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ST-TrajVis: interacting with trajectory data

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Tiago Gonçalves,

Ana Paula Afonso,

Bruno Martins,

Daniel GonçalvesAuthors Info & Claims

BCS-HCI '13: Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Article No.: 48, Pages 1 - 6

Published: 09 September 2013 Publication History

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Huge amounts of movement data are nowadays being collected, as a consequence of the prevalence of mobile computing systems and location based services. While the research interest on the analysis of spatio-temporal data has also significantly increased, there are still several open challenges in areas such as interaction and information visualization. In this paper, we present the first steps of a research project that aims to study the usability of visualization techniques of mobility data. We present ST-TrajVis, an application for the visualization of movement data, based on the innovative combination of two popular techniques, namely a 2D map and a space-time cube, augmented with data processing techniques supporting the interaction with interesting subsets of the data. We conducted a user study to assess the usefulness of ST-TrajVis, and to obtain feedback regarding the users interaction with the different techniques. The results suggest the adequacy of the combination of 2D maps with space-time cubes, the existence of some features of interest to users, and the need to conduct further comparative studies between the different techniques.

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Gonçalves TAfonso AMartins BLawson SDickinson P(2015)Combining and assessing 2D maps and space-time cubes for trajectory dataProceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference10.1145/2783446.2783607(273-274)Online publication date: 13-Jul-2015
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.24

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Gonçalves TAfonso AMartins BFaily SJiang NDogan HJacqui T(2016)Why not both?Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference: Fusion!10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.22(1-10)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.22
Gonçalves TAfonso AMartins BLawson SDickinson P(2015)Combining and assessing 2D maps and space-time cubes for trajectory dataProceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference10.1145/2783446.2783607(273-274)Online publication date: 13-Jul-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2783446.2783607
Gonçalves TAfonso AMartins BFitton DHorton MRead JSim G(2014)Visualizing Human TrajectoriesProceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference on HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI10.14236/ewic/hci2014.24(207-212)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.24

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