arXiv:2607.04501cs.HCcs.LG2026-07

通过用户操作日志识别分析意图,让系统主动辅助数据探索。

From Interaction to Intent: Inferring User Objectives from Provenance Logs

论文配图:From Interaction to Intent: Inferring User Objectives from Provenance Logs
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 用细粒度鼠标操作记录分析用户行为模式。
  • 不同分析目标对应明显不同的交互特征,准确率超85%。
  • 结合上下文信息可跨数据集通用,适合交互式分析系统设计者。

自动从用户交互历史中推断分析意图,有助于交互式AI系统在探索性数据分析中主动提供协助。本文研究了溯源日志(provenance logs)——详细记录用户交互序列与时间的完整日志——是否可用于分类视觉探索任务中的用户意图。我们记录参与者在多种多维数据投影上完成各类分析任务时的细粒度鼠标交互数据。结果发现,不同分析目标对应显著不同的行为特征:例如,聚焦特定聚类的用户与寻找异常值的用户表现出明显差异的交互模式。更重要的是,将上下文信息嵌入交互溯源数据后,分类器能有效预测用户目标,并在不同数据集和投影方法间实现泛化。这些发现表明,低层交互数据可作为连接底层操作与高层分析意图的实用桥梁,推动意图感知型可视化系统的发展。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The ability to automatically infer analytic intent from user interaction histories could enable interactive AI systems to proactively assist users during exploratory data analysis. In this paper, we examine whether provenance logs -- detailed records capturing sequences and timing of user interactions -- can be used to classify user intentions in visual exploration tasks. To investigate this, we record how participants interact with multiple multidimensional data projections across a range of analytic tasks, capturing fine-grained mouse interaction data throughout each session. We find that distinct behavioral signatures emerge across different analytic objectives. For instance, users examining properties of specific clusters exhibit markedly different interaction patterns compared to those searching for outliers. More importantly, we show that embedding contextual information into interaction provenance enables classifiers to predict user objectives that generalize across datasets and projection methods. These findings demonstrate that low-level interaction data can serve as a practical bridge to high-level analytic intent, contributing to the development of intent-aware visualization systems.

数据分析用户意图交互日志可视化

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