Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Interactive Visual Analysis of Human and Crowd Behaviors

The analysis of human behaviors has impacted many social and commercial domains. How could interactive visual analytic systems be used to further provide behavioral insights? This editorial introduction features emerging research trend related to this question. The four articles accepted for this special issue represent recent progress: they identify research challenges arising from analysis of human and crowd behaviors, and present novel methods in visual analysis to address those challenges and help make behavioral data more useful.