What other organizations are doing what Decision Theater is doing?

January 6, 2009 2:10 PM

What organizations provide collaborative decision-making via visualized data, like Arizona State University's Decision Theater?

Decision Theater is a decision-making environment on the campus of Arizona State University. It uses visualized data shown on a large, immersive custom cinema that helps client organizations make decisions, mostly concerning urban growth, public health, education, and the environment.

Participants use 3-D animations and interactive scenaria that let them to pull up data from their own organization in order to view different outcomes in the visualizations.

NEMAC (National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center) in Asheville, NC USA uses a similar process to help clients make decisions, though NEMAC lacks Decision Theater's dedicated visualization environment.

I'm finishing up an undergraduate degree in mass communcation and want to go to grad school at a college that does this kind of work in information visualization and synchronous, collaborative decision-making.

So I want to know where any more places that do this kind of work are, and if they're affiliated with a university. I'm open to any site anywhere, although English is my only language, so I'd prefer a country where I could get by.

Thanks!

posted by Jennifer S. to Technology (1 answer total)

I went to ASU myself, so I'm not much help, but you should try asking the people at Decision Theater if they know of any similar programs at other universities.
posted by Chris4d at 10:10 AM on January 8, 2009