SketchSliders: Sketching Widgets for Visual Exploration on Wall Displays

Theophanis Tsandilas (1, 2) , Anastasia Bezerianos (3, 2) , Thibaut Jacob (2, 4)

1 EX-SITU - Extreme Interaction
2 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
3 ILDA - Interacting with Large Data
4 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

We introduce a mobile sketching interface for exploring multi-dimensional datasets on wall displays. We demonstrate the idea of SketchSliders, range sliders that users can freely sketch on a mobile surface to customize their exploration. A small combination of sketches and gestures allows the creation of complex interactive sliders, such as circular sliders for periodic data, slider branches for detailed interaction, and fisheye transformation sliders. We augment sliders with a suite of tools, such as markers, slider cursors, and approximate views of data distributions. Our designs are inspired by a design study with three visualization experts and validated through a user study with six experts using our system. Our findings indicate that our sketching interface accommodates a wide range of exploration strategies, helping users customize as well as focus their visual explorations.

Keywords: wall displays; data visualization; sketching interfaces

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]

Theophanis Tsandilas, Anastasia Bezerianos, Thibaut Jacob. SketchSliders: Sketching Widgets for Visual Exploration on Wall Displays. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, Apr 2015, Seoul, South Korea. pp.3255-3264, ⟨10.1145/2702123.2702129⟩. ⟨hal-01144312⟩