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SkiVis: Visual Exploration and Route Planning in Ski Resorts

Lastest Update: 23rd April 2024

Introduction

What: A visual analytics application to interactively explore ski slopes and provide routing recommendations based on user preferences. image-20240429161951512

  • Ski Visualizations
    • The painted panorama style distorts the underlying topography to emphasize certain memorable features image-20240425154152429
    • Metro map
    • Preference-based visualization techniques reduce time required for route planning
    • Visualizing slopes by a color-coded line according to their difficulty
    • Display further information on individual slopes
  • Routing in Geospatial Networks


Motivation

Research Gap: No analysis approach exists that enables the visual exploration of the resort and interactively provides routing recommendations based on user-defined preferences.

  • The painted panorama style distorts the underlying topography to emphasize certain memorable features
  • Display further information on individual slopes
  • Most approaches for route planning focus on other outdoor activities such as cycling or hiking
  • Neglect user-specific preferences


Requirement and design

  • [T1]Exploration of a ski resort according to the defined features
    • Double-line visual approach consisting of an outer and inner line image-20240429162214758
    • Tooltip image-20240429162154170
  • [T2]Provide a ranking based on preferences toward these features image-20240429162236569
  • [T3]Allow routing between two arbitrary network points Neglect user-specific preferences
    • Dijkstra
  • [T4]Integrate preferences into the routing algorithm
    • Compute cost for each slope according to the user preferences image-20240429162301626
    • Automated/semi-automated workflow

Critical thinking

  • New area ?
  • Color encoding
  • Satisfy the collective preference