This article presents synergies between the research areas information visualization and knowledge visualization from a knowledge management and a communication science perspective. It presents a first theoretical framework and a model for the new field of knowledge visualization. It describes guidelines and principles derived from our professional practice and previous research on how architects successfully use complementary visualizations to transfer and create knowledge among individuals from different social, cultural, and educational backgrounds. The findings and insights are important for researchers and practitioners in the fields of information visualization, knowledge visualization, knowledge management, information design, media didactics, instructional psychology, and communication sciences.

In his article titled "Towards a Framework and a Model for Knowledge Visualization: Synergies between Information and Knowledge Visualization", Remo Burkhard examines the research areas information and knowledge visualization from both a business knowledge management and a communication science perspective. The article presents a theoretical framework and a model for the field of knowledge visualization. The chapters deal with an outline of differences between information visualization and knowledge visualization from an organizational perspective of how information visualization may learn from knowledge management and how both principles of knowledge and information visualization may be integrated in complementary visualizations. The presented framework aims at mediating between different research areas and illustrating how information visualization and knowledge visualization complement one another. Burkhard deals with the central goal of the book "searching for synergies" in close relation to knowledge visualization in the field of organizational knowledge management. The outline of principles for designing effective knowledge visualizations satisfies expectations of how to complement knowledge visualization with ideas and techniques from information visualization. Guidelines for applying the complemented knowledge visualization model may help users to successfully implement principles of the synergistic approach into learning and workplace environments.