@inproceedings{c576da4dc5364b96a0854b442eb48ffb,
title = "ExploroBOT: Rapid exploration with chart automation",
abstract = "General-purpose visualization tools are used by people with varying degrees of data literacy. Often the user is not a professional analyst or data scientist and uses the tool infrequently, to support an aspect of their job. This can present difficulties as the user's unfamiliarity with visualization practice and infrequent use of the tool can result in long processing time, inaccurate data representations or inappropriate visual encodings. To address this problem, we developed a visual analytics application called exploroBOT. The exploroBOT automatically generates visualizations and the exploration guidance path (an associated network of decision points, mapping nodes where visualizations change). These combined approaches enable users to explore visualizations based on a degree of {"}interestingness{"}. The user-driven approach draws on the browse/explore metaphor commonly applied in social media applications and is supported by guided navigation. In this paper we describe exploroBOT and present an evaluation of the tool.",
keywords = "Automatic chart generation, Data exploration, Intelligent visual interfaces, Visual analytics",
author = "John McAuley and Rohan Goel and Tamara Matthews",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2019 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.; 10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2019 - Part of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2019 ; Conference date: 25-02-2019 Through 27-02-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.5220/0007345202250232",
language = "English",
series = "VISIGRAPP 2019 - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications",
publisher = "SciTePress",
pages = "225--232",
editor = "Andreas Kerren and Christophe Hurter and Jose Braz",
booktitle = "VISIGRAPP 2019 - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications",
}