Can Computers Master the Art of Communication?: A Focus on Visual Analytics

Visual analytics seeks to conduct a discourse with the user through images, to stimulate curiosity and a penchant to decipher the unknown. The computer supports the user in this interactive analytical reasoning, constructing a formal model of the given data, with the end product being formatted knowledge constituting insight. Computers, through visualization, have access to a rich repertoire of communication patterns. Although more research is necessary until a computer can truly master the art of communication, we believe that the growing ease of online user studies will greatly facilitate the training required.