5 papers
Visual Decoding Operators: Towards a Compositional Theory of Visualization Perception
Sheng Long, Remco Chang, Eugene Wu +2
Prior work on perceptual effectiveness has decomposed visualizations into smaller common units (e.g., channels such as angle, position, and length) to establish rankings. While use…
Investigating Ethical Data Communication with Purrsuasion: An Educational Game about Negotiated Data Disclosure
Krisha Mehta, Sami Elahi, Alex Kale
Data communication entails ethical dilemmas where situational constraints forbid full disclosure of source data. Whereas visualization research and pedagogy often frames ethics as…
Designing for Disclosure in Data Visualizations
Krisha Mehta, Gordon Kindlmann, Alex Kale
Visualizing data often entails data transformations that can reveal and hide information, operations we dub disclosure tactics. Whether designers hide information intentionally or…
Designing a Lightweight GenAI Interface for Visual Data Analysis
Ratanond Koonchanok, Alex Kale, Khairi Reda
Recent advances in Generative AI have transformed how users interact with data analysis through natural language interfaces. However, many systems rely too heavily on LLMs, creatin…
Toward a Logic of Generalization about Visualization as a Decision Aid
Alex Kale
Visualization as a discipline often grapples with generalization by reasoning about how study results on the efficacy of a tool in one context might apply to another context. This…