Davidson Kylie, Lisle Lee, Tahmid Ibrahim A, Whitley Kirsten, North Chris, Bowman Doug A
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2025 Sep;31(9):5364-5378. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3444594.
Existing research on sensemaking in immersive analytics systems primarily focuses on understanding how users complete analysis within these systems with quantitative and qualitative datasets. However, these user studies mainly concentrate on understanding analysis styles and methodologies from a predominantly novice user study population. While this approach provides excellent initial insights into what users may do within IA systems, it fails to address how professionals may utilize an immersive analytic system for analysis tasks. In our work, we build upon an existing immersive analytics concept - "Immersive Space to Think" to understand how professional user populations differ from novice users in immersive analytic system usage. We conducted a user study with 11 professional intelligence analysts who completed three analysis sessions each. Using our results from this study, we provide deep analysis into how professional users complete sensemaking within immersive analytic systems, compare our findings to previously published findings with a novice user population, and provide insights into how to develop better IA systems to support the professional analyst's strategies within these systems.
现有的关于沉浸式分析系统中意义构建的研究主要集中在理解用户如何使用定量和定性数据集在这些系统中完成分析。然而，这些用户研究主要集中在从以新手用户为主的研究群体中理解分析风格和方法。虽然这种方法为用户在沉浸式分析系统中可能做的事情提供了很好的初步见解，但它没有解决专业人员如何利用沉浸式分析系统来完成分析任务的问题。在我们的工作中，我们基于现有的沉浸式分析概念——“沉浸式思考空间”，来理解专业用户群体在沉浸式分析系统使用方面与新手用户有何不同。我们对11名专业情报分析师进行了一项用户研究，他们每人完成了三个分析环节。利用这项研究的结果，我们深入分析了专业用户如何在沉浸式分析系统中完成意义构建，将我们的发现与之前针对新手用户群体发表的发现进行比较，并就如何开发更好的沉浸式分析系统以支持专业分析师在这些系统中的策略提供见解。
