A Methodology for Task-Driven Guidance Design

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2023
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The Eurographics Association
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Mixed-initiative Visual Analytics (VA) systems are becoming increasingly important; however, the design of such systems still needs to be formulated. We present a methodology to aid and structure the design of guidance for mixed-initiative VA systems consisting of four steps: (1) defining the target of analysis, (2) identifying the user search tasks, (3) describing the system guidance tasks, and (4) specifying which and when guidance is provided. In summary, it specifies a space of possible user tasks and then maps it to the corresponding space of guidance tasks, using recent VA task typologies for guidance and visualizations. We illustrate these steps through a case study in a real-world model-building task involving decision-making with unevenlyspaced time-oriented data. Our methodology's goal is to enrich existing VA systems with guidance, being its output a structured description of a complex guidance task schema.
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CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing -> Visualization design and evaluation methods; Visualization theory, concepts and paradigms

        
@inproceedings{
10.2312:eurova.20231094
, booktitle = {
EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA)
}, editor = {
Angelini, Marco
 and
El-Assady, Mennatallah
}, title = {{
A Methodology for Task-Driven Guidance Design
}}, author = {
PĂ©rez-Messina, Ignacio
 and
Ceneda, Davide
 and
Miksch, Silvia
}, year = {
2023
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
2664-4487
}, ISBN = {
978-3-03868-222-6
}, DOI = {
10.2312/eurova.20231094
} }
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