Category: Featured Publication

Vistrates is a platform for a wide range of analytical activities from visual exploration to presentation. Each document in Vistrates (a vistrate) combines many analytical components into a flexible user interface based on the sensemaking activity and target users—in contrast…

Work done in collaboration between University of Maryland and Adobe Research introduces the concept of an “elastic” form a document that adapts its view based on content, the reader’s goals, and the reading device. Our user evaluations have shown the…

By Karthik Badam, Tom Horak, Niklas Elmqvist, and Raimund Dachselt Large touchscreens are common in meeting rooms and collaborative spaces in many modern offices. When analyzing data, they help groups of analysts to work together; for instance, to track the…

VizScribe, a visual analytics framework, can be used by researchers to understand collaboration by interactively exploring speech and video information along with other forms of data.…

A new tool called TopicLens allows the user to move through of large volumes of text while controlling the level of detail for each theme.…

New interaction models developed at University of Maryland and University of Manitoba utilize body and hand movement to perform data analysis on large wall-sized displays. …

In two new studies, iSchool researchers explore social media’s role in expressions of grief and responses to tragedies.…

CommentIQ, a new tool developed at the University of Maryland, combines interactive visuals and machine learning to automatically rate reader-submitted comments on editorial metrics such as readability, relevance, sentiment, profanity, and authority. CommentIQ has been deployed at the New York…

A new tool called TimeFork uses interactive graphics and state-of-the-art statistical models to allow traders to investigate multiple parallel universes for predicting the stock market.…