Emerging tangible interfaces for facilitating collaborative immersive visualizations

We describe work in progress toward a tangible interface for facilitating collaborative visualization within immersive environments. This is based upon a system of pads, cards, and wheels that physically embody key digital operations, data, and parameters. These “visualization artifacts” provide a simple means for collaboratively engaging with time, space, parameters, and information aggregates, which we believe will generalize over a variety of applications.