@inproceedings{KauerJoglekarRedietal., author = {Kauer, Tobias and Joglekar, Sagar and Redi, Miriam and Aiello, Luca Maria and Quercia, Daniele}, title = {Mapping and Visualizing Deep-Learning Urban Beautification}, series = {IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications}, volume = {38}, booktitle = {IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications}, number = {5}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, address = {New York}, organization = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, issn = {1558-1756}, doi = {10.1109/MCG.2018.053491732}, pages = {70 -- 83}, abstract = {Information visualization has great potential to make sense of the increasing amount of data generated by complex machine-learning algorithms. We design a set of visualizations for a new deep-learning algorithm called FaceLift (goodcitylife.org/facelift). This algorithm is able to generate a beautified version of a given urban image (such as from Google Street View), and our visualizations compare pairs of original and beautified images. With those visualizations, we aim at helping practitioners understand what happened during the algorithmic beautification without requiring them to be machine-learning experts. We evaluate the effectiveness of our visualizations to do just that with a survey among practitioners. From the survey results, we derive general design guidelines on how information visualization makes complex machine-learning algorithms more understandable to a general audience.}, subject = {Visualisierung}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KauerRidleyDoerketal., author = {Kauer, Tobias and Ridley, Arran and D{\"o}rk, Marian and Bach, Benjamin}, title = {The Public Life of Data}, series = {CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)}, volume = {2021}, booktitle = {CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, doi = {10.1145/3411764.3445720}, pages = {1 -- 12}, abstract = {This research investigates how people engage with data visualizations when commenting on the social platform Reddit. There has been considerable research on collaborative sensemaking with visualizations and the personal relation of people with data. Yet, little is known about how public audiences without specific expertise and shared incentives openly express their thoughts, feelings, and insights in response to data visualizations. Motivated by the extensive social exchange around visualizations in online communities, this research examines characteristics and motivations of people's reactions to posts featuring visualizations. Following a Grounded Theory approach, we study 475 reactions from the /r/dataisbeautiful community, identify ten distinguishable reaction types, and consider their contribution to the discourse. A follow-up survey with 168 Reddit users clarified their intentions to react. Our results help understand the role of personal perspectives on data and inform future interfaces that integrate audience reactions into visualizations to foster a public discourse about data.}, subject = {Visualisierung}, language = {en} }