Mobiles as Portals for Interacting with Virtual Data Visualizations
This work addresses the challenge of making complex data visualizations more accessible and interactive for general users, though it is incremental by revisiting and extending earlier ideas like the Chameleon prototype.
The paper tackles the problem of exploring and interacting with n-dimensional data visualizations by proposing techniques that use mobile devices as lenses, enabling users to navigate, annotate, and interact with large information spaces anywhere, leveraging integrated sensors and input modalities like pen and touch.
We propose a set of techniques leveraging mobile devices as lenses to explore, interact and annotate n-dimensional data visualizations. The democratization of mobile devices, with their arrays of integrated sensors, opens up opportunities to create experiences for anyone to explore and interact with large information spaces anywhere. In this paper, we propose to revisit ideas behind the Chameleon prototype of Fitzmaurice et al. initially envisioned in the 90s for navigation, before spatially-aware devices became mainstream. We also take advantage of other input modalities such as pen and touch to not only navigate the space using the mobile as a lens, but interact and annotate it by adding toolglasses.