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An Exploratory Study of VisualInformation Analysis

Petra IsenbergDept. of Computer ScienceUniversity of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canadapetra.isenberg@ucalgary.ca

Anthony TangHCT LabUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver, BC, Canadatonyt@ece.ubc.ca

Sheelagh CarpendaleDept. of Computer ScienceUniversity of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canadasheelagh@ucalgary.ca

A Study of the Information Analysis Process

(With Paper!)

1. Browse

2. Parse

3. Discuss Collaboration Style

4. Establish Task Strategy

5. Clarify

6. Select

7. Operate

8. Validate

Temporal Sequence of Processes

Interactive Tree Comparison forCo-located CollaborativeInformation Visualization

Petra IsenbergDept. of Computer ScienceUniversity of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canadapetra.isenberg@ucalgary.ca

Sheelagh CarpendaleDept. of Computer ScienceUniversity of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canadasheelagh@ucalgary.ca

Co-located collaborative information visualization in action!

Hardware and System Setup

Configuration

InputResolution

Interactive Response

Size

Information Visualizations

Radial Tree Cladogram

Supporting Mental Models

Drop a visualization ona storage container

Automatically resize andplace visualization

Representation Changes

Switching a visualization

Workspace Organization and CollaborationStyles

Looking at visualizationsindividually

Looking at visualizationstogether

Interactive sticky notes Direct annotation

Communication

Data Task

Collaboration Styles

Parallel Work Joint Work

Lark: Coordinating Co-locatedCollaboration with InformationVisualization

Matthew TobiaszDept. of Computer ScienceUniversity of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canadatobiasz@ucalgary.ca

Petra IsenbergDept. of Computer ScienceUniversity of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canadapetra.isenberg@ucalgary.ca

Sheelagh CarpendaleDept. of Computer ScienceUniversity of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canadasheelagh@ucalgary.ca

Lark’s collaborative information visualizationenvironment

Pipeline Representation

Visualization Pipeline Branch

Parallel Work

Joint Work

References

1. P. Isenberg and S. Carpendale. Interactive tree comparison for co-locatedcollaborative information visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualizationand Computer Graphics, 13(6):1232–1239, 2007.

2. P. Isenberg, A. Tang, and S. Carpendale. An exploratory study of visualinformation analysis. In CHI ’08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annualSIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 1217–1226, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM.

3. M. Tobiasz, P. Isenberg, and S. Carpendale. Lark: Coordinating Co-locatedCollaboration with Information Visualization.