Paper Info
Title
VU-flow: a visualization tool for analyzing navigation in virtual environments.
Abstract
This paper presents a tool for the visual analysis of navigation patterns of moving entities, such as users, virtual characters, or vehicles in 3D Virtual Environments (VEs). The tool, called VU-Flow, provides a set of interactive visualizations that highlight interesting navigation behaviors of single or groups of moving entities that were the VE together or separately. The visualizations help to improve the design of VEs and to study the navigation behavior of users, e.g., during controlled experiments. Besides VEs, the proposed techniques could also be applied to visualize real-world data recorded by positioning systems, allowing one to employ VU-Flow in domains such as urban planning, transportation, and emergency response.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/TVCG.2006.109
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual environments,proposed technique,positioning system,interactive visualization,navigation pattern,emergency response,visualization tool,navigation behavior,controlled experiment,visualizations help,analyzing navigation,highlight interesting navigation behavior,visual system,urban planning,data visualisation,virtual environment,transportation,user interfaces,virtual reality,visual analysis,information visualization,navigation
Computer vision,Data visualization,Virtual reality,Information visualization,Computer science,Visualization,Urban planning,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,User interface,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
6
1077-2626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
47
3.33
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Chittaro12083177.40
Roberto Ranon239233.19
Lucio Ieronutti323820.08