PhD Forum: HCI Applications (paper 2)

I popped in for one talk in the PhD Forum (HCI Applications).  Petra Isenberg (University of Calgary) was giving a paper called 'Information Visualization in Co-located Collaborative Environments', which I did not feel I could miss as I am currently very curious about collaborative information visualisation.

Her research has three main problems she is trying to address:

• We don't really know how the collaborative information analysis process works
• We don't really know what the design guidelines for digital tools of this type are
• We don't really know how such things would be used in the real world

She found 8 distinct processes used by groups to work with data and decide strategy (selection, operation, strategizing) - and I must find a paper on this.  Really interesting was the finding that there was a lack of common temporal order for these processes.  She went on to describe her work on looking at design guidelines for digital tools, and considering how a visualisation system could be generated in a real world setting to support such work.

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Johanna Hunt
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[Petra Isenberg]

Thanks for your interest!
I just published a paper on the 8 distinct processes of (collaborative) analysis which you can find on my publications page:

Petra Isenberg, Anthony Tang, and Sheelagh Carpendale. An Exploratory Study of Visual Information Analysis. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008, April 5–10, 2008, Florence, Italy), New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM Press. To appear.