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The Quest for Omnioculars: Embedded Visualization for Augmenting Basketball Game Viewing Experiences
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
|September 26, 2022
Summary
This study introduces interactive embedded visualizations to help basketball fans better understand live game data. The developed system, Omnioculars, enhances fan engagement and personalized analysis during games.
Area of Science:
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Sports Analytics
- Information Visualization
Background:
- Sports data is increasingly complex, encompassing player stats, team records, and positional tracking.
- Existing visual analytics tools primarily serve analysts, not fans, during live games.
- Embedded visualizations offer potential to enhance fan engagement but require user-centered design.
Purpose of the Study:
- To design and evaluate interactive embedded visualizations for basketball fans to improve live game understanding and engagement.
- To characterize basketball fans' in-game data analysis behaviors and tasks.
- To propose a design framework for embedded visualizations tailored to fan data needs.
Main Methods:
- User-centered design study involving formative research with basketball fans.
- Development of a design framework based on identified fan data-seeking contexts.
- Creation of Omnioculars, an interactive prototype with five novel embedded visualizations.
- Evaluation of the prototype with fans during a simulated basketball game.
Main Results:
- Identified key in-game analysis behaviors and tasks for basketball fans.
- Developed a design framework to guide the creation of context-specific embedded visualizations.
- Demonstrated that the proposed designs and Omnioculars prototype support personalized analysis.
- Showed enhanced game understanding and engagement among participating fans.
Conclusions:
- Interactive embedded visualizations can significantly improve the live basketball viewing experience for fans.
- The user-centered design approach and proposed framework are effective for developing fan-centric sports analytics tools.
- Omnioculars demonstrates the potential of integrated visualizations for deeper fan engagement with complex sports data.
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