Our paper on multisession sensemaking in IST, “Exploring the Evolution of Sensemaking Strategies in Immersive Space to Think” has been published in TVCG! Many thanks to the lead author, Kylie Davidson, for all her work on this study. This work looked at how participants used IST to understand a dataset over three separate sessions. A preprint of our paper can be accessed here and the abstract follows:
Existing research on immersive analytics to support the sensemaking process focuses on single-session sensemaking tasks. However, in the wild, sensemaking can take days or months to complete. In order to understand the full benefits of immersive analytic systems, we need to understand how immersive analytic systems provide flexibility for the dynamic nature of the sensemaking process. In our work, we build upon an existing immersive analytic system – Immersive Space to Think, to evaluate how immersive analytic systems can support sensemaking tasks over time. We conducted a user study with eight participants with three separate analysis sessions each. We found significant differences between analysis strategies between sessions one, two, and three, which suggest that immersive space to think can benefit analysts during multiple stages in the sensemaking process.