Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization

This video demonstrates Lark, a system that facilitates the coordination of interactions with information visualizations on shared digital workspaces.

This supplementary video accompanies the paper titled "Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization" presented at IEEE Information Visualization 2009 conference, held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA from October 11 through 16, 2009.

Paper publicly available from: http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Publications/Publications?action=bibentry&...

Paper abstract:

Large multi-touch displays are expanding the possibilities of multiple-coordinated views by allowing multiple people to interact with data in concert or independently of one another. We present Lark, a system that facilitates the coordination of interactions with information visualizations on shared digital workspaces. We focus on supporting this coordination according to four main criteria: scoped interaction, temporal flexibility, spatial flexibility, and changing collaboration styles. These are achieved by integrating a representation of the information visualization pipeline into the shared workspace, thus explicitly indicating coordination points on data, representation, presentation, and view levels. This integrated meta-visualization supports both the awareness of how views are linked and the freedom to work in concert or independently. Lark incorporates these four main criteria into a coherent visualization collaboration interaction environment by providing direct visual and algorithmic support for the coordination of data analysis actions over shared large displays.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Digital Tabletop
• System
• Demo
• InnoVis Lab
• University of Calgary