collaborative data visualization
27 June 2007
a user study of a new website (sense.us) that supports asynchronous collaboration across a variety of visualization types. its collaborative features includes view sharing, discussion, graphical annotation & social navigation. results of the study show emergent patterns of social data analysis, including cycles of observation & hypothesis, & the complementary roles of social navigation & data-driven exploration. the study ran in 2 different parts: a pair of controlled lab studies & a 3-week live deployment on the IBM corporate intranet.
"we believe these results show the value of focusing on the social aspects of visual analysis. our user studies indicate that combining conversation & visual data analysis can help people explore a data set both broadly and deeply. from a design perspective, there seems to be a promising opportunity for exploring new widgets & modes of interaction aimed at enhancing collaboration."
[links: berkeley.edu & berkeley.edu (PDF) & berkeley.edu (movie)|via smartmobs.com]
air pollution helium balloon brand-based collaborative tag clouds tkaap video tracking interface BMW kinetic sculpture flokoon visual search pulsating emotion organism cinema redux film mosaics laser-cut sound analysis sculptures caffeine usage arcs zoomii visual amazon store mapping scientific citations collective prediction network all the water in the world reflect conversation table
images from: Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2007
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