Beyond Text and Speech in Conversational Agents: Mapping the Design Space of Avatars. Mashrur Rashik, Mahmood Jasim, Kostiantyn Kucher, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 27 pages, 2024. Preprint (to appear)
From Information to Choose: A Critical Inquiry Into Visualization Tools for Decision Making. Emre Oral, Ria Chawla, Michel Wijkstra, Narges Mahyar, Evanthia Dimara, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Jan. 2024, pp. 359-369, vol. 30. Preprint
Measure-Observe-Remeasure: An Interactive Paradigm for Differentially-Private Exploratory Analysis. Priyanka Nanayakkara, Hyeok Kim, Yifan Wu, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, Gerome Miklau, Jessica Hullman, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 12 pages, 2024. Preprint
Glanceable Data Visualizations for Older Adults: Establishing Thresholds and Examining Disparities Between Age Groups. Zachary While, Tanja Blaschek, Yujie Gong, Petra Isenberg, Ali Sarvghad, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 26 pages, 2024. Preprint (to appear)
GerontoVis: Data Visualization at the Confluence of Aging. Zachary While, Jordan Crouser, Ali Sarvghad, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 14 pages, 2024. Preprint (to appear)
2023
CommunityClick-Virtual: Multi-Modal Interactions for Enhancing Participation in Virtual Meetings. Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar. 5 pages, Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) Workshop, in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2023, (to appear). Preprint
Unveiling Insights: Surfacing Fine-Grained Discourse Acts in Short Free-Form Public Input Text through Visual Analytics. Mahmood Jasim, Mohit Iyyer, Narges Mahyar. 5 pages, Exploring Research Opportunities for Natural Language, Text, and Data Visualization (NLVIZ) Workshop, in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2023, (to appear). Preprint
Bridging the Divide: Promoting Serendipitous Discovery of Opposing Viewpoints with Visual Analytics in Social Media. Mahmood Jasim, Mumtaz Fatima, Sagarika Ramesh Sonni, Narges Mahyar. Visualization for Social Good (VIS4SG) Workshop, 5 pages, in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2023. Paper
Investigating the Visual Utility of Differentially Private Scatterplots. Liudas Panavas, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Jane Adams, Johnathan Ullman, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, Cody Dunne. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12 pages, 2023, to appear. Preprint
Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR). Sharon Yavo-Ayalon, Swapna Joshi, Yuzhen (Adam) Zhang, Ruixiang (Albert) Han, Narges Mahyar, Wendy Ju. MDPI Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 25 pages, 2023. Paper | Video
Who Do We Mean When We Talk About Visualization Novices? Alyxander Burns, Christiana Lee, Ria Chawla, Evan Peck, and Narges Mahyar. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 22 pages, 2023. Paper | Talk
Exploring how Data Scientists Review Scholarly Literature. Sheshera Mysore, Mahmood Jasim, Haoru Song, Sarah Akbar, Andre Kenneth Chase Randall and Narges Mahyar. ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), pp. 137-152, 2023. Paper | Slides
CommunityBots: Creating and Evaluating A Multi-Agent Chatbot Platform for Public Input Elicitation.Zhiqiu Jiang, Mashrur Rashik, Kunjal Panchal, Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, Pari Riahi, Erica DeWitt, Fey Thurber, Narges Mahyar. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), pp. 1-32, 2023. Paper
2022
Characterizing Uncertainty in the Visual Text Analysis Pipeline. Pantea Haghighatkhah, Mennatallah El-Assady, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Narges Mahyar, Carita Paradis, Vasiliki Simaki, Bettina Speckmann. Visualization for Digital Humanity (Vis4DH) workshop, In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2022, Oct 16-21, 2022. Paper
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Evaluation and Experimental Design for Visual Text Analytics. Kostiantyn Kucher, Nicole Sultanum, Angel Daza, Vasiliki Simaki, Maria Skeppstedt, Barbara Plank, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Narges Mahyar. Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond-Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV 2022 ), in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2022, Position Paper, Oct 16-21, 2022. Paper
Characterizing Uncertainty in the Visual Text Analysis Pipeline. Pantea Haghighatkhah, Mennatallah El-Assady, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Narges Mahyar, Carita Paradis, Vasiliki Simaki, Bettina Speckmann. Visualization for Digital Humanity (Vis4DH) workshop, In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2002, Oct 16-21, 2022. Paper
From Invisible to Visible: Impacts of Metadata in Communicative Data Visualization. Alyxander Burns, Thai On, Christiana Lee, Cindy Xiong, Evan Peck, Narges Mahyar. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Journal (TVCG), 12 pages, pp. 1-16, 2022. Paper
Mapping Instability: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town. Erica Dewitt, Zhiqiu Jiang, Mashrur Rashik, Kunjal Panchal, Mahmood Jasim, Fey Thurber, Cami Quinteros, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, and Pari Riahi, Environments By Design: Health, Wellbeing, and Place Conference, Organized by the Society for Sociology of Health, Syracuse University, Chalmers University of Technology, Northumbria University, AMPS proceeding Series 26.2, ISSN 2398-9467, pp. 170-181, 2022. Paper
