Towards Synchronizing Heterogeneous Data Sources and Information Visualization

Abstract: This paper recommends an approach to synchronize 3D Information Visualization (IVIS) and heterogeneous data sources based on the Mediator-Wrapper architectural pattern. In addition, a bidirectional extension of the IVIS Reference Model, as proposed by Card et al. (1999), is introduced. Moreover, a prototypical implementation of the proposed IVIS infrastructure is presented utilizing the bidirectional WebSocket support of the open-source Spring framework. To establish an interactive 3D visual user interface, ISO standard X3D is embedded into an exemplary Web browser application with the help of the X3DOM JavaScript library