Lu, AidongMaciejewski, RossEbert, David S.Beatriz Sousa Santos and Thomas Ertl and Ken Joy2014-01-312014-01-3120063-905673-31-21727-5296https://doi.org/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/115-122This paper presents a method to automate rendering parameter selection, simplifying tedious user interaction and improving the usability of visualization systems. Our approach acquires regions-of-interest for a dataset with an eye tracker and simple user interaction. Based on this importance information, we then automatically compute reasonable rendering parameters using a set of heuristic rules adapted from visualization experience and psychophysics experiments. While the parameter selections for a specific visualization task are subjective, our approach provides good starting results that can be refined by the user. Our system improves the interactivity of a visualization system by significantly reducing the necessary parameter selection and providing good initial rendering parameters for newly acquired datasets of similar types.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Interaction Techniques; I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism