Poster: Towards Making InfoVis Views Tangible

In information visualization, interaction is commonly carried out by using traditional input devices, and visual feedback is usually given on desktop displays. By contrast, recent advances in interactive surface technology suggest combining interaction and display functionality in a single device for a more direct interaction. With our work, we contribute to the seamless integration of interaction and display devices and introduce new ways of visualizing and directly interacting with information. For this purpose, we introduce tangible views as spatially-aware lightweight displays that can be interacted with by moving them through the physical space on or above a tabletop display’s surface. Tracking the three-dimensional movement of tangible views allows us to control various parameters of a visualization with more degrees of freedom. Tangible views also facilitate making multiple views physically “graspable”.