Mobiles as Portals for Interacting with Virtual Data Visualizations

Michel Pahud (1) , Eyal Ofek (1) , Nathalie Henry Riche (2) , Christophe Hurter (3) , Jens Grubert (4)

1 Microsoft Corporation [Redmond]
2 Microsoft Research [Redmond]
3 ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
4 Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts

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.

Mots clés: Data Visualization; Compound Navigation; Portal; Window; Mobile Devices

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Michel Pahud, Eyal Ofek, Nathalie Henry Riche, Christophe Hurter, Jens Grubert. Mobiles as Portals for Interacting with Virtual Data Visualizations. Workshop 7: Data Visualization on Mobile Devices at CHI 2018, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2018, Montréal, Canada. ⟨hal-01767415⟩