Journal article
DashGuide: Authoring Interactive Dashboard Tours for Guiding Dashboard Users
Computer graphics forum, Vol.44(3), e70107
06/2025
DOI: 10.1111/cgf.70107
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Abstract
Dashboard guidance helps dashboard users better navigate interactive features, understand the underlying data, and assess insights they can potentially extract from dashboards. However, authoring dashboard guidance is a time consuming task, and embedding guidance into dashboards for effective delivery is difficult to realize. In this work, we contribute DashGuide, a framework and system to support the creation of interactive dashboard guidance with minimal authoring input. Given a dashboard and a communication goal, DashGuide captures a sequence of author-performed interactions to generate guidance materials delivered as playable step-by-step overlays, a.k.a., dashboard tours. Authors can further edit and refine individual tour steps while receiving generative assistance. We also contribute findings from a formative assessment with 9 dashboard creators, which helped inform the design of DashGuide; and findings from an evaluation of DashGuide with 12 dashboard creators, suggesting it provides an improved authoring experience that balances efficiency, expressiveness, and creative freedom.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- DashGuide: Authoring Interactive Dashboard Tours for Guiding Dashboard Users
- Creators
- N. Hoque - Univ Iowa, Dept Comp Sci, Iowa, IA 52242 USAN. Sultanum - Tableau Software
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Computer graphics forum, Vol.44(3), e70107
- DOI
- 10.1111/cgf.70107
- ISSN
- 0167-7055
- eISSN
- 1467-8659
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 05/21/2025
- Date published
- 06/2025
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984826428302771
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