IATK: an Immersive Analytics Toolkit

Maxime Cordeil; Andrew Cunningham; Benjamin Bach; Christophe Hurter; Bruce H. Thomas; Kimbal  Marriott; Tim Dwyer

doi:10.1109/VR.2019.8797978

IATK: an Immersive Analytics Toolkit

Maxime Cordeil, Andrew Cunningham, Benjamin Bach, Christophe Hurter, Bruce H. Thomas, Kimbal Marriott, Tim Dwyer

Department of Human Centred Computing

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Abstract

We introduce IATK, the Immersive Analytics Toolkit, a software package for Unity that allows interactive authoring and exploration of data visualisation in immersive environments. The design of IATK was informed by interdisciplinary expert-collaborations as well as visual analytics applications and iterative refinement over several years. IATK allows for easy assembly of visualisations through a grammar of graphics that a user can configure in a GUI-in addition to a dedicated visualisation API that supports the creation of novel immersive visualisation designs and interactions. IATK is designed with scalability in mind, allowing visualisation and fluid responsive interactions in the order of several million points at a usable frame rate. This paper outlines our design requirements, IATK's framework design and technical features, its user interface, as well as application examples.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces - Proceedings
Editors	Rob Teather, Yuta Itoh, Joe Gabbard, Ferran Argelaguet, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Dan Keefe
Place of Publication	Piscataway NJ USA
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	200-209
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728113777
ISBN (Print)	9781728113784
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2019.8797978
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2019 - Osaka, Japan Duration: 23 Mar 2019 → 27 Mar 2019 Conference number: 26th http://ieeevr.org/2019/ https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/xpl/conhome/8787730/proceeding (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2019
Abbreviated title	VR 2019
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	23/03/19 → 27/03/19
Internet address	http://ieeevr.org/2019/ https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/xpl/conhome/8787730/proceeding (Proceedings)

Keywords

Centered computing
Human
Visualisation design and evaluation methods
Visualization
Visualization techniques

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Cordeil, M., Cunningham, A., Bach, B., Hurter, C., Thomas, B. H., Marriott, K., & Dwyer, T. (2019). IATK: an Immersive Analytics Toolkit. In R. Teather, Y. Itoh, J. Gabbard, F. Argelaguet, A-H. Olivier, & D. Keefe (Eds.), 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces - Proceedings (pp. 200-209). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2019.8797978

Cordeil, Maxime ; Cunningham, Andrew ; Bach, Benjamin et al. / IATK : an Immersive Analytics Toolkit. 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces - Proceedings. editor / Rob Teather ; Yuta Itoh ; Joe Gabbard ; Ferran Argelaguet ; Anne-Hélène Olivier ; Dan Keefe. Piscataway NJ USA : IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019. pp. 200-209

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Cordeil, M, Cunningham, A, Bach, B, Hurter, C, Thomas, BH, Marriott, K & Dwyer, T 2019, IATK: an Immersive Analytics Toolkit. in R Teather, Y Itoh, J Gabbard, F Argelaguet, A-H Olivier & D Keefe (eds), 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces - Proceedings. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 200-209, IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2019, Osaka, Japan, 23/03/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2019.8797978

IATK : an Immersive Analytics Toolkit. / Cordeil, Maxime; Cunningham, Andrew; Bach, Benjamin et al.

26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces - Proceedings. ed. / Rob Teather; Yuta Itoh; Joe Gabbard; Ferran Argelaguet; Anne-Hélène Olivier; Dan Keefe. Piscataway NJ USA : IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019. p. 200-209.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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Cordeil M, Cunningham A, Bach B, Hurter C, Thomas BH, Marriott K et al. IATK: an Immersive Analytics Toolkit. In Teather R, Itoh Y, Gabbard J, Argelaguet F, Olivier A-H, Keefe D, editors, 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces - Proceedings. Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2019. p. 200-209 https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2019.8797978

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