Andrew Fish has been awarded an EPSRC grant for his project Automatic Diagram Generation.
Diagrams are an effective means of conveying a wide variety of different sources of information. The automatic generation of diagrams is essential for tasks such as the presentation of multiple views of large scale data sets. Enabling multiple significant relationships to be clearly presented greatly enhances the utility of visualisations. The project aims to develop a unified framework for automatic diagram generation, allowing a mixture of features from different diagram types and enhancing control over layout; these theoretical advances are an essential precursor to use in practice. The project will provide significant academic impact (advances in the field, plus interaction between researchers in distinct fields) and industrial impact (improved support for ontology analysts, thereby reducing costs of product development cycles), and societal impact (enhanced communication between researchers and the public via improved visualisation capabilities). The involvement of prominent national and international academics from related fields together with project partner Nokia will help to ensure the success of the project and assist in achieving long term impact.
