Towards Modeling AI-based User Empowerment for Visual Big Data Analysis.

User empowerment for information systems has the objective to increase the system usability and the users’ self-confidence. This can be achieved through offering additional information and adaptive user interfaces. Visual Big Data Analysis is an application domain that benefits from user empowerment since skilled personnel are rare and the infrastructure is expensive. The trending topic of AI is applied in industry and science to automate manual activities and to support human users. Based on the AI2VIS4BigData reference model, this work proposes an approach to utilize AI to empower users during their visual Big Data Analysis exploration journey. The proposal comprises a two step AI-based user empowerment concept for visual Big Data Analysis (insight extraction from Big Data and insight communication to end users) as well as a research roadmap.