Towards a Better Understanding of Graph Perception in Immersive Environments

The 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 25')

Lin Zhang§, Yao Wang§, Ying Zhang, Wilhelm Kerle-Malcharek, Karsten Klein, Falk Schreiber, and Andreas Bulling

§: authors contributed equally

$Root Directory
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│─ README.md —— this file
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|─ Code —— Source code of the WebGL environment
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│  |─ data —— all graphs and questions
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│  |─ py_scripts —— providing statistics and plotting visualizations for gaze data
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│  │    |─ environments.yml —— conda environment
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│  │    |─ graph.py —— plotting gaze ray and env using Trimesh
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│  │    |─ heatmap.py —— calculating 3D saliency
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│  │    |─ main.py —— plotting heatmaps and scarf plots, do statistical tests
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│  │    └─ scarf_plot.py —— drawing uncertainty-aware scarf plots
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│  |─ replay —— gaze replay, access url /replay
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│  │─ calibrate.js —— 5-point gaze validation for each participant
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│  │─ draw.js —— render graphs
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│  │─ main.js —— main controller of the Babylon.js
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│  │─ questionnaire.js —— render questionnaire panel
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│  └─ scene.js —— render the virtual room
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└─ Data/{participant}.zip —— The collected participants' eye tracking data

If you think our work is useful to you, please consider citing our paper as:

@inproceedings{zhang25_gd,
  title = {Towards a Better Understanding of Graph Perception in Immersive Environments},
  author = {Zhang, Lin and Wang, Yao and Zhang, Ying and Kerle-Malcharek, Wilhelm and Klein, Karsten and Schreiber, Falk and Bulling, Andreas},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {1--19},
  booktitle = {Proc. 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)}
}

contact: yao.wang@vis.uni-stuttgart.de