Title
The effects of display fidelity, visual complexity, and task scope on spatial understanding of 3D graphs
Abstract
Immersive display features can improve performance for tasks involving 3D, but determining which types of spatial analysis tasks are affected by immersive display features for different applications is not simple. This research adds to the knowledge of how the level of display fidelity (i.e., the realism provided by the display output) affects task performance for a variety of 3D spatial understanding tasks. In this study, we control visual display fidelity with the combination of stereoscopy, head-based rendering, and display area and study performance analysis of 3D graphs. Through a controlled study, we evaluated the relationship among display fidelity, visual complexity, task scope, and a user's personal spatial ability. Over a variety of task types, our results show significantly better overall task performance with higher display fidelity. We also found that visual complexity and task scope affect speed, with higher levels of either type of complexity leading to slower performance. These results show the importance of considering multiple factors when calculating the overall difficulty and complexity of a spatial task, and they suggest that visual clutter makes a greater impact on speed than correctness. Further, the study of different task types suggest enhanced virtual reality displays offer more benefits for spatial search and fine-grained component distinction, but may provide little gain than for sense of scale or size comparison.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
Graphics Interface 2012
virtual reality display,display fidelity,spatial understanding,visual display fidelity,display area,different task type,task scope,immersive display feature,higher display fidelity,visual complexity,display output,virtual reality
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer vision,Graph,Visual complexity,Fidelity,Virtual reality,Computer science,Stereoscopy,Correctness,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Rendering (computer graphics),Spatial ability
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
17
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felipe Bacim11127.48
Eric D. Ragan233330.08
Siroberto Scerbo3503.76
Nicholas F. Polys424125.33
Mehdi Setareh5263.79
Brett Jones681.65