12 papers
AI Agents and the Future of VIS
Chen Zhu-Tian, Nam Wook Kim, Saeed Boorboor +4
Recent advances in agents (i.e., autonomous, goal-driven AI systems that iteratively observe, act, and learn from their environments) offer a fundamentally different approach from…
Not Always Top-Left: Untangling the Signals that Guide Dashboard Reading Order
Nicole Sultanum, Vidya Setlur
Dashboards are widely used interfaces for data analysis, combining multiple visualizations, text, and interactive controls within a single view. While dashboard authors often struc…
From 'Here' to 'There': Exploring Proximity Semantics in Multimodal Data Exploration
Dennis Bromley, Diana Wang, Vidya Setlur
Modern data exploration tools often struggle to capture the subtleties of analytical intent, especially when users seek patterns that are difficult to specify using traditional que…
Lexara: A User-Centered Toolkit for Evaluating Large Language Models for Conversational Visual Analytics
Srishti Palani, Vidya Setlur
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming Conversational Visual Analytics (CVA) by enabling data analysis through natural language. However, evaluating LLMs for CVA remains a c…
"I Need to Find That One Chart": How Data Workers Navigate, Make Sense of, and Communicate Analytical Conversations
Ken Gu, Srishti Palani, Vidya Setlur
Conversational interfaces are increasingly used for data analysis, enabling data workers to express complex analytical intents in natural language. Yet, these interactions unfold a…
RÃCITKIT: A Spatial Toolkit for Designing and Evaluating Human-Centered Immersive Data Narratives
Vidya Setlur, Samuel Ridet
Spatial computing presents new opportunities for immersive data storytelling, yet there is limited guidance on how to build such experiences or adapt traditional narrative visualiz…