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October 2024 At IEEE VIS, we will present two journal papers: one on “V-Mail: 3D-Enabled Correspondence about Spatial Data on (Almost) All Your Devices” and another one on “Visualizing and Comparing Machine Learning Predictions to Improve Human-AI Teaming on the Example of Cell Lineage” that are published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
September 2024 I will be giving an invited talk at VCBM 2024 in Magdeburg on the “Visualization of Species Distributions based on Social Media Data and a Couple of Surprises and Insights”.
June 2024 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for the journal paper on our A Survey of Designs for Combined 2D+3D Visual Representations.
May 2024 🏆 At EuroVis EG Logo 2024, I received a Reviewing Honorable Mention Award.
April 2024 At IEEE PacificVis 2024, we presented our paper on “A Survey of Designs for Combined 2D+3D Visual Representations” that is also published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
February 2024 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for our journal paper on the MeTACAST selection techniques, specifically for the analysis of our experimental data.
December 2023 We received Graphics Replicability Stamps for two journal papers, one on the design characterization for black-and-white textures in visualization and one on visualizing and comparing machine learning predictions to improve human-AI teaming.
November 2023 Yucheng Lu 陆禹承 started as my new PhD student, exploring Hybrid AR-Desktop Scientific Exploration Environments.
October 2023 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for our journal paper on the V-Mail system and approach.
October 2023 🏆 At IEEE VIS, our 2009 SciVis paper “Depth-Dependent Halos: Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data” received the 14 Year SciVis Test-of-Time Award.
October 2023 At IEEE VIS, we presented two papers: one on “Design Characterization for Black-and-White Textures in Visualization” and another one on “MeTACAST: Target- and Context-aware Spatial Selection in VR”. Both are also journal articles that are published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
October 2023 At IEEE VIS, we also presented a paper on “Data Embroidery with Black-and-White Textures” at the alt.VIS workshop.
August 2023 Our journal article on “Visualizing and Comparing Machine Learning Predictions to Improve Human-AI Teaming on the Example of Cell Lineage” was accepted to the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. We will present this work at IEEE VIS 2024.
June 2023 I gave a keynote at the FARIvis workshop at EuroVis EG Logo 2023 and talked about “Toward FAIR Visualization of Visualization Research”.
June 2023 At EuroVis EG Logo 2023 we also presented the MolVA workshop paper “Moliverse: Contextually Embedding the Microcosm into the Universe” (published in the journal Computers & Graphics) and the Computer Graphics Forum state of the art article on the “State of the Art of Molecular Visualization in Immersive Virtual Environments”.
March 2023 Our journal article on “Molecumentary: Adaptable Narrated Documentaries Using Molecular Visualization” was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. We presented this work at IEEE VIS.
February 2023 I contributed to a journal article on the “Moliverse: Contextually Embedding the Microcosm into the Universe”, which was just accepted to the Computer & Graphics. We will present this work later this year at the MolVA workshop at EuroVis EG Logo 2023.
February 2023 🎓 My PhD student Jiayi Hong 洪佳怡 successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Machine Learning Supported Interactive Visualization of Hybrid 3D and 2D Data for the Example of Plant Cell Lineage Specification” on February 14. Congratulations Jiayi!
January 2023 I contributed to a journal article on the “State of the Art of Molecular Visualization in Immersive Virtual Environments”, which was just accepted to the Computer Graphics Forum. We will present this work later this year at EuroVis EG Logo 2023.
January 2023 I was invited (and accepted) to serve as associate editor for the journal Computer Graphics Forum, for the four-year term 2023–2026.

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December 2022 Our journal article on “V-Mail: 3D-Enabled Correspondence about Spatial Data on (Almost) All Your Devices” was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. We'll present this work later at IEEE VIS 2024.
December 2022 Our journal article on “Point Specification in Collaborative Visualization for 3D Scalar Fields Using Augmented Reality” is published in Springer's Virtual Reality journal.
November 2022 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for our journal paper on the BeauVis scale, specifically for the analysis of our experimental data.
