{"id":1500,"date":"2020-12-16T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T22:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/?page_id=1500"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:30:23","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#f7f5e7;color:#000000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">* Please note that I have moved to City St George&#8217;s, University of London and I am not accepting new students. I will continue supporting UMass remotely for a period to wrap up advising, teaching commitments, and service.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading mb-5 has-medium-font-size\">Bio<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide mb-5\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Narges Mahyar is an Associate Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Narges\u2019s research falls at the intersection of Visualization, HCI, Social Computing, and Design with the goal of augmenting people\u2019s abilities to solve complex problems. She designs, develops, and evaluates novel social computing and visualization techniques that help people (both experts and non-experts) make better decisions. More recently, she has focused on exploring new strategies for scaling and diversifying public engagement in massive decision-making processes related to civic issues. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Victoria, an MS in Information Technology from the University of Malaya, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Azad University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia from 2014 to 2016 and in the Design Lab at the University of California San Diego from 2016 to 2018. Her recognition in the field has been repeatedly confirmed through <strong>several accolades<\/strong> from the premium venues in HCI and Visualization, including <strong>five Best\/Outstanding Paper Awards from CHI 2023, Eurovis 2022, CSCW 2020, VAST 2014; and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2017, and three Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards from TiiS 2022, DIS 2021, and ISS 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Public Talks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Rising Tides: Broadening Public Participation in Climate Action through Mixed Reality Visualization<\/strong>, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, Fellow presentation, December 13, 2023<\/summary>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Rising Tides: Broadening Public Participation in Climate Action through Mixed Reality Visualization\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gHadQx7RV4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading mb-5 has-medium-font-size\">Latest News<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide mb-n10\" \/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mar 2025:<\/strong> Our work, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.03532\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.03532\">AI-Enabled Conversational Journaling for Advancing Parkinson&#8217;s Disease Symptom Tracking<\/a>\u201d received the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award from ACM CHI 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mar 2025:<\/strong> I am excited to be traveling to Yokohama, Japan, to attend CHI 2025!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mar 2025:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/asarv\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/asarv\/\">Ali Sarvghad<\/a> and I will give a joint talk at Stuttgart University&#8217;s Department of Computer Science on May 16, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mar 2025:<\/strong> For the second consecutive year, I am excited to serve on the Program Committee for the Posters Track at EuroVis 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan 2025:<\/strong> Our work, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.03532\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.03532\">AI-Enabled Conversational Journaling for Advancing Parkinson&#8217;s Disease Symptom Tracking<\/a>\u201d was accepted at ACM CHI 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2024:<\/strong> I will present two workshop papers at the \u201cVISions of the Future\u201d and \u201cVis4Climate+sustainability\u201d workshops at IEEE VIS 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2024:<\/strong> Matt Brehmer and I are organizing a panel at IEEE VIS 20024 on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeevis.org\/year\/2024\/info\/panels\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ieeevis.org\/year\/2024\/info\/panels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VIS Conference Futures to discuss Community Opinions on Recent Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities for Hybrid Event Formats<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2024:<\/strong> I am giving a talk at the University of Virginia, Computer Science, <strong>Distinguished Seminar<\/strong>, on Oct 11, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2024:<\/strong> I am honored to share that my research on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/radcliffe-25\/climate-moment\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/radcliffe-25\/climate-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Communicating Climate Change has been featured in Radcliffe Moments, Past, Present, and Future, 2024<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Older News<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jul 2024:<\/strong> I am excited to announce that I\u2019ll be giving a keynote at the <a href=\"https:\/\/optimumresearchmeetings.com\/civilengineering2024\/speakers\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/optimumresearchmeetings.com\/civilengineering2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Conference on Innovation in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CIVILENG2024)<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jul 2024: <\/strong>I am excited to announce that I will serve as the Area Chair for Visualization at CHI 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 2024:<\/strong> I will be traveling to Odense, Denmark, to attend EuroVis 2024 from May 27th to 30th.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 2024:<\/strong> I will be traveling to Honolulu, Hawaii, to attend CHI 2024 from May 11th to 16th.