Evaluation of the Visibility of Vessel Movement Features in Trajectory Visualizations

dc.contributor.authorWillems, Nielsen_US
dc.contributor.authorWetering, Huub van deen_US
dc.contributor.authorWijk, Jarke J. vanen_US
dc.contributor.editorH. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijken_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-21T20:23:28Z
dc.date.available2014-02-21T20:23:28Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractThere are many visualizations that show the trajectory of a moving object to obtain insights in its behavior. In this user study, we test the performance of three of these visualizations with respect to three movement features that occur in vessel behavior. Our goal is to compare the recently presented vessel density by Willems et al. [WvdWvW09] with well-known trajectory visualizations such as an animation of moving dots and the space-time cube. We test these visualizations with common maritime analysis tasks by investigating the ability of users to find stopping objects, fast moving objects, and estimate the busiest routes in vessel trajectories. We test the robustness of the visualizations towards scalability and the influence of complex trajectories using small-scale synthetic data sets. The performance is measured in terms of correctness and response time. The user test shows that each visualization type excels for correctness for a specific movement feature. Vessel density performs best for finding stopping objects, but does not perform significantly less than the remaining visualizations for the other features. Therefore, vessel density is a nice extension in the toolkit for analyzing trajectories of moving objects, in particular for vessel movements, since stops can be visualized better, and the performance for comparing lanes and finding fast movers is at a similar level as established trajectory visualizations.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume30en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01929.xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01929.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectH.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]en_US
dc.subjectUser Interfacesen_US
dc.subjectEvaluation/Methodologyen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of the Visibility of Vessel Movement Features in Trajectory Visualizationsen_US
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