The Grove Thoughts from and for The Grove Worldwide Network

Colin Ware provided the keynote at this year’s VizThink conference in San Jose and a follow-up workshop on “How Do Patterns Structure Visual Thinking.” He’s a researcher from the University of New Hampshire and quite academic, but in his talk I found validation for a growing consensus that intention is the key player in perception.

He began with an inquiry into the primary uses of visual language. I took a lot of notes, which you can read here if you click to magnify. But then he went to the findings from his research.

Colin Ware on Uses of Visual Language

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David Sibbet will be presenting a workshop at Viz Think in San Jose this February 24 at 2:00-3:30 called “Facilitating On-line With Graphics.” The workshop will cover the following:

Demonstration and exploration of how to guide Visual Planning meetings on web conferences using interactive visualization on tablet PCs and templates. This workshop will also share a case from TED where David worked with Autodesk to record the entire conference on Wacom tablets for multi-touch displays. Participants would:

* Experience a tablet recording demonstration
* Review principles for facilitating virtual meetings visually
* Get tips on types of tablets and software
* Best practices for guiding the meeting and getting convergence
* Use of Grove Graphic Guides® as templates for business planning
* Use of Grove’s Visual Planning Systems for designing your meetings

Check out the full conference schedule and registration at Viz Think.com.