A Design Study of Direct-Touch Interaction for Exploratory 3D Scientific Visualization

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dc.contributor.authorKlein, Tijmenen_US
dc.contributor.authorGuéniat, Florimonden_US
dc.contributor.authorPastur, Lucen_US
dc.contributor.authorVernier, Frédéricen_US
dc.contributor.authorIsenberg, Tobiasen_US
dc.contributor.editorS. Bruckner, S. Miksch, and H. Pfisteren_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T07:02:55Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T07:02:55Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractWe present an interaction design study of several non-overlapping direct-touch interaction widgets, postures, and bi-manual techniques to support the needs of scientists who are exploring a dataset. The final interaction design supports navigation/zoom, cutting plane interaction, a drilling exploration, the placement of seed particles in 3D space, and the exploration of temporal data evolution. To ground our design, we conducted a requirements analysis and used a participatory design approach throughout development. We chose simulations in the field of fluid mechanics as our example domain and, in the paper, discuss our choice of techniques, their adaptation to our target domain, and discuss how they facilitate the necessary combination of visualization control and data exploration. We evaluated our resulting interactive data exploration system with seven fluid mechanics experts and report on their qualitative feedback. While we use flow visualization as our application domain, the developed techniques were designed with generalizability in mind and we discuss several implications of our work on further development of direct-touch data exploration techniques for scientific visualization in general.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume31
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03115.x
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03115.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.titleA Design Study of Direct-Touch Interaction for Exploratory 3D Scientific Visualizationen_US
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