Paper Info
Title
High-level visualization of users' navigation in virtual environments
Abstract
This paper presents the current status of VU-Flow (Visualization of Users’ Flow), a software tool that is able to automatically record usage data in Virtual Environments and provide a set of 2D and 3D visualizations that make it easy for an evaluator to visually detect peculiar users’ behaviors and navigability problems. The paper focuses on novel functionalities we recently added to the tool. More specifically, the new version of VU-Flow includes: (i) the possibility of visualizing predominant flow directions for multiple users or multiple visiting sessions, (ii) a visualization aimed at highlighting traffic congestion problems in multi-user VEs, (iii) the possibility of visualizing a replay of users’ visits together with audio and video recordings of actual users (e.g. gathered during lab experiments), and (iv) the ability to derive, for each user, a list of quantitative data characterizing her behavior in the VE.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11555261_69
INTERACT
Keywords
Field
DocType
high-level visualization,virtual environments,software tool,multiple user,lab experiment,multi-user ves,predominant flow direction,virtual environment,current status,actual user,record usage data,quantitative data,flow visualization,3d visualization
Software tool,Virtual reality,Visualization,Computer science,Navigability,Human–computer interaction,Usage data,User interface,Multimedia,Traffic congestion
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3585
0302-9743
3-540-28943-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.80
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucio Ieronutti123820.08
Roberto Ranon239233.19
Luca Chittaro32083177.40