Persistent Interaction: User-Generated Artefacts in Visual Analytics

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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.

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2024
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EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA)
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06/2024
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The Eurographics Association
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Odense, Denmark
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TU Wien Library AC17361884
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