The conflux of two growing areas of technology–collaboration and visualization–into a new
research direction, collaborative visualization, provides new research challenges …

Today, in many spheres of human activity, massive amounts of data are collected and
stored. As the volumes of data available to lawmakers, civil servants, business people and …

Remote collaboration systems allow users at different sites to perform joint tasks, which are
required by many real-life applications. For example, environmental pollution is a complex …

Interactive tabletops and surfaces (ITSs) provide rich opportunities for data visualization and
analysis and consequently are used increasingly in such settings. A research agenda of …

While the primary goal of visual analytics research is to improve the quality of insights and
findings, a substantial amount of research in provenance has focused on the history of …

There is a growing recognition within the visual analytics community that interaction and
inquiry are inextricable. It is through the interactive manipulation of a visual interface–the …

While tablet devices are a promising platform for data visualization, supporting consistent
interactions across different types of visualizations on tablets remains an open challenge. In …

Co-located collaboration can be extremely valuable during complex visual analytics tasks.
We present an exploratory study of a system designed to support collaborative visual …

Spatiotemporal data pose serious challenges to analysts in geographic and other domains.
Owing to the complexity of the geospatial and temporal components, this kind of data cannot …

Groups of users often have shared information needs--for example, business colleagues
need to conduct research relating to joint projects and students must work together on group …