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Time series data are prevalent across various domains and often encompass large datasets containing multiple time-dependent features in each sample. Exploring time-varying data is critical for data science practitioners aiming to understand…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Evandro S. Ortigossa , Fábio F. Dias , Diego C. Nascimento , Luis Gustavo Nonato

Visualization for explainable and trustworthy machine learning remains one of the most important and heavily researched fields within information visualization and visual analytics with various application domains, such as medicine,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Kostiantyn Kucher , Andreas Kerren

Systems relying on ML have become ubiquitous, but so has biased behavior within them. Research shows that bias significantly affects stakeholders' trust in systems and how they use them. Further, stakeholders of different backgrounds view…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zhanna Kaufman , Madeline Endres , Cindy Xiong Bearfield , Yuriy Brun

We present an interactive visualization system for exploring the coverage in sensor networks with uncertain sensor locations. We consider a simple case of uncertainty where the location of each sensor is confined to a discrete number of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Tim Sodergren , Jessica Hair , Jeff M. Phillips , Bei Wang

Online writers and journalism media are increasingly combining visualization (and other multimedia content) with narrative text to create narrative visualizations. Often, however, the two elements are presented independently of one another.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Ronald Metoyer , Qiyu Zhi , Bart Janczuk , Walter Scheirer

Many professional services are provided through text and voice systems, from voice calls over the internet to messaging and emails. There is a growing need for both individuals and organizations to understand these online conversations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Joshua Y. Kim , Rafael A. Calvo , Kalina Yacef , N. J. Enfield

A new method is presented, that can help a person become aware of his or her unconscious preferences, and convey them to others in the form of verbal explanation. The method combines the concepts of reflection, visualization, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Yoshiharu Maeno , Yukio Ohsawa

Emotion is an important factor to consider when designing visualizations as it can impact the amount of trust viewers place in a visualization, how well they can retrieve information and understand the underlying data, and how much they…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Carter Blair , Xiyao Wang , Charles Perin

Many visual representations, such as volume-rendered images and metro maps, feature a noticeable amount of information loss. At a glance, there seem to be numerous opportunities for viewers to misinterpret the data being visualized, hence…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Min Chen , Alfie Abdul-Rahman , Deborah Silver , Mateu Sbert

Increased access to mobile devices motivates the need to design communicative visualizations that are responsive to varying screen sizes. However, relatively little design guidance or tooling is currently available to authors. We contribute…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Hyeok Kim , Dominik Moritz , Jessica Hullman

Inverse problems play a key role in modern image/signal processing methods. However, since they are generally ill-conditioned or ill-posed due to lack of observations, their solutions may have significant intrinsic uncertainty. Analysing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Xiaohao Cai , Marcelo Pereyra , Jason D. McEwen

Little is known about the representations used in qualitative research studies and why. A data-driven literature review was employed to explore the use of media in qualitative research reporting. A study by Verdinelli & Scagnoli (2013) was…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jayrylle R. Jaylo , Mia Chastain , Alli Nemec , Christina S. Ouch , Yared Asefa , Marcus Li , Andrew Ung , Caleb M. Trujillo

Supervised machine learning and predictive models have achieved an impressive standard today, enabling us to answer questions that were inconceivable a few years ago. Besides these successes, it becomes clear, that beyond pure prediction,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-29 Cornelia Gruber , Patrick Oliver Schenk , Malte Schierholz , Frauke Kreuter , Göran Kauermann

In visual question answering (VQA) context, users often pose ambiguous questions to visual language models (VLMs) due to varying expression habits. Existing research addresses such ambiguities primarily by rephrasing questions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pu Jian , Donglei Yu , Wen Yang , Shuo Ren , Jiajun Zhang

Election poll reporting often focuses on mean values and only subordinately discusses the underlying uncertainty. Subsequent interpretations are too often phrased as certain. Moreover, media coverage rarely adequately takes into account the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Alexander Bauer , André Klima , Jana Gauß , Hannah Kümpel , Andreas Bender , Helmut Küchenhoff

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as powerful tools for several high-stakes natural language processing (NLP) applications. Recent prompting works claim to elicit intermediate reasoning steps and key tokens that serve as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Sree Harsha Tanneru , Chirag Agarwal , Himabindu Lakkaraju

This paper investigates the role of text in visualizations, specifically the impact of text position, semantic content, and biased wording. Two empirical studies were conducted based on two tasks (predicting data trends and appraising bias)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Chase Stokes , Cindy Xiong Bearfield , Marti A. Hearst

How do different audiences make sense of climate change data visualizations and what do they take away as a main message? To investigate this question, we are building on the results of a previous study, focusing on expert opinions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Regina Schuster , Laura Koesten , Kathleen Gregory , Torsten Möller

Visualization as a discipline often grapples with generalization by reasoning about how study results on the efficacy of a tool in one context might apply to another context. This work offers an account of the logic of generalization in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Alex Kale

Uncertainty defines our age: it shapes climate, finance, technology, and society, yet remains profoundly misunderstood. We oscillate between the illusion of control and the paralysis of fatalism. This paper reframes uncertainty not as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-21 Didier Sornette