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mar 2024: <\/strong>I am excited to announce that I will serve on the Program Committee for Posters Track at EuroVis 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mar 2024:<\/strong> I am excited to announce that I will serve on the Program Committee for Full Papers at IEEE VIS 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan 2024:<\/strong> I am giving a talk at UC Berkeley BID HCI speaker series on Jan 16, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan 2024:<\/strong> I am giving a talk at Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Seminar on Jan 12, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dec 2023:<\/strong> I am giving a talk at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute on Dec 13, 2023. You can find additional information regarding the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/event\/2023-narges-mahyar-fellow-presentation-virtual\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/event\/2023-narges-mahyar-fellow-presentation-virtual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dec 2023:<\/strong> I am giving a talk at the University of British Columbia on Dec 7, 2023. The talk is titled \u201cHarnessing Data for Social Impact: Empowering Communities through Visualization &amp; Social Computing.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nov 2023:<\/strong> I am invited to give a talk at CMU HCI on Nov 17, 2023. You can find additional information regarding the talk <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcii.cmu.edu\/news\/on\/event\/2023\/11\/hcii-seminar-series-narges-mahyar\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hcii.cmu.edu\/news\/on\/event\/2023\/11\/hcii-seminar-series-narges-mahyar\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nov 2023:<\/strong> I am invited to give a talk at Boston College on Nov 6, 2023. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2023: <\/strong>I will present three workshop papers at VIS 2023 on behalf of my student Mahmood Jasim.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2023:<\/strong> I am giving a talk at MIT CSAIL. You can find additional information regarding the talk <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/event\/narges-mahyar-harnessing-data-social-impact-empowering-communities-through-visualization-and\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/event\/narges-mahyar-harnessing-data-social-impact-empowering-communities-through-visualization-and\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sep 2023:<\/strong> Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1145\/3615590\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1145\/3615590\" target=\"_blank\">ClioQuery: Interactive Query-Oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives<\/a>\u201d received the best paper runner-up award at TiiS 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aug 2023:<\/strong> I will be serving as an AC member (Sub-Committee: Visualization) for CHI 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 2023:<\/strong> I am honored to be named the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/news-and-ideas\/harvard-radcliffe-institute-announces-2023-2024-fellowship-class\" target=\"_blank\">2023-24 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 2023:<\/strong> I was awarded the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/public-interest-technology-faculty-fellowship-recipients-cy2023\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/public-interest-technology-faculty-fellowship-recipients-cy2023\/\" target=\"_blank\">2023 PIT@UMass faculty fellowship<\/a> along with Dr. Ali Sarvghad and Kara M Smith (MD).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 2023:<\/strong> Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/mti-07-00043.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/mti-07-00043.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR)<\/a>\u201d was recently accepted to MDPI Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 2023:<\/strong> Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3544548.3581524\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3544548.3581524\" target=\"_blank\">Who Do We Mean When We Talk About Visualization Novices?<\/a>\u201d received the best paper award at CHI 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Feb 2023:<\/strong> I will be serving as a Program Committee member for IEEE VIS 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dec 2022:<\/strong> Sheshera Mysore presented our paper, &#8220;Exploring how Data Scientists Review Scholarly Literature&#8221; at CHIIR 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dec 2022:<\/strong> Our paper \u201cWho Do We Mean When We Talk About Visualization Novices?\u201d was accepted to CHI 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dec 2022: <\/strong>I am honored to join the IEEE VIS Executive Committee (VEC).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dec 2022:<\/strong> Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2301.03774\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2301.03774\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring how Data Scientists Review Scholarly Literature<\/a>\u201d was accepted to CHIIR 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nov 2022:<\/strong> Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/CommunityBots_CSCW.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/CommunityBots_CSCW.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CommunityBots: Creating and Evaluating A Multi-Agent Chatbot Platform for Public Input Elicitation<\/a>\u201d was accepted to CSCW 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2022:<\/strong> I am excited to join the 2023 IEEE VIS organizing committee as the Workshop Co-Chair.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sep 2022: <\/strong>Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Mapping-Instability-Amps-Proceedings-Series-26.2.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Mapping-Instability-Amps-Proceedings-Series-26.2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mapping Instability: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town<\/a>\u201d was accepted to the Environments By Design: Health, Wellbeing And Place Conference 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aug 2022:<\/strong> Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9998319\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9998319\" target=\"_blank\">From Invisible to Visible: Impacts of Metadata in Communicative Data Visualization<\/a>\u201d was accepted to TVCG 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>July 2022:<\/strong> Our Eurovis 2022 paper was featured in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/mahyar-sarvghad-jasim-win-best-paper-eurovis2022-critical-inquiry-civic-text-visualization\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/mahyar-sarvghad-jasim-win-best-paper-eurovis2022-critical-inquiry-civic-text-visualization\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 2022: <\/strong>Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/TextVisSurvey_EuroVis2022.