A Comparison of Spatiotemporal Visualizations for 3D Urban Analytics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05370v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:38:13 GMT
• Title: A Comparison of Spatiotemporal Visualizations for 3D Urban Analytics
• Authors: Roberta Mota, Nivan Ferreira, Julio Daniel Silva, Marius Horga, Marcos Lage, Luis Ceferino, Usman Alim, Ehud Sharlin, Fabio Miranda
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates how effective 3D urban visual analytics are at supportingtemporal analysis on building surfaces. We compare four representative visual designs used to visualize 3Dtemporal urban data: spatial juxtaposition, temporal juxtaposition, linked view, and embedded view. Our results demonstrate that participants were more accurate using plot-based visualizations but faster using colorcoded visualizations.
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• Abstract: Recent technological innovations have led to an increase in the availability of 3D urban data, such as shadow, noise, solar potential, and earthquake simulations. These spatiotemporal datasets create opportunities for new visualizations to engage experts from different domains to study the dynamic behavior of urban spaces in this under explored dimension. However, designing 3D spatiotemporal urban visualizations is challenging, as it requires visual strategies to support analysis of time-varying data referent to the city geometry. Although different visual strategies have been used in 3D urban visual analytics, the question of how effective these visual designs are at supporting spatiotemporal analysis on building surfaces remains open. To investigate this, in this paper we first contribute a series of analytical tasks elicited after interviews with practitioners from three urban domains. We also contribute a quantitative user study comparing the effectiveness of four representative visual designs used to visualize 3D spatiotemporal urban data: spatial juxtaposition, temporal juxtaposition, linked view, and embedded view. Participants performed a series of tasks that required them to identify extreme values on building surfaces over time. Tasks varied in granularity for both space and time dimensions. Our results demonstrate that participants were more accurate using plot-based visualizations (linked view, embedded view) but faster using color-coded visualizations (spatial juxtaposition, temporal juxtaposition). Our results also show that, with increasing task complexity, plot-based visualizations perform better in preserving efficiency (time, accuracy) compared to color-coded visualizations. Based on our findings, we present a set of takeaways with design recommendations for 3D spatiotemporal urban visualizations for researchers and practitioners.

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