Federal investment in health information technology has incentivized the adoption of
electronic health record systems by physicians and health care organizations; the result has …

Advances in computer technology, patient monitoring systems, and electronic health record
systems have enabled rapid accumulation of patient data in electronic form (ie big data) …

The process of sensemaking involves foraging through and extracting information from large
sets of documents, and it can be a cognitively intensive task. A recent approach, the …

Investigators across many disciplines and organizations must sift through large collections of
text documents to understand and piece together information. Whether they are fighting …

Using visual analytic systems effectively may incur a steep learning curve for users,
especially for those who have little prior knowledge of either using the tool or accomplishing …

Data visualization and journalism are deeply connected. From early infographics to recent
data-driven storytelling, visualization has become an integrated part of contemporary …

Perceiving data can be challenging as the analysis goal is subjective. Storytelling
approaches try to address this challenge by focusing on the research problem of …

The investigation of how users make sense of the data provided by information systems is
very important for human computer interaction. In this context, understanding the interaction …

Automatic abstractive summary generation remains a significant open problem for natural
language processing. In this work, we develop a novel pipeline for Semantic Abstractive …

While the formal evaluation of systems in visual analytics is still relatively uncommon,
particularly rare are case studies of prolonged system use by domain analysts working with …