TY - CONF

T1 - 3D visualisations Should Not be Displayed Alone – Encouraging a Need for Multivocality in Visualisation

AU - Roberts, Jonathan C.

AU - Mearman, Joseph

AU - Butcher, Peter

AU - Al-Maneea, Hayder Mahdi Abdullah

AU - Ritsos, Panagiotis D.

N1 - Conference code: 39

PY - 2021/9

Y1 - 2021/9

N2 - We believe that 3D visualisations should not be used alone; by coincidentally displaying alternative views the user can gain the best understanding of all situations. The different presentations signify manifold meanings and afford different tasks. Natural 3D worlds implicitly tell many stories. For instance, walking into a living room, seeing the TV, types of magazines, pictures on the wall, tells us much about the occupiers: their occupation, standards of living, taste in design, whether they have kids, and so on. How can we similarly create rich and diverse 3D visualisation presentations? How can we create visualisations that allow people to understand different stories from the data? In a multivariate 2D visualisation a developer may coordinate and link many views together to provide exploratory visualisation functionality. But how can this be achieved in 3D and in immersive visualisations? Different visualisation types, each have specific uses, and each has the potential to tell or evoke a different story. Through several use-cases, we discuss challenges of 3D visualisation, and present our argument for concurrent and coordinated visualisations of alternative styles, and encourage developers to consider using alternative representations with any 3D view, even if that view is displayed in a virtual, augmented or mixed reality setup.

AB - We believe that 3D visualisations should not be used alone; by coincidentally displaying alternative views the user can gain the best understanding of all situations. The different presentations signify manifold meanings and afford different tasks. Natural 3D worlds implicitly tell many stories. For instance, walking into a living room, seeing the TV, types of magazines, pictures on the wall, tells us much about the occupiers: their occupation, standards of living, taste in design, whether they have kids, and so on. How can we similarly create rich and diverse 3D visualisation presentations? How can we create visualisations that allow people to understand different stories from the data? In a multivariate 2D visualisation a developer may coordinate and link many views together to provide exploratory visualisation functionality. But how can this be achieved in 3D and in immersive visualisations? Different visualisation types, each have specific uses, and each has the potential to tell or evoke a different story. Through several use-cases, we discuss challenges of 3D visualisation, and present our argument for concurrent and coordinated visualisations of alternative styles, and encourage developers to consider using alternative representations with any 3D view, even if that view is displayed in a virtual, augmented or mixed reality setup.

KW - Visualisation

KW - 3D graphics

KW - 3D visualisation

KW - Information Visualisation

KW - Virtual Reality

KW - Extended Reality

KW - Visual Analytics

KW - Scientific Visualisation

KW - Multivocality

KW - Heritage visualisation

KW - Multiple Views

KW - Depth perception

KW - Three dimensional graphics

KW - Three dimensional visualisation

KW - Multiple Coordinated Views

KW - Heritage together

KW - Oceanographic visualisation

M3 - Paper

T2 - EG UK Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC)

Y2 - 8 September 2021 through 10 September 2021

ER -