MultiLens: Fluent interaction with multi-functional multi-touch lenses for information visualization

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages139-148
Number of pages10
ISBN (electronic)978-1-4503-4248-3
Publication statusPublished - 6 Nov 2016
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesConference ISS - ISS: Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (previously ITS: Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces)

Conference

Title11th Annual ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces
Abbreviated titleACM ISS 2016
Conference number11
Duration6 - 9 November 2016
Website
LocationCrowne Plaza Niagara Falls
CityNiagara Falls
CountryCanada

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/159171495

Keywords

Keywords

  • Focus+context, Graph exploration, Graph lenses, Information visualization, Magic lenses, Multi-touch interaction