SpatialRugs: Enhancing Spatial Awareness of Movement in Dense Pixel Visualizations

• DOI: 10.2312/eurova.20201078
• Publication Date: 2020-05-25
• Authors: Juri Buchmüller; Udo Schlegel; Eren Cakmak; Daniel A. Keim; Evanthia Dimara
• Keywords: Smoothing; Spatial contextual awareness

Compact visual summaries of spatio-temporal movement data often strive to express accurate positions movers. We present SpatialRugs, a technique enhance the spatial awareness movements in dense pixel visualizations. SpatialRugs apply 2D colormaps visualize location mapped juxtaposed display. explore effect various discussing perceptual limitations and introduce custom color-smoothing method mitigate distorted patterns collective behavior.