Two Dimensions for Organizing Immersive Analytics: Toward a Taxonomy for Facet and Position
This provides a foundational framework for researchers in immersive analytics, though it is incremental as it builds on existing taxonomies from related fields.
The paper tackles the lack of methodological support in immersive analytics by proposing a taxonomy organized along spatial and visual presentation dimensions, aiming to help researchers describe work, discover methods, and identify gaps in the literature.
As immersive analytics continues to grow as a discipline, so too should its underlying methodological support. Taxonomies play an important role for information visualization and human computer interaction. They provide an organization of the techniques used in a particular domain that better enable researchers to describe their work, discover existing methods, and identify gaps in the literature. Existing taxonomies in related fields do not capture or describe the unique paradigms employed in immersive analytics. We conceptualize a taxonomy that organizes immersive analytics according to two dimensions: spatial and visual presentation. Each intersection of this taxonomy represents a unique design paradigm which, when thoroughly explored, can aid in the design and research of new immersive analytic applications.