3D-Stereoscopic Immersive Analytics Projects at Monash University and University of Konstanz

Immersive Analytics investigates how novel interaction and display technologies may support analytical reasoning and decision making. The Immersive Analytics initiative of Monash University started early 2014. Over the last few years, a number of projects have been developed or extended in this context to meet the requirements of semi- or full-immersive stereoscopic environments. Different technologies are used for this purpose: CAVE2™ (a 330 degree large-scale visualization environment which can be used for educative and scientific group presentations, analyses and discussions), stereoscopic Powerwalls (miniCAVEs, representing a segment of the CAVE2 and used for development and communication), Fishtanks, and/or HMDs (such as Oculus, VIVE, and mobile HMD approaches). Apart from CAVE2™ all systems are or will be employed on both the Monash University and the University of Konstanz side, especially to investigate collaborative Immersive Analytics. In addition, sensiLab extends most of the previous approaches by involving all senses, 3D visualization is combined with multi-sensory feedback, 3D printing, robotics in a scientific-artistic-creative environment

Bayesian Variable Selection in Markov Mixture Models

Bayesian methods for variable selection and model choice have become increasingly popular in recent years, due to advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) computational algorithms. Several methods have been proposed in literature in the case of linear and generalized linear models. In this paper we adapt some of the most popular algorithms to a class of non-linear and non-Gaussian time series models, i.e. the Markov mixture models (MMM). We also propose the ``Metropolization'' of the algorithm of Kuo and Mallick (1998), in order to tackle variable selection efficiently, both when the complexity of the model is high, as in MMM, and when the exogenous variables are strongly correlated. Numerical comparisons among the competing MCMC algorithms are also presented via simulation examples