Immersive Analytics Lab researchers had a couple of new papers at the Interactive Surfaces and Spaces conference and European Conference on Software Architecture.

• Maps Around Me: 3D Multiview Layouts in Immersive Spaces. 
  ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2020.
  Kadek Ananta Satriadi, Barrett Ens, Maxime Cordeil, Tobias Czauderna and Bernhard Jenny.  
• VisArch: Visualization of Performance-based Architectural Refactorings. 
  European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) 2020.
  Catia Trubiani, Aldeida Aleti, Sarah Goodwin, Pooyan Jamshidi, Andre van Hoorn and Samuel Gratzl.

Immersive Analytics Lab researchers contributed to 8 papers that will be presented at VIS this year, including an Honourable Mention for Best Paper Award for the paper “Data Visceralization: Enabling Deeper Understanding of Data Using Virtual Reality”.

• MobileVisFixer: Tailoring Web Visualizations for Mobile Phones Leveraging an Explainable Reinforcement Learning Framework.
  IEEE InfoVis Conference (VIS) 2020.
  Aoyu Wu, Wai Tong, Tim Dwyer, Bongshin Lee, Petra Isenberg, Huamin Qu.  
• Scalability of Network Visualisation from a Cognitive Load Perspective.
  IEEE InfoVis Conference (VIS) 2020.
   Vahan Yoghourdjian, Yalong Yang, Tim Dwyer, Lee Lawrence, Michael Wybrow, Kim Marriott.
• Data Visceralization: Enabling Deeper Understanding of Data Using Virtual Reality.
  IEEE InfoVis Conference (VIS) 2020.
  Benjamin Lee, David Brown, Bongshin lee, Christophe Hurter, Steven Drucker, Tim Dwyer.
• Shared Surfaces and Spaces: Collaborative Data Visualisation in a Co-located Immersive Environment.
  IEEE InfoVis Conference (VIS) 2020.
  Benjamin Lee, Xiaoyun Hu, Maxime Cordeil, Arnaud Prouzeau, Bernhard Jenny, Tim Dwyer.
• Embodied Navigation in Immersive Abstract Data Visualization: Is Overview+Detail or Zooming Better for 3D Scatterplots?
  IEEE InfoVis Conference (VIS) 2020.
  Yalong Yang, Maxime Cordeil, Johanna Beyer, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Hanspeter Pfister.
• Supporting the Problem-Solving Loop: Designing Highly Interactive Optimisation Systems.
  IEEE InfoVis Conference (VIS) 2020.
  Jie Liu, Tim Dwyer, Guido Tack, Samuel Gratzl, Kim Marriott.
• UpLift: A Tangible and Immersive Tabletop System for Casual Collaborative Visual Analytics.
  IEEE InfoVis Conference (VIS) 2020.
  Barrett Ens, Sarah Goodwin, Arnaud Prouzeau, Fraser Anderson, Florence Y. Wang, Samuel Gratzl, Zac Lucarelli, Brendan Moyle, Jim Smiley, Professor Tim Dwyer.
• Cartographic relief shading with neural networks.
  IEEE InfoVis Conference (VIS) 2020.
  Jenny, B., Heitzler, M., Singh, D., Farmakis-Serebryakova, M., Liu, J. C., and Hurni, L.

Immersive Analytics Lab researchers contributed to 4 papers that will be presented at CHI this year:

• Tactile Presentation of Network Data: Text, Matrix or Diagram?. 
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20).
  Yalong Yang, Kim Marriott, Matthew Butler, Cagatay Goncu, and Leona Holloway.  
• DoughNets: Visualising Networks Using Torus Wrapping. 
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20).  
  Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, and Benjamin Bach.
• Embodied Axes: Tangible, Actuated Interaction for 3D Augmented Reality Data Spaces.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20).
  Maxime Cordeil, Benjamin Bach, Andrew Cunningham, Bastian Montoya, Ross T. Smith, Bruce H. Thomas and Tim Dwyer.
• Zippro: The Design and Implementation of An Interactive Zipper.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19).
  Pin-Sung Ku, Jun Gong, Te-Yen Wu, Yixin Wei, Yiwen Tang, Barrett Ens and Xing-Dong Yang.

