Authors:
Susanne Tak
and
Lex Toet
Affiliation:
TNO, Netherlands
Keyword(s):
Visualization, Multisensory, Interactivity, Haptification, Sensification.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
General Data Visualization
;
Interactive Visual Interfaces for Visualization
;
Perception and Cognition in Visualization
Abstract:
Despite the availability of a broad range of newly developed multisensory displays and interaction techniques, multisensory interactive data representations are still not widely used. We argue that for complex information analysis multisensory data representations and multimodal interactivity are essential. By leveraging the benefits of the individual sensory modalities multisensory representations and interaction techniques can make the representation and handling of complex data more intuitive and transparent. This can make complex data analysis accessible to a wider audience, also including non-experts. However, there is currently a lack of agreed guidelines for their integrated design, as well as little empirical research in this area. We argue that there is an urgent need for further systematic research into human multisensory information processing to provide rules that enable the design and construction of representations and interfaces that achieve optimal synergistic coope
ration across sensory modalities.
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