Panagiotis D. Ritsos

MEng PhD Essex, FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Visualization

XReality, Visualization and
Analytics (XRVA) Lab
School of Computer Science
and Engineering,
Bangor University,
Dean Street, Bangor,
Gwynedd, UK, LL57 1UT

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Paper accepted in IEEE TVCG

March 2026 XR, WebXR, situated, analytics, visualization, authoring, IEEE

Ironman Study Teaser

Our paper ‘I Feel Like Iron Man’ - Authoring, Exploring, and Presenting Data Visualizations in Immersive AR has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

In this paper, we present a generalizable visual programming technique for immersive authoring, exploration, and presentation of data visualizations through direct manipulation, and implement it in a web-based augmented reality (AR) system. In a preregistered user study, we use this implementation to explore how analysts author and use data visualizations in immersive AR accessed using a head-mounted display (HMD). The study focuses on the authoring technique, spatial organization strategies, and sensemaking and presentation practices in such immersive analytics environments for HMD-based AR. Our findings suggest that participants particularly liked the direct manipulation of our approach, and that participants’ spatial organization is not based on physical landmarks in the room.

Reference

M. Borowski, P. W. S. Butcher, S. J. Jones, P. D. Ritsos, C. N. Klokmose, and N. Elmqvist, “‘I Feel Like Iron Man’: Authoring, Exploring, and Presenting Data Visualizations in Immersive AR,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (to appear), Mar. 2026. A truly anytime, anywhere approach to immersive analytics is predicated on the ability for users to author and explore visualizations in an immersive fashion and without a desktop computer. In this paper, we present a generalizable visual programming technique for immersive authoring, exploration, and presentation of data visualizations through direct manipulation, and implement it in a web-based augmented reality (AR) system. In a preregistered user study, we use this implementation to explore how analysts author and use data visualizations in immersive AR accessed using a head-mounted display (HMD). The study focuses on the authoring technique, spatial organization strategies, and sensemaking and presentation practices in such immersive analytics environments for HMD-based AR. Our findings suggest that participants particularly liked the direct manipulation of our approach, and that participants’ spatial organization is not based on physical landmarks in the room.
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