ProxSituated Visualization: An Extended Model of Situated Visualization using Proxies for Physical Referents

Kadek Ananta Satriadi, Andrew Cunningham, Ross T. Smith, Tim Dwyer, Adam Drogemuller, Bruce H. Thomas

Existing situated visualization models assume the user is able to directly interact with the objects and spaces to which the data refers (known as physical referents). We review a growing body of work exploring scenarios where the user interacts with a proxy representation of the physical referent rather than immediately with the object itself. This introduces a complex mixture of immediate situatedness and proxies of situatedness that goes beyond the expressiveness of current models. We propose an extended model of situated visualization that encompasses Immediate Situated Visualization and ProxSituated (Proxy of Situated) Visualization. Our model describes a set of key entities involved in proxSituated scenarios and important relationships between them. From this model, we derive design dimensions and apply them to existing situated visualization work. The resulting design space allows us to describe and evaluate existing scenarios, as well as to creatively generate new conceptual scenarios.

This study was co-funded by the department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (Innovative Manufacturing CRC Ltd), and ASC Shipbuilding Pty. Ltd. (IMCRC/ASB/190720) in partnership with the University of South Australia. We thank the reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. We would like to thank the organizations and individuals for permission to publish copyrighted materials used in this paper.

Satriadi, K. A., Cunningham, A., Smith, R. T., Dwyer, T., Drogemuller, A., & Thomas, B. H. (2023, April). ProxSituated Visualization: An Extended Model of Situated Visualization using Proxies for Physical Referents. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20).