| Title | Navigable Videos for Presenting Scientific Data on Affordable Head-Mounted Displays |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2017 |
| Authors | Chu, Jacqueline, Bryan, Chris, Shih, Min, Ferrer, Leonardo, Ma, Kwan-Liu |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 8th ACM on Multimedia Systems Conference |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-5002-0 |
| Keywords | composability, head-mounted displays, Human Behavior, immersive systems, immersive visualization, pubcrawl, Resiliency, scientific storytelling, stereoscopic visualization |
| Abstract | Immersive, stereoscopic visualization enables scientists to better analyze structural and physical phenomena compared to traditional display mediums. Unfortunately, current head-mounted displays (HMDs) with the high rendering quality necessary for these complex datasets are prohibitively expensive, especially in educational settings where their high cost makes it impractical to buy several devices. To address this problem, we develop two tools: (1) An authoring tool allows domain scientists to generate a set of connected, 360deg video paths for traversing between dimensional keyframes in the dataset. (2) A corresponding navigational interface is a video selection and playback tool that can be paired with a low-cost HMD to enable an interactive, non-linear, storytelling experience. We demonstrate the authoring tool's utility by conducting several case studies and assess the navigational interface with a usability study. Results show the potential of our approach in effectively expanding the accessibility of high-quality, immersive visualization to a wider audience using affordable HMDs. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3083187.3084015 |
| DOI | 10.1145/3083187.3084015 |
| Citation Key | chu_navigable_2017 |
Navigable Videos for Presenting Scientific Data on Affordable Head-Mounted Displays