October 2022 At IEEE VIS, we presented the paperBeauVis: A Validated Scale for Measuring the Aesthetic Pleasure of Visual Representations”, which appears as a journal article in TVCG.
October 2022 At IEEE VIS, we also presented two TVCG journal articles: one on “Molecumentary: Adaptable Narrated Documentaries Using Molecular Visualization” and one on “Do You Believe Your (Social Media) Data? A Personal Story on Location Data Biases, Errors, and Plausibility as well as their Visualization”.
October 2022 Next, at IEEE VIS, together with Robert S. Laramee, Petra Isenberg, and Torsten Möller, I co-organized the panelIs This (Panel) Good Enough for IEEE VIS?”, with panelists Cody Dunne, Alexander Lex, Torsten Möller, Alvitta Ottley, and Melanie Tory.
October 2022 Finally, at IEEE VIS, we also presented the posterA Design Space for Linked 2D and 3D Visual Representations”.
September 2022 We contributed to a journal article on “Challenges of Intracellular Visualization using Virtual and Augmented Reality” published in the journal Frontiers in Bioinformatics.
August 2022 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for our journal paper on the Hybrid Touch/Tangible Spatial Selection in AR.
July 2022 Our journal articleUnderstanding Differences between Combinations of 2D and 3D Input and Output Devices for 3D Data Visualization” is published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
July 2022 We received two Graphics Replicability Stamps for journal papers, one for our work on the LineageD system and one for our VIS30K Dataset.
June 2022 🏆 David Kouřil, who I had the pleasure of mentoring for part of his PhD, received the EuroVis PhD Award 2022. Congratulations, David!
June 2022 At EuroVis EG Logo 2022, we presented two papers: “LineageD: An Interactive Visual System for Plant Cell Lineage Assignments based on Correctable Machine Learning” and “Hybrid Touch/Tangible Spatial Selection in Augmented Reality”. Both were also published as journal articles in the Computer Graphics Forum.
June 2022 I also presented a workshop paper at the EuroVis EG Logo workshop VisGap on my “Personal Experiences of Providing and Using Research Prototypes”.
June 2022 Our journal article on a survey on collaborative work in augmented reality is published in the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
June 2022 We received our first Graphics Replicability Stamp, for our journal paper on the Analysis of Errors, Biases, and Plausibility in Social Media Data.
December 2021 I co-authored two book chapters on “Mobile Data Visualization”, which now were published in the respective book by CRC Press.
December 2021 Our journal article on “Do You Believe Your (Social Media) Data? A Personal Story on Location Data Biases, Errors, and Plausibility as well as their Visualization” was accepted to the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. We presented this work at IEEE VIS.
December 2021 🎓 My PhD student Mickaël Sereno successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Collaborative Data Exploration and Discussion with Augmented Reality Support” on December 14. Congratulations Mickaël!
November 2021 Our journal article on “Molecumentary: Adaptable Narrated Documentaries Using Molecular Visualization” was accepted to the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. We presented this work at IEEE VIS.
October 2021 At the virtual IEEE VIS conference, we presented two TVCG journal articles: one on our VIS30K image and figure dataset of IEEE Visualization Conference Publications and one on our work on “Multiscale Unfolding: Illustratively Visualizing the Whole Genome at a Glance”.
October 2021 Tingying He 何汀滢 started as a new PhD student with me, exploring a design space for visual data mapping for low-color displays.
September 2021 I co-hosted the Eurographics VCBM workshop on “Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine” as a general chair in Paris.
September 2021 We presented our paper on “Document Domain Randomization for Deep Learning Document Layout Extraction” at the ICDAR conference.
September 2021 Our journal article about the VIS30K image and figure dataset of IEEE Visualization Conference Publications was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. We presented this work at IEEE VIS.
August 2021 Our journal article on “HyperLabels—Browsing of Dense and Hierarchical Molecular 3D Models” was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. We presented the paper at IEEE VIS in October 2020.
June 2021 We presented our CGF journal articleThe State of the Art of Spatial Interfaces for 3D Visualization” at the virtual EuroVis EG Logo conference.
