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The desire for increasingly intuitive and immersive visualization systems has created a need for diverse resources that support the human-computer interface. Visualization laboratories have growing sets of these specialised resources and managing them has become a complicated and lengthy task. Choosing and utilising resources in a given visualization requires extensive information about each to be available. This paper presents an ontological approach to the description of resources, their capabilities, and their software interfaces. Using this ontology, a software design for the support of resource detection, choice and utilisation is presented. By breaking the dependency of visualizations on specific resources, adaptability and portability is improved.
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Potter, R., Wright, H. (2007). An Ontological Approach to Visualization Resource Management. In: Doherty, G., Blandford, A. (eds) Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification. DSV-IS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4323. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69554-7_12
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