arXiv:2508.07390cs.HCcs.AI2025-08中稿 · IEEE VIS 2025被引 4

Urbanite让城市分析更易用,通过数据流框架实现人与AI的意图对齐。

Urbanite: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Human-AI Interactive Alignment in Urban Visual Analytics

  • 基于数据流模型,支持用户在多层级上表达分析意图。
  • 实测验证可提升城市专家与AI协作效率,减少理解偏差。
  • 适合缺乏技术背景的城市研究者使用,强调可解释性与操作溯源。

随着城市数据日益丰富和复杂社会问题增多,视觉分析已成为挖掘现实问题洞察的关键手段。然而,此类分析过程高度复杂且迭代性强,需跨领域专业知识。管理多样数据集、提炼复杂工作流、整合多种分析方法构成高门槛,尤其对不熟悉数据管理、机器学习和可视化技术的研究人员和城市专家而言。大语言模型的发展为降低系统构建门槛提供了可能,使用户能以意图而非精确计算操作进行交互。但这一从显式操作转向意图驱动的转变,带来了设计与开发过程中意图对齐的挑战。若无有效机制,用户意图、系统行为与分析结果之间可能出现偏差。为此,我们提出Urbanite,一种面向城市视觉分析中人-智能协作的框架。Urbanite采用数据流模型,允许用户在多个层次指定意图,从而在城市分析的设计、执行与评估阶段实现交互式对齐。基于对挑战的调研,Urbanite集成可解释性支持、多粒度任务定义(数据流、节点、参数)以及交互溯源功能。通过与城市专家合作构建的使用场景,验证了其有效性。Urbanite项目地址:https://urbantk.org/urbanite。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

With the growing availability of urban data and the increasing complexity of societal challenges, visual analytics has become essential for deriving insights into pressing real-world problems. However, analyzing such data is inherently complex and iterative, requiring expertise across multiple domains. The need to manage diverse datasets, distill intricate workflows, and integrate various analytical methods presents a high barrier to entry, especially for researchers and urban experts who lack proficiency in data management, machine learning, and visualization. Advancements in large language models offer a promising solution to lower the barriers to the construction of analytics systems by enabling users to specify intent rather than define precise computational operations. However, this shift from explicit operations to intent-based interaction introduces challenges in ensuring alignment throughout the design and development process. Without proper mechanisms, gaps can emerge between user intent, system behavior, and analytical outcomes. To address these challenges, we propose Urbanite, a framework for human-AI collaboration in urban visual analytics. Urbanite leverages a dataflow-based model that allows users to specify intent at multiple scopes, enabling interactive alignment across the specification, process, and evaluation stages of urban analytics. Based on findings from a survey to uncover challenges, Urbanite incorporates features to facilitate explainability, multi-resolution definition of tasks across dataflows, nodes, and parameters, while supporting the provenance of interactions. We demonstrate Urbanite's effectiveness through usage scenarios created in collaboration with urban experts. Urbanite is available at https://urbantk.org/urbanite.

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