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Towards Designing Immersive Geovisualisations: Literature Review and Recommendations for Future Research

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DOI:10.1145/3520495.3520511
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Authors: Gallagher Cael / Turkay Selen / Brown Ross Andrew

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Geological fieldwork forms an integral part of science discovery, ex- ploration, and learning in many geoscientific domains. Yet, there are barriers that can hinder its practice. To address this, prior research has investigated immersive geovisualisations, however, there is no consensus on the types of interaction tools and techniques that should be used. We have conducted a literature review of 31 papers and present the visualisation environments, interaction tools and techniques, and evaluation methods from this last decade. We found a lack of established taxonomy for visualisation environments; an absence of thorough reports on interaction tools and techniques; and a lack of use of relevant human-computer interaction (HCI) theories and user-centered approaches. This review contributes towards the development of a design framework as we propose a basic taxonomy; demonstrate the need for holistic records of user interactions; and highlight the need for HCI evaluation meth- ods. Addressing these gaps will facilitate future innovation in the emerging field of immersive geovisualisations. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. OzCHI 2021, November 30–December 03, 2021, Online ©2021 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-9598-4/21/11. . . $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/3520495.3520511 CCS CONCEPTS •Human-centered computing→Virtual reality ;Mixed / augmented reality;Scientific visualization;Interaction tech- niques;HCI design and evaluation methods;Visualization design and evaluation methods;•General and reference→Surveys and overviews. KEYWORDS geovisualisation, virtual environments, virtual field trips ACM Reference Format: Cael Gallagher, Selen Türkay, and Ross Brown. 2021. Towards Designing Immersive Geovisualisations: Literature Review and Recommendations for Future Research. InOzCHI 2021: 33rd Australian Conference on Human- Computer Interaction (HCI), November 30–December 03, 2021, Online.ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3520495.3520511 1

Level 1: Include/Exclude

  • Papers must discuss situated information visualization* (by Willet et al.) in the application domain of CH.
    *A situated data representation is a data representation whose physical presentation is located close to the data’s physical referent(s).
    *A situated visualization is a situated data representation for which the presentation is purely visual – and is typically displayed on a screen.
  • Representation must include abstract data (e.g., metadata).
  • Papers focused solely on digital reconstruction without information visualization aspects are excluded.
  • Posters and workshop papers are excluded to focus on mature research contributions.
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