May 2021 We presented our conference paper on the “Design and Evaluation of Three Selection Techniques for Tightly Packed 3D Objects in Cell Lineage Specification in Botany” at the Graphics Interface conference.
May 2021 We presented our work on curve complexity heuristic KD-trees for neighborhood-based exploration of 3D curves at the Eurographics conference, and the paper was published as a journal article in the Computer Graphics Forum.
March 2021 We presented our survey on collaborative work in augmented reality (journal article in TVCG) at the virtual IEEE VR conference.
February 2021 Our journal article on “Multiscale Unfolding: Illustratively Visualizing the Whole Genome at a Glance” was accepted to the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. We presented this work at IEEE VIS.
February 2021 Our journal article on the state of the art of spatial interfaces for 3D visualization was published in the journal Computer Graphics Forum.
December 2020 🎓 My PhD student Xiyao Wang 王曦耀 successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Augmented Reality Environments for the Interactive Exploration of 3D Data” on December 16. Congratulations Xiyao!
December 2020 🎓 My PhD student Sarkis Halladjian successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Spatially Integrated Abstraction of Genetic Molecules” on December 14. Congratulations Sarkis!
October 2020 At the virtual IEEE , we presented a journal paper on “HyperLabels—Browsing of Dense and Hierarchical Molecular 3D Models”.
October 2020 🏆 At the virtual IEEE VIS, we also presented four posters: one on “Tangible Volumetric Brushing in Augmented Reality”, one on “An Interactive System for Analyzing Plant Embryo Cell Division”, one on “Subjective Views in Co-Located Augmented Reality”, and one on “Black-and-White Textures for Visualization on E-ink Displays”. The last two of these received the SciVis and InfoVis best poster design awards, respectively!
October 2020 Our survey on collaborative work in augmented reality was accepted as a journal article to be published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
August 2020 Our book chapter on “Visual Abstraction” was published by Springer.
April 2020 We did not present our conference paper on “Towards an Understanding of Augmented Reality Extensions for Existing 3D Data Analysis Tools” at ACM CHI, because CHI was cancelled due to Covid-19. Nonetheless, we presented the paper virtually.
January 2020 Jiayi Hong 洪佳怡 started as my new PhD student, working on interactive visualization and classification of temporal development in 3D datasets.
December 2019 My former PhD student Lonni Besançon gave a TEDx talk about our work on reducing affective responses to surgical images through color manipulation and stylization.
October 2019 Our extended journal article on “Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images through Color Manipulation and Stylization” was accepted to the journal Computer Graphics Forum.
October 2019 We presented our journal article on “ScaleTrotter: Illustrative Visual Travels Across Negative Scales” at IEEE VIS.
October 2019 We also presented a poster on “Exploring Carnivorous Plant Habitats based on Images from Social Media” at IEEE VIS.
August 2019 Our journal article on “A Model of Spatial Directness in Interactive Visualization” has been published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
June 2019 🏆 I was named Editor of the Year of the journal Computers & Graphics
June 2019 We presented two journal articles at EuroVis EG Logo 2019: one on “Augmenting Tactile 3D Data Navigation With Pressure Sensing” and one on “Hybrid Touch/Tangible Spatial 3D Data Selection”.
May 2019 We presented a workshop paper on “A Vision of Bringing Immersive Visualization to Scientific Workflows” at the CHI 2019 Workshop on Immersive Analytics: Interaction Design and Prototyping for Immersive Analytics.
May 2019 Our journal article on “Analysis of Drawing Characteristics for Reproducing Traditional Hand-Made Stippling” is published in the journal Computers & Graphics.
March 2019 Our survey article on “Multiscale Molecular Visualization” was published in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
October 2018 We presented our journal paper on “A Model of Spatial Directness in Interactive Visualization” at IEEE VIS.
October 2018 We also presented a poster on “Situated Visualizations of Office Noise to Promote Personal Health” at IEEE VIS.
October 2018 Mickaël Sereno started as my new PhD student, working on collaborative data exploration and discussion supported by AR.
September 2018 Our journal article entitled “Pondering the Concept of Abstraction in (Illustrative) Visualization” has been published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
September 2018 Our journal article on a “A Survey of Surface-Based Illustrative Rendering for Visualization” has been published in the journal Computers Graphics Forum.
