IslandViz: A Tool for Visualizing Modular Software Systems in Virtual Reality

Misiak, Martin; Schreiber, Andreas; Fuhrmann, Arnulph; Zur, Sascha; Seider, Doreen; Nafeie, Lisa

doi:10.1109/vissoft.2018.00020

Cited by 20 publications

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“…In the next section we discuss additional modern medical applications of VR, however, VR visualization is a much broader topic (Berg and Vance, 2017;Misiak et al, 2018;Rizvic et al, 2019;Slater et al, 2020).…”

Section: Immersive Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inspection of Histological 3D Reconstructions in Virtual Reality

Lobachev¹,

Berthold²,

Pfeffer³

et al. 2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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3D reconstruction is a challenging current topic in medical research. We perform 3D reconstructions from serial sections stained by immunohistological methods. This paper presents an immersive visualization solution to quality control (QC), inspect, and analyze such reconstructions. QC is essential to establish correct digital processing methodologies. Visual analytics, such as annotation placement, mesh painting, and classification utility, facilitates medical research insights. We propose a visualization in virtual reality (VR) for these purposes. In this manner, we advance the microanatomical research of human bone marrow and spleen. Both 3D reconstructions and original data are available in VR. Data inspection is streamlined by subtle implementation details and general immersion in VR.

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Section: Immersive Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inspection of Histological 3D Reconstructions in Virtual Reality

Lobachev¹,

Berthold²,

Pfeffer³

et al. 2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…Other metaphors have been implemented in VR. Misiak, Schreiber et al [45] proposed the island metaphor for visualizing OSGi-based software systems, introducing and emphasizing the visualization of dependencies. Schreiber et al [46] presented an interactive tool that also visualizes OSGi-based systems with their components, packages, services, and dependencies in 3D, using a different metaphor including boxes.…”

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CodeCity: On-Screen or in Virtual Reality?

Moreno-Lumbreras

Minelli

Villaverde

et al. 2021

2021 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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Over the past decades, researchers proposed numerous approaches to visualize source code. A prominent one is CODECITY, an interactive 3D software visualization that leverages the "city metaphor" to represent software system as cities: buildings represent classes (or files) and districts represent packages (or folders). Building dimensions represent values of software metrics, such as the number of methods or the lines of code. There are many implementations of CODECITY, the vast majority of them running on-screen. Recently, some implementations visualizing CODECITY in virtual reality (VR) have appeared. While exciting as a technology, VR's usefulness remains to be proven.The question we pose is: Is VR well suited to visualize CODECITY, compared to the traditional on-screen implementation?We performed an experiment in our interactive web-based application to visualize CODECITY. Users can fetch data from any git repository and visualize its source code. Our application enables users to navigate CODECITY both on-screen and in an immersive VR environment, using consumer-grade VR headsets like Oculus Quest. Our controlled experiment involved 24 participants from academia and industry. Results show that people using the VR version performed the assigned tasks in much less time, while still maintaining a comparable level of correctness.Therefore, our results show that VR is at least equally wellsuited as on-screen for visualizing CODECITY, and likely better.

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“…Based on the work of Hohenstein et al [7] on desktop-based interactive and passive loading screens, we chose a passive animated Newton's cradle and an interactive Newton's cradle. We implemented both loading screens into the existing visualization tool IslandViz [14]. This open-source tool visualizes OSGi-based software projects as islands on a virtual table in VR.…”

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“…Virtual reality (VR) technology is increasingly used in the context of data visualization [20,14]. Processing high amounts of data inside a VR-based real-time interactive system can introduce lag causing simulator sickness [19].…”

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Perceived Speed, Frustration and Enjoyment of Interactive and Passive Loading Scenarios in Virtual Reality

Heidrich

Wohlan

Schaller

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Long waits and disruptive loading breaks can evoke negative emotions, like frustration. While there is a lot of research on 2D-based loading scenarios, it is unclear how people react to loading screens in an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment. In this paper we conducted a user study to investigate the effects of interactive and passive loading screens on the users' loading screen experience (LSE) in VR. We measured perceived speed, enjoyment and frustration for long and short waiting times. Results show that interactive loading screens improved participants' LSE through increasing perceived speed and enjoyment, and decreased their frustration while waiting. Thus, previous findings of 2D-based research were confirmed. Therefore, our research provides a first approach for further investigations of different loading screens in VR.

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IslandViz: A Tool for Visualizing Modular Software Systems in Virtual Reality

Cited by 20 publications

References 18 publications

Inspection of Histological 3D Reconstructions in Virtual Reality

Inspection of Histological 3D Reconstructions in Virtual Reality

CodeCity: On-Screen or in Virtual Reality?

Perceived Speed, Frustration and Enjoyment of Interactive and Passive Loading Scenarios in Virtual Reality

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