Wizualization - A Hard Magic Visualization System for Immersive and Ubiquitous Analytics

Andrea Batch; Peter Butcher; Panagiotis D. Ritsos; Niklas Elmqvist

doi:10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326580

Wizualization - A Hard Magic Visualization System for Immersive and Ubiquitous Analytics

Andrea Batch
, Peter Butcher
, Panagiotis D. Ritsos
, Niklas Elmqvist

School of Computer Science & Engineering

University of Maryland

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What if magic could be used as an effective metaphor to perform data visualization and analysis using speech and gestures while mobile and on-the-go? In this paper, we introduce WIZUALIZATION, a visual analytics system for eXtended Reality (XR) that enables an analyst to author and interact with visualizations using such a magic system through gestures, speech commands, and touch interaction. Wizualization is a rendering system for current XR headsets that comprises several components: a cross-device (or ARCANE FOCUSES) infrastructure for signalling and view control (WEAVE), a code notebook (SPELLBOOK), and a grammar of graphics for XR (OPTOMANCY). The system offers users three modes of input: gestures, spoken commands, and materials. We demonstrate Wizualization and its components using a motivating scenario on collaborative data analysis of pandemic data across time and space.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	507-517
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326580
Publication status	Published - 24 Oct 2023

Keywords

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
Software

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