Of Course it’s Political! A Critical Inquiry into Underemphasized Dimensions in Civic Text Visualization. Eric PS Baumer, Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, and Narges Mahyar, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2022, 14 pages, 2022. Paper Video
ClioQuery: Interactive QueryOriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives. Abram Handler, Narges Mahyar and Brendan O’Connor, Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 40 pages, 2022. Paper
Scientometric Analysis of Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Gender Trends in 30 Years of IEEE VIS Publications. Ali Sarvghad, Rolando Franqui-Nadal, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Ria Chawla and Narges Mahyar, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12 pages, 2022. Paper
Supporting Serendipitous Discovery and Balanced Analysis of Online Product Reviews with Interaction-Driven Metrics and Bias-Mitigating Suggestions. Mahmood Jasim, Christopher Collins, Ali Sarvghad and Narges Mahyar, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 2022, 31 pages. Paper
Investigating Perceptual Biases in Icon Arrays. Cindy Xiong, Ali Sarvghad, Cagatay Demirlap, Jake M. Hofman, Deniel G. Goldstien, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), 2022, 12 pages. Paper
2021
Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and Benefits of Disclosing Metadata in Visualization. Alyxander Burns, Thai On, Christiana Lee, Rachel Shapiro, Cindy Xiong, and Narges Mahyar. IEEE Workshop on Visualization for Social Good (VIS4Good), pp. 11-15, 2021. Paper | Talk
A Framework for Open Civic Design: Integrating Public Participation, Crowdsourcing, and Design Thinking. Brandon Reynante, Steven P. Dow, and Narges Mahyar. ACM Journal for Digital Government: Research and Practice, 2021. Paper
Designing with Pictographs: Envision Topics without Sacrificing Understanding. Alyxander Burns, Cindy Xiong, Steven Franconeri, Alberto Cairo, and Narges Mahyar. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11 pages, 2021. Paper
RisingEMOTIONS: Bridging Art and Technology to Increase Public Engagement with Climate Change. Carolina Aragón, Mahmood Jasim and Narges Mahyar. ACM Creativity and Cognition, 14 pages, 2021. Paper | Video
CommunityPulse: Facilitating Community Input Analysis by Surfacing Hidden Insights, Reflections, and Priorities. Mahmood Jasim, Enamul Hoque, Ali Sarvghad and Narges Mahyar. ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 26 pages, 2021. Paper | Talk
2020
CommunityClick: Capturing and Reporting Community Feedback from Town Halls to Improve Inclusivity.Mahmood Jasim, Pooya Khaloo, Somin Wadhwa, Amy X. Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, and Narges Mahyar. The 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2020. Paper | Talk
CommunityClick: Towards Improving Inclusivity in Town Halls. Mahmood Jasim, Pooya Khaloo, Somin Wadhwa, Amy X. Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, and Narges Mahyar. Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’20 Companion), 2020. Paper
Designing Technology for Sociotechnical Problems: Challenges & Considerations. Narges Mahyar, Mahmood Jasim, and Ali Sarvghad, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2020. Paper
Exploring How International Graduate Students in the US Seek Support.Tamanna Motahar, Mahmood Jasim, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Narges Mahyar, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstract, 2020. Paper
How to evaluate data visualizations across different levels of understanding. Alyxander Burns, Cindy Xiong, Steven Franconeri, Alberto Cairo, and Narges Mahyar, BELIV 2020: Proceedings of the eighth IEEE Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond – Methodological Approaches for Visualization (held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2020), 2020. Paper | Talk
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Academic Community: Results from a survey conducted at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Iman Deznabi, Tamanna Motahar, Ali Sarvghad, Madelina Fiterau, Narges Mahyar. ACM Digital Government Digital Government : Research and Practice, COVID-19 Commentary, 2020. Paper
Inclusivity in Town Halls: Challenges, Paradigm Shift, and Opportunities. Mahmood Jasim, Amy X. Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, and Narges Mahyar. Civic Technologies Workshop, in conjunction with CSCW 2020. Paper (pp. 68-71)
Investigating Visual Analysis of Differentially Private Data. Dan Zhang , Ali Sarvghad, and Gerome Miklau. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2020. Paper
Looking to the Past to Visualize the Present: Revisiting W.E.B. Du Bois’ Abolitionist Visualizations. Andrew Cunningham, Alyxander Burns, and Narges Mahyar, Posters of the IEEE Conference on Visualization, 2020. Paper | Talk
Rehabilitation Games in Real-World Clinical Settings: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities. Hee-Tae Jung, Taiwoo Park, Narges Mahyar, Sungji Park, Taekyeong Rye, Yangsoo Kim, and Sunghoon Ivan Lee, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Journal (ACM TOCHI, will be presented at ACM CHI 2021), in press. Paper
Towards Understanding Desiderata for Large-Scale Civic Input Analysis. Mahmood Jasim, Ali Sarvghad, Enamul Hoque, and Narges Mahyar, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstract, 2020. Paper
