The (possible) utility of stereoscopic 3D displays for information visualization: The good, the bad, and the ugly

McIntire, John P.; Liggett, Kristen K.

doi:10.1109/3dvis.2014.7160093

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“…The effectiveness of 3D visualizations has been extensively evaluated on different display technologies such as 2D (monoscopic) displays [48,59], stereo-displays [5,62], stereo-displays with headtracking [16], data physicalizations [34], and immersive virtual reality environments [23,63]. Two surveys [41,42] of studies from different domains conclude that 3D stereoscopic displays increase task performance by 60% on average. For example, understanding relative positions was found to be better supported on 2D screens, while shape understanding is supported better by respective 3D projections (on 2D screens).…”

Section: Perception Of 3d Visualizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Hologram in My Hand: How Effective is Interactive Exploration of 3D Visualizations in Immersive Tangible Augmented Reality?

Bach

Sicat

Beyer

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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We report on a controlled user study comparing three visualization environments for common 3D exploration. Our environments differ in how they exploit natural human perception and interaction capabilities. We compare an augmented-reality head-mounted display (Microsoft HoloLens), a handheld tablet, and a desktop setup. The novel head-mounted HoloLens display projects stereoscopic images of virtual content into a user's real world and allows for interaction in-situ at the spatial position of the 3D hologram. The tablet is able to interact with 3D content through touch, spatial positioning, and tangible markers, however, 3D content is still presented on a 2D surface. Our hypothesis is that visualization environments that match human perceptual and interaction capabilities better to the task at hand improve understanding of 3D visualizations. To better understand the space of display and interaction modalities in visualization environments, we first propose a classification based on three dimensions: perception, interaction, and the spatial and cognitive proximity of the two. Each technique in our study is located at a different position along these three dimensions. We asked 15 participants to perform four tasks, each task having different levels of difficulty for both spatial perception and degrees of freedom for interaction. Our results show that each of the tested environments is more effective for certain tasks, but that generally the desktop environment is still fastest and most precise in almost all cases.

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Section: Perception Of 3d Visualizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Hologram in My Hand: How Effective is Interactive Exploration of 3D Visualizations in Immersive Tangible Augmented Reality?

Bach

Sicat

Beyer

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

196

172

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“…Virtual and Augmented Reality displays (V/AR) have recently reached a new level of maturity as consumer products with highresolution displays and precise, low-latency head-motion tracking are available. These factors, together with the benefits of stereovision and kinestetic depth [25,26] greatly improve human perception of 3D space and could fuel a new consideration of 3D data visualisations. Moreover, accurate head-tracking enables embodied navigation in a visualisation; allowing the viewer to walk around the data, switch from overview to detail and to "step-inside" the data.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design space for spatio-data coordination: Tangible interaction devices for immersive information visualisation

Cordeil

Bach

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)

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We introduce the concept of "spatio-data coordination" (SD coordination) which defines the mapping of user actions in physical space into the space of data in a visualisation. SD coordination is intended to lower the user's cognitive load when exploring complex multidimensional data such as biomedical data, multiple data attributes vs time in a space-time-cube visualisation, or three-dimensional projections of three-or-higher-dimensional data sets. To inform the design of interaction devices to allow for SD coordination, we define a design space and demonstrate it with sketches and early prototypes of three exemplar devices for SD coordinated interaction.

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“…Additional independent research that revolved around the use of observational studies and public surveys reported that 25-50% of 3D viewers experienced eyestrain and other fatigue symptoms [2][3][4][5]. A current large-scale study with appropriate experimental controls discussed that the actual incidence rate of these symptoms was still relatively high even though it was less than previously believed [4,6]. In particular, 3D viewing was seen to be a causal factor for eyestrain and headache occurrence in 14% of 3D viewers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluating the User Physical Stresses Associated with Watching 3D and 2D Displays over Extended Time Using Heart Rate Variability, Galvanic Skin Resistance, and Performance Measure

Ramadan

Alhaag

2018

Journal of Sensors

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This paper compares the effects of viewing videos with 2D and 3D displays with regard to the viewing distance (3H vs. 6H, where H is the height of the screen) and viewing time to determine the physical stresses in terms of heart rate variability, galvanic skin resistance (GSR), and performance of the viewer (percent of correct responses). Twenty healthy male university students with a mean age ± standard deviation of 27.7 ± 2.53 years participated in this study as volunteers. None had color blindness, and all had normal vision acuity. Display type by viewing distance interaction had a significant effect on most of the heart rate variability measures and associated with watching time for the GSR responses. The results concluded that viewing the 3D display from a short viewing distance produced significantly high physical stresses compared to viewing the 2D display from the same short viewing distance. However, the 3D display seemed to impart lower physical stress than the 2D display at long viewing distances. The findings of this study indicate that physical stresses appeared significant at close viewing distance after watching a 3D display for 50 min and increased with continued watching time. In addition, viewer performance was higher for the 3D compared to 2D display type.

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The (possible) utility of stereoscopic 3D displays for information visualization: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Cited by 42 publications

References 55 publications

The Hologram in My Hand: How Effective is Interactive Exploration of 3D Visualizations in Immersive Tangible Augmented Reality?

The Hologram in My Hand: How Effective is Interactive Exploration of 3D Visualizations in Immersive Tangible Augmented Reality?

Design space for spatio-data coordination: Tangible interaction devices for immersive information visualisation

Evaluating the User Physical Stresses Associated with Watching 3D and 2D Displays over Extended Time Using Heart Rate Variability, Galvanic Skin Resistance, and Performance Measure

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