Prior research on communicating with visualization has focused on public presentation and asynchronous individual consumption, such as in the domain of journalism. The visualization research community knows comparatively little about synchronous and multimodal communication around data within organizations, from team meetings to executive briefings. We conducted two qualitative interview studies with individuals who prepare and deliver presentations about data to audiences in organizations. In contrast to prior work, we did not limit our interviews to those who self-identify as data analysts or data scientists. Both studies examined aspects of speaking about data with visual aids such as charts, dashboards, and tables. One study was a retrospective examination of current practices and difficulties, from which we identified three scenarios involving presentations of data. We describe these scenarios using an analogy to musical performance: small collaborative team meetings are akin to jam session, while more structured presentations can range from semi-improvisational performances among peers to formal recitals given to executives or customers. In our second study, we grounded the discussion around three design probes, each examining a different aspect of presenting data: the progressive reveal of visualization to direct attention and advance a narrative, visualization presentation controls that are hidden from the audience's view, and the coordination of a presenter's video with interactive visualization. Our distillation of interviewees' responses surfaced twelve themes, from ways of authoring presentations to creating accessible and engaging audience experiences.
翻译:视觉化研究界对组织内部的数据同步和多式交流了解甚少,从小组会议到执行简报会,我们对组织内部数据同步和多式交流相对了解较少。我们与准备和向组织受众提供数据介绍的个人进行了两次定性访谈研究。与以往的工作不同,我们没有将访谈局限于自我认定为数据分析师或数据科学家的人。两项研究都审查了使用图表、仪表板和表格等视觉辅助工具谈论数据的各个方面。一项研究是对当前做法和困难的回顾性研究,我们从中找出了三种涉及数据展示的情景。我们用类比来描述这些情景:小型协作小组会议类似于干扰会议,而更有条理的演讲则从同龄人之间的半简化性表演到对执行者或客户的正式回声。在我们的第二项研究中,我们把讨论的围绕三个设计探测器进行,每个都考察了展示对象的不同方面:对视觉化的逐步显示,直接关注和推进叙述、视觉化介绍的介绍控制,从我们当前视觉展示者的角度,与目前视觉分析者的视觉分析中隐藏了一种互动式的演示式分析。