Visible Human

Updated: January 15, 2008; G. Waloszek

Figure: Visible Human interface (click image for larger view)

Applications

Displays different anatomical views of the human body (via remote access) – simply impressing!

Authors, Date

Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Palaisant (HCIL, University of Maryland), Chris North (Computer Science University of Maryland); 1996

Links, Papers

• HCIL (University of Maryland): www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/
• The VisibleHuman Project (National Library of Medicine): www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
• Chris North, Ben Shneiderman, and Catherine Plaisant (1996), User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human. Proc. 1st ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, 74-82 (reprinted in B. Bederson & B. Shneiderman (2003). The Craft of Information Visualization. Morgan Kaufmann.)