@conference{578, keywords = {Visual analytics, Guidance; Visual Analytics; Mixed-Intitative, Conceptual Model}, author = {Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina and Davide Ceneda and Victor Schetinger and Silvia Miksch}, title = {Persistent Interaction: User-Generated Artefacts in Visual Analytics}, abstract = {

While traditional approaches in visual analytics (VA) prioritize insight generation and knowledge discovery, we argue that user-generated artefacts—annotations, model parameters, subset selections, spatializations, and other constructs—constitute a significant outcome of the analytical process. Drawing from theoretical models in VA literature, we introduce persistent interaction as techniques capturing user decisions. These interactions, called operations, provide a formalization of how users attach subjective judgments to datasets, condensing this input into artefacts serving specific purposes within broader workflows. We provide a description and classification of persistent interaction techniques and outcomes, demonstrating their practical implications in VA systems for system design, information transferability, and guidance capabilities.

}, year = {2024}, journal = {EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA)}, month = {06/2024}, publisher = {The Eurographics Association}, address = {Odense, Denmark}, url = {https://diglib.eg.org:8443/server/api/core/bitstreams/3112fed1-71ce-464c-9369-9538a3d844ac/content}, }