Situated Analytics

EXPLORING THE DESIGN SPACE OF SITUATED ANALYTICS

This project investigates Situated Analytics (SitA) – analytic work and sensemaking embedded in a user's environment. Using augmented reality (AR), visualisations are spatially registered to referents, i.e. physical objects around the user. SitA supports analytical questions that need to combine physical (objects) and digital (data) information. Currently, it remains largely unclear how to properly exploit the physical context provided by spatial referents to support a user's sensemaking. Important research questions that will be addressed are if/how analytic work can be interleaved with physical activities, how users prefer to arrange their visualisations near or around referents, and how the visualisations can respond not only to explicit user actions but also implicitly to arbitrary changes in the environment. A final research question concerns situated authoring. Rather than having users analyse data using a finite set of visual representations and interactions, users are encouraged to create novel content embedded in their physical environment.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Prof. Dr. Dieter Schmalstieg
Visualization Research Center (VISUS), University of Stuttgart, and Graz University of Technology
Prof. Dr. Michael Sedlmair
Visualization Research Center (VISUS), University of Stuttgart

TEAM

Dr. Benjamin Lee (VISUS)
Dipl.-Ing. Philipp Fleck (TU Graz)
Aimée Sousa Calepso (VISUS)

FUNDING

WEAVE (DFG and Austrian Science Fund FWF)