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      The purpose of some computing articles seems to be to report, “Look what we can do!” Such reporting does not solve the designer's dilemma: how to support users in conducting their tasks. To some extent, this article addresses the designer's dilemma. The authors present a reasoned argument for the rise in the importance of information visualization. They see the advent of the Internet and the increasing computerization of business as fundamental to the emergence of information visualization as a means for relating to users' needs. As they define it, “information visualization deals with new classes of data and their associated analytical tasks” (p. 10). Though not a research article in the operational sense, the article does provide important perspectives on what the issues are. The authors do an adequate job, in the space available, of relating the growth of the discipline. They provide good descriptions of techniques that have been used, including finding suitable representations for items that do not have analogs in the real world. They do not place enough emphasis on the need for a fundamental understanding of how and when visualization supports users' intended functions. Nevertheless, in the research agenda provided, they indicate a firm comprehension of the issues that need to be addressed. As a summary article, the piece is readable and thought provoking—a good choice for those in need of quick access to the ideas driving the field.

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        Interactions  Volume 5, Issue 2
        March/April 1998
        54 pages
        ISSN:1072-5520
        EISSN:1558-3449
        DOI:10.1145/274430
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