Co-located collaborative visual analytics around a tabletop display

Co-located collaboration can be extremely valuable during complex visual analytics tasks. We present an exploratory study of a system designed to support collaborative visual analysis tasks on a digital tabletop display. Fifteen participant pairs employed Cambiera, a visual analytics system, to solv...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 18(2012), 5 vom: 13. Mai, Seite 689-702
Auteur principal: Isenberg, Petra (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Fisher, Danyel, Paul, Sharoda A, Morris, Meredith Ringel, Inkpen, Kori, Czerwinski, Mary
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2012
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Sujets:Journal Article
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Résumé:Co-located collaboration can be extremely valuable during complex visual analytics tasks. We present an exploratory study of a system designed to support collaborative visual analysis tasks on a digital tabletop display. Fifteen participant pairs employed Cambiera, a visual analytics system, to solve a problem involving 240 digital documents. Our analysis, supported by observations, system logs, questionnaires, and interview data, explores how pairs approached the problem around the table. We contribute a unique, rich understanding of how users worked together around the table and identify eight types of collaboration styles that can be used to identify how closely people work together while problem solving. We show how the closeness of teams’ collaboration and communication influenced how they performed on the task overall. We further discuss the role of the tabletop for visual analytics tasks and derive design implications for future co-located collaborative tabletop problem solving systems
Description:Date Completed 01.10.2012
Date Revised 27.07.2012
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2011.287