Research

2024

Better Little People Pictures: Generative Creation of Demographically Diverse Anthropographics
Priya Dhawka, Lauren Perera, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2024.
Input Visualization: Collecting and Modifying Data with Visual Representations
Nathalie Bressa, Jordan Louis, Wesley Willett, Samuel Huron. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2024.
Humanizing Data Using Demographically Diverse Anthropographics
Priya Dhawka and Wesley Willett. Urban Institute Do No Harm Guide: Crafting Equitable Data Narratives 2024. [Link]

2023

FlavourFrame: Visualizing Tasting Experiences
Lauryn Anderson, Lora Oehlberg, Wesley Willett. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2023. [Link]
FluencyAR: Augmented Reality Language Immersion
Shanna Li Ching Hollingworth, Willett. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2023 2023. [Link]
Enthusiastic and Grounded, Avoidant and Cautious: Understanding Public Receptivity to Data and Visualizations
Helen Ai HeJagoda WalnySonja ThomaSheelagh CarpendaleWesley Willett. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2021 2023. Best Paper Honorable Mention [Link]
Vis Futures Cards
Mackenzie Dalton, Charles Perin, Lora Oehlberg, Petra Isenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Wesley Willett. alt.VIS Workshop at IEEE VIS 2023. [Link]
HoloTouch: Interacting with Mixed Reality Visualizations Through Smartphone Proxies
Neil Chulpongsatorn , Wesley Willett , Ryo Suzuki. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2023. [Link]
We are the Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Creating Demographically Diverse Anthropographics
Priya Dhawka, Helen Ai He, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2023. [Link]

2022

EvoIsland: Interactive Evolution via an Island-Inspired Spatial User Interface Framework
Alexander Ivanov, Wesley Willett, Christian Jacob. ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2022. [Link]
Simultaneous Worlds: Supporting Fluid Exploration of Multiple Data Sets via Physical Models
Carmen Hull, Søren Knudsen, Sheelagh Carpendale, Wesley Willett. Graphics Interface 2022. [Link]
Data Every Day: Designing and Living with Personal Situated Visualizations
Nathalie Alexandra Bressa, Jo Vermeulen, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2022. [Link]
One Week in the Future: Previs Design Futuring for HCI Research
Alexander Ivanov, Tim Au Yeung, Kathryn Blair, Kurtis Danyluk, Georgina Freeman, Marcus Friedel, Carmen Hull, Michael Hung, Sydney Pratte, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2022. [Link]

2021

Perception! Immersion! Empowerment! Superpowers as Inspiration for Visualization
Wesley Willett, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Sheelagh Carpendale, Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen, Lora Oehlberg, Petra Isenberg. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2021. Best Paper Award [Video] [Medium] [CC-BY Images] [Link]
Visualizations as Data Input?
Samuel Huron and Wesley Willett. alt.VIS Workshop at IEEE VIS 2021. [Workshop] [Link]
I/O Bits: User-Driven, Situated, and Dedicated Self-Tracking
Kendra Wannamaker, Sandeep Kollannur, Marian Dörk, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2021. [Presentation] [Link]
Perspective Charts
Mia MacTavish, Katayoon Etemad, Faramarz Samavati, Wesley Willett. Graphics Interface 2021. [Presentation] [Link]
(Big) Data in Urban Design Practice: Supporting High-Level Design Tasks Using a Visualization of Human Movement Data from Smartphones
Angela Rout, Wesley Willett. Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management 2021. [Presentation] [Link]
A Design Space Exploration of Worlds in Miniature
Kurtis Danyluk, Barrett Ens, Bernhard Jenny, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2021. [Link]
Grand Challenges in Immersive Analytics
Barrett Ens, Benjamin Bach, Maxime Cordeil, Ulrich Engelke, Marcos Serrano, Wesley Willett (+18 more). ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2021. [Link]

2020

Activity River: Visualizing Planned and Logged Personal Activities for Reflection
Bon Adriel Aseniero, Charles Perin, Wesley Willett, Anthony Tang, Sheelagh Carpendale. International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2020. Best Paper Honorable Mention [Link]
Corsican Twin: Authoring In Situ Augmented Reality Visualisations in Virtual Reality
Arnaud Prouzeau, Yuchen Wang, Barrett Ens, Wesley Willett, Tim Dwyer. International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2020. Best Paper Award [Link]
Touch and Beyond: Comparing Physical and Virtual Reality Visualizations
Kurtis Danyluk, Teoman Ulusoy, Wei Wei, and Wesley Willett. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2020. [Video] [Link]
Interaction Techniques for Visual Exploration Using Embedded Word-Scale Visualizations
Pascal Goffin, Petra Isenberg, Tanja Blascheck, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2020. [Link]
PixelClipper: Supporting Public Engagement and Conversation About Visualizations
Jagoda Walny, Sarah Storteboom, Richard Pusch, Steven Munsu Hwang, Søren Knudsen, Sheelagh Carpendale, Wesley Willett. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications 2020. [Link]

