Colin Ware

Colin Ware is Director of the Data Visualization Research Lab which is part of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. Ware has a special interest in applying theories of perception to the design of data interfaces. He has advanced degrees in both computer science (MMath, Waterloo) and in the psychology of perception (PhD,Toronto). He has published over 120 scientific articles ranging from rigorously scientific contributions to the Journal of Physiology and Vision Research to applications oriented articles in ACM Transactions on Graphics and Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. His book Information Visualization: Perception for Design is now in its second edition.  His new book, Visual Thinking for Design, has just appeared. Ware also likes to build practical visualization systems. Fledermaus, a commercial 3D geospatial visualization system widely used in oceanography developed from his initial prototypes.  His visualization of global ocean currents appears on Science on a Sphere in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington.  For the past six years he has enjoyed working with biologists and engineers developing tools to interpret data from tagged humpback whales.