DDE - Dynamic Data Explorer: Dynamic data exploration in a collaborative spatial-aware environment

Information

• Publication Type: Student Project
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Visualization Group
• Date: 2020
• Date (Start): April 2019
• Date (End): January 2020
• Matrikelnummer: 1226809, 1225540
• First Supervisor:
  • Manuela Waldner
  • Georg Regal

Abstract

Collaborative decision-making has become an integral part of the analysis process aiming to get insight into multivariate data. To further encourage this workflow numerous co-located, multi-user systems have been developed consisting of large multi-touch screens or interactive tabletops. But such frameworks are typically expensive and unavailable outside dedicated environments as for example laboratories. Therefore we developed the Dynamic Data Explorer, short DDE, a multi-user system that enables users to join, in an ad-hoc manner, with their own mobile devices. Since forming groups should be possible in various locations, the tracking system, enabling spatial awareness of the devices, has to be light-weight and small. Near Field Communication (NFC) is a widespread transmission technology which fulfils these properties and is used in our framework to enable different side-by-side arrangements of devices. This allows users to explore multivarate data visualizations on a system where the number of devices and their set-up can be modified at all times.

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BibTeX

@studentproject{heim-gall-2020-dde,
  title =      "DDE - Dynamic Data Explorer: Dynamic data exploration in a
               collaborative spatial-aware environment",
  author =     "Anja Heim and Alexander Gall",
  year =       "2020",
  abstract =   "Collaborative decision-making has become an integral part of
               the analysis process aiming to get insight into multivariate
               data. To further encourage this workflow numerous
               co-located, multi-user systems have been developed
               consisting of large multi-touch screens or interactive
               tabletops. But such frameworks are typically expensive and
               unavailable outside dedicated environments as for example
               laboratories. Therefore we developed the Dynamic Data
               Explorer, short DDE, a multi-user system that enables users
               to join, in an ad-hoc manner, with their own mobile devices.
               Since forming groups should be possible in various
               locations, the tracking system, enabling spatial awareness
               of the devices, has to be light-weight and small. Near Field
               Communication (NFC) is a widespread transmission technology
               which fulfils these properties and is used in our framework
               to enable different side-by-side arrangements of devices.
               This allows users to explore multivarate data visualizations
               on a system where the number of devices and their set-up can
               be modified at all times.",
  month =      jan,
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2020/heim-gall-2020-dde/",
}