Design studies

Abstract

How can we turn domain problems into actionable vis tools? Many of our research projects are problem-driven: we collaborate with domain experts with driving data analysis problemsand design novel visual analysis solutions with and for them. Following a human-centered design process, our goal is toprovide our collaborators with more effective and efficient ways of analyzingtheir data. We then engage in abstracting our problem-driven findings intomore general insights useful for the visualization and data science communities. In our design studies, we, for instance, collaborated with fisheries managers, automotive engineers, mathematicians, biologists and bioinformaticians, special effects designers, and others.

Principal Investigators

• Torsten Möller
• Thomas Torsney-Weir

Papers

Hue-Preserving Color Blending
Johnson Chuang, Daniel Weiskopf, Torsten Möller
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2009), vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1275--1282, Nov.-Dec. 2009. 

Energy Aware Color Sets
Johnson Chuang, Daniel Weiskopf, Torsten Möller
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings Eurographics Conference 2009), vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 203--211, March 2009. 

ProbExplorer: Uncertainty-guided Exploration and Editing of Probabilistic Medical Image Segmentation
Saad, Ahmed and Möller, Torsten and Hamarneh, Ghassa
pp. 1113-1122 ISSN - (2010)

Result-Driven Exploration of Simulation Parameter Spaces for Visual Effects Design
Stefan Bruckner, Torsten Möller
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2010), vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1467--1475, Nov.-Dec. 2010

Exploration and Visualization of Segmentation Uncertainty using Shape and Appearance Prior Information
Ahmed Saad, Ghassan Hamarneh, Torsten Möller
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2010), vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1365--1374, Nov.-Dec. 2010. 

DimStiller: Workflows for dimensional analysis and reduction
Stephen Ingram, Tamara Munzner, Veronika Irvine, Melanie Tory, Steven Bergner, Torsten Möller
Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics in Science and Technology (VAST) 2010, October 2010. 

Isosurface Similarity Maps
Stefan Bruckner, Torsten Möller
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2010 (EuroVis 2010)), vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 773-782, Bordeaux, France, June 2010. 

Tuner: Principled Parameter Finding for Image Segmentation Algorithms Using Visual Response Surface Exploration
Torsney-Weir, Thomas and Saad, A. and Möller, Torsten and Hege, H. and Weber, B. and Verbavatz, J. and Bergner, Steven
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17 (12). pp. 1892-1901 ISSN 1077-2626 (2011)

A Survey on Music Listening and Management Behaviours
Mohsen Kamalzadeh, Dominikus Baur, Torsten Möller
Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) pp. xxxx--xxxx, Porto, Portugal, Oct. 2012. 

An Interactive Analysis and Exploration Tool for Epigenomic Data
Younesy, Hamidreza and Nielsen, Cydney B. and Möller, Torsten and Alder, Olivia and Cullum, Rebecca and Lorincz, Matthew C. and Karimi, Mehdi M. and Jones, Steven J. M.
pp. 91-100 ISSN 0167-7055 (2013)

Vismon: Facilitating Analysis of Trade-Offs, Uncertainty, and Sensitivity In Fisheries Management Decision Making 
Booshehrian, Maryam and Möller, Torsten and Peterman, Randall M. and Munzner, Tamara
ISSN 1467-8659 (2012)

Visualization Task Performance with 2D, 3D, and Combination Displays
Melanie Tory, Arthur E. Kirkpatrick, M. Stella Atkins, Torsten Möller
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, TVCG 12(1): 2-13, January 2006.

Combining 2D and 3D Views for Orientation and Relative Position Tasks
Melanie K. Tory, Torsten Möller, M. Stella Atkins, Arthur E. Kirkpatrick
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004), CHI Letters, 6(1), April 2004. 

Assessing User Proficiency through Virtual Simulations
Don Stredney, Roni Yagel, Wayne Carlson, Torsten Möller, Po-Wen Shih, Mark Fontana
Proceedings of RESNA '97, Annual Meeting of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 20-24, 1997, pp 366-368.