Multiple Coordinated Views at Large Displays for Multiple Users: Empirical Findings on User Behavior, Movements, and Distances
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Abstract
Interactive wall-sized displays benefit data visualization. Due to their sheer display size, they make it possible to show large amounts of data in multiple coordinated views (MCV) and facilitate collaborative data analysis. In this work, we propose a set of important design considerations and contribute a fundamental input vocabulary and interaction mapping for MCV functionality. We also developed a fully functional application with more than 45 coordinated views visualizing a real-world, multivariate data set of crime activities, which we used in a comprehensive qualitative user study investigating how pairs of users behave. Most importantly, we found that flexible movement is essential and —- depending on user goals -— is connected to collaboration, perception, and interaction. Therefore, we argue that for future systems interaction from the distance is required and needs good support. We show that our consistent design for both direct touch at the large display and distant interaction using mobile phones enables the seamless exploration of large-scale MCV at wall-sized displays. Our MCV application builds on design aspects such as simplicity, flexibility, and visual consistency and, therefore, supports realistic workflows. We believe that in the future, many visual data analysis scenarios will benefit from wall-sized displays presenting numerous coordinated visualizations, for which our findings provide a valuable foundation.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 608-618 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85052634149 |
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ORCID | /0000-0003-4519-2168/work/142253679 |
ORCID | /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/151435346 |
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
- multiple coordinated views, wall-sized displays, distant interaction, physical navigation, mobile devices, user behavior, user movements, multi-user, collaborative data analysis