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Living Dashboards: Automatically Self-Updating Visualization Dashboards

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Visualization dashboards are widely used interactive tools, but a disconnect exists between the dynamic data they display and their static structure. End-users cannot modify the dashboard to answer new questions. We introduce Living Dashboards, whose views are born, wither, revive, and die in response to how they are used. Rather than requiring manual reconfiguration, a living dashboard observes interaction and natural-language queries to autonomously wither neglected views and revive those used again. More consequential decisions, such as adding or retiring views, are deferred to the user. We formalize the concept as a four-dimensional design space and implement it in Living Dashboard, a web-based prototype. We evaluate it in an exploratory between-subjects study (N = 12) against an AI-supported baseline on analytical tasks. Living Dashboard participants answered more tasks correctly, reported lower workload, and rated the system higher on usability, though the two conditions differed in more than adaptive behavior alone.

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Mingyu An, Heyon Jeon, Sungbok Shin, Jinwook Seo, Eduard Gröller, Niklas Elmqvist, Vaishali Dhanoa. 2026-10-06. Living Dashboards: Automatically Self-Updating Visualization Dashboards. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08393

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