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On the Utility of Large High-Resolution Displays for Comparative Scientific Visualisation

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Christoph Müller,

Katrin Scharnowski,

Thomas ErtlAuthors Info & Claims

VINCI '15: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

Pages 131 - 136

https://doi.org/10.1145/2801040.2801045

Published: 24 August 2015 Publication History

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In many disciplines, such as computer aided drug design, multiple simulation runs are performed with varying parameters, yielding ensembles of data sets. Comparative visualisation of these simulation results can help understanding the influence of different parameters. However, researchers might need to compare large numbers of variants. Single desktop monitors often do not have the resolution and screen size required for showing a whole ensemble at once with sufficient detail. Wall-sized high-resolution displays can be a solution for this problem. Although a number of studies has been conducted on how large high-resolution displays affect the speed and accuracy of certain tasks, only few of them are related to actual scientific visualisation tasks. We built a system for comparative visualisation of simulation results that can be used with conventional desktop monitors and with large high-resolution displays. We conducted a study using biochemical simulation data to evaluate the impact of screen size and 3D stereo display on a comparison task.

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VINCI '15: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

August 2015

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ISBN:9781450334822

DOI:10.1145/2801040

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Müller CKrone MHuber MBiener VHerr DKoch SReina GWeiskopf DErtl T(2018)Interactive Molecular Graphics for Augmented Reality Using HoloLensJournal of Integrative Bioinformatics10.1515/jib-2018-000515:2Online publication date: 13-Jun-2018
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Gralka PSchulz CReina GWeiskopf DErtl T(2017)Visual Exploration of Memory Traces and Call Stacks2017 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)10.1109/VISSOFT.2017.15(54-63)Online publication date: Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT.2017.15

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