Natural Magic Lens Interaction for Graph VisualizationFocusing on the specific tool of magic lenses, the goal of this PhD work is to investigate how natural user interfaces may support and even enhance data exploration in front of a large vertical display. Therein, graph visualization has been selected as the main application case. The overarching contribution of this dissertation regards the systematic analysis and extension of magic lenses focusing both on function and flexibility as a tool as well as the iterative design and development of diverse interaction techniques for magic lens applications on large vertical displays.
Interactive Visualization Lenses: Natural Magic Lens Interaction for Graph Visualization
@phdthesis{fixme,
author = {Ulrike Kister},
title = {Interactive Visualization Lenses: Natural Magic Lens Interaction for Graph Visualization},
year = {2018},
month = {5},
location = {Dresden},
numpages = {248},
url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-236782},
publisher = {Qucosa - Technische Universit\"{a}t Dresden}
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More Information
- PhD thesis openly accessible at Qucosa
- Dissertation defense: May 8, 2018
Videos
Interactive Lenses: Theory, Categorization, and Application
An interactive lens is a lightweight tool to solve a localized visualization problem
by temporarily altering a selected part of the visual representation of the data.
There have been various uses of lenses and very diverse lens functions in research. Within this project, we categorized research works on lenses by their data type, addressed interaction tasks, effect class, and effect extend as well as the interaction modalities that were applied to move and configure the lens.
@article{Tominski2017_CGF,
author = {Christian Tominski and Stefan Gladisch and Ulrike Kister and Raimund Dachselt and Heidrun Schumann},
title = {Interactive Lenses for Visualization: An Extended Survey},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
volume = {36},
year = {2017},
month = {9},
isbn = {1467-8659},
pages = {173--200},
numpages = {28},
doi = {10.1111/cgf.12871},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12871},
keywords = {Visualization, interaction, magic lenses}
}List of additional material
MultiLens: Multi-Functional Multi-Touch Lenses
Up to now, interaction with lenses was mostly limited to single-user, single-function lenses. To overcome these limitations, we designed configurable touch-enabled magic lenses that allow manipulating functions, parameters, and combinations of lenses on interactive surfaces, making the lens a generic multi-purpose tool. To interactively adjust these lenses, we contribute a novel multi-touch menu technique using a widget-based approach with a drag-snap slider for relative parameter adjustment. In addition, we propose a continuous gesture set for rapidly changing lenses and their primary parameters in one seamless phrase.
@inproceedings{Kister2016_MultiLens,
author = {Ulrike Kister and Patrick Reipschl\"{a}ger and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {MultiLens: Fluent Interaction with Multi-Functional Multi-Touch Lenses for Information Visualization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces},
year = {2016},
month = {11},
isbn = {978-1-4503-4248-3},
location = {Niagara Falls, ON, Canada},
pages = {139--148},
numpages = {10},
doi = {10.1145/2992154.2992168},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2992154.2992168},
acmid = {2992168},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Multi-touch interaction, information visualization, magic lenses, focus+context, graph exploration, graph lenses}
}List of additional material
GraSp: Mobile Lenses at Large Vertical Displays
In this work, we combine spatially-aware mobile devices with a wall-sized display. We investigate mobile devices as lens representations handing the user a personal toolbox of data exploration tools and lenses to analyze graph data. While the large display presents the context visualization of which parts can be selected, the mobile provides detail views, alternative encodings, and additional tools for exploring the data.
@article{Kister2017_grasp,
author = {Ulrike Kister and Konstantin Klamka and Christian Tominski and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {GraSp: Combining Spatially-aware Mobile Devices and a Display Wall for Graph Visualization and Interaction},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
volume = {36},
number = {3},
year = {2017},
month = {6},
isbn = {1467-8659},
pages = {503--514},
numpages = {9},
doi = {10.1111/cgf.13206},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13206}
}List of additional material
BodyLenses: Embodied Magic Lenses and Personal Territories for Wall-sized Displays
We introduce the concept of BodyLenses, special kinds of magic lenses for wall-sized displays that are mainly controlled by body interactions. We present a comprehensive design space and investigated a number of design alternatives proposing solutions for lens positioning, dynamic shape modification, distance-based parameter mappings and the use of BodyLenses as portable tool belts. As a result, the magic lens becomes a personal multi-purpose tool adaptable to many diverse application cases including data exploration.
