Intent-Gesture Relationships for Collaborative Information Visualization

In this study we look at the relationship between gestures and intents when pairs of participants are collaborating around a large display with a graph. We aimed to find out what gestures paired with which intents, which gestures participants would find suitable for intents, and how our findings could influence designing graphs for collaborative analysis. We studied 8 pairs of participants and found 10 frequent gestures and 11 frequent intents. An exploration of the relationship between gestures and intents found 15 frequent co-occurrences. We analyzed these findings and then proceeded to discuss design suggestions and future work in the field.