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The visual analysis of retinal data contributes to the understanding of a wide range of eye diseases. For the evaluation of cross-sectional studies, ophthalmologists rely on workflows and toolsets established in their work environment. That…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Martin Röhlig , Lars Nonnemann , Hans-Jörg Schulz , Oliver Stachs , Heidrun Schumann

General visualization recommendation systems typically make design decisions for the dataset automatically. However, most of them can only prune meaningless visualizations but fail to recommend targeted results. This paper contributes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Leixian Shen , Enya Shen , Zhiwei Tai , Yihao Xu , Jianmin Wang

Datasets of visualization play a crucial role in automating data-driven visualization pipelines, serving as the foundation for supervised model training and algorithm benchmarking. In this paper, we survey the literature on visualization…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Can Liu , Ruike Jiang , Shaocong Tan , Jiacheng Yu , Chaofan Yang , Hanning Shao , Xiaoru Yuan

Eye movements have a spatial (where people look), but also a temporal (when people look) component. Various types of visualizations have been proposed that take this spatio-temporal nature of the data into account, but it is unclear how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Marcel Claus , Frouke Hermens , Stefano Bromuri

This report documents the results found through surveys and interviews on how visualizations help the employees in their workspace. The objectives of this study were to get in-depth knowledge on what prepares an employee to have the right…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Rajath Chikkatur Srinivasa , Supriya Arun , Lauren James , Ying Zhu

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

Each year, thousands of people learn new visual categorization tasks -- radiologists learn to recognize tumors, birdwatchers learn to distinguish similar species, and crowd workers learn how to annotate valuable data for applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Neehar Kondapaneni , Pietro Perona , Oisin Mac Aodha

Understanding a visualization is a multi-level process. A reader must extract and extrapolate from numeric facts, understand how those facts apply to both the context of the data and other potential contexts, and draw or evaluate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alyxander Burns , Cindy Xiong , Steven Franconeri , Alberto Cairo , Narges Mahyar

Eye Tracking (ET) can help to understand visual attention and cognitive processes in interactive environments. In attention tasks, distinguishing between relevant target objects and distractors is crucial for effective performance, yet the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Abdul Rehman , Ilona Heldal , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin

Eye movements can provide informative cues to understand human visual scan/search behavior and cognitive load during varying tasks. Visualizations of real-time gaze measures during tasks, provide an understanding of human behavior as the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Gavindya Jayawardena , Vikas Ashok , Sampath Jayarathna

Genomic data visualization is essential for interpretation and hypothesis generation as well as a valuable aid in communicating discoveries. Visual tools bridge the gap between algorithmic approaches and the cognitive skills of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-04 Sabrina Nusrat , Theresa Harbig , Nils Gehlenborg

Conformance checking is a major function of process mining, which allows organizations to identify and alleviate potential deviations from the intended process behavior. To fully leverage its benefits, it is important that conformance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jana-Rebecca Rehse , Luise Pufahl , Michael Grohs , Lisa-Marie Klein

Whenever a visualization researcher is asked about the purpose of visualization, the phrase "gaining insight" by and large pops out instinctively. However, it is not absolutely factual that all uses of visualization are for gaining a deep…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Min Chen , Luciano Floridi , Rita Borgo

Understanding your audience is foundational to creating high impact visualization designs. However, individual differences and cognitive abilities also influence interactions with information visualization. Differing user needs and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Sara Tandon , Alfie Abdul-Rahman , Rita Borgo

The understanding of visual analytics process can benefit visualization researchers from multiple aspects, including improving visual designs and developing advanced interaction functions. However, the log files of user behaviors are still…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zekun Wu , Shahin Doroudian , Aidong Lu

Real-world scene perception is typically studied in the laboratory using static picture viewing with restrained head position. Consequently, the transfer of results obtained in this paradigm to real-word scenarios has been questioned. The…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-16 Daniel Backhaus , Ralf Engbert , Lars Oliver Martin Rothkegel , Hans Arne Trukenbrod

Shared control improves Human-Robot Interaction by reducing the user's workload and increasing the robot's autonomy. It allows robots to perform tasks under the user's supervision. Current eye-tracking-driven approaches face several…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Anke Fischer-Janzen , Thomas M. Wendt , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Data visualizations are powerful tools for communicating patterns in quantitative data. Yet understanding any data visualization is no small feat -- succeeding requires jointly making sense of visual, numerical, and linguistic inputs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Arnav Verma , Kushin Mukherjee , Christopher Potts , Elisa Kreiss , Judith E. Fan

We present a comprehensive survey on the use of annotations in information visualizations, highlighting their crucial role in improving audience understanding and engagement with visual data. Our investigation encompasses empirical studies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Md Dilshadur Rahman , Bhavana Doppalapudi , Ghulam Jilani Quadri , Paul Rosen

One of the most useful techniques to help visual data analysis systems is interactive filtering (brushing). However, visualization techniques often suffer from overlap of graphical items and multiple attributes complexity, making visual…

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