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Doctoral Researcher

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Dipl.-Inf. Marc Satkowski

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Research Training Group 2323

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Research Topic

With a growing availability of data and the associated information need, generating insights from visualizations becomes more and more commonplace in our everyday lives. In addition, the growing number of devices which enable the presentation and work with visualization leads to various combinations of users, tasks, systems, and environments. One such device class are augmented reality (AR) head-mounted displays which enable users to analyze visualizations in arbitrary real environments, such as industrial settings. In my work, I focus on generating a better understanding on how such AR visualizations should be created while keeping the needs of the users in mind. For that, I examine (i) characteristics of users including their visualization literacy, (ii) properties of environments, such as the background, and (iii) authoring and development of systems. Based on qualitative and quantitative user studies in combination with technical prototypes and concepts, my research generates insights and guidelines which tackle timely challenges and will help to better design future AR visualization systems.

Research Vision, Goal, and Questions

In general, the vision and goal of this thesis can be described with the following two statements:

• Create effective and conducive information visualization systems for AR devices, usable by operators of CPPS and data analysists.
• Explore possible parameters that can define adaptive and responsive visualization or system designs and behaviors.

To better enable this thesis to generate promising individual research projects, the following three research questions were defined in addition to the research goal:

• To what extend affects user characteristics the data analysis process?
• How does the immersive environment influences the analysis?
• How to create accessbile immersive analysis systems?