The articles in this special section focus on scientific visualization and information technology. Visual communication can provide a method to make information known or understandable to the general public. Visual communication in public spaces, such as museums, science centers, and mainstream media, is gaining momentum driven by the success of interactive visualization in exploration of scientific data. We are now seeing different installations and specific tools to convey knowledge through interactive and exploratory visual communication in a wide variety of settings. For this Special Issue, we solicited papers describing work based on visualization in public spaces from both a technology and methodology perspective.

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公共空间的可视化

本专区的文章侧重于科学可视化和信息技术。视觉传达可以提供一种方法，使公众了解或理解信息。由于交互式可视化在探索科学数据方面的成功，公共空间（例如博物馆、科学中心和主流媒体）中的视觉交流正在获得动力。我们现在看到了不同的装置和特定的工具，可以在各种环境中通过交互式和探索性的视觉交流来传达知识。在本期特刊中，我们征集了从技术和方法论角度描述基于公共空间可视化工作的论文。