A Survey of Visual Analytics for AI-informed Data-driven Decision Making

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey of Visual Analytics for AI-informed Data-driven Decision 
Making"

by

Mr. Rui SHENG


Abstract:

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in developing and applying 
artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to analyze and process big data for 
decision making. However, several problems of using AI during the decision 
making process have emerged. For example, these technologies usually lack 
interpretability and cannot convey proper uncertainties to users. To address 
those problems, many visual analytics approaches have been proposed to enhance 
humans’ understanding and exploration of AI. We build our survey upon 44 papers 
collected from the main conferences and journals in data visualization and 
human-computer interaction. In this survey, we systematically study how visual 
analytics can help humans use data-driven AI technologies to make decisions. We 
target the visual analytics systems that can help users to use AI technologies 
in evaluating and selecting decision alternatives. This survey is organized 
around the relationships among decision making, AI, and visual analytics. 
First, we summarize six challenges that decision makers might face when 
evaluating and selecting different alternatives. Then, we reveal how AI works 
in these scenarios and what challenges AI will bring. Finally, we propose seven 
tasks of visual analytics to address the problems brought by AI during the 
decision making process. Based on the taxonomy, we discuss several future 
opportunities for further exploration of visual analytics for AI-informed 
data-driven decision making.


Date:  			Thursday, 13 October 2022

Time:                  	3:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:			Room 5501
 			lifts 25/26

Zoom Meeting: 
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/98572900727?pwd=VTJGOTFOODNTNWt4dHMyOTdWayttQT09

Committee Members:	Prof. Huamin Qu (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Minhao Cheng (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Dan Xu
 			Dr. Yi Chen (IEDA)
 			Dr. Mingming Fan (ISD)


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