Amanda Levy's Project 2 Finalized Plan

Project Goal

• visualize the progression of female participation in the Olympics over the past 120 years, but with this project, there will be a greater focus on ensuring that collaboration is readily available and accessible. 

Research Question

• Focusing on the CDA scenario of the Seven Scenarios

  • How does Immersion Analytics support collaboration efforts amongst users when viewing datasets in VR?

Specifically, I will look at the following CDA questions quoted from the Seven Scenarios paper: 

• "Does the tool support effective and efficient collaborative data analysis?"

• "Does the tool support group insight?"

• "Is social exchange around and communication about the data facilitated?"

• "How is the collaborative visualization system used?"

• "How are certain system features used during collaborative work? What are patterns of system use?"

• "What is the process of collaborative analysis? What are users' requirements?"

Motivation

• For my project 1 research, I worked with this Kaggle dataset to visualize the progression and breakdown of female participation in the Olympics. My classmates and I found the dataset very interesting, but we faced an obstacle to collaboratively viewing the dataset. I used Virtualitics to create graphs for my research questions, but the license only allowed one active user on my desktop account and only one Oculus Quest 2 could be linked to my Virtualitics license. Thus, I had to review the desktop graphs through Zoom screen share, and I had to work individually with classmates to hear their reactions to each graph. This severely limited collaboration and its associated benefits as well as greatly increased the time to complete a class activity. 

• Consequently, for project 2, I want to look at the popular dataset again, but this time, I want to use a different software that has a more expansive licensing properties and should enable easier collaboration. Specifically, I want to look at Immersion Analytics.

Milestones By Each Class

• 4/05

  • Wiki subpages pertaining to my decision process to not pursue my original CAD model project idea as well as my research into additional data visualization software

• 4/07

  • licensing access to a more accessible collaboration software (Immersion Analytics)

• 4/12

  • Wiki subpage documenting the download and installation process for Immersion Analytics as well as my first suggested instructions and takeaways

• 4/14

  • the Olympic dataset is loaded into Immersion Analytics

• 4/19

  • a Project 2 file structure replicates the original Project 1 research questions but in Immersion Analytics

• 4/21

  • a completed testing activity for a two person collaboration effort using Immersion Analytics

• 4/26

  • completed class activity of collaboratively examining the Project 1 research questions

• 4/28

  • responses to the class activity followup Google Form asking the Seven Scenarios CDA evaluative questions 

• 5/03

  • Wiki subpages documenting the Project 2 graphs, the comparative takeaways between Virtualitics and Immersion Analytics, and an analysis of the collaboration component of using Immersion Analytics' VR software for data visualization 

• 5/05

  • Project 2 End Presentation that is a quick but comprehensive summary of my work and takeaways

Class Activity

• split the class into groups of two

• both group members will look at an assigned graph together  (both in the VR software at the same time)

• after discussing graphs in pairs, the class will come together and look at a graph all together 

• based on their pair and class collaborative experiences, students will complete a Google Form asking about the Seven Scenarios CDA questions