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Students of visualization come to formal education with an abundance of personal experience. However, one's exposure to graphics through media and education may not be sufficiently diverse to appreciate the nuance and complexity required to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Amy Rae Fox , Taylor Jackson Scott

Guided data visualization systems are highly useful for domain experts to highlight important trends in their large-scale and complex datasets. However, more work is needed to understand the impact of guidance on interpreting data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Sherry Qiu , Holly Rushmeier , Kim R. M. Blenman

The data science revolution has led to an increased interest in the practice of data analysis. While much has been written about statistical thinking, a complementary form of thinking that appears in the practice of data analysis is design…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-24 Lucy D'Agostino McGowan , Roger D. Peng , Stephanie C. Hicks

Characterizing creativity in visualization design can lead to the design of more expressive representations and visualization authoring tools that prioritize human creativity. In this paper, we examine how creativity manifests itself in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianwei Ma , Zinat Ara , Safwat Ali Khan , Fanny Chevalier , Niklas Elmqvist , Naimul Hoque

Statisticians are not only one of the earliest professional adopters of data visualization, but also some of its most prolific users. Understanding how these professionals utilize visual representations in their analytic process may shed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Eric Newburger , Niklas Elmqvist

Understanding different types of users' needs can even be more critical in today's data visualization field, as exploratory visualizations for novice users are becoming more widespread with an increasing amount of data sources. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Damla Cay , Till Nagel , Asim Evren Yantac

The current information age has increasingly required organizations to become data-driven. However, analyzing and managing raw data is still a challenging part of the data mining process. Even though we can find interview studies proposing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Alessandra Milani , Fernando Paulovich , Isabel Manssour

The literature describes many visualization techniques for different types of data, tasks, and application contexts, and new techniques are proposed on a regular basis. Visualization surveys try to capture the immense space of techniques…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Abdulhaq Adetunji Salako , Christian Tominski

The healthcare system collects extensive data, encompassing patient administrative information, clinical measurements, and home-monitored health metrics. To support informed decision-making in patient care and treatment management, it is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Faisal Zaki Roshan , Abhishek Ahuja , Fateme Rajabiyazdi

Visualization, as a vibrant field for researchers, practitioners, and higher educational institutions, is growing and evolving very rapidly. Tremendous progress has been made since 1987, the year often cited as the beginning of data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaoxiao Liu , Mohammad Alharbi , Joe Best , Jian Chen , Alexandra Diehl , Elif Firat , Dylan Rees , Qiru Wang , Robert S Laramee

This paper is a call to action for research and discussion on data visualization education. As visualization evolves and spreads through our professional and personal lives, we need to understand how to support and empower a broad and…

We introduce the notion of a data-first design study which is triggered by the acquisition of real-world data instead of specific stakeholder analysis questions. We propose an adaptation of the design study methodology framework to provide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Michael Oppermann , Tamara Munzner

There are numerous opportunities for engaging in research at the intersection of psychology and visualization. While most opportunities taken up by the VIS community will likely focus on the psychology of users, there are also opportunities…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Paul Parsons

Designers often create visualizations to achieve specific high-level analytical or communication goals. These goals require people to naturally extract complex, contextualized, and interconnected patterns in data. While limited prior work…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ghulam Jilani Quadri , Arran Zeyu Wang , Zhehao Wang , Jennifer Adorno , Paul Rosen , Danielle Albers Szafir

Prior natural language datasets for data visualization have focused on tasks such as visualization literacy assessment, insight generation, and visualization generation from natural language instructions. These studies often rely on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Maeve Hutchinson , Radu Jianu , Aidan Slingsby , Jo Wood , Pranava Madhyastha

In this paper, we describe a research agenda for deriving design principles directly from data. We argue that it is time to go beyond manually curated and applied visualization design guidelines. We propose learning models of visualization…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Bahador Saket , Dominik Moritz , Halden Lin , Victor Dibia , Cagatay Demiralp , Jeffrey Heer

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

Annotation is a central mechanism in visualization design that enables people to communicate key insights. Prior research has provided essential accounts of the visual forms annotations take, but less attention has been paid to the…

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

We revisit the design space of visualizations aiming at identifying and relating its components. In this sense, we establish a model to examine the process through which visualizations become expressive for users. This model has leaded us…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Jose F. Rodrigues , Agma J. M. Traina , Maria C. F. Oliveira , Caetano Traina

Professional visualization design has become an increasingly important area of inquiry, yet much of the field's discourse remains anchored in researcher-centered contexts. Studies of design practice often focus on individual designers'…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Paul C. Parsons , Arran Ridley