Title
Supporting Team-First Visual Analytics through Group Activity Representations.
Abstract
Collaborative visual analytics (CVA) involves sensemaking activities within teams of analysts based on coordination of work across team members, awareness of team activity, and communication of hypotheses, observations, and insights. We introduce a new type of CVA tools based on the notion of “team-first” visual analytics, where supporting the analytical process and needs of the entire team is the primary focus of the graphical user interface before that of the individual analysts. To this end, we present the design space and guidelines for team-first tools in terms of conveying analyst presence, focus, and activity within the interface. We then introduce InsightsDrive, a CVA tool for multidimensional data, that contains team-first features into the interface through group activity visualizations. This includes (1) in-situ representations that show the focus regions of all users integrated in the data visualizations themselves using color-coded selection shadows, as well as (2) ex-situ representations showing the data coverage of each analyst using multidimensional visual representations. We conducted two user studies, one with individual analysts to identify the affordances of different visual representations to inform data coverage, and the other to evaluate the performance of our team-first design with exsitu and in-situ awareness for visual analytic tasks. Our results give an understanding of the performance of our team-first features and unravel their advantages for team coordination.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
Graphics Interface
Design space,Computer vision,Data visualization,Computer science,Sensemaking,Visual analytics,Human–computer interaction,Graphical user interface,Artificial intelligence,Affordance,User studies,Group activity
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
26
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sriram Karthik Badam113610.79
Zehua Zeng210.35
Emily Wall3475.38
Alex Endert497452.18
Niklas Elmqvist5206598.35