The explosion of map use in the past few decades as part of everyday activities, accelerated
through the digital production and dissemination of maps and the availability of low-cost …

We take a new, scenario-based look at evaluation in information visualization. Our seven
scenarios, evaluating visual data analysis and reasoning, evaluating user performance …

Visual analytics enables us to analyze huge information spaces in order to support complex
decision making and data exploration. Humans play a central role in generating knowledge …

User-authored annotations of data can support analysts in the activity of hypothesis
generation and sensemaking, where it is not only critical to document key observations, but …

Annotations have been identified as an important aid in analysis record-keeping and
recently data discovery. In this paper we discuss the use of annotations on visualization …

Externalizing one's thoughts can be helpful during data analysis, such as which one marks
interesting data, notes hypotheses, and draws diagrams. In this paper, we present two …

Users can interact with large displays in many ways, including touch and mid-air gestures.
However, it remains unclear how these ways compare and when users choose one over the …

Multidimensional data is often visualized using coordinated multiple views in an interactive
dashboard. However, unlike in infographics where text is often a central part of the …

Asynchronous Collaborative Visual Analytics (ACVA) leverages group sensemaking by
releasing the constraints on when, where, and who works collaboratively. A significant task …

In an observational study, we noticed that record-keeping plays a critical role in the overall
process of collaborative visual data analysis. Record-keeping involves recording material for …