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| Abstract |
| When performing daily maintenance and repair tasks, technicians require access to a variety of technical diagrams.
As technicians trace components and diagrams from page-to-page, within and across manuals, the contextual
information of the components they are analyzing can easily be lost. To overcome these issues, we have
developed a Schematic Diagram Visualization System (SDViz) designed for maintaining and highlighting contextual
information in technical documents, such as schematic and wiring diagrams. Our system incorporates
various features to aid in the navigation and diagnosis of faults, as well as maintaining contextual information
when tracing components/connections through multiple diagrams. System features include highlighting relationships
between components and connectors, diagram annotation tools, the animation of flow through the system,
a novel contextual blending method, and a variety of traditional focus+context visualization techniques. We have
evaluated the usefulness of our system through a qualitative user study in which subjects utilized our system in
diagnosing faults during a standard aircraft maintenance exercise. |
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@Article{Kim:2009:NPAR,
author = {Insoo Woo, SungYe Kim, Ross Maciejewski,
David S. Ebert, Timothy D. Ropp, Krystal Thomas},
title = {SDViz: A Context-Preserving Interactive Visualization
System for Technical Diagrams},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
year = {2009},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {}
}
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