TempoSpring: A new immersive hands-free prototype for visualizing social networks: Demonstration paper

This paper presents a new hands-free prototype TempoSpring for exploring complex social networks. Based on the Microsoft Kinect, our system lets the user rotate, zoom and filter the graph, and aggregate nodes to highlight structural properties. TempoSpring provides complementary visual restitutions (monoscopy, passive and active stereoscopy) to a user standing in front of the wall/screen on which the graph is displayed. To overcome screen limitations or information mixtures when details are required on graph components we propose a multimodal approach which displays subgraphs on a secondary screen (e.g mobile device) to analyze details at a lower scale.