Collaborative Visual Analytics

Exploring and making sense of data with others

Stratos is a collaborative visual analytic application that supports strategic software release planning by visualizing several variables relevant to that decision-making process.
Stratos is a collaborative visual analytic application that supports strategic software release planning by visualizing several variables relevant to that decision-making process.

Many situations involve studying, exploring, and understanding data (and frequently communicating this understanding) with others. We envision digital workrooms that help support these processes. Our goal is to designi tools and interaction techniques that can support this interactive analytic process in such digital workrooms.

In this project, we have explored the fundamental mechanics of how people go about analyzing information and data [Isenberg, P., Isenberg, T., Hesselmann, T., Lee, B., Von Zadow, U., and Tang, A. (2013). Data visualization on interactive surfaces: A research agenda. In Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 16--24.] [Isenberg, P., Tang, A., and Carpendale, S. (2008). An exploratory study of visual information analysis. In CHI '08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1217--1226.] , particularly given rudimentary tools [Tang, A., Tory, M., Po, B., Neumann, P., and Carpendale, S. (2006). Collaborative coupling over tabletop displays. In CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1181--1190.] . We have imagined and explored next-generation interactive digital workrooms [Tang, A., and Irani, P. (2011). Interstitial Space in MDEs for Data Analysis. In DEXIS 2011 Workshop on Data Exploration for Interaction Surfaces - Workshop at ITS 2011.] , and have built domain-specific tools to study how people analyze data with such tools [Aseniero, B., Wun, T., Ledo, D., Ruhe, G., Tang, A., and Carpendale, S. (2015). STRATOS: Using Visualization to Support Decisions in Strategic Software Release Planning. In CHI 2015: Proceedings of the 2015 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1479--1488.] . Finally, we have built tools to study how people are analyzing data, and making use of space and tools [Marquardt, N., Schardong, F., and Tang, A. (2015). EXCITE: EXploring Collaborative Interaction in Tracked Environments. In INTERACT 2015: Proceedings of INTERACT 2015 - 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, 89--97.] [Tang, A., Pahud, M., Carpendale, S., and Buxton, B. (2010). VisTACO: visualizing tabletop collaboration. In ITS '10: ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, 29--38.] .

Publications

Isenberg, P., Isenberg, T., Hesselmann, T., Lee, B., Von Zadow, U., and Tang, A. (2013). Data visualization on interactive surfaces: A research agenda. In Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 16--24.
Isenberg, P., Tang, A., and Carpendale, S. (2008). An exploratory study of visual information analysis. In CHI '08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1217--1226.
Tang, A., Tory, M., Po, B., Neumann, P., and Carpendale, S. (2006). Collaborative coupling over tabletop displays. In CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1181--1190.
Tang, A., and Irani, P. (2011). Interstitial Space in MDEs for Data Analysis. In DEXIS 2011 Workshop on Data Exploration for Interaction Surfaces - Workshop at ITS 2011.
Aseniero, B., Wun, T., Ledo, D., Ruhe, G., Tang, A., and Carpendale, S. (2015). STRATOS: Using Visualization to Support Decisions in Strategic Software Release Planning. In CHI 2015: Proceedings of the 2015 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1479--1488.
Marquardt, N., Schardong, F., and Tang, A. (2015). EXCITE: EXploring Collaborative Interaction in Tracked Environments. In INTERACT 2015: Proceedings of INTERACT 2015 - 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, 89--97.
Acceptance: 93/319 - 29.6%.
Tang, A., Pahud, M., Carpendale, S., and Buxton, B. (2010). VisTACO: visualizing tabletop collaboration. In ITS '10: ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, 29--38.