Many At Once: Capturing Intentions to Create And Use Many Views At Once In Large Display Environments
Abstract
This paper describes results from an observational, exploratory study of visual data exploration in a large, multi-view, flexible canvas environment. Participants were provided with a set of data exploration sub-tasks associated with a local crime dataset and were instructed to pose questions to a remote mediator who would respond by generating and organizing visualizations on the large display. We observed that participants frequently posed requests to cast a net around one or several subsets of the data or a set of data attributes. They accomplished this directly and by utilizing existing views in unique ways, including by requesting to copy and pivot a group of views collectively and posing a set of parallel requests on target views expressed in one command. These observed actions depart from multi-view flexible canvas environments that typically provide interfaces in support of generating one view at a time or actions that operate on one view at a time. We describe how participants used these 'cast-a-net' requests for tasks that spanned more than one view and describe design considerations for multi-view environments that would support the observed multi-view generation actions.
BibTeX
@article {10.1111:cgf.13976,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Many At Once: Capturing Intentions to Create And Use Many Views At Once In Large Display Environments}},
author = {Aurisano, Jillian and Kumar, Abhinav and Alsaiari, Abeer and Eugenio, Barbara Di and Johnson, Andrew E.},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.13976}
}
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Many At Once: Capturing Intentions to Create And Use Many Views At Once In Large Display Environments}},
author = {Aurisano, Jillian and Kumar, Abhinav and Alsaiari, Abeer and Eugenio, Barbara Di and Johnson, Andrew E.},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.13976}
}