Candidate: Jillian Aurisano

DATE: Friday, July 9, 2021
TIME: 1:00PM
LOCATION: Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 843 6774 7564
Passcode: 6DwiV1hA

Committee Members: Andrew Johnson (chair), Barbara Di Eugenio, G. Elisabeta Marai, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Moira Zellner

Abstract: Visual data exploration stands to benefit from environments that permit users to view and juxtapose many views of data, particularly views that present diverse selections of data values and attributes. Large, high-resolution environments are capable of showing many related views of data, but efficiently creating and displaying visualizations in these environments presents significant challenges. In this talk, I will present my research on “multi-view data exploration interactions” that enable users to create and pivot many views at once, creating sets of views with coherent data value and attribute variations, through multi-modal speech and mid-air pointing gestures in large display environments. This work enables users to rapidly and efficiently generate sets of views in support of multi-view data exploration tasks, organize these views in coherent collections, and operate on sets of views collectively, rather than individually, to efficiently reach large portions of the ’data and attribute space’. I will present three contributions: 1) an observational study of data exploration in a large display environment with speech and mid-air gestures, 2) ’Traverse’, an interaction technique for data exploration, based on this study, which uses natural language to create and pivot sets of views, and 3) ’Ditto’, a multi-modal speech and mid-air pointing gesture interactive environment, which utilizes the multi-view data exploration technique, in large display environments.