Effects of Display Layout on Spatial Memory for Immersive Environments
In immersive environments, positioning data visualisations around the user in a wraparound layout has been advocated as advantageous over flat arrangements more typical of traditional screens. However, other than limiting the distance users must walk, there is no clear design rationale behind this common practice, and little research on the impact of wraparound layouts on visualisation tasks. The ability to remember the spatial location of elements of visualisations within the display space is crucial to support visual analytical tasks, especially those that require users to shift their focus or perform comparisons. This ability is influenced by the user's spatial memory but how spatial memory is affected by different display layouts remains unclear. In this paper, we perform two user studies to evaluate the effects of three layouts with varying degrees of curvature around the user (flat-wall, semicircular-wraparound, and circular-wraparound) on a visuo-spatial memory task in a virtual environment. The results show that participants are able to recall spatial patterns with greater accuracy and report more positive subjective ratings using flat than circular-wraparound layouts. While we didn't find any significant performance differences between the flat and semicircular-wraparound layouts, participants overwhelmingly preferred the semicircular-wraparound layout suggesting it is a good compromise between the two extremes of display curvature.
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15:30 - 16:30 | Session 3: GazePapers at Rutherford House Lecture Theatre 2 Chair(s): Aluna Everitt University of Oxford | ||
15:30 20mTalk | Design and Evaluation of a Silent Speech-Based Selection Method for Eye-Gaze Pointing Papers DOI Media Attached | ||
15:50 20mTalk | HandyGaze: A Gaze Tracking Technique for Room-Scale Environments using a Single Smartphone Papers Takahiro Nagai Tohoku University, Kazuyuki Fujita Tohoku University, Kazuki Takashima Tohoku University, Yoshifumi Kitamura Tohoku University DOI Media Attached | ||
16:10 20mTalk | Effects of Display Layout on Spatial Memory for Immersive Environments Papers Jiazhou Liu Monash University, Arnaud Prouzeau Inria & LaBRI (University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux-INP), Barrett Ens Monash University, Tim Dwyer Monash University DOI Media Attached |