Leveraging deep contrastive learning for semantic interaction
The semantic interaction process seeks to elicit a user's mental model as they interact with and query visualizations during a sense-making activity. Semantic interaction enables the development of computational models that capture user intent and anticipate user actions. Deep learning is provi...
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Veröffentlicht in: | PeerJ. Computer science 2022-04, Vol.8, p.e925-e925, Article e925 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The semantic interaction process seeks to elicit a user's mental model as they interact with and query visualizations during a sense-making activity. Semantic interaction enables the development of computational models that capture user intent and anticipate user actions. Deep learning is proving to be highly effective for learning complex functions and is, therefore, a compelling tool for encoding a user's mental model. In this paper, we show that deep contrastive learning significantly enhances semantic interaction in visual analytics systems. Our approach does so by allowing users to explore alternative arrangements of their data while simultaneously training a parametric algorithm to learn their evolving mental model. As an example of the efficacy of our approach, we deployed our model in Z-Explorer, a visual analytics extension to the widely used Zotero document management system. The user study demonstrates that this flexible approach effectively captures users' mental data models without explicit hyperparameter tuning or even requiring prior machine learning expertise. |
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ISSN: | 2376-5992 2376-5992 |
DOI: | 10.7717/peerj-cs.925 |