
Semantic Interaction for Visual Analytics
Inferring Analytical Reasoning for Model Steering
Alex Endert(Author)
Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences (Publisher)
Published on 30. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
99 pages
978-1-62705-471-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book discusses semantic interaction, a user interaction methodology for visual analytic applications that more closely couples the visual reasoning processes of people with the computation. This methodology affords user interaction on visual data representations that are native to the domain of the data.User interaction in visual analytics systems is critical to enabling visual data exploration. Interaction transforms people from mere viewers to active participants in the process of analyzing and understanding data. This discourse between people and data enables people to understand aspects of their data, such as structure, patterns, trends, outliers, and other properties that ultimately result in insight. Through interacting with visualizations, users engage in sensemaking, a process of developing and understanding relationships within datasets through foraging and synthesis.The book provides a description of the principles of semantic interaction, providing design guidelines for the integration of semantic interaction into visual analytics, examples of existing technologies that leverage semantic interaction, and a discussion of how to evaluate these technologies. Semantic interaction has the potential to increase the effectiveness of visual analytic technologies and opens possibilities for a fundamentally new design space for user interaction in visual analytics systems.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael, CA
United States
Publishing group
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
205 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62705-471-3 (9781627054713)
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Alex Endert is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He directs the Visual Analytics Lab, where he and his students explore novel user interaction techniques for visual analytics. His lab often apply this fundamental research to applied domains including text analysis, intelligence analysis, cyber security, decision-making, and others. He is an active contributor to venues for human-computer interaction and information visualization (ACM CHI, IEEE VIS, IEEE TVCG, IEEE CG&A). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech in 2012, advised by Dr. Chris North. In 2013, his work on Semantic Interaction was awarded the IEEE VGTC VPG Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Virginia Tech Computer Science Best Dissertation Award.
Content
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Fundamentals
- Spatializations for Sensemaking Using Visual Analytics
- Semantic Interaction
- Applications that Integrate Semantic Interaction
- Evaluating Semantic Interaction
- Discussion and Open Challenges
- Conclusion
- References
- Author's Biography
- Introduction
- Fundamentals
- Spatializations for Sensemaking Using Visual Analytics
- Semantic Interaction
- Applications that Integrate Semantic Interaction
- Evaluating Semantic Interaction
- Discussion and Open Challenges
- Conclusion
- References
- Author's Biography