@inproceedings{Kister2015_BodyLenses,
author = {Ulrike Kister and Patrick Reipschl\"{a}ger and Fabrice Matulic and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {BodyLenses - Embodied Magic Lenses and Personal Territories for Wall Displays},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces},
year = {2015},
month = {11},
isbn = {978-1-4503-3899-8},
location = {Funchal/Madeira, Portugal},
pages = {117--126},
numpages = {10},
doi = {10.1145/2817721.2817726},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2817721.2817726},
acmid = {2817726},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Body-centric interaction, embodied interaction, territoriality, magic lenses, proxemics}
}List of additional material
Further Publications
@inproceedings{fixme,
author = {Ulrike Kister and Konstantin Klamka and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Supporting Graph Exploration Tasks on Display Walls using Spatially-aware Mobile Devices},
booktitle = {Poster Program of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis)},
year = {2016},
month = {10},
location = {Baltimore, MD, USA},
numpages = {2}
}List of additional material
@inproceedings{Kister2015_DoctSymp,
author = {Ulrike Kister},
title = {Supporting Interactive Graph Analysis Using Adjustable Magic Lenses},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces},
year = {2015},
month = {11},
isbn = {978-1-4503-3899-8},
location = {Funchal/Madeira, Portugal},
pages = {469--474},
numpages = {6},
doi = {10.1145/2817721.2820989},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2817721.2820989},
acmid = {2820989},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {magic lenses, information visualization, multi-touch, embodied interaction, graphs, territoriality}
}List of additional material
@inproceedings{Gladisch2015_vis,
author = {Stefan Gladisch and Ulrike Kister and Christian Tominski and Raimund Dachselt and Heidrun Schumann},
title = {Mapping Tasks to Interactions for Graph Exploration and Editing},
booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis)},
year = {2015},
month = {10},
location = {Chicago, USA},
numpages = {2},
publisher = {IEEE}
}List of additional material
@misc{Gladisch2015_TechnReport,
author = {Stefan Gladisch and Ulrike Kister and Christian Tominski and Raimund Dachselt and Heidrun Schumann},
title = {Mapping Tasks to Interactions for Graph Exploration and Graph Editing on Interactive Surfaces},
booktitle = {arXiv:1504.07844},
year = {2015},
month = {4},
numpages = {21},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07844},
keywords = {graph manipulation, graph exploration, graph tasks, interaction mapping}
}List of additional material
@inproceedings{kister-14-its,
author = {Ulrike Kister and Patrick Reipschl\"{a}ger and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Multi-Touch Manipulation of Magic Lenses for Information Visualization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces},
year = {2014},
month = {11},
isbn = {978-1-4503-2587-5},
location = {Dresden, Germany},
pages = {431--434},
numpages = {4},
doi = {10.1145/2669485.2669528},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2669485.2669528},
acmid = {2669528},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {magic lenses, graph lenses, multi-touch interaction, information visulization}
}List of additional material
@conference{Tominski14,
author = {Christian Tominski and Stefan Gladisch and Ulrike Kister and Raimund Dachselt and Heidrun Schumann},
title = {A Survey on Interactive Lenses in Visualization},
booktitle = {EuroVis State-of-the-Art Reports},
year = {2014},
month = {6},
location = {Swansea, Wales, UK},
numpages = {20},
doi = {10.2312/eurovisstar.20141172},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/eurovisstar.20141172},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
keywords = {information visualization, magic lenses}
}List of additional material
@inproceedings{TransparentTangibles-2014-AVI,
author = {Wolfgang B\"{u}schel and Ulrike Kister and Mathias Frisch and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {T4 - Transparent and Translucent Tangibles on Tabletops},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2014},
year = {2014},
month = {5},
isbn = {978-1-4503-2775-6},
location = {Como, Italy},
pages = {81--88},
numpages = {8},
doi = {10.1145/2598153.2598179},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2598153.2598179},
acmid = {2598179},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Tangible User Interfaces, Transparent Tangibles, Interactive Surfaces}
}List of additional material
@article{Frisch-2013-CHI,
author = {Mathias Frisch and Ulrike Kister and Wolfgang B\"{u}schel and Ricardo Langner and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Translucent Tangibles on Tabletops: Exploring the Design Space},
booktitle = {CHI 2013 Workshop on Blended Interaction - Envisioning Future Collaborative Interactive Spaces},
year = {2013},
month = {4},
location = {Paris, France},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {Tangible User Interfaces, Blended Interaction, Interactive Surfaces}
}List of additional material
Related Student Theses
Using mobile devices as lenses for graph exploration and manipulation
Konstantin Klamka April 7th, 2015 until January 5th, 2016
Supervision: Raimund Dachselt, Ulrike Kister
Interaction with Tangible Graph Lenses on Interactive Tabletops
Martin Wegner October 14th, 2013 until April 13th, 2014
Supervision: Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Combining Magic Lenses for Graph Exploration
Patrick Reipschläger October 28th, 2013 until May 12th, 2014
Supervision: Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Evaluation of a Multi-touch Menu for Magic Lenses in Comparison to Classic Menus
S. Sara Groß May 30th, 2016 until August 21st, 2016
Supervision: Patrick Reipschläger, Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Christoph Plagge June 15th, 2015 until September 7th, 2015
Supervision: Raimund Dachselt, Patrick Reipschläger, Ulrike Kister
Collaborative Mind-Map Creation Using Personal Lenses on Interactive Display Walls
Maximilian Gräf July 1st, 2015 until September 23rd, 2015
Supervision: Patrick Reipschläger, Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Analysis of Multivariate Data on Maps Using BodyLenses
Marc Satkowski November 21st, 2016 until June 3rd, 2017
Supervision: Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Norman Lorenz June 13th, 2016 until October 10th, 2016
Supervision: Konstantin Klamka, Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt