Visualive: Representing Synchronized Visualization Interactions

IEEE InfoVis Posters, 2020

Rupayan Neogy

Rupayan Neogy

MIT CSAIL

Emily Hu

MIT

Arvind Satyanarayan

Arvind Satyanarayan

MIT CSAIL

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Abstract

Visualization researchers have begun exploring real-time visualization synchronization, but the focus has been on the technology supporting such synchronizations, and very little research looks at the front-end. In this paper, we present Visualive, an exploration of the representation of real-time users in the space of a visualization. Visualive represents online users by embedding dynamic color-coded widgets within a visualization, allowing viewers to easily identify remote actions being performed without leaving the context of a visualization. Visualive is an initial dive into merging collaboration and synchronization with data visualization without compromising on the latter experience.

Bibtex 

@inproceedings{2020-towards-visualive
  title = {{Visualive}},
  author = {Rupayan Neogy AND Emily Hu AND Arvind Satyanarayan},
  booktitle = {IEEE InfoVis Posters},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://vis.csail.mit.edu/pubs/towards-visualive}
}
Visualive: Representing Synchronized Visualization Interactions

The Visualive synchronized visualization system. Left: several users are interacting simultaneously with the view, with the current user following another user as they brush and zoom into the visualization. Right: the viewing user has hovered over a remote user’s bubble, resulting in the appearance of the purple tracking window that represents the remote user’s screen area.