VAST 2006 Contest ¿ A Tale of Alderwood

Grinstein, Georges; O'Connell, Theresa; Laskowski, Sharon J.; Plaisant, Catherine; Scholtz, Jean; Whiting, Mark

doi:10.1109/vast.2006.261420

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“…It is extremely difficult to obtain professional intelligence analysts for real-life intelligence analysis scenarios; therefore, we followed the procedures used by the VAST 2006 Challenge [19], which provides a baseline task that closely models an analysis scenario, but can be carried out by nonanalysts. We describe the task further below.…”

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Co-Located Collaborative Visual Analytics around a Tabletop Display

Isenberg

Fisher

Paul

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IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Abstract-Co-located collaboration can be extremely valuable during complex visual analytics tasks. We present an exploratory study of a system designed to support collaborative visual analysis tasks on a digital tabletop display. Fifteen participant pairs employed Cambiera, a visual analytics system, to solve a problem involving 240 digital documents. Our analysis, supported by observations, system logs, questionnaires, and interview data, explores how pairs approached the problem around the table. We contribute a unique, rich understanding of how users worked together around the table and identify eight types of collaboration styles that can be used to identify how closely people work together while problem solving. We show how the closeness of teams' collaboration and communication influenced how they performed on the task overall. We further discuss the role of the tabletop for visual analytics tasks and derive design implications for future co-located collaborative tabletop problem solving systems.

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“…We based our experiment around the VAST 2006 Challenge, code-named "Stegosaurus" [19], a scenario that entails finding a hidden weapons-smuggling plot. Stegosaurus was developed by the National Visual Analytics Center at Pacific National Labs.…”

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Co-Located Collaborative Visual Analytics around a Tabletop Display

Isenberg

Fisher

Paul

et al. 2012

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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108

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“…A video of each team's session was made available to them, but feedback indicated that these were not used. For more information about the VAST 2006 contest, see [5].…”

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AbstractIn this paper the authors describe the Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium contests run in 2006and the VAST 2008and 2009 challenges. These contests were designed to provide researchers with a better understanding of the tasks and data that face potential end users.

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Advancing User-Centered Evaluation of Visual Analytic Environments through Contests

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Grinstein

Plaisant

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Information Visualization

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In this paper the authors describe the Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium contests run in 2006and the VAST 2008and 2009 challenges. These contests were designed to provide researchers with a better understanding of the tasks and data that face potential end users. Access to these end users is limited due to time constraints and the classified nature of the tasks and data. In that respect, the contests serve as an intermediary, with the metrics and feedback serving as measures of utility to the end users. The authors summarize the lessons learned and the future directions for VAST Challenges.

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“…The first VAST Challenge was actually billed as the 2006 VAST Contest [6]. It consisted of a scenario, tasks, and data containing heterogeneous information (news stories with images and maps, a voter registry and a phone call log in Excel.)…”

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A reflection on seven years of the VAST challenge

Scholtz

Whiting

Plaisant

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 2012 BELIV Workshop: Beyond Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization

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We describe the evolution of the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge from its origin in 2006 to present (2012).The VAST Challenge has provided an opportunity for visual analytics researchers to test their innovative thoughts on approaching problems in a wide range of subject domains against realistic datasets and problem scenarios. Over time, the Challenge has changed to correspond to the needs of researchers and users. We describe those changes and the impacts they have had on topics selected, data and questions offered, submissions received, and the Challenge format.

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VAST 2006 Contest ¿ A Tale of Alderwood

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Co-Located Collaborative Visual Analytics around a Tabletop Display

Co-Located Collaborative Visual Analytics around a Tabletop Display

Advancing User-Centered Evaluation of Visual Analytic Environments through Contests

A reflection on seven years of the VAST challenge

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