Exploring Augmented Reality for Situated Analytics with Many Movable Physical Referents

Authors. Aimee Sousa Calepso, Philipp Fleck, Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Sedlmair

Venue. VRST (2023) Full Paper

Type. Full Paper

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Abstract. Situated analytics (SitA) uses visualization in the context of physical referents, typically by using augmented reality (AR). We want to pave the way toward studying SitA in more suitable and realistic settings. Toward this goal, we contribute a testbed to evaluate SitA based on a scenario in which participants play the role of a museum curator and need to organize an exhibition of music artifacts. We conducted two experiments: First, we evaluated an AR headset interface and the testbed itself in an exploratory manner. Second, we compared the AR headset to a tablet interface. We summarize the lessons learned as guidance for designing and evaluating SitA.

@inproceedings{10.1145/3611659.3615700,
    title        = {Exploring Augmented Reality for Situated Analytics with Many Movable Physical Referents},
    author       = {Calepso, Aimee Sousa and Fleck, Philipp and Schmalstieg, Dieter and Sedlmair, Michael},
    year         = {2023},
    booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology},
    publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    series       = {VRST '23},
    doi          = {10.1145/3611659.3615700},
    url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3611659.3615700},
    abstract     = {Situated analytics (SitA) uses visualization in the context of physical referents, typically by using augmented reality (AR). We want to pave the way toward studying SitA in more suitable and realistic settings. Toward this goal, we contribute a testbed to evaluate SitA based on a scenario in which participants play the role of a museum curator and need to organize an exhibition of music artifacts. We conducted two experiments: First, we evaluated an AR headset interface and the testbed itself in an exploratory manner. Second, we compared the AR headset to a tablet interface. We summarize the lessons learned as guidance for designing and evaluating SitA.},
    articleno    = {6},
    numpages     = {12},
    keywords     = {Immersive analytics, Augmented Reality, Situated analytics}
}