FluidViews: Adaptive Drag-and-Drop Token Filters for Heterogeneous Multi-View Visual Analytics (opens in new tab)

Interactive visual analytics workflows are often disrupted by rigid filter panels and context switches that break analysts' cognitive flow. We introduce FluidViews, a web-based framework that elevates filters to first-class, manipulable objects through two novel direct-manipulation interactions. Copy-as-Highlight enables users to duplicate any visual mark into a persistent highlight token for rapid, transient cross-view comparison, while Drag-as...