SkiVis: Visual Exploration and Route Planning in Ski Resorts
Julius Rauscher, Raphael Buchm\"uller, Daniel A. Keim, and Matthias, Miller

TL;DR
SkiVis is a visual analytics tool that helps skiers explore ski resorts and plan routes tailored to their preferences, integrating automated recommendations with user-specific factors.
Contribution
The paper introduces SkiVis, a novel interactive system combining visual exploration and personalized routing for ski resorts, developed with domain experts and evaluated through user studies.
Findings
Supports preference-based ski route discovery
Enables comparison of slopes using volunteered geographic information
Demonstrates potential for personalized ski planning
Abstract
Optimal ski route selection is a challenge based on a multitude of factors, such as the steepness, compass direction, or crowdedness. The personal preferences of every skier towards these factors require individual adaptations, which aggravate this task. Current approaches within this domain do not combine automated routing capabilities with user preferences, missing out on the possibility of integrating domain knowledge in the analysis process. We introduce SkiVis, a visual analytics application to interactively explore ski slopes and provide routing recommendations based on user preferences. In collaboration with ski guides and enthusiasts, we elicited requirements and guidelines for such an application and propose different workflows depending on the skiers' familiarity with the resort. In a case study on the resort of Ski Arlberg, we illustrate how to leverage volunteered geographic…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSpecies Distribution and Climate Change · Data Visualization and Analytics · Geographic Information Systems Studies
