A State Transition Approach to Understanding Users ’ Interactions

Figure 1: Overview of InteractionViz. It consists of two windows as a Relation Window (a) and a Transition Window (b). The Relation Window consists of multiple coordinated views to show the relationships among keywords, accounts, and transactions. Experts ’ findings on transactions are represented in the Relation Window and their overall semantic-level interactions (i.e. keywords, accounts, and transactions) are displayed in the Transition Window by following a state transition approach. Understanding users ’ interactions is considered as one of the important research topics in visual analytics. Although numerous empirical user studies have been performed to understand a user’s interaction, a limited study has been successful in connecting the user’s interaction to his/her reasoning. In this paper, we present an approach of understanding experts ’ interactive analysis by connecting their interactions to conclusions (i.e. findings) through a state transition approach.