Persistent Interaction: User-Generated Artefacts in Visual Analytics
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2024
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
While traditional approaches in visual analytics (VA) prioritize insight generation and knowledge discovery, we argue that user-generated artefacts-annotations, model parameters, subset selections, spatializations, and other constructs-constitute a significant outcome of the analytical process. Drawing from theoretical models in VA literature, we introduce persistent interaction as techniques capturing user decisions. These interactions, called operations, provide a formalization of how users attach subjective judgments to datasets, condensing this input into artefacts serving specific purposes within broader workflows. We provide a description and classification of persistent interaction techniques and outcomes, demonstrating their practical implications in VA systems for system design, information transferability, and guidance capabilities.
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CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing → Visualization design and evaluation methods; Visualization theory, concepts and paradigms
@inproceedings{10.2312:eurova.20241106,
booktitle = {EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA)},
editor = {El-Assady, Mennatallah and Schulz, Hans-Jörg},
title = {{Persistent Interaction: User-Generated Artefacts in Visual Analytics}},
author = {Pérez-Messina, Ignacio and Ceneda, Davide and Schetinger, Victor and Miksch, Silvia},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-253-0},
DOI = {10.2312/eurova.20241106}
}