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TerraGuide: Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Surface Environment for Terrain Visibility Analysis

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Matthew Oskamp,

Christophe Bortolaso,

T.C. Nicholas GrahamAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3553 - 3562

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702480

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Terrain visibility analysis is a challenging task that is currently supported by complex digital tools with cumbersome interfaces. In this paper, we present TerraGuide, a novel multi-surface environment for exploratory terrain analysis. TerraGuide provides three tightly coupled displays including a real-time viewshed, a 3D panoramic view, and a helicopter view controlled by an optically tracked tablet. A user study compared these techniques and identified users' strategies in solving a complex terrain analysis problem. Users overwhelmingly adopted a bi-manual use of the tabletop viewshed and tablet-based helicopter techniques. This paper gives insight into how multi-surface environments can be designed to allow complementary use of and fluid switching between techniques.

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