This paper synthesizes challenges for synchronous and remote collaboration around visualization across five collaborative activities. Twenty-nine researchers identify technological, social, AI, and evaluation concerns and outline opportunities for future collaborative visualization systems.
Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Alark Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Gabriela Molina León, Harald Reiterer, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Jonathan Schwabish, Brian A. Smith, Yasuyuki Sumi, Ryo Suzuki, Anthony Tang, Yalong Yang, and Jian Zhao. 2026. Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791117
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