DBIS

When working on a literature study, authors are presented with a large body of literature to find key contributions in. It can be challenging to identify relevant and important papers for the core topic of the literature study. Existing approaches like citation-networks and co-citation networks use references between papers to draw conclusions about their relatedness and popularity in the scientific community. Selected literature can then be collected in programs like Citavi. However, in such a case, the found papers can vanish in a large list of possible candidates for the literature study. Here, mixed reality can provide an interesting addition where researchers can lay out the literature virtually in their room to activate their spatial memory. Moreover, mixed reality has the potential to provide more options for visualizing the citation and co-citation networks as three dimensions are available. The depth perception could help users understand and navigate the network more intuitively.