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Selective Dynamic Manipulation (SDM) This project is no longer active. Head: Steven F Roth Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: CIMDS Associated lab/group: Visualization and Intelligent Interfaces Group For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

We have developed a paradigm for interacting with visualizations that is based on the notion of physicalization, which uses the metaphor of creating "physical" objects to represent abstract data objects. This paradigm, SDM (Selective Dynamic Manipulation), is a set of novel interactive techniques for 2D and 3D visualizations. Selective reflects our goal for providing a high degree of user control in selecting an object set, in selecting interactive techniques and the properties they affect, and in the degree to which a user action affects the visualization. Dynamic indicates that the interactions all occur in real-time and that interactive animation is used to provide better contextual information to users in response to an action or operation. Manipulation indicates the types of interactions we provide, where users can directly move objects and transform their appearance to perform different tasks.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Mei Chuah	PhD Student, CS
	Joseph Mattis	Project Manager
	Steven F Roth	Associate Research Professor

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• SDM: malleable information graphics
  M. Chuah, S.F. Roth, J. Mattis, and J. Kolojejchick
  Proceedings of Information Visualization, October, 1995, pp. 36 - 42. [Abstract]
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