GI'97 Online Papers

Interactive Volumetric Information Visualization for Document Corpus Management

David S Ebert, Chris D Shaw, Amen Zwa, Ethan L Miller, and D Aaron Roberts

Abstract

This paper describes a minimally immersive three-dimensional volumetric interactive information visualization system for management and analysis of document corpora. The system, SFA, uses glyph-based volume rendering, enabling more complex data relationships and information attributes 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 pre-attentive 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.

The Paper

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@inproceedings{ESZMR-gi97,
  title     = "Interactive Volumetric Information Visualization for 
              Document Corpus Management",
  author    = "David S Ebert and Chris D Shaw and Amen Zwa and
              Ethan L Miller and D Aaron Roberts",
  booktitle = "Graphics Interface",
  editor    = "Wayne Davis and Marilyn Mantei and Victor Klassen",
  year      = "1997",
  month     = "May",
  pages     = "121--128"
}