2019

Belief At First Sight: Data Visualization And The Rationalization Of Seeing
Doris Kosminsky, Jagoda Walny, Jo Vermeulen, Søren Knudsen, Wesley Willett, Sheelagh Carpendale. Information Design Journal, 25 (1) 2019. [Link]
Data Changes Everything: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Design Handoff
Jagoda Walny, Christian Frisson, Mieka West, Doris Kosminsky, Søren Knudsen, Sheelagh Carpendale, Wesley Willett. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2019. InfoVis 2019 Best Paper Award. [Multiple Views post] [Link]
PADE: Supporting Collaborative Visual Analysis of Patient Administrative Systems Data with a Large Touch Display System
Søren Knudsen, Kasper Hornbæk. Proceedings of the 10th workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2019) 2019. [Link]
Sketching and Ideation Activities for Situated Visualization Design
Nathalie Bressa, Kendra Wannamaker, Henrik Korsgaard, Wesley Willett, Jo Vermeulen. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2019. [Link]
Look-From Camera Control for 3D Terrain Maps
Kurtis Danyluk, Bernhard Jenny, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019. Best Paper Honorable Mention [Link]
Augmented Reality Map Navigation with Freehand Gestures
Kadek Ananta Satriadi, Barrett Ens, Maxime Cordeil, Tobias Czauderna, Wesley Willett, Bernhard Jenny. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2019. [Link]
A Walk Among the Data: Exploration and Anthropomorphism in Immersive Unit Visualizations
Alexander Ivanov, Kurtis Danyluk, Christian Jacob, Wesley Willett. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications 2019. [Link]

2018

Exploration Strategies for Discovery of Interactivity in Visualizations
Tanja Blascheck, Lindsay MacDonald Vermeulen, Jo Vermeulen, Charles Perin, Wesley Willett, Thomas Ertl, Sheelagh Carpendale. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2018. [Link]
Data Tectonics: A Framework for Building Physical and Immersive Data Representations
Carmen Hull, Wesley J. Willett. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2018. [Link]
Evaluating Visual Data Analysis Systems: A Discussion Report
Leilani Battle, Marco Angelini, Carsten Binnig, Tiziana Catarci, Philipp Eichmann, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Giuseppe Santucci, Michael Sedlmair, Wesley Willett. HILDA Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics 2018. HAL [Link]
Exploration & Anthropomorphism in Immersive Unit Visualizations
Alexander Ivanov, Kurtis Thorvald, Wesley Willett. ACM: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018. [Link]
Kalgan: Video Player for Casual Language Learning
Sathaporn (Hubert) Hu, Wesley Willett. ACM: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018. [Link]

2017

Visibility Perception and Dynamic Viewsheds for Topographic Maps and Models
Nico Li, Wesley Willett, Ehud Sharlin, Mario Costa Sousa. ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction 2017. [Link]
Subjectivity in Personal Storytelling with Visualization
Alice Thudt, Charles Perin, Wesley Willett, Sheelagh Carpendale. Information Design Journal — Special Issue on Information VIsualization 2017. [Link]
Building with Data: Architectural Models as Inspiration for Data Physicalization
Carmen Hull and Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017. [Link]
Environmental Protection and Agency: Motivations, Capacity, and Goals in Participatory Sensing
Paul M. Aoki, Allison Woodruff, Baladitya Yellapragada, and Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017. [Link]
An Exploratory Study of Word-Scale Graphics in Data-Rich Text Documents
Pascal Goffin, Jeremy Boy, Wesley Willett, and Petra Isenberg. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2017. [Link]

2016

Interactive Shearing for Terrain Visualization: An Expert Study
Jonas Buddeberg, Wesley Willett, and Bernhard Jenny. Geoinformatica, Springer 2016. Interactive Demo [Link]
Embedded Data Representations
Wesley Willett, Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Dragicevic. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2016. [VIS 2016 Conference Talk] [Link]

2015

Design Considerations for Enhancing Word-Scale Visualizations with Interaction
Pascal Goffin, Wesley Willett, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Petra Isenberg. Posters of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization 2015. Poster [Link]
Sharing Information from Personal Digital Notes using Word-Scale Visualizations
Pascal Goffin, Wesley Willett, and Petra Isenberg. IEEE VIS Workshop – Personal Visualization: Exploring Data in Everyday Life 2015. Workshop Paper + Poster [Link]
Understanding Digital Note-Taking Practice for Visualization
Wesley Willett, Pascal Goffin, Petra Isenberg. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications 2015. [Link]
Exploring the Effect of Word-Scale Visualizations on Reading Behavior
Pascal Goffin, Wesley Willett, Anastasia Bezerianos, and Petra Isenberg. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2015. Poster [Link]
Lightweight Relief Shearing for Enhanced Terrain Perception on Interactive Maps
Wesley Willett, Bernhard Jenny, Tobias Isenberg, Pierre Dragicevic. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System 2015. Best Paper Award. [Study Materials] [Link]
Patterns of Physical Design Remixing in Online Maker Communities
Lora Oehlberg, Wesley Willett, and Wendy E. Mackay. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2015. [Link]

2014

Exploring the Placement and Design of Word-Scale Visualizations
Pascal Goffin, Wesley Willett, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Petra Isenberg. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2014. [Link]
Eliciting Multi-touch Selection Gestures for Interactive Data Graphics
Wesley Willett, Qi Lan, and Petra Isenberg. Short-Paper Proceedings of the European Conference on Visualization 2014. [Link]

2013

Hybrid-Image Visualization for Large Viewing Environments
Petra Isenberg, Pierre Dragicevic, Wesley Willett, Anastasia Bezerianos, and Jean-Daniel Fekete. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2013. [Examples & Presentations] [Source] [Video] [Link]
Identifying Redundancy and Exposing Provenance in Crowdsourced Data Analysis
Wesley Willett, Shiry Ginosar, Avital Steinitz, Björn Hartmann, and Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2013. [Link]

2012

Strategies for Crowdsourcing Social Data Analysis
Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, and Maneesh Agrawala. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012. [Link]

2011

CommentSpace: Structured Support for Collaborative Visual Analysis
Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Joseph Hellerstein, and Maneesh Agrawala.. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011. Best Paper Honorable Mention [Link]

2010

Common Sense Community: Scaffolding Mobile Sensing and Analysis for Novice Users
Wesley Willett, Paul Aoki, Neil Kumar, Sushmita Subramanian, and Allison Woodruff. Pervasive Computing 2010. Best Paper Award [Link]