An Exploratory Study of Visual Information Analysis Petra Isenberg Dept. of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada Anthony Tang HCT Lab University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada Sheelagh Carpendale Dept. of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada
A Study of the Information Analysis Process (With Paper!)
1. Browse
2. Parse
3. Discuss Collaboration Style 4. Establish Task Strategy
5. Clarify
6. Select
7. Operate 8. Validate
Temporal Sequence of Processes
Interactive Tree Comparison for Co-located Collaborative Information Visualization Petra Isenberg Dept. of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada Sheelagh Carpendale Dept. of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada
Co-located collaborative information visualization in action!
Hardware and System Setup Configuration Input Resolution Interactive Response Size
Information Visualizations Radial Tree Cladogram
Supporting Mental Models Drop a visualization on a storage container Automatically resize and place visualization
Representation Changes Switching a visualization
Workspace Organization and Collaboration Styles Looking at visualizations individually Looking at visualizations together
Interactive sticky notes Direct annotation Communication
Data Task
Collaboration Styles Parallel WorkJoint Work
Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization Matthew Tobiasz Dept. of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada Petra Isenberg Dept. of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada Sheelagh Carpendale Dept. of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada
Lark’s collaborative information visualization environment
Pipeline Representation
Visualization Pipeline Branch
Parallel Work
Joint Work
References 1. P. Isenberg and S. Carpendale. Interactive tree comparison for co-located collaborative information visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6):1232–1239, P. Isenberg, A. Tang, and S. Carpendale. An exploratory study of visual information analysis. In CHI ’08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 1217– 1226, New York, NY, USA, ACM. 3. M. Tobiasz, P. Isenberg, and S. Carpendale. Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization.