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View article: Assessing the Scalability of Immersive WiFi Visualizations
Assessing the Scalability of Immersive WiFi Visualizations Open
Current commercial applications for visualizing WiFi data often provide limited capabilities. Few existing models effectively present multiple routers within an environmental context while simultaneously conveying signal strength and chann…
View article: Towards an Embodied Composition Framework for Organizing Immersive Computational Notebooks
Towards an Embodied Composition Framework for Organizing Immersive Computational Notebooks Open
As immersive technologies evolve, immersive computational notebooks offer new opportunities for interacting with code, data, and outputs. However, scaling these environments remains a challenge, particularly when analysts manually arrange …
View article: Investigating Seamless Transitions Between Immersive Computational Notebooks and Embodied Data Interactions
Investigating Seamless Transitions Between Immersive Computational Notebooks and Embodied Data Interactions Open
A growing interest in Immersive Analytics (IA) has led to the extension of computational notebooks (e.g., Jupyter Notebook) into an immersive environment to enhance analytical workflows. However, existing solutions rely on the WIMP (window…
View article: Embodied Natural Language Interaction (NLI): Speech Input Patterns in Immersive Analytics
Embodied Natural Language Interaction (NLI): Speech Input Patterns in Immersive Analytics Open
Embodiment shapes how users verbally express intent when interacting with data through speech interfaces in immersive analytics. Despite growing interest in Natural Language Interaction (NLI) for visual analytics in immersive environments,…
View article: Agentic Reasoning and Refinement through Semantic Interaction
Agentic Reasoning and Refinement through Semantic Interaction Open
Sensemaking report writing often requires multiple refinements in the iterative process. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating initial reports based on human visual workspace representations, they struggle to …
View article: Exploring Organizational Strategies in Immersive Computational Notebooks
Exploring Organizational Strategies in Immersive Computational Notebooks Open
Computational notebooks, which integrate code, documentation, tags, and visualizations into a single document, have become increasingly popular for data analysis tasks. With the advent of immersive technologies, these notebooks have evolve…
View article: Steering LLM Summarization with Visual Workspaces for Sensemaking
Steering LLM Summarization with Visual Workspaces for Sensemaking Open
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely applied in summarization due to their speedy and high-quality text generation. Summarization for sensemaking involves information compression and insight extraction. Human guidance in sensemaki…
View article: Evaluating Navigation and Comparison Performance of Computational Notebooks on Desktop and in Virtual Reality
Evaluating Navigation and Comparison Performance of Computational Notebooks on Desktop and in Virtual Reality Open
The computational notebook serves as a versatile tool for data analysis. However, its conventional user interface falls short of keeping pace with the ever-growing data-related tasks, signaling the need for novel approaches. With the rapid…
View article: Exploring Effective Immersive Approaches to Visualizing WiFi
Exploring Effective Immersive Approaches to Visualizing WiFi Open
WiFi networks are essential to our daily lives, but their signals are not visible to us. Therefore, it is challenging to evaluate the health of a network or make changes to ensure an optimal configuration. Traditional visualization approac…
View article: WaveRider: Immersive Visualization of Indoor Signal Propagation
WaveRider: Immersive Visualization of Indoor Signal Propagation Open
Network planners consider many factors in designing an indoor signal space to ensure a healthy network. These include material attenuation, channel overlap, peak bandwidth demand, and even humidity. Unfortunately, the current network plann…
View article: Visualization of WiFi Signals Using Programmable Transfer Functions
Visualization of WiFi Signals Using Programmable Transfer Functions Open
In this paper, we show how volume rendering with a Programmable Transfer Function can be used for the effective and comprehensible visualization of WiFi signals. A traditional transfer function uses a low-dimensional lookup table to map th…
View article: Quantifying VR cybersickness using EEG
Quantifying VR cybersickness using EEG Open
Current techniques for characterizing cybersickness (visually induced motion sickness) in virtual environments rely on qualitative questionnaires. For interactive graphics to create visual experiences that enhance the illusion of presence …
View article: Enhancing Deep Learning with Visual Interactions
Enhancing Deep Learning with Visual Interactions Open
Deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool for feature-driven labeling of datasets. However, for it to be effective, it requires a large and finely labeled training dataset. Precisely labeling a large training dataset is expensive, time-…
View article: Correction to: Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall
Correction to: Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall Open
The article "Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall," written by Eric Krokos, Catherine Plaisant and Amitabh Varshney, was originally published electronically on the publisher's Internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on May 16, 20…
View article: Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall
Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall Open
Virtual reality displays, such as head-mounted displays (HMD), afford us a superior spatial awareness by leveraging our vestibular and proprioceptive senses, as compared to traditional desktop displays. Since classical times, people have u…
View article: Deep-Learning-Assisted Volume Visualization
Deep-Learning-Assisted Volume Visualization Open
Designing volume visualizations showing various structures of interest is critical to the exploratory analysis of volumetric data. The last few years have witnessed dramatic advances in the use of convolutional neural networks for identifi…
View article: Towards Visual Analytics in Virtual Environments
Towards Visual Analytics in Virtual Environments Open
Virtual reality (VR) is poised to become the new medium through which we engage, view, and consume content. In contrast to traditional 2D desktop displays, which restrict our interaction space onto an arbitrary 2D-plane with unnatural inte…