8 papers
AnnoBench: A Benchmark for Visualization Annotation Generation
Md Rahat-uz-Zaman, Md Dilshadur Rahman, Andrew McNutt +1
Annotation is among the most demanding visualization tasks to automate, as it simultaneously requires correctly navigating visual, semantic, and stylistic constraints. Failure to m…
Chart-Supported or Model-Supplied? Examining MLLM-Generated Claims for Accessible Visualization
Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Md Dilshadur Rahman
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can connect visualization patterns to external causes, consequences, and domain knowledge, but the evidential basis of these interpretation…
Designing Annotations in Visualization: Considerations from Visualization Practitioners and Educators
Md Dilshadur Rahman, Devin Lange, Ghulam Jilani Quadri +1
Annotation is a central mechanism in visualization design that enables people to communicate key insights. Prior research has provided essential accounts of the visual forms annota…
AnnoGram: An Annotative Grammar of Graphics Extension
Md Dilshadur Rahman, Md Rahat-uz- Zaman, Andrew McNutt +1
Annotations are central to effective data communication, yet most visualization tools treat them as secondary constructs -- manually defined, difficult to reuse, and loosely couple…
A Survey on Annotations in Information Visualization: Empirical Insights, Applications, and Challenges
Md Dilshadur Rahman, Bhavana Doppalapudi, Ghulam Jilani Quadri +1
We present a comprehensive survey on the use of annotations in information visualizations, highlighting their crucial role in improving audience understanding and engagement with v…
Striking the Right Balance: Systematic Assessment of Evaluation Method Distribution Across Contribution Types
Feng Lin, Arran Zeyu Wang, Md Dilshadur Rahman +2
In the rapidly evolving field of information visualization, rigorous evaluation is essential for validating new techniques, understanding user interactions, and demonstrating the e…