2019
Beyond the clash: investigating BIM-based building design coordination issue representation and resolution. Sarmad Mehrbod, Sheryl Staub-French, Narges Mahyar, and Melanie Tory, Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon) 24.3 (2019), pp. 33-57, 2019. Paper
Characterizing interactions with BIM tools and artifacts in building design coordination meetings. Sarmad Mehrbod, Sheryl Staub-French, Narges Mahyar, and Melanie Tory, Automation in Construction 98, pp. 195-213, 2019. Paper
The Civic Data Deluge: Understanding the Challenges of Analyzing Large-Scale Community Input. Narges Mahyar, Diana V. Nguyen, Maggie Chan, Jiayi Zheng, and Steven P. Dow, ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2019. Paper
2018
CommunityCrit: Inviting the Public to Improve and Evaluate Urban Design Ideas through Micro-Activities. Narges Mahyar, Michael R. James, Michelle M. Ng, Reginal. A. Wu, and Steven P. Dow, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018), 2018. Paper
Embedded Merge & Split: Visual Adjustment Of Data Grouping. Ali Sarvghad, Bahador Saket, Alex Endert, and Nadir Weibel, IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 25.1, 2018. Paper
2017
Collaboration Tools to Support Informed Public Engagement. Cynthia Girling, Ronald W. Kellett, Kellogg S. Booth, Narges Mahyar, Kelly J. Burke, and Alix Krahn, Landscape Research Record, No. 06, pp. 264-278, 2017. Paper
Enabling Crowdsourced Visualizations to Support Large-Scale Civic Engagement. Narges Mahyar, Weichen Liu, Dangyi Liu, and Steven P. Dow, Workshop on Crowd-Civic Systems, CSCW 2017, 2017. Paper
2016
Just Scratching the Surface, the Long Road to Effective Cross-Display Interaction. Narges Mahyar, Kellogg S. Booth, Cynthia Girling, and Ronald Kellett. Cross-Surface ’16 workshop, in conjunction with ACM ISS’16, 7 pages, 2016. Paper
UD Co-Spaces: A Table-Centred Multi-Display Environment for Public Engagement in Urban Design Charrettes. Narges Mahyar, Kelly Burke, Siyi Meng, Jialiang Xiang, Kellogg S. Booth, Cynthia Girling, and Ronald Kellett, Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS ’16), pp. 109-118, 2016. Paper
Visualizing Dimension Coverage to Support Exploratory Analysis. Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, and Narges Mahyar, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST 2016), pp. 21-30, 2016. Paper
2015
Collaboration Technology for Stakeholder Engagement in Urban Planning. Ronald Kellett, Kellogg Booth, and Narges Mahyar. Information Technology and City Life Workshop, CSCW 2015, 2015. Paper
Exploiting Analysis History To Support Collaborative Data Analysis. Ali Sarvghad and Melanie Tory. Proceedings of the 41st Graphics Interface Conference, 2015. Paper
A Framework for Classifying BIM Design Coordination Issues. Sarmad Mehrbod, Sheryl Staub-French, Melanie Tory, and Narges Mahyar. Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Construction Specialty Conference, 2015. Paper
Towards a Taxonomy for Evaluating User Engagement in Information Visualization. Narges Mahyar, Sung-Hee Kim, and Bum Chul Kwon. Workshop on Personal Visualization: Exploring Everyday Life, IEEE VIS 2015. Paper
2014
CLIP: A Visual Thinking Space to Support Collaborative Sensemaking and Reasoning. Narges Mahyar and Melanie Tory. Graphics, Animation and New Media (“GRAND”) NCE AGM, 2014. Paper
Exploiting History To Reduce Interaction Costs In Collaborative Analysis. Ali Sarvghad and Melanie Tory. 2014 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 273-274, 2014. Paper
Supporting Communication and Coordination in Collaborative Sensemaking. Narges Mahyar and Melanie Tory. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST 2014), pp. 1633-1642, 2014. Paper | Video
2013
Observations of Record-Keeping in Co-located Collaborative Analysis. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, and Tyler Weeres. HICSS 2013, pp. 460-469, Jan. 2013. Paper | Video
2012
CoSpaces: Workspaces to Support Co-located Collaborative Visual Analytics. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory and Tyler Weeres. Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Exploration for Interactive Surfaces DEXIS 2011, pp. 36-39, 2012. Paper
Note Taking in Co-located Collaborative Visual analytics: Analysis of an Observational Study. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, and Melanie Tory. Information Visualization, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 190-204, 2012. Paper
2010
A Closer Look at Note Taking in the Co-located Collaborative Visual Analytics Process. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, and Melanie Tory. IEEE Conf. Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST ’10), pp. 171-178, 2010. Paper
On Two Desiderata for Creativity Support Tools. Wai K. Yeap, Tommi Opas, and Narges Mahyar. In Proc. of the Intl. Conference on Computational Creativity, pp. 180-189, 2010. Paper
2009
History Tools for Collaborative Visualization. Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, and Melanie Tory. Workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces (CoVis 2009), 2009. Paper
Roles of Notes in Co-located Collaborative Visualization. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, and Melanie Tory. Workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces (CoVis 2009), 2009. Paper
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