Iterative Design
Immersive Environment
Overview | Components
Key Features
- Interactive space that allows scientists to plan activities and retrieve data in-context
- Four primary components
- Viewer window
- Navigator palette
- View Control palette
- Activity toolbar
- The two interfaces complement each other
- Palettes are used to toggle items on/off in the “immersive” space, reducing visual clutter
- Select-state is consistent across both interfaces
- Some tasks are better suited to a particular interface
- Target creation in immersive UI
- Constraint editing using palettes
Test Results
- 6 of 6 users liked the Photoshop “eyeball” method for toggling visibility of activities
- 5 of 6 users understood color-coded palettes
- Users performed unexpected drag-n-drop actions between immersive/non-immersive
