Sensemaking and Insight Provenance
Under construction. More information will be posted soon. In the meantime, please browse the publications listed below to learn more about the work taking place in our lab as part of this project.
Publications
Modeling and Leveraging Analytic Focus During Exploratory Visual Analysis
Visual analytics systems enable highly interactive exploratory data analysis. Across a range of fields, these technologies have been …
May 2021
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Characterizing User’s Visual Analytic Activity for Insight Provenance
Insight provenance – a historical record of the process and rationale by which an insight is derived – is an essential requirement in …
Connecting the Dots in Visual Analysis
During visual analysis, users must often connect insights discovered at various points of time. This process is often called …
October 2009
IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Conference
Connecting the Dots with Related Notes
During visual analysis, users must often connect insights discovered at various points of time to understand implicit relations within …
April 2009
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstracts
Behavior-Driven Visualization Recommendation
We present a novel approach to visualization recommendation that monitors user behavior for implicit signals of user intent to provide …
February 2009
ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
Context-Based Page Unit Recommendation for Web-Based Sensemaking Tasks
Sensemaking tasks require that users gather and comprehend information from many sources to answer complex questions. Such tasks are …
February 2009
ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
Characterizing Users' Visual Analytic Activity for Insight Provenance
Insight provenance - a historical record of the process and rationale by which an insight is derived - is an essential requirement in …
Context-Based Page Unit Recommendation for Web-Based Sensemaking Tasks
Sensemaking tasks require users to perform complex research behaviors to gather and comprehend information from many sources. Such …
An Empirical Study of User Interaction Behavior During Visual Analysis
Visual analytics is an emerging discipline in which human analysts are tasked with using interactive visualization tools to make …
The ScratchPad: Sensemaking Support for the Web
The World Wide Web is a powerful platform for a wide range of information tasks. Dramatic advances in technology, such as improved …
Interactive Visual Synthesis of Analytic Knowledge
A visual investigation involves both the examination of existing information and the synthesis of new analytic knowledge. This is a …
October 2006
IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)