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/TextVisSurvey_EuroVis2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Of Course it\u2019s Political! A Critical Inquiry into Underemphasized Dimensions in Civic Text Visualization<\/a>\u201d was awarded Best Paper at Eurovis 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 2022:<\/strong> I was an invited panelist for the panel on \u201cConnecting Science and Art for Effective Community Engagement\u201d hosted by Engineers and Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 2022:<\/strong> I attended the Dagstuhl seminar on visual text analytics (May 8-13).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 2022:<\/strong> I gave a talk at Northwestern University titled \u201cSocial Computing and Visualization Tools for Empowering the Public\u201d as part of the Technology &amp; Social Behavior (TSB) Speaker Series.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 2022:<\/strong> I gave a talk at Tufts University titled \u201cSocial Computing and Visualization Tools for Empowering the Public\u201d as a part of the  Computer Science Colloquium Series.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 2022:<\/strong> I was awarded a recognition of service and contributions to the ACM honor for serving as a Program Co-Chair for the 2021 Creativity and Cognition Conference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>March 2022:<\/strong> I will be serving as an PC for VIS 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>March 2022:<\/strong> Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/TextVisSurvey_EuroVis2022.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/TextVisSurvey_EuroVis2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Of Course it\u2019s Political! A Critical Inquiry into Underemphasized Dimensions in Civic Text Visualization<\/a>\u201d was accepted to Eurovis 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Feb 2022:<\/strong> I received an NSF grant ($147,000) with CO-PI Pari Riahi and Ali Sarvghad for \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/nsf-grant-will-support-creation-chatbots-gauge-pandemics-impact-small-towns\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/nsf-grant-will-support-creation-chatbots-gauge-pandemics-impact-small-towns\" target=\"_blank\">MAPPING INSTABILITY: Building an Intelligent Community Agent Platform for Understanding the Impact of Large-Scale Crisis on Small Town Communities<\/a>\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan 2022: <\/strong>I am excited to join the organizing committee for the <strong>Visualization for Social Good Workshop<\/strong> (Vis4Good) 2022, in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan 2022:<\/strong> Our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2204.04694\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2204.04694\" target=\"_blank\">ClioQuery: Interactive Query-Oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives<\/a>\u201d was accepted to Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems journal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan 2022: <\/strong>Proud of my PhD student <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~mjasim\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~mjasim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mahmood Jasim<\/a><\/strong> for receiving the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/computing-common-good-fellowships-support-graduate-student-research-societal-impact\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/news\/computing-common-good-fellowships-support-graduate-student-research-societal-impact\" target=\"_blank\">Computing for Common Good Fellowship<\/a>. We will be working with Town of Amherst officials to design and develop CommunityClick-virtual\u2014an online collaborative tool that combines machine learning, data visualization, and citizen-sourcing technology for inclusive public input collection and analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dec 2021: <\/strong>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. You can find more information in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Making-downtown-Amherst-street-one-way-43789200\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Making-downtown-Amherst-street-one-way-43789200\" target=\"_blank\">the GazetteNet&#8217;s article<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2021:<\/strong> Our paper &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2108.13270\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2108.13270\" target=\"_blank\">Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and Benefits of Disclosing Metadata in Visualization<\/a>&#8221; was presented at the Visualization for Social Good workshop as a part of IEEE VIS 2021. For a summary of what was presented, see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~alyxanderbur\/files\/Vis4GoodSummary.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~alyxanderbur\/files\/Vis4GoodSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this summary slide<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2021<\/strong>: Our paper &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3487607\" target=\"_blank\">A Framework for Open Civic Design: Integrating Public Participation, Crowdsourcing, and Design Thinking<\/a>&#8221; was accepted for publication in the ACM Journal for Digital Government: Research and Practice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sept 2021<\/strong>: I will be serving as an AC for CHI 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>July 2021<\/strong>: Our CommunityPulse paper received an Honorable Mention Award at DIS 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>June 2021<\/strong>: Our paper &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/hci-vis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2021\/06\/DesigningWithPictos_TVCG21.