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Main Authors: Nafis, Fahim Arsad, Li, Jie, Su, Simon, Chen, Songqing, Han, Bo
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02743
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author Nafis, Fahim Arsad
Li, Jie
Su, Simon
Chen, Songqing
Han, Bo
author_facet Nafis, Fahim Arsad
Li, Jie
Su, Simon
Chen, Songqing
Han, Bo
contents Cross-disciplinary teams increasingly work with high-dimensional scientific datasets, yet fragmented toolchains and limited support for shared exploration hinder collaboration. Prior immersive visualization and analytics research has emphasized individual interaction, leaving open how multi-user collaboration can be supported at scale. To fill this critical gap, we conduct semi-structured interviews with 20 domain experts from diverse academic, government, and industry backgrounds. Using deductive-inductive hybrid thematic analysis, we identify four collaboration-focused themes: workflow challenges, adoption perceptions, prospective features, and anticipated usability and ethical risks. These findings show how current ecosystems disrupt coordination and shared understanding, while highlighting opportunities for effective multi-user engagement. Our study contributes empirical insights into collaboration practices for high-dimensional scientific data visualization and analysis, offering design implications to enhance coordination, mutual awareness, and equitable participation in next-generation collaborative immersive platforms. These contributions point toward future environments enabling distributed, cross-device teamwork on high-dimensional scientific data.
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spellingShingle Exploring Collaborative Immersive Visualization & Analytics for High-Dimensional Scientific Data through Domain Expert Perspectives
Nafis, Fahim Arsad
Li, Jie
Su, Simon
Chen, Songqing
Han, Bo
Human-Computer Interaction
Cross-disciplinary teams increasingly work with high-dimensional scientific datasets, yet fragmented toolchains and limited support for shared exploration hinder collaboration. Prior immersive visualization and analytics research has emphasized individual interaction, leaving open how multi-user collaboration can be supported at scale. To fill this critical gap, we conduct semi-structured interviews with 20 domain experts from diverse academic, government, and industry backgrounds. Using deductive-inductive hybrid thematic analysis, we identify four collaboration-focused themes: workflow challenges, adoption perceptions, prospective features, and anticipated usability and ethical risks. These findings show how current ecosystems disrupt coordination and shared understanding, while highlighting opportunities for effective multi-user engagement. Our study contributes empirical insights into collaboration practices for high-dimensional scientific data visualization and analysis, offering design implications to enhance coordination, mutual awareness, and equitable participation in next-generation collaborative immersive platforms. These contributions point toward future environments enabling distributed, cross-device teamwork on high-dimensional scientific data.
title Exploring Collaborative Immersive Visualization & Analytics for High-Dimensional Scientific Data through Domain Expert Perspectives
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02743