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Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization

Matthew Tobiasz, Petra Isenberg, and Sheelagh Carpendale. Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2009), 15(6), November-December, 2009.

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Abstract

Large multi-touch displays are expanding the possibilities of multiple-coordinated views by allowing multiple people to interact with data in concert or independently. We present Lark, a system that facilitates the coordination of interactions with information visualizations on shared digital workspaces. We focus on supporting this coordination according to four main criteria: scoped interaction, temporal flexibility, spatial flexibility, and changing collaboration styles. These are achieved by integrating a representation of the information visualization pipeline into the shared workspace, thus explicitly indicating coordination points on data, representation, presentation, and view levels. This integrated meta-visualization supports both the awareness of how views are linked and the freedom to work in concert or independently. Lark incorporates these four main criteria into a coherent visualization collaboration interaction environment by providing direct visual and algorithmic support for the coordination of data analysis actions over shared large displays.

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@ARTICLE { Tobiasz:2009:Lark,
AUTHOR = { Matthew Tobiasz, Petra Isenberg, and Sheelagh Carpendale },
TITLE = { Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization },
YEAR = { 2009 },
MONTH = { November-December },
JOURNAL = { IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2009) },
VOLUME = { 15 },
NUMBER = { 6 },
}