Different levels of 3D: an evaluation of visualized discrete spatiotemporal data in space-time cubes

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Kjellin;Lars Winkler Pettersson;Stefan Seipel;Mats Lind

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Information Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Information Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Information Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

New technologies and techniques allow novel kinds of visualizations and different types of 3D visualizations are constantly developed. We propose a categorization of 3D visualizations and, based on this categorization, evaluate two versions of a space-time cube that show discrete spatiotemporal data. The two visualization techniques used are a head-tracked stereoscopic visualization ('strong 3D') and a static monocular visualization ('weak 3D'). In terms of effectiveness and efficiency the weak 3D visualization is as good as the strong 3D and thus the need for advanced 3D visualizations in these kinds of tasks may not be necessary.