Integrating status and event phenomena in formal specifications of interactive systems
SIGSOFT '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Program visualization as a debugging tool for novices
CHI '93 INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Visual language theory: towards a human computer interaction perspective
Visual language theory
Building natural language generation systems
Building natural language generation systems
Usability Engineering
EWHCI '94 Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Describing complex charts in natural language: a caption generation system
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on natural language generation
Practical issues in automatic documentation generation
ANLC '94 Proceedings of the fourth conference on Applied natural language processing
A History Mechanism for Visual Data Mining
INFOVIS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Summarizing neonatal time series data
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
JHAVÉ: Supporting Algorithm Visualization
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
WADEIn II: a case for adaptive explanatory visualization
Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Improvise: a user interface for interactive construction of highly-coordinated visualizations
Improvise: a user interface for interactive construction of highly-coordinated visualizations
Voyagers and voyeurs: supporting asynchronous collaborative information visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Model and Framework for Visualization Exploration
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Automatic Generation of Prediction Questions during Program Visualization
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Provenance for Visualizations: Reproducibility and Beyond
Computing in Science and Engineering
Information Visualization - Special issue on visual analytics science and technology
Cross-Filtered Views for Multidimensional Visual Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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As visualization tools get more complicated, users often find it increasingly difficult to learn interaction sequences, recall past queries, and interpret visual states. We examine a query-to-question (Q2Q) supporting system that takes advantage of natural language generation (NLG) techniques to automatically translate and display query interactions as natural language questions. We focus on a symmetric pattern of multiple coordinated views, cross-filtered views, that involves only nominal/categorical data. We describe a study of the effects of pairing a visualization with a Q2Q interface on several aspects of usability. Q2Q produces considerable improvements in learnability, efficiency, and memorability of visualization in terms of speed and the length of interaction sequences that users follow, along with a modest decrease in error ratio. From a visual language perspective, we analyze how Q2Q speeds up users' comprehension of interaction, particularly when a visualization representation has deficiencies in illustrating hidden items or relationships.