Brown CS Continues Strong Levels Of VIS Participation
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on Oct. 27, 2015

As VIS 2015 (the premier combined conference for advances in visualization, co-located with the VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis conferences) arrives in Chicago this week, Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) continues its strong level of representation and participation, with a faculty member and a PhD candidate each contributing papers to two separate conferences. As of this writing, the Guo/Gomez/Ziemkiewicz/Laidlaw collaboration "A Case Study Using Visualization Interaction Logs and Insight Metrics to Understand How Analysts Arrive at Insights" has just received an Honorable Mention award.
“As VIS has grown, our Graphics, Visualization, and Interaction group has grown with it,” says Professor David Laidlaw. “We’ve always had strong representation, and this year, we’re contributing our usual large volume of varied and intriguing research.” The full list of papers is below, with single asterisks indicating papers with Brown CS alum co-authors, and double asterisks indicating papers with Brown CS faculty members or current student co-authors:
VAST
** A Case Study Using Visualization Interaction Logs and Insight Metrics to Understand How Analysts Arrive at Insights
* Characterizing Provenance in Visualization and Data Analysis: An Organizational Framework of Provenance Types and Purposes
* FeatureInsight: Visual Support for Error-Driven Feature Ideation in Text Classification
* Four Considerations for Supporting Visual Analysis in Display Ecologies
InfoVis
* Improving Bayesian Reasoning: The Effects of Phrasing, Visualization, and Spatial Ability
SciVis
** A Classification of User Tasks in Visual Analysis of Volume Data
* Visualization-by-Sketching: An Artist’s Interface for Creating Multivariate Time-Varying Data
Authors: David Schroeder, Daniel Keefe
TVCG
** Representing Uncertainty in Graph Edges: An Evaluation of Paired Visual Variables