Science of Interaction

Visual Analytics strongly emphasizes the importance of interaction. However, until now, interaction is only sparingly treated as subject matter on its own. How and why interactivity is beneficial to gain insight and make decisions is mostly left in the dark. Due to this lack of initial direction, it seems important to make further attempts in facilitating a deeper understanding of the concept of interactivity. Therefore, different perspectives towards interactivity as well as cognitive theories and models are investigated. The main aim of this research is to broaden the view on interaction and contribute to advance the field towards a sound theoretical grounding.

Publications

Alexander Rind, Wolfgang Aigner, Markus Wagner, Silvia Miksch, Tim Lammarsch, "Task Cube: A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Space of User Tasks in Visualization Design and Evaluation", Information Visualization, vol. 15, pp. 288-300, 2016. paper
Roger Leite, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Erich Gstrein, Johannes Kuntner, "Visual Analytics for Fraud Detection and Monitoring", Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference 2015, 2015. paper
Alexander Rind, Wolfgang Aigner, Markus Wagner, Silvia Miksch, Tim Lammarsch, "User Tasks for Evaluation: Untangling the Terminology Throughout Visualization Design and Development", Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization (BELIV), pp. 9–15, 2014. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, Stephan Hoffmann, Alexander Rind, "EvalBench: A Software Library for Visualization Evaluation", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 32, pp. 41-50, 2013. paper Talk @EuroVis 2013
Wolfgang Aigner, "Current Work Practice and Users' Perspectives on Visualization and Interactivity in Business Intelligence", Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV13), pp. 299-306, 2013. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, "Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis: Visual Analytics With a Focus on Time", , 2013. paper
Margit Pohl, Silvia Wiltner, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Aigner, Alexander Rind, "Analysing Interactivity in Information Visualisation", KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, vol. 26, pp. 151-159, 2012. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, "Understanding the Role and Value of Interaction: First Steps", Proc. of the International Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA 2011), pp. 17--20, 2011.