The value of good data visualization has already been shown in several scenarios. Still, it is not always easy to obtain it, as it depends on factors such as the dataset, the amount of data, task types, the user profile, the type of interaction, etc. To mitigate the challenges addressed, automated or semi-automated systems have been proposed, emphasizing rule-based/heuristic approaches and machine-learning models. However, many of these applications require specialized knowledge and present results (data visualizations) that are not flexible for customization. Papers have highlighted the ease of tools like ChatGPT in creating various tasks, including creating data charts. This facility, in addition to the intelligent computational model involved, is also due to the expressiveness used in the requests to execute the tasks by the users since these tools use Natural Language Interfaces. Despite adopting these tools overgrowing in different scenarios of society, studies on the best way to use them, integrate them into existing processes, or evaluative studies on their effectiveness or efficiency are still incipient. Thus, this paper will evaluate the workload for creating data visualization using ChatGPT 3.5. For assessment, the NASA Task Load Index (Nasa TLX) methodology was applied, and users with experience creating data visualization created two proposed scenarios. The preliminary results showed high temporal and mental demand, mainly due to the vocabulary used and the completeness of the user instructions. The average time to create and perform InfoVis tasks in two proposed evaluation scenarios was 33 and 44 minutes, and 14 queries were applied on average for both scenarios. The direct consequence was that the users have redone the requests and improved the instructions at each new iteration, and all users completed the proposed tasks.

In recent years, the physicalization area has expanded rapidly and has been utilized in numerous contexts, mostly in big open public areas or data-related places. Most data physicalizations have visual restrictions and no interaction. Hence, multiple technologies, including augmented reality (AR), have been applied to physical visualizations to address the above-mentioned issues. This research proposes dynamic data physicalization using AR virtual content (visual data items). The dynamic bar chart allows the configuration of numerical data to height, categorical data to color, and categorical data to the x-axis. The mobile augmented reality (MAR) application performs some Infovis tasks, such as settings, filters, details on demand, etc. A cloud server selects data, calculates visual elements or additional visualizations, calculates scales for physicalizing data, and enables the communication between the MAR application and dynamic physicalization. Lastly, dynamic and augmented data physicalization characteristics and scenarios are shown.

The process of creating physical data visualizations is not a trivial task. In general, it may require skills from the user in information visualization, tangible interaction, 3D modeling, fabrication of physical objects, etc. In addition, few works have presented computational support to the entire digital and physical rendering pipeline of data visualization, characterizing many steps of this process as manual. From this context, this work presents a process that facilitates the generation of physical data visualization. Besides that, It allows one to define which type of physical visualization to create, among passive, rearrangeable, and dynamic physicalization types. Finally, the pipelines for each physicalization type are presented, with scenarios including physical bar charts, stacked bar charts, and grouped bar charts.

The use of objects for generating virtual content is increasingly present in the daily life of computer user. This form of interaction, called tangible interfaces, generates ways of visualizing data in different ways, such as Augmented Reality, which with the help of a given marker can present the user with a specific content. Thus, this work aims to demonstrate a prototype, which through cards as tangible objects, create, manipulate and interact with visualization techniques. Presenting the architecture developed for the development of the prototype, as well as the interaction approach according to the tasks of InfoVis. The prototype also seeks to offer collaboration among users, diversifying and facilitating learning about concepts and InfoVis.