MultiLens: Fluent interaction with multi-functional multi-touch lenses for information visualization
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Contributors
Abstract
Interactive lenses have proven to be useful for many visualization applications where exploratory analysis is a primary task. Up to now, interaction with lenses is mostly limited to single-user, single-function lenses operated by mouse, keyboard and traditional parameter menus. To overcome these limitations, we propose MultiLens, touch-enabled magic lenses for fluently manipulating functions, parameters, and combinations of lenses on interactive surfaces. We contribute a novel multi-touch menu technique for magic lenses using a widget-based approach with a drag-snap slider for relative parameter adjustment. We also propose a continuous gesture set for rapidly changing lenses and their primary parameters in one seamless phrase. In addition, by supporting the combination of various lens functions, we create a generic multi-purpose lens tool. We illustrate our approach by investigating and implementing the concepts for the field of graph exploration. The prototype was evaluated in a user study with 22 participants comparing it to traditional parameter menus operated with both mouse and touch.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 139-148 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-4503-4248-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Nov 2016 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
| Series | Conference ISS - ISS: Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (previously ITS: Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces) |
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Conference
| Title | 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces |
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| Abbreviated title | ACM ISS 2016 |
| Conference number | 11 |
| Duration | 6 - 9 November 2016 |
| Website | |
| Location | Crowne Plaza Niagara Falls |
| City | Niagara Falls |
| Country | Canada |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/159171495 |
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Keywords
- Focus+context, Graph exploration, Graph lenses, Information visualization, Magic lenses, Multi-touch interaction