Interactive lenses have proven to be useful for many visualization applications where exploratory analysis is a primary task. Up to now, interaction with lenses is mostly limited to single-user, single-function lenses operated by mouse, keyboard and traditional parameter menus. To overcome these limitations, we propose MultiLens, touch-enabled magic lenses for fluently manipulating functions, parameters, and combinations of lenses on interactive surfaces. We contribute a novel multi-touch menu technique for magic lenses using a widget-based approach with a drag-snap slider for relative parameter adjustment. We also propose a continuous gesture set for rapidly changing lenses and their primary parameters in one seamless phrase. In addition, by supporting the combination of various lens functions, we create a generic multipurpose lens tool. We illustrate our approach by investigating and implementing the concepts for the field of graph exploration. The prototype was evaluated in a user study comparing it to global adjustment approaches with both mouse and touch.
Basic Interaction Principle
Drag Snap Technique
Video
Zugehörige Publikationen
Im Rahmen von MultiLens sind folgende Publikationen am Interactive Media Lab entstanden:
@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}
}Weitere Materialien
@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}
}Weitere Materialien
Zugehörige Abschlussarbeiten
Im Rahmen von MultiLens sind folgende studentische Arbeiten am Interactive Media Lab entstanden:
Kombination magischer Linsen zur Exploration von Graphen
Patrick Reipschläger 28. Oktober 2013 bis 12. Mai 2014
Betreuung: Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Evaluation eines Multitouch-basierten Menüs für Magic Lenses im Vergleich zu klassischen Menüs
S. Sara Groß 30. Mai 2016 bis 21. August 2016
Betreuung: Patrick Reipschläger, Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Untersuchung verschiedener interaktiver Ansätze für die Graphanalyse mit Linsen
Marcin Szalomski 15. Dezember 2014 bis 9. März 2015
Betreuung: Raimund Dachselt, Ulrike Kister, Patrick Reipschläger