane Minghim
• Host Investigator: Haim Levkowitz
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States

Abstract

The field of Data Visualization has grown widely in the past years. However, many problems remain open to research, some of which are discussed in this research plan. Particularly, two main research fields are discussed here: 1) sonification; and 2) data models for integration of scientific visualization techniques. In the sonification field, the intent is to develop a configurable sonification internet client that matches the user's needs and hardware configuration, following the current development at ICMC of a distributed visualization and sonification prototype. In the data model field, our intent is to further develop a data model (also under development at ICMC) that will encompass the qualities of visualization techniques based on two different approaches: direct volume rendering and reconstruction. (AU)