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| Carsten
Wierwille is Vice President Client Partner for Plumb Design, a New York-based
interactive service firm known primarily for its innovative Thinkmap
interface technology. Mr. Wierwille has been responsible for a number of Knowledge Management and eBusiness engagements for Plumb Design since he joined the firm 1999. He has extensive experience in the areas of information design, informration visualization, and strategy development. He calls upon his experience as a management consultant with Andersen Consulting to help organizations harness the value of their information and knowledge assets. Mr. Wierwille has a graduate degree in political science from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Contribution: 3D Information Spaces: Fun or Function? Over the last 10 years, artists, information designers, and software developers have experimented with 3D data representation techniques that offer increased scale, complexity, and interactivity. Most of these 3D data representations share attributes of both a functional and an artistic pursuit, a dichotomy not always satisfactorily reconciled. For which types of users, and in what context, can spatial data representations ("information visualization") foster users' ability to search, retrieve, process, and interact with complex information? What happens to interfaces as designers move beyond windows, icons, and pull-down menus? Can we analyze human-computer interfaces beyond their pure utility value by examining the "aesthetics and poetics of navigation" (Lev Manovich)? I will attempt to answer some of these questions by referring both to Plumb Design’s work (such as the Visual Thesaurus) as well as 3D data representations in online art and commercial software. |
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