Large Displays: Will it ever be enough?
Richard Allen May, Jim Thomas · 2005
HI-Space users interacting with 3D geometry data generated from 48 confocal microscope image slices at 512x512 resolution. For the last several years PNNL has been exploring how to use large-screen, group interaction workspaces to complement our research into information visualization. A big part of that effort has focused on how to support new and innovative interactions with large screen systems. We have developed the Human Information Workspace (HI-Space) which uses video tracking to recognize multiple simultaneous hands and objects as inputs for a wide variety of applications using large displays. One of our ongoing projects is to develop applications for exploring biological data and to evaluate the effectiveness of these applications and environments. This work is being done in partnership with Brown University and the University College of London. To date, this project has been very successful as we try to understand both visualization and interaction factors that influence the scientists’ ability to work on real world problems with largescreen, both immersive and non-immersive, environments.