Collaborative Visual Exploration and Presentation

Visualization plays a crucial role in many areas of e-Science. In this project, we aim at integrating visualization early on in the discovery process, in order to reduce data movement and computation times. Within many research projects, visualization is currently often established as the last step of a long pipeline of compute and data intensive processing stages. While the importance of this use of visualization is well known, facilitating visualization as a final step is not enough when dealing with e-Science applications. We address the challenges arising from the early collaborations enabled by these in-situ visualizations, and we investigate which role visualization plays to strengthen such collaborations, by enabling a more direct interaction between researchers.