Abstract : Synchronous data-rich conversations are commonplace within enterprise organizations, taking place at varying degrees of formality between stakeholders at different levels of data literacy. In these conversations, representations of data are used to analyze past decisions, inform future course of action, as well as persuade customers, investors, and executives.
However, it is difficult to conduct these conversations between remote stakeholders due to poor support for presenting data when video-conferencing, resulting in disappointing audience experiences. I also comment on future research directions and collaboration opportunities. My area of focus was to improve the ways by which people in enterprise organizations give presentations about data to their stakeholders, such as when analysts present the results of sales and marketing campaigns to product leadership, or when those in communication roles present earnings results to investors and executives.
The COVID pandemic narrowed this focus to the challenges associated with presenting data to remote audiences. We learned in an interview study with 18 enterprise knowledge workers Brehmer and Kosara, that neither slide presentation tools nor interactive business intelligence dashboard applications were appropriate for this activity; the former typically implied a tedious effort to create static presentation assets, precluding informal discussions about data, while the latter often gave audiences the impression that they were watching a software demonstration.
With either approach, audiences would often be disengaged or uncertain as to what details to attend to; moreover, both approaches implied screen-sharing content with a spatially-separated thumbnail speaker video e. Augmented Video Presentations. However, most employees of enterprise organizations do not have a large touchscreen display or a visual effects team at their disposal, particularly when working remotely.
What many enterprise employees do have is a webcam, so we investigated augmented video presentation techniques that composite webcam video with dynamic information displays, interactively controlled with pose recognition and hand-tracking provided by computer vision models e.
