DashGuide: Authoring Interactive Dashboard Tours for Guiding Dashboard Users
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2025
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Dashboard guidance helps dashboard users better navigate interactive features, understand the underlying data, and assess insights they can potentially extract from dashboards. However, authoring dashboard guidance is a time consuming task, and embedding guidance into dashboards for effective delivery is difficult to realize. In this work, we contribute DASHGUIDE, a framework and system to support the creation of interactive dashboard guidance with minimal authoring input. Given a dashboard and a communication goal, DASHGUIDE captures a sequence of author-performed interactions to generate guidance materials delivered as playable step-by-step overlays, a.k.a., dashboard tours. Authors can further edit and refine individual tour steps while receiving generative assistance. We also contribute findings from a formative assessment with 9 dashboard creators, which helped inform the design of DASHGUIDE; and findings from an evaluation of DASHGUIDE with 12 dashboard creators, suggesting it provides an improved authoring experience that balances efficiency, expressiveness, and creative freedom.
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CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing → Visualization systems and tools
@article{10.1111:cgf.70107,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{DashGuide: Authoring Interactive Dashboard Tours for Guiding Dashboard Users}},
author = {Hoque, Naimul and Sultanum, Nicole},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.70107}
}