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Toward Supporting Narrative-Driven Data Exploration: Barriers and Design Opportunities
Oliver Huang, Carolina Nobre
Analysts increasingly explore data through evolving, narrative-driven inquiries, moving beyond static dashboards and predefined metrics as their questions deepen and shift. As thes…
TreeReader: A Hierarchical Academic Paper Reader Powered by Language Models
Zijian Zhang, Pan Chen, Fangshi Du +4
Efficiently navigating and understanding academic papers is crucial for scientific progress. Traditional linear formats like PDF and HTML can cause cognitive overload and obscure a…
Position: Reasoning After Perception Means Reasoning Without Vision
Hongcheng Gao, Zihao Huang, Jingyi Tang +12
A common belief in multimodal research is that the perceptual weaknesses of vision--language models can be compensated by stronger language reasoning (e.g., chain-of-thought, in-co…
ViStruct: Simulating Expert-Like Reasoning Through Task Decomposition and Visual Attention Cues
Oliver Huang, Carolina Nobre
Data visualization tasks often require multi-step reasoning, and the interpretive strategies experts use, such as decomposing complex goals into smaller subtasks and selectively at…
From Reality to Recognition: Evaluating Visualization Analogies for Novice Chart Comprehension
Oliver Huang, Patrick Lee, Carolina Nobre
Novice learners often have difficulty learning new visualization types because they tend to interpret novel visualizations through the mental models of simpler charts they have pre…
ScholarMate: A Mixed-Initiative Tool for Qualitative Knowledge Work and Information Sensemaking
Runlong Ye, Patrick Yung Kang Lee, Matthew Varona +2
Synthesizing knowledge from large document collections is a critical yet increasingly complex aspect of qualitative research and knowledge work. While AI offers automation potentia…
The Design Space of Recent AI-assisted Research Tools for Ideation, Sensemaking, and Scientific Creativity
Runlong Ye, Matthew Varona, Oliver Huang +3
Generative AI (GenAI) tools are radically expanding the scope and capability of automation in knowledge work such as academic research. While promising for augmenting cognition and…