Immersive Analytics Lab researchers contributed to 4 papers that will be presented at CHI this year:

• On the Shoulder of the Giant: A Multi-Scale Mixed Reality Collaboration with 360 Video Sharing and Tangible Interaction. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19). Thammathip Piumsomboon, Gun Lee, Andrew Irlitti, Barrett Ens, Bruce H Thomas, Mark Billinghurst.  
• Scaptics and Highlight-Planes: Immersive Interaction Techniques for Finding Occluded Features in 3D Scatterplots. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19).  Arnaud Prouzeau, Maxime Cordeil, Clement Robin, Barrett Ens, Bruce H Thomas, Tim Dwyer.
• Making Sense of Art: Access for Gallery Visitors with Vision Impairments. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19). Leona Holloway, Kim Marriott and Matt Butler.
• Look-from camera control for 3D terrain maps. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19), Kurtis Danyluk., Bernhard Jenny and Wesley Willett.

UPDATE: Submission deadline has been pushed to Feb 16.

Immersive Analytics is concerned with the design and evaluation of interactive next-generation interfaces that support human understanding, data analysis, and decision making. New immersive technologies present many opportunities for enhancing humans’ experiences with data interaction, but also present many challenges, a subset of which are specific to the analytics domain. This workshop is centered around a set of group prototyping sessions, aimed at identifying new approaches to existing design challenges. In addition to giving perspective on opportunities and difficulties faced by future designers, these exercises will also explore new prototyping methods and tools for the design of interactive data-centric interfaces. This part-day workshop aims to build new ties between the existing immersive analytics community with researchers across many disciplines of the CHI community.

For more information, see the workshop website.

The Immersive Analytics book is now available for purchase:
https://www.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01388-2

Immersive Analytics contributed to 5 papers that will be presented at VIS this year:

• Origin-Destination Flow Maps in Immersive Environments. Y. Yang, T. Dwyer, B. Jenny, K. Marriott, M. Cordeil, and H. Chen.

• Graph Thumbnails: Identifying and Comparing Multiple Graphs at a Glance. V. Yoghourdjian, T. Dwyer, K. Klein, K. Marriott, and M. Wybrow.

• FiberClay: Sculpting Three Dimensional Trajectories to Reveal Structural Insights. C. Hurter, N. H. Riche, S. M. Drucker, M. Cordeil, R. Alligier, and R. Vuillemot.

• DXR: A Toolkit for Building Immersive Data Visualizations. R. Sicat, J. Li, J. Choi, M. Cordeil, W. Jeong, B. Bach and, H. Pfister.

• A Framework for Creative Visualization-Opportunities Workshops. J. Dykes, E. Kerzner, S. Goodwin, M. Meyer.

Congratulation to Yalong Yang, Vahan Yoghourdjian, Maxime Cordeil, Sarah Goodwin, Bernhard Jenny, Michael Wybrow, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, and their collaborators.

Announcing:

SummerViz 2018 – Australian Summer School on Data Visualization
5 February 2018 to 9 February 2018
Clayton Campus, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

https://immersive-analytics.infotech.monash.edu/summerviz2018/

If you are an Honours, Masters, or PhD student who is about to start a research project in data visualization, this is definitely the school for you.

Apply now.

The Monash Adaptive Visualisation Lab (MArVL) has become the Immersive Analytics Lab (IALab).

Steve Kieffer, recent IALab doctoral graduate, was just awarded the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2017. The award was presented to him last week at IEEE VIS 2017, the premier Visualisation conference.

Congratulations to Steve, and to his supervisors Kim Marriott, Tim Dwyer and Michael Wybrow.