Investigating the use of multiple coordinated views (MCV) at large displays for multiple users.
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.
Documents and Materials
- Pre-print of the article
- NEW Slides of the talk
- Supplemental document Further Study Material
- Prototype application
(open source at Github ) - Data analysis tool
(open source at Github ) - Study data (logged data)
(zipped, approx. 26MB)
Presentation @ IEEE VIS 2018
Info This work has been presented at the IEEE VIS 2018 (Berlin, Germany) in the paper session on Devices: Small & Large.
Slides of the talk are also available for download.
Interaction Mapping for MCV at Large Displays
Related Publications
Articles and Conference Papers
@article{fixme,
author = {Ricardo Langner and Ulrike Kister and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Multiple Coordinated Views at Large Displays for Multiple Users: Empirical Findings on User Behavior, Movements, and Distances},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {25},
issue = {1},
year = {2019},
month = {1},
location = {Berlin, Germany},
pages = {608--618},
numpages = {11},
doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2018.2865235},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2018.2865235},
publisher = {IEEE},
keywords = {multiple coordinated views, wall-sized displays, mobile devices, distant interaction, physical navigation, user behavior, user movements, multi-user, collaborative data analysis}
}
Posters, Demonstrations, and Workshop Papers
@article{langner2018combining,
author = {Ricardo Langner and Ulrike Kister and Marc Satkowski and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Combining Interactive Large Displays and Smartphones to Enable Data Analysis from Varying Distances},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the AVI 2018 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction for Data Visualization},
series = {MultimodalVis '18},
year = {2018},
month = {5},
location = {Castiglione della Pescaia, Grosseto, Italy},
numpages = {4}
}List of additional material
Related Student Theses
Collaborative Data Exploration with Cross-device Multiple Coordinated Views
Marc Satkowski June 11th, 2018 until November 19th, 2018
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Raimund Dachselt
Magic Lenses on Display Walls: Control and Manipulation with Mobile Devices
Norman Lorenz December 5th, 2016 until June 5th, 2017
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Management of Multiple Visualization Views in a Multi-Display Environment
Wilhelm Schacht November 1st, 2019 until July 3rd, 2020
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Marc Satkowski, Raimund Dachselt
Creating and Arranging Visualizations on Wall-sized Interactive Displays
Philipp Heisig July 13th, 2018 until December 14th, 2018
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Raimund Dachselt
Using Wall-Sized Displays for Interactive Data Explorations of Chemical Experiments
Simon Hochholzer June 29th, 2018 until September 14th, 2018
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Using Smartphones for Remote Control of Information Visualizations on Large Displays
Marc Satkowski July 24th, 2017 until November 6th, 2017
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt