Microsoft Research @ IEEE VIS 2018

Researchers at Microsoft co-authored eleven papers appearing at VIS this year, listed here in order of appearance:

• “Visualizing Ranges over Time on Mobile Phones: A Task-Based Crowdsourced Evaluation (opens in new tab)”
  • by Matthew Brehmer (opens in new tab), Bongshin Lee (opens in new tab), Petra Isenberg, and Eun Kyoung Choe.
  • INFOVIS: Devices: Small & Large – Wednesday, Oct. 24 – 11:00 am-12:40 pm, Estrel Hall C
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• “Glanceable Visualization: Studies of Data Comparison Performance on Smartwatches (opens in new tab)”
  • by Tanja Blascheck, Lonni Besançon, Anastasia Bezerianos, Bongshin Lee (opens in new tab), and Petra Isenberg.
  • INFOVIS: Devices: Small & Large – Wednesday, Oct. 24 – 11:00 am-12:40 pm, Estrel Hall C
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• “Augmenting Visualizations with Interactive Data Facts to Facilitate Interpretation and Communication (opens in new tab)”
  • by Arjun Srinivasan, Steven Drucker (opens in new tab), Alex Endert, and John Stasko.
  • INFOVIS: Text & Communication – Wednesday, Oct. 24 – 02:20 pm-04:00 pm, Convention Hall 1, Section D
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• “What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? (opens in new tab)”
  • by Alper Sarikaya (opens in new tab), Michael Correll, Lyn Bartram, Melanie Tory, and Danyel A Fisher.
  • INFOVIS: Text & Communication – Wednesday, Oct. 24 – 02:20 pm-04:00 pm, Convention Hall 1, Section D
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• “FiberClay: Sculpting Three Dimensional Trajectories to Reveal Structural Insights (opens in new tab)”
  • by Christophe Hurter, Nathalie Henry Riche (opens in new tab), Steven Drucker (opens in new tab), Maxime Cordeil, Richard Alligier, and Romain Vuillemot.
  • INFOVIS: Immersive Analytics – Thursday, Oct. 25 – 9:00 am-10:40 am, Convention Hall 1, Section D
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• “Charticulator: Interactive Construction of Bespoke Chart Layouts (opens in new tab)”
  • by Donghao Ren, Bongshin Lee (opens in new tab), and Matthew Brehmer (opens in new tab).
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  • INFOVIS: Interaction – Thursday, Oct. 25, 11:00 am-12:40 pm, Estrel Hall C
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• “ATOM: A Grammar for Unit Visualizations (opens in new tab)”
  • by Deokgun Park, Steven Drucker (opens in new tab), Roland Fernandez (opens in new tab), and Niklas Elmqvist.
  • INFOVIS: Design & Storytelling – Thursday, Oct. 25 – 11:00 am-12:40 pm, Convention Hall 1, Section D
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• “iStoryline: Effective Convergence to Hand-drawn Storylines (opens in new tab)”
  • by Tan Tang, Sadia Rubab, Jiewen Lai, Weiwei Cui (opens in new tab), Lingyun Yu, and Yingcai Wu.
  • INFOVIS: Design & Storytelling – Thursday, Oct. 25 – 11:00 am-12:40 pm, Convention Hall 1, Section D
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• “Narvis: Authoring Narrative Slideshows for Introducing Data Visualization Designs (opens in new tab)”
  • by Qianwen Wang, Zhen Li, Siwei Fu, Weiwei Cui (opens in new tab), and Huamin Qu.
  • INFOVIS: Design & Storytelling – Thursday, Oct. 25 – 11:00 am-12:40 pm, Convention Hall 1, Section D
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• “iForest: Interpreting Random Forests via Visual Analytics (opens in new tab)”
  • by Xun Zhao, Yanhong Wu, Dik Lun Lee, and Weiwei Cui (opens in new tab).
  • VAST: Event, Sequence, and ML – Friday, Oct. 26 – 9:00 am-10:40 am, Convention Hall 1, Section C
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• “StreamExplorer: A Multi-Stage System for Visually Exploring Events in Social Streams (opens in new tab)”
  • by Yingcai Wu, Zhutian Chen, Guodao Sun, Xiao Xie, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, and Weiwei Cui (opens in new tab).
  • VAST: Event, Sequence, and ML – Friday, Oct. 26 – 9:00 am-10:40 am, Convention Hall 1, Section C
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