3 papers
cs.HC2025
Semantic Scaffolding: Augmenting Textual Structures with Domain-Specific Groupings for Accessible Data Exploration
Jonathan Zong, Isabella Pedraza Pineros, Mengzhu Katie Chen +2
Drawing connections between interesting groupings of data and their real-world meaning is an important, yet difficult, part of encountering a new dataset. A lay reader might see an…
cs.HC2025
Tactile Vega-Lite: Rapidly Prototyping Tactile Charts with Smart Defaults
Mengzhu Katie Chen, Isabella Pedraza Pineros, Arvind Satyanarayan +1
Tactile charts are essential for conveying data to blind and low vision (BLV) readers but are difficult for designers to construct. Non-expert designers face barriers to entry due…
cs.HC2025
Pluto: Authoring Semantically Aligned Text and Charts for Data-Driven Communication
Arjun Srinivasan, Vidya Setlur, Arvind Satyanarayan
Textual content (including titles, annotations, and captions) plays a central role in helping readers understand a visualization by emphasizing, contextualizing, or summarizing the…