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Digital twins are virtual representations of real-world products, systems, or processes, enabling simulation, integration, testing, monitoring, training and maintenance. They play a pivotal role in optimizing complex systems across a wide range of domains, from industrial manufacturing and energy to environmental monitoring and healthcare.

Interacting with a Digital Twin (DT) of a structure—such as a building—typically involves four entities: the user; a large, heterogeneous set of data; a physical referent (PR), which may refer to the actual structure or a physical model; and a digital replica (DR), such as a two-dimensional map or a three-dimensional model.

Situated visualization has been shown to enhance the understanding and analysis of data. Within the context of DTs, interaction with situated visualization may occur in close proximity to either the physical or digital repres...