GuidedVA: Guidance-Enriched Visual Analytics for Temporal Data

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Team
Duration
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Funding

Vienna Science and Technology Fund (Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds, WWTF) under grant [10.47379/ICT19047].

Contact

Silvia Miksch

Status
ongoing

Although Visual Analytics provides advanced techniques to tackle complex analysis scenarios, it still challenging for analysts to discern which VA methods to use for particular data and tasks. Guidance is hence needed to come up with reliable data analysis, visualization, and interpretations, but this is a largely uncharted territory in VA research. The aim of this project is to break new ground in the field of Visual Analytics by incorporating guidance to support users in their exploration and decision-making processes as well as in making continuous progress. 

Publications

Michaela Tuscher, Markus Bögl, "Visual Analytics", Wintergraph 2025, 2025.
Velitchko Filipov, Davide Ceneda, Daniel Archambault, Alessio Arleo, "TimeLighting: Guided Exploration of 2D Temporal Network Projections", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pp. 13, 2025.
Maath Musleh, Renata Georgia Raidou, Davide Ceneda, "TrustME: A Context-Aware Explainability Model to Promote User Trust in Guidance", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pp. 17, 2025.
Thibault Borde, "Visualisierungsempfehlung bei der Visuelle Analyse der Abfolge von Sportereignissen", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 74, 2025.
Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Marco Angelini, Davide Ceneda, Christian Tominski, Silvia Miksch, "Coupling Guidance and Progressiveness in Visual Analytics", , pp. e70115, 2025. paper
Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Davide Ceneda, Victor Schetinger, Silvia Miksch, "Persistent interaction: A conceptualization of user-generated artefacts in Visual Analytics", Computers & Graphics, vol. 129, pp. 104232, 2025. paper
Velitchko Filipov, Davide Ceneda, Daniel Archambault, Alessio Arleo, "TimeLighting: Guidance-enhanced Exploration of 2D Projections of Temporal Graphs", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, vol. 14465, 2024.
Johanna Schmidt, Bernhard Pointner, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Analytics for Understanding Draco's Knowledge Base", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 30, pp. 392-402, 2024.
Velitchko Filipov, "Visual Analytics", Wintergraph 2024, 2024.
Maath Musleh, Davide Ceneda, Henry Ehlers, Renata Georgia Raidou, "ConAn: Measuring and Evaluating User Confidence in Visual Data Analysis Under Uncertainty", Computer Graphics Forum, pp. 18, 2024.
Davide Ceneda, Christopher Collins, Mennatallah El-Assady, Silvia Miksch, Christian Tominski, Alessio Arleo, "A heuristic approach for dual expert/end-user evaluation of guidance in visual analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 30, pp. 997-1007, 2024.
Claudio Di Ciccio, Silvia Miksch, Pnina Soffer, Barbara Weber, Giovanni Meroni, "Human in the (Process) Mines (Dagstuhl Seminar 23271)", Dagstuhl Reports, vol. 13, pp. 1-33, 2024. paper
Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Davide Ceneda, Victor Schetinger, Silvia Miksch, "Persistent Interaction: User-Generated Artefacts in Visual Analytics", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), 2024. paper
Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Davide Ceneda, Silvia Miksch, "Guided Visual Analytics for Image Selection in Time and Space", IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, vol. 30, pp. 10, 2024. paper
Fabian Sperrle, Mennatallah El-Assady, Alessio Arleo, Davide Ceneda, "A Wizard of Oz Study of Guidance Strategies and Dynamics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024. paper
Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Davide Ceneda, Silvia Miksch, "Enhancing Visual Analytics systems with guidance: A task-driven methodology", COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK, vol. 125, pp. article no. 104121, 2024.
Silvia Miksch, Claudio Di Ciccio, Pnina Soffer, Barbara Weber, "Visual Analytics Meets Process Mining: Challenges and Opportunities", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 44, pp. 132-141, 2024.
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Heidrun Schumann, Christian Tominski, "Visualization of Time-Oriented Data", , 2023. paper
Aoyu Wu, Dazhen Deng, Min Chen, Shixia Liu, Daniel Keim, Ross Maciejewski, Silvia Miksch, Hendrik Strobelt, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, "Grand Challenges in Visual Analytics Applications", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 43, pp. 83-90, 2023.
teaser image Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Davide Ceneda, Silvia Miksch, "A Methodology for Task-Driven Guidance Design", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 6, 2023. paper
Davide Ceneda, Alessio Arleo, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Show Me Your Face: Towards an Automated Method to Provide Timely Guidance in Visual Analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 28, pp. 12, 2022.
Fabian Sperrle, Davide Ceneda, Mennatallah El-Assady, "Lotse: A Practical Framework for Guidance in Visual Analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pp. 11, 2022. Arxiv Paper Presentation at VIS 2022
Christina Stoiber, Davide Ceneda, Markus Wagner, Victor Schetinger, Theresia Gschwandtner, Marc Streit, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Aigner, "Perspectives of Visualization Onboarding and Guidance in VA", Visual Informatics, vol. 6, pp. 15, 2022.
screenshot of the va prototype, showing mainly a big map Nikolaus Piccolotto, Markus Bögl, Christoph Muehlmann, Klaus Nordhausen, Peter Filzmoser, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Parameter Selection for Spatial Blind Source Separation", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 41, pp. 12, 2022. paper
Victor Schetinger, Velitchko Filipov, Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Ethan Smith, Rodrigo de Oliveira, "I Learn to Diffuse, or Data Alchemy 101: a Mnemonic Manifesto", , 2022. paper