“From Invisible to Visible: Impacts of Metadata in Communicative Data Visualization” was accepted to TVCG 2022
Authors: Alyxander Burns, Christiana Lee, Thai On, Cindy Xiong, Evan Peck, Narges Mahyar
You can find the paper here.
Mashrur Rashik was awarded the Jim Gray Scholarship in Computer Science
Mashrur Rashik was awarded the Jim Gray Scholarship in Computer Science – Congrats Mashrur!
“Of Course it’s Political!” was awarded best paper at EuroVis 2022
Eric P. S. Baumer, Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, & Narges Mahyar’s paper “Of Course it’s Political! A Critical Inquiry into Underemphasized Dimensions in Civic Text Visualization.” was awarded best paper at EuroVis 2022. You can find the full paper here. Congratulations to all of the authors!
CommunityClick-Virtual used by Amherst community during public hearing on December 2
In close collaboration with the Town of Amherst, on Dec 2, we invited the Amherst community to use CommunityClick-Virtual during a public hearing on Kendrick Park area changes in order to broaden and diversify public participation in civic processes.
Alyx Burns presented “Making the Invisible Visible” at the Vis4Good Workshop as a part of VIS 2021
Alyx Burns presented our short paper “Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and Benefits of Disclosing Metadata in Visualization” at the Visualization for Social Good workshop as a part of IEEE VIS 2021. For a summary of what was presented, see this summary slide or watch a video of his talk on YouTube.
Prof. Mahyar is serving as an Associate Chair for CHI 2022
Prof. Mahyar will be serving as the Associate Chair of the Visualization subcommittee for CHI 2022.
Paper by Prof. Mahyar to appear in ACM Journal for Digital Government
Prof. Mahyar’s new paper “A Framework for Open Civic Design: Integrating Public Participation, Crowdsourcing, and Design Thinking” was accepted to the ACM Journal for Digital Government: Research and Practice. Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar and her co-authors Brandon Reynante and Steven P. Dow.
Mahmood Jasim was awarded a Computing for Common Good Fellowship – Congratulations, Mahmood!
Mahmood Jasim was awarded a Computing for Common Good Fellowship by UMass CICS to develop a tool for inclusive public input collection and analysis.
Mahmood Jasim and Professor Narges Mahyar will work with the town of Amherst officials to design and develop CommunityClick-virtual — an online collaborative tool that combines machine learning, data visualization, and citizensourcing technology for inclusive public input collection and analysis. The project will enable people from all social backgrounds to equitably share their opinions on civic issues and allow the town officials to make sense of large-scale public input to inform themselves prior to making critical policy decisions.
Welcome to our 8 new lab members who joined this Fall!
The HCI-VIS lab is delighted to welcome 8 new members this fall, including 2 post-docs: Mennatullah Hendawy and Zhiqiu Jiang and 6 PhD students: Hamza Elhamdadi, Aimen Gaba, Prateek Mantri, Mashrur Rashik, Mahsa Sahebdel Alamdari, and Zack While.
We will additionally be joined by Swapna Joshi, who will begin her Post-Doc in the Spring.
“Designing with Pictographs” to appear in TVCG
A new paper by lab members Alyx Burns, Dr. Cindy Xiong, and Dr. Narges Mahyar was accepted for publication in TVCG. The paper, titled “Designing with Pictographs: Envision Topics without Sacrificing Understanding,” examines the effects of replacing abstract shapes in traditional charts and graphs with pictograph arrays. They found that the pictographs had no impact on participant understanding, but impacted participants’ experience.
You can find a PDF of the paper on our website.