Refereed Journal & Conference Publications

• Priyanka Nanayakkara, Hyeok Kim,  Yifan Wu,  Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, Gerome Miklau, Jessica Hullman, “Measure-Observe-Remeasure: An Interactive Paradigm for Differentially-Private Exploratory Analysis,” IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 12 pages, 2024 [to appear]

• Zachary While, Tanja Blaschek, Yujie Gong, Petra Isenberg, Ali Sarvghad, “Glanceable Data Visualizations for Older Adults: Establishing Thresholds and Examining Disparities Between Age Groups,” ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 26 pages, 2024. [to appear]
  
• Honorable Mention Award |Paper

• Zachary While, Jordan Crouser, Ali Sarvghad, “GerontoVis: Data Visualization at the Confluence of Aging,” Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 14 pages, 2024. [to appear]

 

• Liudas Panavas, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Jane Damas, Johnathan Ullman, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, Cody Dunne, “Investigating the Visual Utility of Differentially Private Scatterplots,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12 pages, 2023.
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• Zhiqiu Jiang, Mashrur Rashik, Kunjal Panchal, Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, Pari Riahi, Fei Erika, and Narges Mahyar, “CommunityBots: Building and Evaluating a Community of Chatbots for Gathering Public Input,” ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 28 pages, 2023.
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•  Erica Dewitt, Zhiqiu Jiang, Mashrur Rashik, Kunjal Panchal, Mahmood Jasim, Fey Thurber, Cami Quinteros, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, Pari Riahi, “Mapping Instability: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town,” Environments by Design, AMPS proceeding Series, 12 pages, 2022.
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•  Eric PS Baumer, Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, “Of Course it’s Political! A Critical Inquiry into Underemphasized Dimensions in Civic Text Visualization”, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 14 pages, 2022.
  Best Paper Award |Paper
  

• Cindy Xiong, Ali Sarvghad, Cagatay Demirlap, Jake M. Hofman, Deniel G. Goldstien, “Investigating Perceptual Biases in Icon Arrays”, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 12 pages, 2022.
  Honorable Mention Award |Paper
  

• Mahmood Jasim, Christopher Collins, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, “Supporting Serendipitous Discovery and Balanced Analysis of Unstructured Text with Interaction-Driven Metrics and Bias-Mitigating Suggestions,” ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 31 pages, 2022.
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• Ali Sarvghad, Rolando Franqui-Nadal, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Ria Chawla, Narges Mahyar, “Scientometric Analysis of Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Gender Trends in 30 Years of IEEE VIS Publications”, IEEE Transaction of Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12 pages, 2022.
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• Mahmood Jasim, Enamul Hoque, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, “CommunityPulse: Facilitating Community Input Analysis by Surfacing Hidden Insights, Reflections, and Priorities,” ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 26 pages, 2021.
  Honorable Mention Award |Paper
  

• Mahmood Jasim, Pooya Khaloo, Somin Wadhwa, Amy X. Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, “CommunityClick: Capturing and Reporting Community Feedback from Town Halls to Improve Inclusivity,” ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 31 pages, 2020.
  Best Paper Award |Paper
  

•  Dan Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, Gerome Miklau. “Investigating Visual Analysis of Differentially Private Data.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 27, 10 pages, 2020.
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•  Ali Sarvghad, Bahador Saket, Alex Endert, Nadir Weibel. “Embedded merge & split: Visual adjustment of data grouping.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 9 pages, 2018.
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• Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, Narges Mahyar, “Visualizing Dimension Coverage to Support Exploratory Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 10 pages, 2016.
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•  Ali Sarvghad and Melanie Tory. “Exploiting analysis history to support collaborative data analysis.” Graphics Interface Conference (GI), 8 pages, 2015.
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• Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, Tyler Weeres. “Observations of record-keeping in co-located collaborative analysis.” In 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 9 pages. IEEE, 2013.
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•  Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory. “Note-taking in co-located collaborative visual analytics: Analysis of an observational study.” Information Visualization 11, no. 3: 190-204, 2012.
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•  Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, “A Closer Look at Note Taking in the Co-located Collaborative Visual Analytics Process,” IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST 2010), 9 pages, 2010.
  Top 4 Best VAST Papers |Paper
  

Refereed Workshop Papers

•  Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, “CommunityClick-Virtual: Multi-Modal Interactions for Enhancing Participation in Virtual Meetings”, 5 pages, Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) Workshop, in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2023.
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• Mahmood Jasim, Amy X. Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar. “Inclusivity in Town Halls: Challenges, Paradigm Shift, and Opportunities,” Civic Technologies Workshop, in conjunction with CSCW 2020, 5 pages, 2020.
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•  Ali Sarvghad, Sanjay Mehta, Davey Smith, Nadir Weibel. “Visualizing Completeness Uncertainty to Support Medical Data Exploration and Analysis,” Visual Analytics for Health Care Workshop (IEEE VIS`17 companion), 2017.
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• Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Tyler Weeres, and Melanie Tory. “CoSpaces: workspaces to support co-located collaborative visual analytics.” In Workshop on Data Exploration for Interactive Surfaces DEXIS 2011, 4 pages, 2011.
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•  Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, “Roles of Notes in Co-located Collaborative Visualization,” Workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces (CoVis 2009), 4 pages, Oct. 2009.
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•  Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, Melanie Tory, “History Tools for Collaborative Visualization,” Workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces (CoVis 2009), 4 pages, Oct. 2009.
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Refereed Abstract, Poster & Demo Papers

•  Mahmood Jasim, Pooya Khaloo, Somin Wadhwa, Amy X. Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar. “CommunityClick: Towards Improving Inclusivity in Town Halls”. In Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’20 Companion), ACM, pp. 37–41, 2020.
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•  Ali Sarvghad and Melanie Tory. “Exploiting history to reduce interaction costs in collaborative analysis.” IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 273-274, 2014.
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Other Publications: Magazines & Commentary Papers

• Iman Deznabi, Tamanna Motahar, Ali Sarvghad, Madelina Fiterau, Narges Mahyar, “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Academic Community: Results from a survey conducted at University of Massachusetts Amherst”, ACM Digital Government: Research and Practice 2.2, pp. 1-12, 2021.
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•  Narges Mahyar, Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, “Designing Technology for Sociotechnical Problems: Challenges & Considerations, IEEE Computer Graphics, and Applications,“ (Volume: 40, Issue: 6), pp. 76-87, 2020.
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Dissertation & Thesis

•  Ali Sarvghad, Tracking and Visualizing Dimension Space Coverage for Exploratory Data Analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Victoria, 2014.

• Ali Sarvghad, Dynamic display of text using lexical chains. MSC Thesis. University of Malaya, 2008.