From the desktop to stereo walls to the fully immersive environments, integrated information spaces can aid scientists’ discovery and communication – interactive visual analysis enables users to apprehend non-obvious information and relationships. For example in many dynamic systems, structure and function are related. In order to understand these systems then, spatial, abstract, and temporal information must be available and presented concurrently and on demand. Information-Rich Virtual Environments (IRVEs) address this problem of effectively delivering heterogeneous information to multiple platforms.

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Still, the visualizations chosen and the display form factors also varies to the research question being asked; the Visual Computing Group provides the necessary expertise to leverage the latest technologies and University resources. Members of the Visual Computing Group actively participate in the development of International Standards for networked 3D graphics and visualization systems (e.g. Web3D Consortium, ISO, W3C, DICOM, Open Geo-spatial Consortium).