SAViL: cross-display visual links for sensemaking in display ecologies

The main challenge associated with visual analysis using multiple displays is tied to the fact that a user must maintain awareness of and synthesize scattered information across separate displays—some of which may be out of the user’s immediate field of vision. To address this need, we present Spati...

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Published inPersonal and ubiquitous computing Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 409 - 431
Main Authors Chung, Haeyong, North, Chris
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Springer London 01.04.2018
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Collaboration
Computer Science
Design
Displays
Ecological monitoring
Ecology
Forage
Links
Mobile Computing
Multimedia
Original Article
Personal Computing
Semantics
Synthesis
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Visual fields
Visual links
Multi-display environment
Visual text analytics
Sensemaking
Display ecology
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Summary:The main challenge associated with visual analysis using multiple displays is tied to the fact that a user must maintain awareness of and synthesize scattered information across separate displays—some of which may be out of the user’s immediate field of vision. To address this need, we present Spatially Aware Visual Links (SAViL), a cross-display visual link technique capable of (1) guiding the user’s attention to relevant information and (2) visually connecting related information across displays. In essence, SAViL visually represents the direct connections among different types of visual objects on separate displays to help users create semantic layers of documents spread over different displays. To test the efficacy of this system, we evaluated the impact of visual linking on the sensemaking process for text data utilizing multiple heterogeneous displays. The results of our evaluation indicate that cross-display links enable users to effectively forage for, organize, and synthesize relevant information scattered across multiple displays, integrating the different displays into a single cohesive visual workspace to support their sensemaking tasks.
ISSN:1617-4909
1617-4917
DOI:10.1007/s00779-017-1091-4