Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization
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 cooperative work, we align the challenges with a sequence of four sets of research and development activities: technological choices, social factors, AI assistance, and evaluation.
Authors
- Bektur Ryskeldiev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0325-5741)
- Hideaki Kuzuoka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1252-7814)
- Arnaud Prouzeau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3800-5870)
- Sheelagh Carpendale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-9780)
- David Saffo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9515-048X)
- Harald Reiterer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8528-8928)
- Wolfgang Büschel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3548-723X)
- Andrew Cunningham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2536-3011)
- Christophe Hurter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4318-6717)
- Brian A. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2540-0839)
- Alark Joshi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-8075)
- Ryo Suzuki
- Jonathan Schwabish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3992-6033)
- Lyn Bartram (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7302-7365)
- Chen Zhu-Tian
- Matthew Brehmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5524-2291)
- Yalong Yang
- Samuel Huron
- Mahmood Jasim
- Christophe Hurter
- Bongshin Lee
- Jian Zhao
- Yasuyuki Sumi
- Masahiko Itoh
- Lyn Bartram
- Matthew Brehmer
- Arnaud Prouzeau
- Takayuki Itoh
- Anthony Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4293-4082)
- Gabriela Molina León
- Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
- Alark Joshi
- Maxime Cordeil
- Tim Dwyer
Institutions
- University of Stuttgart (DE)
- École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (FR)
- Louisiana State University (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- JPMorgan Chase & Co (United States) (US)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- Hokkaido Information University (JP)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- University of South Australia (AU)
- Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (FR)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- Urban Institute (US)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- University of Konstanz (DE)
- Yonsei University (KR)
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Ochanomizu University (JP)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Twin Cities Orthopedics (US)
- Monash University (AU)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology (JP)
- University of San Francisco (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- Singapore Management University (SG)
- Future University Hakodate (JP)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2026-04-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791117
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00