Umwelt: Accessible Structured Editing of Multimodal Data Representations

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Autores principales: Zong, Jonathan, Pineros, Isabella Pedraza, Chen, Mengzhu Katie, Hajas, Daniel, Satyanarayan, Arvind
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Publicado: 2024
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author Zong, Jonathan
Pineros, Isabella Pedraza
Chen, Mengzhu Katie
Hajas, Daniel
Satyanarayan, Arvind
author_facet Zong, Jonathan
Pineros, Isabella Pedraza
Chen, Mengzhu Katie
Hajas, Daniel
Satyanarayan, Arvind
contents We present Umwelt, an authoring environment for interactive multimodal data representations. In contrast to prior approaches, which center the visual modality, Umwelt treats visualization, sonification, and textual description as coequal representations: they are all derived from a shared abstract data model, such that no modality is prioritized over the others. To simplify specification, Umwelt evaluates a set of heuristics to generate default multimodal representations that express a dataset's functional relationships. To support smoothly moving between representations, Umwelt maintains a shared query predicated that is reified across all modalities -- for instance, navigating the textual description also highlights the visualization and filters the sonification. In a study with 5 blind / low-vision expert users, we found that Umwelt's multimodal representations afforded complementary overview and detailed perspectives on a dataset, allowing participants to fluidly shift between task- and representation-oriented ways of thinking.
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spellingShingle Umwelt: Accessible Structured Editing of Multimodal Data Representations
Zong, Jonathan
Pineros, Isabella Pedraza
Chen, Mengzhu Katie
Hajas, Daniel
Satyanarayan, Arvind
Human-Computer Interaction
We present Umwelt, an authoring environment for interactive multimodal data representations. In contrast to prior approaches, which center the visual modality, Umwelt treats visualization, sonification, and textual description as coequal representations: they are all derived from a shared abstract data model, such that no modality is prioritized over the others. To simplify specification, Umwelt evaluates a set of heuristics to generate default multimodal representations that express a dataset's functional relationships. To support smoothly moving between representations, Umwelt maintains a shared query predicated that is reified across all modalities -- for instance, navigating the textual description also highlights the visualization and filters the sonification. In a study with 5 blind / low-vision expert users, we found that Umwelt's multimodal representations afforded complementary overview and detailed perspectives on a dataset, allowing participants to fluidly shift between task- and representation-oriented ways of thinking.
title Umwelt: Accessible Structured Editing of Multimodal Data Representations
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00106