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Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

"The world is flat and rectangular", at least when it comes to the types of physical screens that we use for representing data and making decisions. The physical screens that we consider when creating visualizations for representing data, making decisions with this data, and learning about our environment, are predominantly flat and rectangular: our mobile phones and tablets, desktops, or even large wall or table displays. Nevertheless, technology is already evolving quickly: curved, bendable, and highly flexible displays, spherical displays, cubed displays, and even drone-based displays have emerged and are commercially available. These novel types of displays offer new ways to represent and explore data embedded in everyday environments, to communicate and share it.

Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Visualization, Games,    Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Virtual Reality

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

Memory is a central component in every computer system. The technological evolution has led to greater capacities and higher speeds, but essential properties of the interface between hardware and software have been unchanged for decades: Main memories were usually passive, largely homogeneous, and volatile. These properties are now so firmly anchored in the expectations of software developers that they manifest in their products.