Roles of notes in co-located collaborative visualization

This paper focuses on the significant role that note taking plays in collaborative data analysis within the business domain. The discussion of note taking is based on preliminary observations from a user study in which co-located teams of business users worked on collaborative visualization tasks using large interactive surfaces. We propose an initial categorization of note taking activities and propose a list of research questions that need to be discussed and investigated in order to better understand note taking process in the context of collaborative visualization and analysis activities.