Human-Computer Collaboration in Data Visualization Authoring

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "Human-Computer Collaboration in Data Visualization Authoring"

by

Miss Liwenhan XIE


Abstract:

Nowadays, people embrace more expressive and aesthetic visualizations in 
communication to engage their audience. However, it remains challenging for 
inexperienced users to manually create a visualization that meets both common 
design principles and additional requirements like delivering a cheerful mood 
from scratch. As such, recent years have witnessed growing research interests 
in developing techniques that enhance manual authoring with intelligent 
automation. This trend creates the need for a systematic survey that 
characterizes the technical advances and informs research opportunities. We 
collect the state-of-the-art research and categorize them according to four 
perspectives in end-user software engineering activities: specification, reuse, 
testing & verification, and debugging. Under each sub-category, we examine the 
dynamic collaboration between humans and machines through these techniques in 
different stages of visualization authoring. Drawing upon our literature 
review, we discuss challenges and opportunities of future authoring toolkit 
that better team humans with machines.


Date:			Monday, 13 December 2021

Time:                  	2:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:			Room 5566
 			(lifts 27/28)

Committee Members:	Prof. Huamin Qu (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Charles Zhang (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Lionel Parreaux
 			Dr. Wei Zeng


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