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<div class="moz-forward-container">You probably saw the announcement
of Donghao's thesis proposal tomorrow morning. Apologies for the
early-bird time slot. It was the only time that worked for the
whole committee...<br>
<br>
Maybe some brave souls will find their way to the conference room
tomorrow morning. Everyone welcome! <br>
I'll try to be there myself ;) <br>
<br>
Tobias<br>
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<td>[FACULTY] PhD Proposal -- Donghao Ren</td>
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<td>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:28:33 -0800</td>
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<td>benji <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:benji@cs.ucsb.edu"><benji@cs.ucsb.edu></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:benji@cs.ucsb.edu">benji@cs.ucsb.edu</a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu"><faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:grads@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">grads@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:grads@lists.cs.ucsb.edu"><grads@lists.cs.ucsb.edu></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lecturers@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">lecturers@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lecturers@lists.cs.ucsb.edu"><lecturers@lists.cs.ucsb.edu></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:research@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">research@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:research@lists.cs.ucsb.edu"><research@lists.cs.ucsb.edu></a>, Nicole McCoy
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nicolem@cs.ucsb.edu"><nicolem@cs.ucsb.edu></a></td>
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<b>Committee:</b> Tobias Hollerer (Chair), Matthew Turk, George
Legrady, Bongshin Lee<br>
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<b>Title:</b> Visualization Authoring for Data-driven Storytelling<br>
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<b>Abstract: </b><br>
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Data visualization helps human beings gain insights into data and
communicate their findings. However, most current visualization
creation tools either only support fixed sets of designs or
require an in-depth understanding of programming concepts. To
enable general audiences to create custom visualizations for
data-driven storytelling, we design interactions and implement
user interfaces for visualization authoring. In the first part of
the dissertation, we introduce and evaluate a series of three
visualization authoring tools using traditional user interfaces:
(1) iVisDesigner, which uses a data-flow model and enables users
to author visualizations by specifying mappings from data to
graphics interactively. (2) ChartAccent, a tool for annotating a
given visualization; and (3) Charticulator, which allows users to
design custom layouts interactively. In the second part, we extend
our approach to multiple presentation media or display
environments, including traditional 2-dimensional screens, large
projection-based virtual-reality (VR) systems, and head-mounted
virtual/augmented reality displays (HMDs). To leverage such
immersive visualization environments, we ported and extended the
iVisDesigner authoring approach to projection-based virtual
reality. To facilitate the development of immersive
visualizations, we built a visualization library called Stardust,
which provides a familiar API to utilize GPU processing power in a
cross-platform way. Using Stardust and incorporating ideas from
iVisDesigner and Charticulator, we present a novel system for
authoring data-driven stories in virtual and augmented reality.<br>
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Everyone welcome!<br>
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