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Despite the recent surge of research efforts to make data visualizations accessible to people who are blind or have low vision (BLV), how to support BLV people's data analysis remains an important and challenging question. As refreshable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Samuel Reinders , Matthew Butler , Ingrid Zukerman , Bongshin Lee , Lizhen Qu , Kim Marriott

With the ubiquity of large-scale graph data in a variety of application domains, querying them effectively is a challenge. In particular, reachability queries are becoming increasingly important, especially for containment, subsumption, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Hilmi Yildirim , Vineet Chaoji , Mohammed J. Zaki

In this paper we present a novel method to connect data on the visualization level. In general, visualizations are a dead end, when it comes to reusability. Yet, users prefer to work with visualizations as evidenced by WYSIWYG editors. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Daniel Hienert , Benjamin Zapilko , Philipp Schaer , Brigitte Mathiak

Virtual Reality (VR) has the potential to transform knowledge work. One advantage of VR knowledge work is that it allows extending 2D displays into the third dimension, enabling new operations, such as selecting overlapping objects or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Verena Biener , Daniel Schneider , Travis Gesslein , Alexander Otte , Bastian Kuth , Per Ola Kristensson , Eyal Ofek , Michel Pahud , Jens Grubert

Appropriate evaluation is a key component in visualization research. It is typically based on empirical studies that assess visualization components or complete systems. While such studies often include the user of the visualization,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Daniel Weiskopf

Making data visualizations accessible for people with disabilities remains a significant challenge in current practitioner efforts. Existing visualizations often lack an underlying navigable structure, fail to engage necessary input…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Frank Elavsky , Lucas Nadolskis , Dominik Moritz

In visual exploration and analysis of data, determining how to select and transform the data for visualization is a challenge for data-unfamiliar or inexperienced users. Our main hypothesis is that for many data sets and common analysis…

Table retrieval, essential for accessing information through tabular data, is less explored compared to text retrieval. The row/column structure and distinct fields of tables (including titles, headers, and cells) present unique challenges.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Da Li , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Although various visual interfaces for digital libraries have been developed in prototypical systems, very few of these visual approaches have been integrated into today's digital libraries. In this position paper we argue that this is most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Wilko van Hoek , Philipp Mayr

We investigate whether tactile charts support comprehension and learning of complex visualizations for blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals and contribute four tactile chart designs and an interview study. Visualizations are powerful…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Tingying He , Maggie McCracken , Daniel Hajas , Sarah Creem-Regehr , Alexander Lex

The increasing complexity and scale of scientific datasets demand advanced tools for efficient discovery and exploration. Traditional search systems often fall short in addressing the multidimensional nature of data and their intricate…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pawandeep Kaur Betz , Tobias Hecking , Andreas Gerndt

Situated visualization blends data into the real world to fulfill individuals' contextual information needs. However, interacting with situated visualization in public environments faces challenges posed by user acceptance and contextual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Qian Zhu , Zhuo Wang , Wei Zeng , Wai Tong , Weiyue Lin , Xiaojuan Ma

Automated visualization recommendation facilitates the rapid creation of effective visualizations, which is especially beneficial for users with limited time and limited knowledge of data visualization. There is an increasing trend in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Songheng Zhang , Haotian Li , Huamin Qu , Yong Wang

Interactive surfaces have evolved from capacitive touch and IR based systems into a diverse ecosystem of sensing technologies that support rich and expressive human computer interaction. This survey traces that progression, beginning with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 David Wang , Wilson Chen , Tianju Wang , Jiale Zhang

In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of tactile data encodings using swell paper in comparison to visual encodings displayed with SVGs for data perception tasks. By replicating and adapting Cleveland and McGill's graphical perception…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhongzheng Xu , Kristin Williams , Emily Wall

We propose a set of techniques leveraging mobile devices as lenses to explore, interact and annotate n-dimensional data visualizations. The democratization of mobile devices, with their arrays of integrated sensors, opens up opportunities…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Michel Pahud , Eyal Ofek , Nathalie Henry Riche , Christophe Hurter , Jens Grubert

While tangible user interface has shown its power in naturally interacting with rigid or soft objects, users cannot conveniently use different types of granular materials as the interaction media. We introduce DipMe as a smart device to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Xinkai Wang , Shuo Zhang , Ziyi Zhao , Lifeng Zhu , Aiguo Song

While table understanding increasingly relies on pixel-only settings, current benchmarks predominantly use synthetic renderings that lack the complexity and visual diversity of real-world tables. Additionally, existing visual table…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Iñigo Alonso , Imanol Miranda , Eneko Agirre , Mirella Lapata

Touch sensing, as a major human/machine interface, is widely used in various commercial products such as smart watches, mobile phones, tablets and TVs. State-of-the-art touch detections are mainly based on mutual capacitive sensing, which…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Li Du

We introduce the notion of an Active Proxy interface, i.e. tangible models as proxies for physical data referents, supporting interactive exploration of data through active manipulation. We realise an active proxy data visualisation system,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Shaozhang Dai , Kadek Ananta Satriadi , Jim Smiley , Barrett Ens , Lonni Besançon , Tim Dwyer