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Touching transport - a case study on visualizing metropolitan public transit on interactive tabletops

Authors:

Martina Maitan,

Andrew Vande Moere,

Kristian Kloeckl,

Carlo RattiAuthors Info & Claims

AVI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Pages 281 - 288

https://doi.org/10.1145/2598153.2598180

Published: 27 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Due to recent technical developments, urban systems generate large and complex data sets. While visualizations have been used to make these accessible, often they are tailored to one specific group of users, typically the public or expert users. We present Touching Transport, an application that allows a diverse group of users to visually explore public transit data on a multi-touch tabletop. It provides multiple perspectives of the data and consists of three visualization modes conveying tempo-spatial patterns as map, time-series, and arc view. We exhibited our system publicly, and evaluated it in a lab study with three distinct user groups: citizens with knowledge of the local environment, experts in the domain of public transport, and non-experts with neither local nor domain knowledge. Our observations and evaluation results show we achieved our goals of both attracting visitors to explore the data while enabling gathering insights for both citizens and experts. We discuss the design considerations in developing our system, and describe our lessons learned in designing engaging tabletop visualizations.

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AVI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

May 2014

438 pages

ISBN:9781450327756

DOI:10.1145/2598153

General Chair:
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Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
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Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

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