EuroVA 2024 Keynote
I was honored to be invited to give the keynote at EuroVA 2024, which was co-located with EuroVis 2024 in Odense, Denmark, this year. The talk was titled “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Visualization for Human-Centered AI Tools”. Here is the abstract:
Human-centered AI (HCAI), rather than replacing the human, puts the human user in the driver’s seat of so-called HCAI tools: interactive software tools that amplify, augment, empower, and enhance human performance using the new generation of AI models. In this talk, I will discuss how interactive visualization and visual analytics can be a key enabling technology for creating such HCAI tools in practice. Visualization has already been shown to be a fundamental component in explainable AI models, and coupling this with data-driven, semantic, and integrated interaction feedback loops will enable a human-centered model for integrating AI models in the loop with human users. I will present several examples of our past and current work on such HCAI tools, including for creative writing, visual and UX design, and computational notebooks. I will then draw parallels between these tools to suggest common themes on how interactive visualization and visual analytics can support the design of future HCAI tools.
These ideas have been reflected in a recent arXiV paper.