Multimodal analogs to infer humanities visualization requirements

TL;DR

This paper explores how real-world environments can inform the development of multimodal interfaces for humanities visualization, highlighting existing technological gaps and potential for richer interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for analyzing real-world environments to identify multimodal interface requirements for humanities visualization.

Findings

Real-world environments offer richer interaction capabilities.

Current technology partially supports multimodal humanities visualization.

Identified gaps suggest directions for future interface development.

Abstract

Gaps and requirements for multi-modal interfaces for humanities can be explored by observing the configuration of real-world environments and the tasks of visitors within them compared to digital environments. Examples include stores, museums, galleries, and stages with tasks similar to visualization tasks such as overview, zoom and detail; multi-dimensional reduction; collaboration; and comparison; with real-world environments offering much richer interactions. Some of these capabilities exist with the technology and visualization research, but not routinely available in implementations.