Replication Data for: Understanding and Enhancing Stereoscopic 3D Graph Perception with Eye Tracking

DOI

Immersive Analytics (IA) utilises stereoscopic 3D (S3D) graph visualisations in Virtual and Augmented Reality to harness spatial understanding and engagement beyond 2D screen displays. Despite growing research interest, little is known about how users perceive such structures, or how their gaze behaviour relates to task performance. We address this through a series of eye tracking studies on visual analytical tasks over S3D graphs in VR. Our first study, on single-layer graphs, reveals systematic links between gaze behaviour and task performance, with distinct exploration strategies across tasks. We then extend to multilayer graphs and show how their spatial arrangement and complexity reshape gaze behaviour. Finally, by mining the gaze patterns of successful analysts, we enhance the visualisations with targeted visual cues; in a follow-up study, these improve task correctness in the majority of trials. Overall, our findings deepen the understanding of graph perception in immersive environments, from single to complex multilayer structures, and demonstrate how eye tracking can assess human behaviour and inform the design of more effective S3D graph visualisations. The files of this dataset are documented in README.md.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.18419/DARUS-5950
Metadata Access https://darus.uni-stuttgart.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.18419/DARUS-5950
Provenance
Creator Wang, Yao ORCID logo; Zhang, Lin ORCID logo; Zhang, Ying ORCID logo; Huettner, Timo ORCID logo; Kerle-Malcharek, Wilhelm ORCID logo; Klein, Karsten ORCID logo; Schreiber, Falk ORCID logo; Bulling, Andreas ORCID logo
Publisher DaRUS
Contributor Wang, Yao; Bulling, Andreas; Zhang, Lin; Zhang, Ying; Hüttner, Timo; Kerle-Malcharek,, Wilhelm; Klein, Karsten; Falk, Schreiber
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference DFG 251654672
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
Contact Wang, Yao (University of Stuttgart); Bulling, Andreas (University of Stuttgart)
Representation
Resource Type graph visualisation; Dataset
Format text/markdown; application/zip
Size 1343; 22; 106361; 1357451; 88856269
Version 1.0
Discipline Other