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/hci-vis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2021\/06\/DesigningWithPictos_TVCG21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Designing with Pictographs: Envision Topics without Sacrificing Understanding<\/a>&#8221; was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)! <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>June 2021<\/strong>: I co-organized the Chart Question Answering Workshop at CVPR 2021. You can find a recording of the event on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mCGVCSnHLz?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\">the workshop website<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>June 2021<\/strong>: The ACM Creativity and Cognition 2021 Conference was a great success. You can now access the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/proceedings\/10.1145\/3450741\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/proceedings\/10.1145\/3450741\" target=\"_blank\">proceedings online<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>June 2021<\/strong>: We presented our paper &#8220;RisingEMOTIONS: Bridging Art and Technology to Increase Public Engagement with Climate Change&#8221; at ACM Creativity and Cognition 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dec 2020<\/strong>: Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, ACM Creativity and Cognition 2021 will now take place virtually in June 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Nov 2020<\/strong>: Together with Ali Sarvghad (CICS) and Pari Riahi (Department of Architecture), I was awarded an ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grant on \u201cMAPPING INSTABILITY: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town.\u201d More information on the grant is available<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mie.umass.edu\/newsoffice\/article\/three-teams-awarded-2020-21-collaborative\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Oct 2020<\/strong>: Our CommunityClick paper received the best paper award at CSCW 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Oct 2020<\/strong>: Our CG&amp;A invited article on \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9238543\" target=\"_blank\">Designing Technology for Sociotechnical Problems: Challenges &amp; Considerations<\/a>\u201d is published and available.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Oct 2020<\/strong>: We presented our IEEE VIS poster \u201cLooking to the Past to Visualize the Present: Revisiting W.E.B. Du Bois\u2019 Abolitionist Visualizations\u201d as part of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/event\/cics-community-discussion-antiracism\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/event\/cics-community-discussion-antiracism\" target=\"_blank\">CICS Community Discussion on Antiracism<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2020<\/strong>: We presented our paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2009.01747\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2009.01747\" target=\"_blank\">How to evaluate data visualizations across different levels of understanding<\/a>\u201d at BELIV 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Sept 2020<\/strong>: I was selected as a 2020\u20132021 UMass ADVANCE Faculty Fellow to promote gender equity for STEM faculty at UMass as part of the NSF-funded UMass ADVANCE program.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Aug 2020<\/strong>: With Gerome Miklau and Ali Sarvghad, I received a medium NSF, SATC grant ($1,191,106) for investigating \u201cPrinciples and Algorithms for Visual Data Exploration Under Differential Privacy.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Aug 2020<\/strong>: I served on the program Committee for IEEE VIS short papers.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>July 2020<\/strong>: Our paper \u201cRehabilitation Games in Real-World Clinical Settings: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities\u201d has been accepted for publication at the ACM Transactions on CHI (ACM ToCHI). This work will be presented at ACM CHI 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>June 2020<\/strong>: Our collaborative art installation project, RisingEmotions, was selected as a CODAawards Top 100 project! More information on the CODAawards Top 100 is available <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codaworx.com\/codaawards\/2020-codaawards-top-100\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the CODAawards website<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Feb 2020<\/strong>: Our papers on \u201cExploring How International Graduate Students in the US Seek Support\u201d and \u201cTowards Understanding Desiderata for Large-Scale Civic Input Analysis\u201d have been accepted for publication in CHI LBW 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Dec 2019<\/strong>: I will be the paper co-chair for ACM Creativity and Cognition conference 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Dec 2019<\/strong>: The opening for RisingEMOTIONS, our collaborative art project that displays projected flood levels and people\u2019s emotions about sea-level rise, will happen on Dec 7 at East Boston Library.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2019<\/strong>: I gave two talks on \u201cSocial Computing and Visualization for Democratizing Public Participation\u201d at University of Toronto and Ontario Tech University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oct 2019<\/strong>: I gave a talk on \u201cCommunity-Centered Urban Design at Scale\u201d at UMass department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. You can read more about the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/larp\/event\/zube-lecture-narges-mahyar-0\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:28%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-off-white-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1217\" height=\"1450\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/02\/narges_profile2_2015-5.jpg\" alt=\"photograph of Narges Mahyar\" class=\"wp-image-711\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-family: Bitter\"><strong>Narges Mahyar<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Bitter\"><strong>Associate Professor<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 10pt;text-align: left;margin-top: 12pt\"><strong>University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/strong><br \/>Manning College of Information &amp; Computer Sciences <br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> nmahyar at cs.umass.edu <br \/><strong>Office:<\/strong> Room A211H<br \/><strong>Address:<\/strong> 740 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10;line-height:1.8\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1567\" style=\"width: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/website.png\" alt=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/hci-vis\/\">&nbsp;HCI-VIS Lab Website<\/a><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2071\" height=\"2071\" class=\"wp-image-1566\" style=\"width: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Scholar.