Satriadi, K. A., Ens, B., Goodwin, S., & Dwyer, T. (2023, April). Active Proxy Dashboard: Binding Physical Referents and Abstract Data Representations in Situated Visualization through Tangible Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7).
Active Proxy Dashboard: Binding Physical Referents and Abstract Data Representations in Situated Visualization through Tangible Interaction
Kadek Ananta Satriadi, Barrett Ens, Sarah Goodwin, Tim Dwyer
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Late-Breaking Work). Hamburg, Germany. 2023.
Myriad systems have been proposed in recent years involving situated visualization with tangible scale models as proxies for physical referents. Most of these focus on static placements of scale models that mimic their real-world arrangement. While such static placement is useful to show the spatial context of referents, it does not take full advantage of the potential interaction affordances of the proxies. Our approach, Active Proxy, binds the data representation and referent through physical manipulations of scale models. We introduce a conceptual design space defining four quadrants as combinations of two dimensions: spatial to abstract representation; and passive to active proxy. Our focus is the novel quadrant defined by active proxies and abstract representations. Designing active proxy techniques is non-trivial as users are accustomed to common interaction modalities. This paper presents an initial exploration toward a better understanding of the active proxy concept, and designs of active proxy systems.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585797
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Tags: chi,dashboard,late-breaking work,scale model,situated visualization,tangible
Teaser video.
The following are clips from the development phase.
Selecting multiple referents.
A discussion with a colleague in the early stage of the development. We envision the tool will be used to facilitate group discussions.