August 2018 We presented the conference paperReducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images through Color Manipulation and Stylization” at Expressive 2018.
June 2018 🏆 My former PhD student Lonni Besançon received a PhD thesis prize honorable mention award from GDR, AFIG, AFRV, and EGFR for his thesis “An interaction Continuum for 3D Data Visualization.” Congratulations!
June 2018 We presented two papers at at EuroVis EG Logo 2018: “DimSUM: Dimension and Scale Unifying Maps for Visual Abstraction of DNA Origami Structures” and the TVCG journal article “Pondering the Concept of Abstraction in (Illustrative) Visualization.”
February 2018 Our projectNAVISCOPE: image-guided Navigation and VIsualization of large data sets in live cell imaging and microSCOPy” has been accepted and is funded.
December 2017 🎓 Lonni Besançon defended his PhD thesis on “An Interaction Continuum for 3D Data Visualization”. Congratulations!
November 2017 Xiyao Wang 王曦耀 started as my new PhD student, working on augmented reality environments for the interactive exploration of 3D data.
October 2017 We presented two papers at IEEE VIS 2017: one on “Multiscale Visualization and Scale-Adaptive Modification of DNA Nanostructures” and the previously published TVCG journal paper on “vispubdata.org: A Metadata Collection about IEEE Visualization (VIS) Publications”.
October 2017 We also presented a poster at IEEE VIS on “Augmenting Tactile 3D Data Exploration With Pressure Sensing”.
October 2017 Our journal article on “A Survey of Digital Stippling” is published in the journal Computers & Graphics.
September 2017 Our journal article entitled “vispubdata.org: A Metadata Collection about IEEE Visualization (VIS) Publications” is published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
September 2017 Sarkis Halladjian started as my new PhD student, working on spatially integrated abstraction of genetic molecules within the ILLUSTRARE project funded by ANR and FWF—a collaboration with Ivan Viola at TU Wien.
July 2017 We presented a conference paper on “Neural Style Transfer: A Paradigm Shift for Image-based Artistic Rendering?” at the joint Expressive Symposium (CAe, NPAR, SBIM).
May 2017 🏆 We presented two conference papers at CHI this year, one on “Mouse, Tactile, and Tangible Input for 3D Manipulation” and one on “Pressure-Based Gain Factor Control for Mobile 3D Interaction using Locally-Coupled Devices”. The latter paper received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award.
December 2016 My book chapter on “Interactive Exploration of 3D Scientific Visualizations on Large Display Surfaces” was published in the Springer book “Collaboration Meets Interactive Surfaces and Spaces: Theory and Practice”.
October 2016 At IEEE VIS 2016, we presented two papers: one on the “Hybrid Tactile/Tangible Interaction for 3D Data Exploration” and another one entitled “Visualization as Seen Through its Research Paper Keywords”.
October 2016 We also presented a poster at IEEE VIS 2016 on “Tangible Brush: Performing 3D Selection with Portable and Position-aware Devices”.
October 2016 Finally, I again co-organized the BELIV symposium on “Beyond Time And Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods For Visualization”, to be co-located with IEEE VIS 2016.
June 2016 We presented the state of the art report (STAR)A survey on Perceptually Motivated 3D Visualization of Medical Image Data” at EuroVis EG Logo 2016, which was also published as a journal article in the Computer Graphics Forum.
May 2016 I presented a meta paper on “Interactive NPAR: What type of tools should we create?” at Expressive 2016.
May 2016 Our journal article entitled “Towards an Understanding of Mobile Touch Navigation in a Stereoscopic Viewing Environment for 3D Data Exploration” was published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
November 2015 I co-organized DEXIS 2015, a workshop on Visual Data Exploration on Interactive Surfaces at the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces.
November 2015 At SIGGRAPH Asia 2015, we were invited to repeat the presentation of our IEEE VIS 2015 paper on the “CAST: Effective and Efficient User Interaction for Context-Aware Selection in 3D Particle Clouds” in the invited TVCG session on visualization.
