025  |  Visualization on Mobile & Touch Devices w/ Dominikus Baur

Hi Everyone,

In this episode we talk about visualization on mobile and touch devices. How do you design visualization interfaces for these kinds of devices? How different is it to interact with your fingertips rather than with your mouse? Advantages, disadvantages, unexplored opportunities?

We discuss with Dominukus Baur, interaction designer and mobile data visualization specialist. You can see his work on his website/blog. Make sure to give a look to his talk at the OpenVis Conference: Data on Your FingerTips. He gives lots of useful tips!

Episode Chapters

00:00:00 Enrico and Mo go on vacations
00:02:28 Our guest: Dominikus Baur
00:04:06 Life logging and personal media
00:05:10 Accents
00:05:39 Why mobile visualization, and how is it different from desktop visualizations?
00:09:24 Mobile interaction
00:13:27 Mobiles for interaction with other displays
00:14:38 Augmented reality
00:15:54 TouchWave – touch interaction with stacked graphs
00:21:52 Multitouch
00:24:45 Analytical, advanced visualization on mobile?
00:26:44 Self-tracking and life logging
00:31:17 Daytum app
00:32:54 Other good mobile visualization apps
00:35:12 Second screen apps
00:36:28 Moritz wants an atlas
00:37:04 The age of ghettoblasters
00:38:00 Use mobiles to interact with large screens
00:41:48 Technology: native, or web-based?
00:46:07 Better Life Index: HTML5 port works on mobiles, tablets
00:48:00 Research on mobile and touch interactions
00:50:39 Large screens
00:58:54 How to get started
01:01:13 Dominikus will start a blog!!

Links

• Dominikus’ TouchWave (rich interaction with stackgraphs)
• Daytum iPhone App (from Nicholas Feltron for self-logging)

Business Intelligence iPad Apps

• Roambi (http://www.roambi.com/)
• MicroStrategy Mobile (http://www.microstrategy.com/mobile/business-intelligence)
• PUSHBI (http://pushbi.com/)
• Perspective (http://pixxa.com/) etc etc

Presentation Apps

• HaikuDeck (http://www.haikudeck.com/)
• Apple Keynote (http://www.apple.com/apps/iwork/keynote/)

Research

• TouchViz: A Case Study Comparing Two Interfaces for Data Analytics on Tablets
• Visualizing Information on Mobile Devices
• Querying and Visualizing Information Spaces on Personal Digital Assistants
• Getting Practical with Interactive Tabletop Displays: Designing for Dense Data, Fat Fingers, Diverse Interactions, and Face-to-Face Collaboration
• Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization
• Tangible Views for Information Visualization