Effective Visual Communication
“The Purpose of Computing is Insight, not Numbers” -- Hamming
The evaluation side of my research is to understand how human make use of the visual system to understand visualization. The purpose is to design effective visualization to transfer the unseen (the abstract and symbolic data) into knowledge (insight and discoveries related to scientific domain).
The methods I use include the following:
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Augment human cognitive and perceptual abilities -
Study why a visualization works but not just which one works
Exploring Cognitive Strategies for Integrating Multiple-View Visualizations, Young-Sam Ryu, Beth A. Yost, Gregorio Convertino, Jian Chen, and Chris North, Proceedings of Human Factor and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting, 2003 (Best paper)
Exploring Context Switching and Cognition in Dual-View Coordinated Visualizations, Gregorio Convertino, Jian Chen, Beth A. Yost, Young-Sam Ryu, and Chris North, Proceedings of the International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, 57-66, 2003.
Some Effects of Three-dimensional Stereo Display Characteristics on 3D Vector Field Visualization , Jian Chen, Andrew S. Forsberg, Cagatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw, In review.
Modeling Perceptual Dominance Among Visual Cues in Multilayered Icon-based Scientific Visualization, Daniel Acevedo, Jian Chen and David H. Laidlaw, IEEE Visualization poster, 2007.
Posters
Interacting with Visible Human Data Using an ImmersaDesk, Ching-yao Lin, David T. Chen, R. Bowen Loftin, Jian Chen, and Ernst L. Leiss, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality, 267-268, 2002.
The Effects of Using Large, High-Resolution Stereoscopic Displays for Flow Visualization, Jian Chen, Andraw S. Forsberg, David M. Willis, and David H. Laidlaw, SIGGRAPH 2007 poster [acceptance rate: 37%].
Alfred Inselberg, Rachael Brady, Daniel Coming, Laura Monroe, and Jian Chen, Visualization and Simulation on Immersive Display Devices, International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, NV, December 2008.
Robert Lindeman, Gabriel Zachmann, Kristopher Bolm, Kristopher Blom, Jian Chen, Gerwin de Haan, and Andrew Raji, Building the Future of - and a Career in - VR, IEEE Virtual Reality, 2008.
David H. Laidlaw, Victoria Interrante, William Ribarsky, and Jian Chen, Getting Human-Centered Computing and Scientific Visualization Married: the Myth and Critical Issues, IEEE Visualization 2007.
Panels
Increased Display Size and Resolution Improve Task Performance In Information-Rich Virtual Environments, Tao Ni, Doug A. Bowman, and Jian Chen, Proceedings of Graphics Interface, 139-146, 2006.
