Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization
Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang B\"uschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Alark Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa

TL;DR
This paper identifies 16 key challenges in remote and synchronous visualization collaboration, considering recent XR and AI advances, and organizes them into a research framework for future work.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive characterization of collaboration challenges around visualization, integrating expert perspectives and recent technological developments.
Findings
16 collaboration challenges identified
Organized around five core collaborative activities
Framework for future research directions
Abstract
We characterize 16 challenges faced by those investigating and developing remote and synchronous collaborative experiences around visualization. Our work reflects the perspectives and prior research efforts of an international group of 29 experts from across human-computer interaction and visualization sub-communities. The challenges are anchored around five collaborative activities that exhibit a centrality of visualization and multimodal communication. These activities include exploratory data analysis, creative ideation, visualization-rich presentations, joint decision making grounded in data, and real-time data monitoring. The challenges also reflect the changing dynamics of these activities in the face of recent advances in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI). As an organizing scheme for future research at the intersection of visualization and computer-supported…
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TopicsData Visualization and Analytics · Interactive and Immersive Displays · Usability and User Interface Design
