DATA EXPERIENCE  LAB

The Data Experience Lab explores new visual tools, interactions, and experiences that allow analysts, enthusiasts, and communities to visualize, share, and live with data.
We are part of the University of Calgary's Interactions Lab.

BOOK

Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World

RECENT COLLABORATIONS

SEVEN — Inria-Calgary Associated Team on Situated and Embedded Visualization ENvironments
EnergyVis — Accessible Open Data Visualization for the Canada Energy Regulator

The Lab

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Recent Publications

CaGIS 2026

Ring Maps: Simplified, Egocentric, and Topology-Preserving Views for Augmented Reality Navigation
Kurtis Danyluk, Bernhard Jenny, Barrett Ens, Wesley Willett. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 2026. [Link]

DIS 2026

Slowing Down and Pushing Boundaries: What Space Bicycles Can Teach Us About Data, Interaction, and Active Mobility
Karly Ross, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2026. [Link]

CHI 2026

ThreeTopo: Focused Interactive Navigation for Multi-Pitch Rock Climbing
Ben Pearman, Kurtis Danyluk, Wesley Willett. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2026. Best Paper Award [App] [Video] [Link]

SUI 2025

RealitySummary: Exploring On-Demand Mixed Reality Text Summarization and Question Answering using Large Language Models
Aditya Gunturu, Shivesh Singh Jadon, Nandi Zhang, Morteza Faraji, Jarin Thundathil, Wesley Willett, Ryo Suzuki. ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interfaces 2025. [Link]

UIST 2025

MapStory: Prototyping Editable Map Animations with LLM Agents
Aditya Gunturu, Ben Pearman, Keiichi Ihara, Morteza Faraji, Bryan Wang, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2025. [Link]

VISions of the Future Workshop at IEEE VIS 2024

(Almost) All Data is Absent Data
Karly Ross, Pratim Sengupta, Wesley Willett. VISions of the Future Workshop at IEEE VIS 2024. [Link]
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