Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization. Brehmer, M., Cordeil, M., Hurter, C., Itoh, T., Büschel, W.,
Jasim, M., Prouzeau, A., Saffo, D., Bartram, L., Carpendale, S. and Zhu-Tian, C. and Others.
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026.
We characterize 16 challenges faced by those investigating and developing remote and synchronous collaborative experiences around visualization. Our work reflects the perspectives and prior research efforts of an international group of 29 experts from across human-computer interaction and visualization sub-communities. The challenges are anchored around five collaborative activities that exhibit a centrality of visualization and multimodal communication. These activities include exploratory data analysis, creative ideation, visualization-rich presentations, joint decision making grounded in data, and real-time data monitoring. The challenges also reflect the changing dynamics of these activities in the face of recent advances in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI). As an organizing scheme for future research at the intersection of visualization and computer-supported cooperative work, we align the challenges with a sequence of four sets of research and development activities: technological choices, social factors, AI assistance, and evaluation.
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/chi/BrehmerCHIBJPSB26,
author = {Matthew Brehmer and
Maxime Cordeil and
Christophe Hurter and
Takayuki Itoh and
Wolfgang B{\"{u}}schel and
Mahmood Jasim and
Arnaud Prouzeau and
David Saffo and
Lyn Bartram and
Sheelagh Carpendale and
Chen Zhu{-}Tian and
Andrew Cunningham and
Tim Dwyer and
Samuel Huron and
Masahiko Itoh and
Alark Joshi and
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa and
Hideaki Kuzuoka and
Bongshin Lee and
Gabriela Molina Le{\'{o}}n and
Harald Reiterer and
Bektur Ryskeldiev and
Jonathan Schwabish and
Brian A. Smith and
Yasuyuki Sumi and
Ryo Suzuki and
Anthony Tang and
Yalong Yang and
Jian Zhao},
editor = {Nuria Oliver and
David A. Shamma and
Heloisa Candello and
Pablo C{\'{e}}sar and
Pedro Lopes and
Alessandro Bozzon and
Thomas Kosch and
Vera Q. Liao and
Xiaojuan Ma and
Valentino Artizzu and
Fiona Draxler and
Gustavo L{\'{o}}pez and
Anke V. Reinschluessel and
Xin Tong and
Phoebe O. Toups Dugas},
title = {Challenges in Synchronous {\&} Remote Collaboration Around Visualization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 {CHI} Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems, {CHI} 2026, Barcelona, Spain, April 13-17, 2026},
pages = {1007:1--1007:17},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791117},
doi = {10.1145/3772318.3791117},
timestamp = {Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:17:18 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/chi/BrehmerCHIBJPSB26.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}