A Deixis-Centered Approach for Documenting Remote Synchronous Communication around Data Visualizations

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Autori principali: Han, Chang, Isaacs, Katherine E.
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Han, Chang
Isaacs, Katherine E.
author_facet Han, Chang
Isaacs, Katherine E.
contents Referential gestures, or as termed in linguistics, deixis, are an essential part of communication around data visualizations. Despite their importance, such gestures are often overlooked when documenting data analysis meetings. Transcripts, for instance, fail to capture gestures, and video recordings may not adequately capture or emphasize them. We introduce a novel method for documenting collaborative data meetings that treats deixis as a first-class citizen. Our proposed framework captures cursor-based gestural data along with audio and converts them into interactive documents. The framework leverages a large language model to identify word correspondences with gestures. These identified references are used to create context-based annotations in the resulting interactive document. We assess the effectiveness of our proposed method through a user study, finding that participants preferred our automated interactive documentation over recordings, transcripts, and manual note-taking. Furthermore, we derive a preliminary taxonomy of cursor-based deictic gestures from participant actions during the study. This taxonomy offers further opportunities for better utilizing cursor-based deixis in collaborative data analysis scenarios.
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spellingShingle A Deixis-Centered Approach for Documenting Remote Synchronous Communication around Data Visualizations
Han, Chang
Isaacs, Katherine E.
Human-Computer Interaction
Referential gestures, or as termed in linguistics, deixis, are an essential part of communication around data visualizations. Despite their importance, such gestures are often overlooked when documenting data analysis meetings. Transcripts, for instance, fail to capture gestures, and video recordings may not adequately capture or emphasize them. We introduce a novel method for documenting collaborative data meetings that treats deixis as a first-class citizen. Our proposed framework captures cursor-based gestural data along with audio and converts them into interactive documents. The framework leverages a large language model to identify word correspondences with gestures. These identified references are used to create context-based annotations in the resulting interactive document. We assess the effectiveness of our proposed method through a user study, finding that participants preferred our automated interactive documentation over recordings, transcripts, and manual note-taking. Furthermore, we derive a preliminary taxonomy of cursor-based deictic gestures from participant actions during the study. This taxonomy offers further opportunities for better utilizing cursor-based deixis in collaborative data analysis scenarios.
title A Deixis-Centered Approach for Documenting Remote Synchronous Communication around Data Visualizations
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04041