Panagiotis D. Ritsos

MEng PhD Essex, FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Visualization

XReality, Visualization and
Analytics (XRVA) Lab

Visualization, Data, Modelling and
Graphics (VDMG) research group,

School of Computer Science
and Engineering,

Bangor University,
Dean Street, Bangor,
Gwynedd, UK, LL57 1UT

3D Visualisations Should Not be Displayed Alone - Encouraging a Need for Multivocality in Visualisation

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Abstract

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.

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J. C. Roberts, J. W. Mearman, P. W. S. Butcher, H. M. Al-Maneea, and P. D. Ritsos, “3D Visualisations Should Not be Displayed Alone - Encouraging a Need for Multivocality in Visualisation,” in Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference in Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) 2021, Lincoln, UK, 2021.  doi:10.2312/cgvc.20211309

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Roberts-et-al-CGVC-2021,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference in Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) 2021, Lincoln, UK},
  editor = {Xu, Kai and Turner, Martin},
  title = {{3D Visualisations Should Not be Displayed Alone - Encouraging a Need for Multivocality in Visualisation}},
  author = {Roberts, Jonathan C. and Mearman, Joseph W. and Butcher, Peter W. S. and Al-Maneea, Hayder M. and Ritsos, Panagiotis D.},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
  isbn = {978-3-03868-158-8},
  doi = {10.2312/cgvc.20211309}
}