Computer support for collaborative data analysis

Harboe, Gunnar; Minke, Jonas; Ilea, Ioana; Huang, Elaine M.

doi:10.1145/2145204.2145379

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“…Koh and Su [19] created an affinity diagram authoring environment that provides an infinitely large workspace to post and organize notes, dynamic group layout and repositioning, meaningful zoom levels for navigation (i.e., to fit note, group of notes or selection area), ways to save, restore and export diagrams (JPEG), as well as ways to search for notes and groups (i.e., by text matching and related words). The main disadvantages of these tools include a lack of support for collaboration (i.e., single user) and having to do things in a certain structured way [10].…”

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“…We have also experimented with using different digital note types in our evaluations of prototypes A to E (T able 1). First, digital affinity notes are typed on person al computers, then printed on paper, and each note is individually cut with scissors [10] (Fig. 1c).…”

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“…On the other hand, shifting panels around late into the process to define a hierarchy can have a detrimental effect. Social and spatial awareness of the affinity diagram is an important part of building a cognitive model of the data [4], [10], [16]. Moving parts of the affinity wall can create confusion and lead to a waste of time when people are trying to find where to place a given note.…”

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Using Affinity Diagrams to Evaluate Interactive Prototypes

Lucero

2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Affinity diagramming is a technique used to externalize, make sense of, and organize large amounts of unstructured, far-ranging, and seemingly dissimilar qualitative data. HCI and interaction design practitioners have adopted and used affinity diagrams for different purposes. This paper discusses our particular use of affinity diagramming in prototype evaluations. We reflect on a decade's experience using affinity diagramming across a number of projects, both in industry and academia. Our affinity diagramming process in interaction design has been tailored and consists of four stages: creating notes, clustering notes, walking the wall, and documentation. We draw examples from eight projects to illustrate our particular practices along these four stages, as well as to ground the discussion.

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Using Affinity Diagrams to Evaluate Interactive Prototypes

Lucero

2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…To help inform early concepts and to guide further study, informal interviews were held with seven participants about their affinity diagramming practices and experiences [6]. I later conducted semi-structured interviews with fourteen participants.…”

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Understanding and augmenting a paper arrangement-based method

Harboe

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication

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I investigate the practices of affinity diagramming, a method for qualitative data analysis and idea generation, and the factors that lead HCI researchers and practitioners to usually perform it on paper rather than on digital devices. Based on my findings, I propose that Ubicomp technology can be used to create an implicit interaction system that allows users to preserve their preferred practices, while offering the benefits of a digital system. Initial prototypes have been built; a more complete prototype system and evaluation of the solution remain to be completed.

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“…User research usually produces large amounts of data, which can be difficult to integrate into actionable design insights [3,21]. Paper-based affinity diagramming provides a tangible method of organizing observations and interview results according to semantic similarity [2,9,12,16]. Usually, this is a team-based activity with the goal to "make sense out of the data" [21,29].…”

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Supporting the synthesis of information in design teams

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Meinel

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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User-centered designers often seek to synthesize data from user research into insights and a shared point of view among team members. This paper explores the synthesis process and opportunities for providing computational support. First, we present interviews with novice and expert designers on the common practices and challenges of synthesis. Based on these interviews, we developed digital whiteboard software support for sorting individual segments of user research. The system separates out individual and group activity and helps the team externalize and synthesize their different views of the data. Through a case study, we explore two computer-supported approaches: a structured condition that externalizes the different perspectives on the data of each team member and an unstructured condition that allows each member to organize data into clusters. Novice designers tended to prefer the structured synthesis process, while more experienced designers preferred to freely arrange information segments and create clusters on their own. We provide implications for design education and support tools for user research synthesis.

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Computer support for collaborative data analysis

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Using Affinity Diagrams to Evaluate Interactive Prototypes

Using Affinity Diagrams to Evaluate Interactive Prototypes

Understanding and augmenting a paper arrangement-based method

Supporting the synthesis of information in design teams

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