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Trust is an essential aspect of data visualization, as it plays a crucial role in the interpretation and decision-making processes of users. While research in social sciences outlines the multi-dimensional factors that can play a role in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Hamza Elhamdadi , Adam Stefkovics , Johanna Beyer , Eric Moerth , Cindy Xiong Bearfield , Carolina Nobre

We present a state-of-the-art report on visualization in astrophysics. We survey representative papers from both astrophysics and visualization and provide a taxonomy of existing approaches based on data analysis tasks. The approaches are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Fangfei Lan , Michael Young , Lauren Anderson , Anders Ynnerman , Alexander Bock , Michelle A. Borkin , Angus G. Forbes , Juna A. Kollmeier , Bei Wang

Research in visualization literacy explores the skills required to engage with visualizations. This state-of-the-art report surveys the current literature in visualization literacy to provide a comprehensive overview of the field. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Matthew Varona , Karen Bonilla , Maryam Hedayati , Alark Joshi , Lane Harrison , Matthew Kay , Carolina Nobre

Cognitive biases are systematic errors in judgment. Researchers in data visualizations have explored whether cognitive biases transfer to decision-making tasks with interactive data visualizations. At the same time, cognitive scientists…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ryan Wesslen , Doug Markant , Alireza Karduni , Wenwen Dou

Public-facing data visualizations can play a vital role in making complex information clear and engaging, thereby encouraging informed public discourse and participation. However, existing work offers limited insight into how practitioners…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Regina Schuster , Kathleen Gregory , Torsten Möller , Laura Koesten

This paper presents a theoretical model for interactive visualization literacy to describe how people use interactive data visualizations and systems. Literacies have become an important concept in describing modern life skills, with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Gabriela Molina León , Benjamin Bach , Matheus Valentim , Niklas Elmqvist

Visualization is a useful technology in health science, and especially for community network analysis. Because visualization applications in healthcare are typically risk-averse, health psychologists can play a significant role in ensuring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Darren J. Edwards , Min Chen

Visual reasoning, as a prominent research area, plays a crucial role in AI by facilitating concept formation and interaction with the world. However, current works are usually carried out separately on small datasets thus lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Mingyu Zhang , Jiting Cai , Mingyu Liu , Yue Xu , Cewu Lu , Yong-Lu Li

Despite recent progress in artificial intelligence and machine learning, many state-of-the-art methods suffer from a lack of explainability and transparency. The ability to interpret the predictions made by machine learning models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Zihan Wang , Jialin Lu , Oliver Snow , Martin Ester

As online news increasingly include data journalism, there is a corresponding increase in the incorporation of visualization in article thumbnail images. However, little research exists on the design rationale for visualization thumbnails,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hwiyeon Kim , Joohee Kim , Yunha Han , Hwajung Hong , Oh-Sang Kwon , Young-Woo Park , Niklas Elmqvist , Sungahn Ko , Bum Chul Kwon

Time series is a collection of data instances that are ordered according to a time stamp. Stock prices, temperature, etc are examples of time series data in real life. Time series data are used for forecasting sales, predicting trends.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sathya Krishnan Suresh , Shunmugapriya P

As the complexity and volume of datasets have increased along with the capabilities of modular, open-source, easy-to-implement, visualization tools, scientists' need for, and appreciation of, data visualization has risen too. Until…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Alyssa A. Goodman , Michelle A. Borkin , Thomas P. Robitaille

User experience in data visualization is typically assessed through post-viewing self-reports, but these overlook the dynamic cognitive processes during interaction. This study explores the use of mind wandering -- a phenomenon where…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Anjana Arunkumar , Lace Padilla , Chris Bryan

In this paper, we reflect on our past work towards understanding how to design visualizations for fitness trackers that are used in motion. We have coined the term "visualization in motion" for visualizations that are used in the presence…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Alaul Islam , Lijie Yao , Anastasia Bezerianos , Tanja Blascheck , Tingying He , Bongshin Lee , Romain Vuillemot , Petra Isenberg

Despite decision-making being a vital goal of data visualization, little work has been done to differentiate decision-making tasks within the field. While visualization task taxonomies and typologies exist, they often focus on more granular…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Camelia D. Brumar , Sam Molnar , Gabriel Appleby , Kristi Potter , Remco Chang

Research on cognitive biases and heuristics has become increasingly popular in the visualization literature in recent years. Researchers have studied the effects of biases on visualization interpretation and subsequent decision-making.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Ali Baigelenov , Prakash Shukla , Zixu Zhang , Paul Parsons

Interactive data visualization is a major part of modern exploratory data analysis, with web-based technologies enabling a rich ecosystem of both specialized and general tools. However, current visualization tools often lack support for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jan Simson

Clear presentation of uncertainty is an exception rather than rule in media articles, data-driven reports, and consumer applications, despite proposed techniques for communicating sources of uncertainty in data. This work considers, Why do…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Jessica Hullman

Story Visualization is an advanced task of computed vision that targets sequential image synthesis, where the generated samples need to be realistic, faithful to their conditioning and sequentially consistent. Our work proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Nikolaos Tsakas , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Giorgos Stamou

Visual Storytelling is a challenging multimodal task between Vision & Language, where the purpose is to generate a story for a stream of images. Its difficulty lies on the fact that the story should be both grounded to the image sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Admitos Passadakis , Yingjin Song , Albert Gatt