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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-XII-4-W1-2026-179-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Design Space for Visualizing Multimedia Documents in Spatio-Temporal-Thematic Urban Context</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gulfidan</surname>
<given-names>Akin</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chiron</surname>
<given-names>Pierre-Antoine</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Samuel</surname>
<given-names>John</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gouet-Brunet</surname>
<given-names>Valérie</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gesquière</surname>
<given-names>Gilles</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>École Supérieure d’art et design, Saint-Etienne, France</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INSA Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>CPE Lyon, Villeurbanne, France</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Univ Gustave Eiffel, Géodata Paris, IGN, LASTIG, France</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>28</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XII-4/W1-2026</volume>
<fpage>179</fpage>
<lpage>186</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Akin Gulfidan et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Multimedia documents such as photographs, videos, texts, and web pages are essential for understanding how urban environments evolve, but exploring them in relation to a 3D city model remains difficult because spatial, temporal, and thematic relations must be handled simultaneously. This paper investigates how a design space for such visualizations can be constructed without reducing either the urban context or the informational richness of the documents. We adopt a design-driven methodology based on iterative prototyping: visualization propositions are developed from initial requirements, tested through simulation, confronted with user needs, and refined as new needs and limitations emerge. The paper first structures the corpus in a spatio-temporal-thematic model, then formalizes the main culling and display functions required for exploration. On that basis, we derive a family of complementary visualization propositions for tasks including spatial selection, temporal filtering, georeferenced media display, non-georeferencable document organization, link visualization, and document quantity analysis. Rather than proposing a single interface, the contribution is a structured design space and a set of concrete visualization propositions for multimedia exploration in 3D urban environments.</p>
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