Rendering the Unseen - Utilizing Visualization for Establishing Key Factors for Understandability of Orienteering on TV

Abstract

Orienteering broadcasts have lately been in the forefront of taking use of different mediums to create exciting broadcasts. But with a large, remote playing fields compared to other sports it suffers from its consequences. With only small fractions of orienteering races being caught on camera, there’s room for improvement. GPS transmitters and their corresponding maps have been used in the same way for years. By visualizing all these in more comprehensible ways, understandability of the sport can be improved. Through a rigorous design process this thesis has explored the area. Through re search of the problem area, prototyping, evaluation and iteration a solution has been developed. A digital twin of a forest and a three dimensional orienteering map is the result. These have showed to improve both the excitement and intuitiveness of the broadcast. Further, key factors have been define to establish these kinds of results. Based on the findings of evaluation methods in the thesis, the factors describes important ideas to take notice of with understandability in mind.