VU-flow: A visualization tool for analyzing navigation in virtual environments
VU-flow: A visualization tool for analyzing navigation in virtual environments
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DOI：
10.1109/tvcg.2006.109
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发表时间：
2006-11-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Ieronutti, Lucio
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作者：
Chittaro, Luca;Ranon, Roberto;Ieronutti, Lucio
本文提出了一种工具，用于三维虚拟环境（VE）中的移动实体，如用户，虚拟角色或车辆的导航模式的视觉分析。该工具，称为VU-Flow，提供了一组交互式可视化，突出显示单个或多组移动实体的有趣的导航行为，这些实体是VE一起或单独的。可视化有助于虚拟环境的设计改进和研究用户的导航行为，例如。例如，在一个实施例中，在受控实验中。除了虚拟环境，所提出的技术还可以应用于可视化定位系统记录的真实世界数据，允许在城市规划，交通和应急响应等领域使用VU-Flow。
This paper presents a tool for the visual analysis of navigation patterns of moving entities, such as users, virtual characters, or vehicles in 3D Virtual Environments (VEs). The tool, called VU-Flow, provides a set of interactive visualizations that highlight interesting navigation behaviors of single or groups of moving entities that were the VE together or separately. The visualizations help to improve the design of VEs and to study the navigation behavior of users, e. g., during controlled experiments. Besides VEs, the proposed techniques could also be applied to visualize real-world data recorded by positioning systems, allowing one to employ VU-Flow in domains such as urban planning, transportation, and emergency response.