Egocentric space-distorting visualizations for rapid environment exploration in mobile mixed reality

C. Sandor , A. Cunningham , U. Eck , D. Urquhart , G. Jarvis , A. Dey , S. Barbier , M. R. Marner , S. Rhee

ISMAR

Mobile devices commonly show maps of the surroundings with embedded points of interest, but off-screen or occluded points are hard to display. This work designs and implements space-distorting visualisations — well studied in information visualisation but new to mixed reality — that bend the view so those points can be explored in the user's current context. Informal user feedback drove several iterations, and the authors share their results to encourage further exploration of the technique in AR.

@inproceedings{sandor2009,
  author    = {C. Sandor and A. Cunningham and U. Eck and D. Urquhart and G. Jarvis and A. Dey and S. Barbier and M. R. Marner and S. Rhee},
  title     = {Egocentric space-distorting visualizations for rapid environment exploration in mobile mixed reality},
  booktitle = {ISMAR},
  pages     = {211-212},
  doi       = {10.1109/ISMAR.2009.5336461},
  year      = {2009}
}