Immersive analytics: Crossing the gulfs with high-performance visualization

Immersive Analytics: Theory and Research Agenda

“…• Capability to render existing channels of sensory output with greater fidelity (as in Polys et al, 2016) − "Large" visual display (substantially more than 30 • FoV) − "Surrounding" visual display (i.e., head-worn displays, CAVE-like (Cruz-Neira et al, 1993) − Conversational speech interfaces − Gestural interfaces Having now explicated both the "immersive" and "analytics" parts of immersive analytics, we now revisit our definitions:…”

“…There are many ways in which a system can be more immersive than such a typical workstation, as discussed in Bowman and McMahan ( 2007 ). Some specific technologies that would make a system more immersive include: Support for additional channels of sensory output − Haptic display − Olfactory display − Other sensory displays Capability to render existing channels of sensory output with greater fidelity (as in Polys et al, 2016 ) − “Large” visual display (substantially more than 30° FoV) − “Surrounding” visual display (i.e., head-worn displays, CAVE-like (Cruz-Neira et al, 1993 ) displays) − Higher-resolution visual display (e.g., “retina” resolution) − Stereoscopic visual display − Spatialized sound display Support for additional types or channels of user input − Voice input − Touch input − Physiological sensing − Tracking ° Head tracking ° Hand tracking ° Full-body tracking ° Eye tracking Support for more natural interaction techniques − Body-based navigation (i.e., physical head turning, walking, crouching) − Natural manipulation (e.g., directly touching/grasping/moving data with the hand) − Conversational speech interfaces − Gestural interfaces …”

“…Capability to render existing channels of sensory output with greater fidelity (as in Polys et al, 2016 ) − “Large” visual display (substantially more than 30° FoV) − “Surrounding” visual display (i.e., head-worn displays, CAVE-like (Cruz-Neira et al, 1993 ) displays) − Higher-resolution visual display (e.g., “retina” resolution) − Stereoscopic visual display − Spatialized sound display …”

“…The information visualization question of “How much information can you pack into a view?” led to a related IRVE question, “How much information can be packed into an immersive display?” Early work by Ni et al ( 2006 ) showed promising results for larger display sizes, and work by Bacim et al ( 2013 ) showed benefits resulting from increased immersion. Polys et al ( 2016 ) proposed an analytic model to assess the ideal capacity (bandwidth) of a display that uses visual angle and pixels per angle to put mobiles, desktops, HMDs, tiled displays, and CAVE-like displays onto the same scale. Focusing on the criterion of legibility, Iyer et al ( 2017 ) then tested our model by investigating how text can scale between tiled HD displays and Head-Worn Displays.…”