Interactive Visualizations: Design, Technologies and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In the current era of information abundance, the ability to distill actionable knowledge from massive datasets is critical. Interactive visualizations offer a dynamic and intuitive avenue for researchers, analysts, and decision makers to navigate complex data landscapes. By merging data-driven narratives with user-driven exploration, interactive visualizations empower users to uncover patterns, trends, and correlations that might otherwise remain obscured. Moreover, these visualizations provide a scalable solution to the challenges of rendering and comprehending extensive datasets, enabling users to zoom in on specific areas of interest and thus enhance interpretability. While interactive visualizations hold immense promise, there is a significant gap in scientific literature within the domain. Challenges such as ensuring real-time responsiveness with intuitive interface design and establishing standardized practices need further exploration. We encourage submissions that address these gaps, present innovative design methodologies, and propose novel evaluation frameworks. Our Special Issue serves as a platform to catalyze research at the intersection of big data and interactive visualizations. By fostering discussions on effective techniques, novel approaches, and emerging trends, we aim to advance the capabilities of visual analytics domain and interactive visualizations specifically in extracting actionable insights in the era of big data. Researchers and practitioners are invited to contribute their original work to enrich our collective understanding and pave the way for a more informed and data-driven future.

Submission Guidelines:

Contributions should ideally address the existing gaps in literature and advance the field, such as challenges with innovative methodologies and solutions, comparative analysis, as well as practical applications. The scope of use cases encompasses a broad spectrum of domains as diverse as education (e.g., learning analytics dashboards), financial analysis, marketing and customer analytics, sports analytics, varied recommender systems for domains of agri-food (e.g., crop management, culinary, dietary, and healthy lifestyle), supply chain management, energy consumption and sustainability, transportation and traffic management, fraud pattern detection and law enforcement, climate and environmental monitoring, urban planning, smart cities with the Internet of Things (IoT), healthcare such as medical imaging, clinical data analysis, disease tracking, neuroscience, surgical planning and simulation, and beyond.

Each submission will undergo a peer-review process to ensure the highest standards of quality and relevance, thereby fostering a collection of contributions that significantly advance the field of interactive visualizations and their transformative impact across diverse domains.

Dr. Gayane Sedrakyan
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• interactive visualizations
• information visualization
• visual analytics
• scalable visualizations
• big data visualizations
• data visualizations
• novel visualizations techniques
• interactive data exploration
• dynamic visualizations
• collaborative visualizations
• text and document visualization
• visual analytics dashboards
• KPI visualizations
• interactive dashboards
• interactive charts and graphs
• interactive 3D visualizations
• data driven interaction
• responsive visualizations
• interactive visualization tools
• hybrid visualization approaches
• cognitive load in interactive visualizations
• engaging visualizations
• interactive data presentation
• adaptive visualization interfaces