Visual Thinking Lab

Visual Thinking Lab @ Northwestern U
PI: @SteveFranconeri

[Liz Gerber @elizgerber]

How should we design animated data visualizations that respect visual processing capacity asks @nu_hci Design Fellow @OuxunJiang of @VisThinkingLab

[Visual Thinking Lab @VisThinkingLab]

We are hiring! Lab manager opportunity for graduating seniors + recent college grads — official posting linked below

[Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern @IPRatNU]

Research by @SteveFranconeri suggests you can't let data speak for itself. He finds decluttered graphs that focus on a key point are better understood and remembered. https://t.co/1cdYOGSmgR

[Cristina Ceja, PhD @CristinaRCeja]

I'm thrilled to share that I've won the 2021 @APA Dissertation Research Award!! Special thanks to @APA for funding my research and the @VisThinkingLab for being the best lab a girl could ask for 🥰 Now time to get this dissertation done!

[Cindy Xiong Bearfield @thecindyxiong]

Our latest with @vsetlur @eunyeekoh @SteveFranconeri @benjbach @kylierlin for #ieeevis:

https://t.co/zQ6VxDcdZU

The way that you arrange values in a chart causes viewers to make different comparisons in data, leading them to different takeaways. Even experts can get it wrong!

[Fumeng Yang @fumeng_yang]

Everybody is talking about #ieeevis right now... Don’t forget to check out our #VIS2021 paper "Rethinking the ranks of visual channels"!
preprint, data, & code: https://t.co/8WfRDFTJQB
authors: @McColeman_, me, @timothyfbrady, @SteveFranconeri

[Ghulam Jilani Quadri @jiquad]

Looking for a comprehensive review of perception-related studies on #VIS? Excited to share our survey paper "A Survey of Perception-Based Visualization Studies by Task" accepted at @ieee_tvcg with @PaulRosenPHD. Preprint: https://t.co/vrKALUmvyy Web: https://t.co/CiHB4hus2o 1/10

[ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ʜᴀᴇʜɴ @danielhaehn]

The Chart Question Answering Workshop at @CVPR 2021 is hosting the CQA Challenge to test how different algorithms can generalize across graphical perception stimuli. You have a few more weeks to participate :) More details: https://t.co/mCGVCSnHLz

[Cindy Xiong Bearfield @thecindyxiong]

It happened! I'm extremely lucky to have an amazing committee, @SteveFranconeri @ProfRapp + Satoru! Also thank you to everyone that has supported me in the past five years, maybe the real Dr. is the friends we made along the way...

[Alireza Karduni @don_kordeone]

Nothing beats to know that after the #ieeevis deadline, I'll be joining Northwestern University as a Postdoc to work with @JessicaHullman , @SteveFranconeri , and @mjskay . Super excited to collaborate with great people & researchers whose work has already greatly influenced mine

[Northwestern University Computer Science @northwesterncs]

Postdoctoral fellows Kathryn Cunningham and Emily Wall are advancing the field of #computerscience research. @katieirenec studies the way novices learn to program, and @profembwall studies decision making using data visualization and visual analytics. #WomensHistoryMonth2021

[Rice VCS @VCSRice]

1/ Today we're highlighting #RiceVCS speaker Dr. Steven Franconeri (@SteveFranconeri) Professor of Psychology at @NorthwesternU and Director of the Northwestern Cognitive Science Program (@nucogsci). #viscom #dataviz #datavis

[IEEE VIS @ieeevis]

We’re supposed to care about precision. And position along a common axis like in scatterplots is supposed to be the most precise! So, in our #ieeevis paper, @FILWD @birdbassador and @SteveFranconeri ask: “Why Shouldn’t All Charts Be Scatterplots?” https://t.co/RhcxcaABw0

[IEEE VIS @ieeevis]

@VISxVISION organizers @MadisonAElliott @theCindyXiong @CNothelfer & @DAlbersSzafir created a design space of vision science research methods for visualizations. Check it out here: https://t.co/WHbJZgZM17! #ieeevis

[IEEE VIS @ieeevis]

How accurately can we recall data in bar charts? Surprisingly, the aspect ratios of the bar marks can impact our memory! People overestimate wide bars and underestimate tall bars. Paper: https://t.co/aLXSCPmqKK @CristinaRCeja @McColeman_ @thecindyxiong @SteveFranconeri #ieeevis

[Emily Wall @profembwall]

Excited to announce that next week, I begin at @NorthwesternU as a Postdoctoral Fellow with @JessicaHullman and @SteveFranconeri. I've also accepted a position in the Computer Science department at @EmoryUniversity in Fall '21.

P.S.: I still don't know how to set up a printer

[Cindy Xiong Bearfield @thecindyxiong]

Sharing some good news: I'll be joining the College of Information and Computer Science at @UMassAmherst as an assistant professor next year! Big thanks to my advisor @SteveFranconeri and mentors @ProfRapp, @JessicaHullman , @CasLudwig, and everyone who helped me along the way!

[Evanthia Dimara @anthi_dimara]

It’s tough to organize data to make complex decisions in your organization. We want to design a software tool to help. Help us customize it to your needs by completing a 15' survey at https://t.co/3gNHAXYukf and please forward to your manager & colleagues! https://t.co/nRtg3h5uER

[Nicholas Gaspelin @nickgaspelin]

Here's a cool paper about illusory conjunctions by @CristinaRCeja. Basically, when participants spread attention diffusely, they misperceived colored shapes presented near fixation.

https://t.co/Kp5kacgYPR

This is a fun demo of the basic effect:
https://t.co/ozNy3bG96G

[Cindy Xiong Bearfield @thecindyxiong]

Check out this cool project by @CristinaRCeja showing a color-location misbinding illusion 🤩