Section: New Software and Platforms

Hybrid Image Visualisation

Figure 8. Hybrid image visualization software for the creation of visualizations for distant and close viewing on large displays.

Hybrid-image visualizations blend two different visual representations into a single static view, such that each representation can be perceived at a different viewing distance. Our work is motivated by data analysis scenarios that incorporate one or more displays with sufficiently large size and resolution to be comfortably viewed by different people from various distances. Hybrid-image visualizations can be used, in particular, to enhance overview tasks from a distance and detail-in-context tasks when standing close to the display. By taking advantage of humans’ perceptual capabilities, hybrid-image visualizations do not require tracking of viewers in front of a display. Moreover, because hybrid-images use a perception-based blending approach, visualizations intended for different distances can each utilize the entire display. We contribute a design space, discuss the perceptual rationale for our work, provide examples and a set of techniques for hybrid-image visualizations, and describe tools for designing hybrid-image visualizations. An example can be found in Figure 8.

Keywords: Wall-Sized Displays, Perception, Hybrid Images

Functional Description

• Participants: Jean-Daniel Fekete, Petra Isenberg, Pierre Dragicevic, Wesley Willett, Romain Primet.

• Contact: Petra Isenberg

• URL: http://aviz.fr/Research/HybridImageVisualizations