Linda Freyberg
UCLAB, FH Potsdam
Summary
As per Linda Freyberg, information visualization is a melting pot of various disciplines and fields, including human-computer interaction, semiotics, and information design. An important focus of her work is on the iconic dimension of knowledge organization systems and the epistemic potential of iconicity in the realm of digital cultural objects. The field is characterized by its interactive, abstract, and visual nature, which amplifies cognition and allows for the use of iconic and symbolic conventions to show relations and contextualize data. She highlights methods such as diagrammatic reasoning and data modeling as examples of visually understanding data.
Keywords
human-computer interaction, jury
Slides
Resources
- Visualizing cultural heritage (Linda Freyberg). Talk on YouTube.
- Fashion History by Entities: Artworks, Garments and Events, Linda Freyberg and Giacomo Nanni. Talk on YouTube.
- Freyberg, Linda (2021). Ikonizität der Information: Die Erkenntnisfunktion struktureller und gestalteter Bildlichkeit in der digitalen Wissensorganisation (Doctoral dissertation, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg).
- Card, Stuart K., Jock D. Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman (1999). Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies. San Francisco, Calif: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
- Drucker, Johanna. Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display. Digital Humanities Quarterly_005, no. 1 (10 March 2011).