The Rubber Slider Metaphor: Visualisation of Temporal and Geolocated Data

Abstract

In the context of the IEEE VR 2022 3DUI Contest entitled "Arts, Science, Information, and Knowledge -Visualized and Interacted", this paper presents a VR application to highlight the usage of the rubber slider metaphor. The rubber slider is an augmentation of usual 2D slider controls where users can bend the slider axis in order to control an additional degree of freedom value in the application. This demonstration immerses users in a Virtual Environment where they will be able to explore a database of art pieces geolocated on a 3D earth model and their corresponding art movements displayed on a timeline interface.

Timeline Design Space for Immersive Exploration of Time-Varying Spatial 3D Data

“…A few examples can be found in contexts of 3D model editors, as proposed by Denning et al [17] or Doboš et al [18], that use timelines to display the step-by-step construction of the model. Although, S4D visualization tools sometimes use timelines as sliders, juxtaposing 1dimension additional information with the 3D spatial data, as in Duran et al [21] work or RubberSlider [12], which uses a VR adjustable slider to explore a timeline and display 3D data. The lack of design guidelines for the visualization of S4D data using timelines motivated the extension of the design space from Brehmer et al [5].…”