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Information Visualization
Allowing users to perceive and interact with information is an active area of UI research. In
our work, we focus on specific application areas, and seek to tailor visualization needs to
an audience.
Our projects in this area include interaction techniques for use on small screens, work on
analyzing information in large data repositories, and work in interfaces for ubiquitous
computing environments.
Histogram Visualizations of Data Sets
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In joint work with the Microsoft Bay Area Research Center, we are examining information visualizations
for the MyLifeBits project. This project seeks to organize the information available from
a person's life in electronic form. With this vast repository of information available, our work
seeks to design visualizations that allow people to perceive patterns in their own data sets.
More information is available here.
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Small Screen Visualizations
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Drawing on a small display presents its own challenges. This project seeks to design effective
interfaces for use on small displays. To do this, we work on display surface distortion techniques
to compress context information while providing a high-resolution focus area where a user can act.
More details on this project are available here.
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Visualizing User Behavior
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Perceiving the activities of users in a ubiquitous environment, thus enabling interaction is another
area we are exploring.
Interfaces are needed that communicate awareness of the activities of other participants and allow
users to control aspects of the environment. Our project page
describes the implementation of this controller.
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BioMedia: A Multimedia Data Repository
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Researchers in Biology, in all fields, capture vast amounts of data. This data, however, is often
poorly managed, stored in repositories that are only accessible to one group.
Research generated by the community is typically also only available to the research group
that produces it. The purpose of this project is to leverage Computer Science know-how in
databases and Human-Computer Interaction to design information repositories that are
available to the broader research community. More information on our community information
repository project, BioMedia, is available here.
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