Combining physical and semantical navigation in three-dimensional information visualization

Cristina Russo Dos Santos; Pascal Gros; Pierre Abel

doi:10.1117/12.458799

12 March 2002 Combining physical and semantical navigation in three-dimensional information visualization

Cristina Russo Dos Santos, Pascal Gros, Pierre Abel

Proceedings Volume 4665, Visualization and Data Analysis 2002; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458799
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The field of information visualization is in permanent expansion and new and innovative ways of visualizing large volumes of abstract data are being developed. The use of virtual metaphoric worlds is one of them, but these visualizations per se are only truly useful if the user is provided a means of exploring the information. A common way of data exploration is navigation. In the case of three-dimensional (3D) information visualization, navigation as a means of information exploration attains even more importance due to the extra exploitable dimension. Nonetheless, navigation in large virtual worlds is still a difficult task and not only for naive users; there is anecdotal evidence that electronic navigation is considered difficult even by the virtual worlds builders. Wayfinding, knowing where to go, is sometimes perceived as the hardest part; other times, it is the locomotion, getting there, that is found difficult. This paper presents a navigation strategy that attempts to solve these problems by combining physical/metaphoric navigation with semantic navigation. We present a framework for navigating large virtual worlds that relies heavily on the use of visual metaphors. The combination of physical and semantic navigation embedded in the metaphor components allows for a powerful data exploration and electronic navigation mechanism.

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Cristina Russo Dos Santos, Pascal Gros, and Pierre Abel "Combining physical and semantical navigation in three-dimensional information visualization", Proc. SPIE 4665, Visualization and Data Analysis 2002, (12 March 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458799

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Navigation systems

Information visualization

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