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Scene Transitions and Teleportation in Virtual Reality and the Implications for Spatial Awareness and Sickness by Moghadam, Kasra, Banigan, Colin, Ragan, Eric D.

“…Various viewing and travel techniques are used in immersive virtual reality to allow users to see different areas or perspectives of 3D environments. Our…”
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Characterizing Provenance in Visualization and Data Analysis: An Organizational Framework of Provenance Types and Purposes by Ragan, Eric D., Endert, Alex, Sanyal, Jibonananda, Jian Chen

“…While the primary goal of visual analytics research is to improve the quality of insights and findings, a substantial amount of research in provenance has…”
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Evaluating Remapped Physical Reach for Hand Interactions with Passive Haptics in Virtual Reality by Han, Dustin T., Suhail, Mohamed, Ragan, Eric D.

“…Virtual reality often uses motion tracking to incorporate physical hand movements into interaction techniques for selection and manipulation of virtual…”
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Impact assessment of reinforced learning methods on construction workers' fall risk behavior using virtual reality by Shi, Yangming, Du, Jing, Ahn, Changbum R., Ragan, Eric

“…Given the nature of construction activities, construction workers usually work in a collaborative way. Thus, interpersonal influences among workers play a…”
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An Evaluation of View Rotation Techniques for Seated Navigation in Virtual Reality by Benda, Brett, Sargunam, Shyam Prathish, Nourani, Mahsan, Ragan, Eric D.

“…Head tracking is commonly used in VR applications to allow users to naturally view 3D content using physical head movement, but many applications also support…”
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Effects of Field of View and Visual Complexity on Virtual Reality Training Effectiveness for a Visual Scanning Task by Ragan, Eric D., Bowman, Doug A., Kopper, Regis, Stinson, Cheryl, Scerbo, Siroberto, McMahan, Ryan P.

“…Virtual reality training systems are commonly used in a variety of domains, and it is important to understand how the realism of a training simulation…”
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Amplified Head Rotation in Virtual Reality and the Effects on 3D Search, Training Transfer, and Spatial Orientation by Ragan, Eric D., Scerbo, Siroberto, Bacim, Felipe, Bowman, Doug A.

“…Many types of virtual reality (VR) systems allow users to use natural, physical head movements to view a 3D environment. In some situations, such as when using…”
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Examining Effects of Technique Awareness on the Detection of Remapped Hands in Virtual Reality by Benda, Brett, Rheault, Benjamin, Lin, Yanna, Ragan, Eric D.

“…Input remapping techniques have been widely explored to allow users in virtual reality to exceed both their own physical abilities, the limitations of physical…”
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Determining Detection Thresholds for Fixed Positional Offsets for Virtual Hand Remapping in Virtual Reality by Benda, Brett, Esmaeili, Shaghayegh, Ragan, Eric D.

“…Virtual reality commonly makes use of tracked hand interactions for user input. Interaction techniques sometimes alter the mapping between the real and virtual…”
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SplitStreams: A Visual Metaphor for Evolving Hierarchies by Bolte, Fabian, Nourani, Mahsan, Ragan, Eric D., Bruckner, Stefan

“…The visualization of hierarchically structured data over time is an ongoing challenge and several approaches exist trying to solve it. Techniques such as…”
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Evaluating Interactive Graphical Encodings for Data Visualization by Saket, Bahador, Srinivasan, Arjun, Ragan, Eric D., Endert, Alex

“…User interfaces for data visualization often consist of two main components: control panels for user interaction and visual representation. A recent trend in…”
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Studying the Effects of Stereo, Head Tracking, and Field of Regard on a Small-Scale Spatial Judgment Task by Ragan, E. D., Kopper, R., Schuchardt, P., Bowman, D. A.

“…Spatial judgments are important for many real-world tasks in engineering and scientific visualization. While existing research provides evidence that higher…”
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Unregulated use of laptops over time in large lecture classes by Ragan, Eric D., Jennings, Samuel R., Massey, John D., Doolittle, Peter E.

“…Students often have their own individual laptop computers in university classes, and researchers debate the potential benefits and drawbacks of laptop use. In…”
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Evaluating Graphical Perception of Visual Motion for Quantitative Data Encoding by Esmaeili, Shaghayegh, Kabir, Samia, Colas, Anthony M., Linder, Rhema P., Ragan, Eric D.

“…Information visualization uses various types of representations to encode data into graphical formats. Prior work on visualization techniques has evaluated the…”
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Situ: Identifying and Explaining Suspicious Behavior in Networks by Goodall, John R., Ragan, Eric D., Steed, Chad A., Reed, Joel W., Richardson, G. David, Huffer, Kelly M.T., Bridges, Robert A., Laska, Jason A.

“…Despite the best efforts of cyber security analysts, networked computing assets are routinely compromised, resulting in the loss of intellectual property, the…”
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The Influence of Visual Provenance Representations on Strategies in a Collaborative Hand-off Data Analysis Scenario by Block, Jeremy E., Esmaeili, Shaghayegh, Ragan, Eric D., Goodall, John R., Richardson, G. David

“…Conducting data analysis tasks rarely occur in isolation. Especially in intelligence analysis scenarios where different experts contribute knowledge to a…”
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The Effects of Virtual Avatar Visibility on Pointing Interpretation by Observers in 3D Environments by Benda, Brett, Ragan, Eric D.

“…Avatars are often used to provide representations of users in 3D environments, such as desktop games or VR applications. While full-body avatars are often…”
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How level of explanation detail affects human performance in interpretable intelligent systems: A study on explainable fact checking by Linder, Rhema, Mohseni, Sina, Yang, Fan, Pentyala, Shiva K., Ragan, Eric D., Hu, Xia Ben

“…Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) systems aim to provide users with information to help them better understand computational models and reason about…”
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Explainable activity recognition in videos: Lessons learned by Roy, Chiradeep, Nourani, Mahsan, Honeycutt, Donald R., Block, Jeremy E., Rahman, Tahrima, Ragan, Eric D., Ruozzi, Nicholas, Gogate, Vibhav

“…We consider the following activity recognition task: given a video, infer the set of activities being performed in the video and assign each frame to an…”
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Memorability of Enhanced Informational Graphics by Peña, Alyssa, Ragan, Eric, Harrison, Lane

“…Design enhancements are often added to charts, signage, and infographics to help garner attention or communicate a message. Though it is argued that they may…”
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