Interactive Volumetric Information Visualization

This paper describes a minimallyimmersive threedimensional volumetric interactive information visualizationsystem formanagementand analysis ofdocument corpora. The system, SFA, uses glyph-based volume rendering, enabling more complex data relationships and informationattributes to be visualized than traditional 2D and surface-based visualization systems. Two-handed interaction using three-space magnetic trackers and stereoscopic viewing are combined to produce a minimally immersive interactive system that enhances the user's three-dimensional perception of the information space. This new system capitalizes on the human visual system's preattentive learning capabilities to quickly analyze the displayed information. We describe the usefulness of this system for the analysis and visualization of document similarity within a corpus of textual documents.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: GRAPHICSINTERFACE
• Authors: David S. Ebert, Christopher D. Shaw, Amen Zwa, Ethan L. Miller, D. Aaron Roberts
• Keywords: Analysis Ofdocument Corpora, GRAPHICSINTERFACE 1997, GRAPHICSINTERFACE 2007, Surface-based Visualization Systems, Volumetric Interactive Information