A Multimodal Mixed Reality Data Exploration Framework for Tactical Decision Making

Abstract

In a data-driven, open-source information space, automatization tools and techniques are indispensable for analyzing the large amount of data and gaining knowledge from it. Often however, methods focus solely on the data acquisition methods without providing an appropriate visualization and interactive exploration tool or framework that presents the information directly to the user in a descriptive manner. Especially in crisis areas, where it is crucial to keep communication chains short and simple, mixed reality methods can help to present and explore important and relevant records that directly add value to the user in near real-time.This paper presents a novel approach towards data exploration in mixed reality environments, with the aim to enhance tactical decision-making processes and shorten unnecessarily long communication chains.