Information Visualizations with Mobile Devices: Three Promising Aspects

We believe that mobile devices offer great, only partly real-ized, potential in the context of both personal and professional information visualization. In this position paper, we outline three important and promising aspects of information visual-ization with mobile devices: the development of a consistent multi-touch interaction framework that can be applied to a va-riety of visualization techniques; the combination of common touch input with advanced spatial input techniques; and the usage of the spatial arrangement of multiple, co-located mo-bile devices. We explore these aspects by highlighting impor-tant questions and major challenges. Furthermore, we present several approaches and early concepts which illustrate our on-going investigations in this field of research. Author Keywords Information visualization; Mobile devices; Multi-touc