| Authors |
Waldner Manuela, Schmalstieg Dieter |
| Appeared in |
4th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2011) |
| Date |
March 2011 |
| Abstract |
Information exploration processes are often conducted in teams of
experts, family members, or colleagues. These teams have to retrieve
information from different sources, verify it, and finally compare
and discuss their findings to find consensus. Today, support for
these collaborative processes is limited and users often end up sharing
either a single PC with one user taking control or using separate
workstations, where support for tight collaboration is limited. In
this paper, we present collaborative information linking which visually
connects information across private and shared application
windows to bridge knowledge gaps between users. We present the
technical infrastructure for multi-user interaction and personalized
meta-visualizations on large multi-projector displays, and demonstrate
how personalized visual links connect information across existing
applications modified in a minimally invasive manner. An
observational experiment showed that information linking helps individuals
to deal with large display space and teams to switch between
individual information retrieval and joint verification and discussion. |
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