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Scholar.png 2071w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Scholar-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Scholar-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Scholar-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Scholar-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Scholar-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Scholar-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2071px) 100vw, 2071px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/citations?user=AEh2T1IAAAAJ\">&nbsp;Google Scholar<\/a><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"wp-image-1567\" style=\"width: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/Twitter.png\" alt=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nargesmahyar\">&nbsp;Twitter<\/a><br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"wp-image-1565\" style=\"width: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/12\/LinkedIn.png\" alt=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nargesmahyar\">&nbsp;Linkedin<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10\"><b>Talks &amp; Conferences<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Human-Computer Interaction, Feb 4, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inria Bordeaux, Bivwac team, Jan 24, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of Southern Denmark, Metaverse Lab, Jan 20, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Telecom Paris, Economics and Social Sciences Department, Jan 16, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inria Saclay, AVIZ team, December 6, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harvard Seminar, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Oct 17-18, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Older Talks<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keynote at the International Conference on Innovation in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CIVILENG2024), October 23, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distinguished Seminar at the University of Virginia, Computer Science, Oct 11 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UC Berkeley BID HCI Speaker Series, January 16, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, January 12, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Dec 13, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Invited talk at the University of British Columbia, Dec 7, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Invited talk at CMU HCI, Nov 17, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Invited talk at Boston College, Nov 6, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IEEE VIS, 2023, October 19-26<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MIT CSAIL HCI Seminar Series, Oct 3, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ACM CHI, 2023, April 23-28<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Concordia University, Department of Computer Science, March 27, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of Maryland College Park, iSchool, February 21, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science, January 31, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University College London, Interaction Centre (UCLIC), 2022, December 14<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City, University of London, School of Science and Technology, 2022, December 8<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SIGCHI Paris Talk, 2022, December 5<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IEEE VIS 2022, October 16-21<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ACM C&amp;C 2022, June 20-23<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EuroVis 2022, June 13-17<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dagstuhl, May 8-13<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CHI 2022, Apr 30-May 6<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VIS 2021, Oct 24-29<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DIS 2021, Jun 28-Jul 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ACM C&amp;C 2021, Jun 20-24<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CHI 2021, May 8-13<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VIS 2020, Oct 25-30<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CSCW 2020, Oct 17-21<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VIS 2019, Oct 20-25<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DIS 2019, June 23-28<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CHI 2019, May 4-7<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NSF Workshop, Apr 8-9<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talk at CS Colloquium,&nbsp;WPI,&nbsp;Jan 11, 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IEEE VIS 2018, Oct 21-26<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MIT,&nbsp; Design-a-Hack-a-thon, Sept 15-17<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UBC HCI Symposium&nbsp;, May 12<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CHI 2018, Apr 21-26<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UMass Amherst, Mar 28-29<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Innovation in Participatory Democracy Conference, Mar 8-10<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Jersey Institute of Tech, Feb 20<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Virginia Tech, Feb 12-13<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>San Jose State U, Feb 6<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U of Illinois at Chicago, Feb 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Please note that I have moved to City St George&#8217;s, University of London and I am not accepting new students. I will continue supporting UMass remotely for a period to wrap up advising, teaching commitments, and service. 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