AI 中文总结
本文通过对11名专业可视化从业者的三阶段定性语料库分析，提出从业者通过临时局部行动将可视化设计中未解决的情境转化为可付诸行动的状态，揭示了情境化行动等在专业实践中的交织关系及设计活动的预先限制。
AI 中文摘要
可视化设计通常在未解决的条件下进行——目标会发生转变，数据仍为临时的，利益相关者的需求不断演变，同时可能存在多种可行方向。现有的可视化框架有助于组织设计工作并阐明主要决策，但对于从业者在明确前进路径之前如何开展工作，提供的解释有限。我们对先前收集的包含11名专业可视化从业者的三阶段定性语料库进行了事件层面的分析，考察了问题、表征目标或可行方向仍未确定的情境。我们发现，从业者通过临时的局部行动使此类情境变得可付诸行动。这些行动揭示了模式、差异和解释可能性；明确了什么是可处理的、可行的或值得追求的；有时还会重新调整工作本身。分析表明，情境化行动、专业判断和明确的设计推理在专业实践中相互交织。它还确定了设计活动预先可被完全指定的实际限制：当下一步行动的含义取决于情境对行动的反应所揭示的内容时，规定性决策结构无法完全决定设计的进程。本文对可视化实践中的情境性进行了实证阐述，并解释了局部行动如何使未完成的工作具有足够的可解释性，从而支撑重要的设计决策。
英文摘要
Visualization design often proceeds under unresolved conditions---goals shift, data remain provisional, stakeholder needs evolve, and several plausible directions may remain available at once. Existing visualization frameworks help organize design work and articulate major decisions, yet offer limited explanation of how practitioners proceed before a path forward has become clear. Drawing on an episode-level analysis of a previously collected three-phase qualitative corpus involving eleven expert visualization practitioners, we examine situations in which the problem, representational target, or viable direction remained unsettled. We find that practitioners make such situations actionable through provisional local moves. These moves reveal patterns, distinctions, and interpretive possibilities; clarify what is tractable, viable, or worth pursuing; and sometimes reorient the work itself. The analysis shows that situated action, professional judgment, and explicit design reasoning are intertwined in expert practice. It also identifies a practical limit on how fully design activity can be specified in advance. When the meaning of the next move depends on what a situation reveals in response to action, prescriptive decision structures cannot fully determine the course of design. The paper contributes an empirical account of situatedness in visualization practice and explains how local action makes unresolved work interpretable enough for consequential design decisions.
CommentsTo be presented at IEEE VIS 2026 and published in IEEE TVCG in 2027
