User-centered designers often seek to synthesize data from user research into insights and
a shared point of view among team members. This paper explores the synthesis process …

Just as modern software development strategies have introduced agile methods and rapid
prototyping to organizations. Visual analytic tools now bring the same spirit of prototyping …

Traditionally, scientific visualization research concentrates on the development and
improvement of interactive techniques to support expert data analysis. While many scientific …

Notifications seek to guide people's attention toward timely, relevant, and important tasks
and interactions. This work considers situations in which multiple people are sharing a …

We show how mouse interaction log classification can help visualization toolsmiths
understand how their tools are used “in the wild” through an evaluation of MAGI-a cancer …

Cognitive science is providing the scientific community with increasingly well-supported
models of the mental stages and representations that professional analysts go through in the …

Information visualizations have been shown useful in numerous laboratory studies, but their
adoption and use in real-life tasks are curiously under-researched. We present a field study …

In practice, most creativity techniques are still performed with traditional tools, such as pen
and paper, whiteboards, and flipcharts. When transforming these techniques into a digital …

The visual analysis of complex networks is a challenging task in many fields, such as
systems biology or social sciences. Often, various domain experts work together to improve …

In user-centered design processes, one of the most important tasks is to synthesize
information from user research into insights and a shared point of view among team …