SONA: Improving situational awareness of geotagged information using tangible interfaces

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2017

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Ssin, S.Y.
Zucco, J.E.
Walsh, J.A.
Smith, R.T.
Thomas, B.H.

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2017 International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics, BDVA 2017, 2017, iss.8114625, pp.1-8

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International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics, BDVA (7 Nov 2017 - 10 Nov 2017 : Adelaide, Australia)

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This paper introduces SONA (Spatiotemporal system Organized for Natural Analysis), a tabletop and tangible controller system for exploring geotagged information, and more specifically, CCTV. SONA's goal is to support a more natural method of interacting with data. Our new interactions are placed in the context of a physical security environment, closed circuit television (CCTV). We present a three-layered detail on demand set of view filters for CCTV feeds on a digital map. These filters are controlled with a novel tangible device for direct interaction. We validate SONA's tangible controller approach with a user study comparing SONA with the existing CCTV multi-screen method. The results of the study show that SONA's tangible interaction method is superior to the multi-screen approach, both in terms of quantitative results, and is preferred by users.

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Copyright 2017 IEEE Access Condition Notes: Accepted manuscript available on open access

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