Using Augmented Reality for Visualizing Complex Graphs in Three Dimensions

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Belcher;Mark Billinghurst;SE Hayes;Randy Stiles

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISMAR '03 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper we explore the effect of using AugmentedReality (AR) for three-dimensional graph link analysis.Two experiments were conducted. The first was designedto compare a tangible AR interface to a desktop-basedinterface. Different modes of viewing network graphswere presented using a variety of interfaces. The resultsof the first experiment shows that a tangible AR interfaceis well suited to link analysis. The second experiment wasdesigned to test the effect of stereographic viewing ongraph comprehension. The results show thatstereographic viewing has little effect on comprehensionand performance. These experiments add support to thework of Ware and Frank, whose studies showed thatdepth and motion cues provide huge gains in spatialcomprehension and accuracy in link analysis.