GVU Technical Report Number: GIT-GVU-02-07

Title: Situational Visualization

Authors: David Krum, William Ribarsky, Christopher D. Shaw, Larry F. Hodges, Nickolas Faust

Abstract:
In this paper, we introduce a new style of visualization called Situational Visualization, in which the user of a robust, mobile visualization system uses mobile computing resources to enhance the experience and understanding of the surrounding world. Additionally, a Situational Visualization system allows the user to add to the visualization and any underlying simulation by inputting the user's observations of the phenomena of interest, thus improving the quality of visualization for the user and for any other users that may be connected to the same database. Situational Visualization allows many users to collaborate on a common set of data with real-time acquisition and insertion of data. In this paper, we present a Situational Visualization system we are developing called Mobile VGIS, and present two sample applications of Situational Visualization.

Keywords: Mobile users and collaborators, dynamic databases, synchronized databases, real-time acquisition and insertion of data, location-specific services, location and time-specific user input.

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