Exploring chart question answering for blind and low vision users

J Kim, A Srinivasan, NW Kim, YS Kim - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Data visualizations can be complex or involve numerous data points, making them
impractical to navigate using screen readers alone. Question answering (QA) systems have …

MapQA: A dataset for question answering on choropleth maps

S Chang, D Palzer, J Li, E Fosler-Lussier… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Choropleth maps are a common visual representation for region-specific tabular data and
are used in a number of different venues (newspapers, articles, etc). These maps are human …

Dvqa: Understanding data visualizations via question answering

K Kafle, B Price, S Cohen… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot
parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance …

Gender and racial bias in visual question answering datasets

Y Hirota, Y Nakashima, N Garcia - … of the 2022 ACM Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Vision-and-language tasks have increasingly drawn more attention as a means to evaluate
human-like reasoning in machine learning models. A popular task in the field is visual …

Chart question answering: State of the art and future directions

E Hoque, P Kavehzadeh, A Masry - Computer Graphics Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very common for
analyzing data and discovering critical insights. Often people analyze charts to answer …

SeeChart: enabling accessible visualizations through interactive natural language interface for people with visual impairments

MZI Alam, S Islam, E Hoque - … of the 28th International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Web-based data visualizations have become very popular for exploring data and
communicating insights. Newspapers, journals, and reports regularly publish visualizations …

Answering questions about data visualizations using efficient bimodal fusion

K Kafle, R Shrestha, S Cohen… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Chart question answering (CQA) is a newly proposed visual question answering (VQA) task
where an algorithm must answer questions about data visualizations, eg bar charts, pie …

Classification-regression for chart comprehension

M Levy, R Ben-Ari, D Lischinski - European Conference on Computer …, 2022 - Springer
Chart question answering (CQA) is a task used for assessing chart comprehension, which is
fundamentally different from understanding natural images. CQA requires analyzing the …

“Explain What a Treemap is”: Exploratory Investigation of Strategies for Explaining Unfamiliar Chart to Blind and Low Vision Users

G Kim, J Kim, YS Kim - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Visualization designers increasingly use diverse types of visualizations, but assistive
technologies and education for blind and low vision people often focus on elementary chart …

Answering questions about charts and generating visual explanations

DH Kim, E Hoque, M Agrawala - … of the 2020 CHI conference on human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
People often use charts to analyze data, answer questions and explain their answers to
others. In a formative study, we find that such human-generated questions and explanations …