Speaker: Maath Musleh
Abstract: Visual Analytics (VA) has emerged from the need to optimize decision making by involving human reasoning in sense making. The development of VA has been facilitated by significant technological advances in modern computer graphics and data processing capabilities. Involving humans in the loop aims to address high-risk scenarios where artificial intelligence (AI) automated approaches are insufficient. One active area of research with VA is the development of methods that enable the user to make efficient and effective decisions under high uncertainty.
Yet, the field of VA research has not fully understood how user attitude, namely trust and confidence, interplay in VA decision making under uncertainty. Properties of the user attitude play a crucial role in optimizing VA decision making, but they are challenging to externalize and evaluate. For instance, user confidence in their decision emerges as an important indicator of effectiveness when the correctness of the decision cannot be measured. In this dissertation, we explore the use of guidance techniques to address uncertainties in VA decision making, focusing on scenarios where the correctness of decisions cannot be definitively established.
