News “CommunityBots: Creating and Evaluating A Multi-Agent Chatbot Platform for Public Input Elicitation” was accepted to CSCW 2023 Read More “Mapping Instability: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town” was accepted to the Environments By Design: Health, Wellbeing And Place Conference 2022 Read More Mashrur Rashik was awarded the Jim Gray Scholarship in Computer Science Read More “Of Course it’s Political!” was awarded best paper at EuroVis 2022 Read More CommunityClick-Virtual used by Amherst community during public hearing on December 2 Read More Alyx Burns presented “Making the Invisible Visible” at the Vis4Good Workshop as a part of VIS 2021 Read More Prof. Mahyar is serving as an Associate Chair for CHI 2022 Read More Paper by Prof. Mahyar to appear in ACM Journal for Digital Government Read More Mahmood Jasim was awarded a Computing for Common Good Fellowship – Congratulations, Mahmood! Read More Welcome to our 8 new lab members who joined this Fall! Read More “Designing with Pictographs” to appear in TVCG Read More CommunityPulse received an Honorable Mention Award at DIS 2021 – Congrats Mahmood, Dr. Sarvghad, and Dr. Mahyar! Read More Prof. Mahyar co-organized the Chart Question Answering Workshop at CVPR 2021 Read More Prof. Mahyar served as the paper co-chair for ACM Creativity & Cognition 2021 Read More Prof. Mahyar & Prof. Sarvghad awarded seed grant from UMass Institute of Diversity Sciences Read More RisingEMOTIONS accepted to C&C 2021 – Congratulations Mahmood & Prof. Mahyar! Read More CommunityPulse to appear in DIS 2021 – Congratulations Mahmood, Prof. Sarvghad & Prof. Mahyar! Read More Congratulations to Prof. Mahyar and Prof. Sarvghad on their ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grant Read More Prof. Mahyar was selected as a 2020–2021 UMass ADVANCE Faculty Fellow! Read More Our lab had 5 papers accepted this summer, including to CSCW and BELIV. Read More We are excited to introduce Prof. Cindy Xiong as our newest HCI-VIS member. She will join us in Fall 2021. Read More Prof. Sarvghad had a paper accepted in IEEE VIS 2020! Read More Prof. Mahyar & Sarvghad served on the PC for IEEE VIS short papers. Read More RisingEmotions was selected as a CODAawards Top 100 project! Read More Mahmood Jasim passed his portfolio evaluation – Congrats Mahmood! Read More Prof. Mahyar will be a paper co-chair for ACM Creativity and Cognition 2021. Read More Two papers to appear in Late-Breaking Work – CHI 2020 Read More Workshop on Sketching Visualisations: A hands-on introduction to data literacy Read More Prof Mahyar served as Fast Forward Co-Chair for IEEE VIS 2019 Read More
“CommunityBots: Creating and Evaluating A Multi-Agent Chatbot Platform for Public Input Elicitation” was accepted to CSCW 2023 Read More
“Mapping Instability: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town” was accepted to the Environments By Design: Health, Wellbeing And Place Conference 2022 Read More
Alyx Burns presented “Making the Invisible Visible” at the Vis4Good Workshop as a part of VIS 2021 Read More
Mahmood Jasim was awarded a Computing for Common Good Fellowship – Congratulations, Mahmood! Read More
CommunityPulse received an Honorable Mention Award at DIS 2021 – Congrats Mahmood, Dr. Sarvghad, and Dr. Mahyar! Read More
Prof. Mahyar & Prof. Sarvghad awarded seed grant from UMass Institute of Diversity Sciences Read More
CommunityPulse to appear in DIS 2021 – Congratulations Mahmood, Prof. Sarvghad & Prof. Mahyar! Read More
Congratulations to Prof. Mahyar and Prof. Sarvghad on their ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grant Read More
We are excited to introduce Prof. Cindy Xiong as our newest HCI-VIS member. She will join us in Fall 2021. Read More