October 2015 At IEEE VIS 2015, we presented two papers: one on the “CAST: Effective and Efficient User Interaction for Context-Aware Selection in 3D Particle Clouds” and another one entitled “Occlusion-free Blood Flow Animation with Wall Thickness Visualization”.
October 2015 In addition, I presented two IEEE TVCG journal talks at IEEE VIS 2015: one on the “Exploration of the Brain’s White Matter Structure through Visual Abstraction and Multi-Scale Local Fiber Tract Contraction” and another one entitled “Towards an Understanding of Mobile Touch Navigation in a Stereoscopic Viewing Environment for 3D Data Exploration”.
October 2015 Finally, I co-presented a tutorial at IEEE VIS 2015 on the “Tools & Techniques for Direct Volume Interaction”.
July 2015 Our journal article on the “Exploration of the Brain’s White Matter Structure through Visual Abstraction and Multi-Scale Local Fiber Tract Contraction” was published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
June 2015 We presented a paper on the “Drawing Characteristics for Reproducing Traditional Hand-Made Stippling” at Expressive 2015.
June 2015 A survey paper of mine on Illustrative Visualization Techniques for Diffusion-Weighted MRI Tractography was published as a chapter in the Springer book on “Visualization and Processing of Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data”.
June 2015 We published a dataset on Visualization Publications at http://vispubdata.org/.
May 2015 I presented a keynote on “Illustrative Molecular Visualizations” at the conference of the “Groupe Thématique Enzymes” of the Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire and the “Groupe Graphisme & Modélisation Moléculaire”.
May 2015 I co-presented a tutorial on the “Tools & Techniques for Direct Volume Interaction” at Eurographics 2015.
April 2015 🏆 We presented the paperLightweight Relief Shearing for Enhanced Terrain Perception on Interactive Maps” at ACM CHI 2015. The paper received a Best Paper Award.
November 2014 I co-organized the Beliv 2014 workshop on “Beyond Time And Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods For Visualization”.
November 2014 We presented two posters at IEEE VIS, one on “Visualization According To Research Paper Keywords” and one on “Tablet-Based Interaction for Immersive 3D Data Exploration”. For the former check out our http://www.keyvis.org/ keyword search tool.
November 2014 Lonni Besançon started as my new PhD student, working on interactive visualization using touch input and tangibles.
October 2014 I gave an invited talk at Microsoft's eScience Workshop 2014 in Brazil about my work on tTouch interaction with scientific visualizations.
August 2014 I gave a journal talk at Expressive 2014 in Vancouver about my work on Visual Abstraction and Stylization of Maps.
July 2014 My “BrainVis” grant was funded on the visualization of structural and functional connectivity in the brain, the application deadline is September 15.
July 2014 I gave an invited lecture on “Innovative Interactive Systems for (Medical) Visualization” at the summer school of the “Software for the Use of Multi-Modality images in External Radiotherapy (SUMMER)” FP7 EU project.
June 2014 I gave an invited talk on direct-touch interaction for scientific visualization at the Forum on Tactile and Gestural Interaction in Tourcoing, France.
November 2013 A paper co-authored by myself on a research overview about visualization on interactive surfaces was published the journal i-com.
October 2013 I gave an invited talk on visualizations on surfaces at the workshop Mobile and Breaking News: New Challenges for News Information Visualizations.
October 2013 We presented the paperA Systematic Review on the Practice of Evaluating Visualization” at the IEEE VIS conference in Atlanta. We also presented a journal talk on our paper “Bristle Maps: A Multivariate Abstraction Technique for Geovisualization” at the same IEEE VIS conference. Finally, we showed the posterIllustrative Data Graphic in 18th–19th Century Style: A Case Study”.
October 2013 Together with Joaquim A. Jorge, I was the tutorials and workshops chair for ITS 2013.

(:cellnr style="width:25%; vertical-align: top;":) August 2013 (:cell:) Together with Amy Ulinski and Patrick O'Leary, I am organizing the Mobile Immersive Visualization workshop (WMIV 2013) at MobileCHI 2013.

July 2013 I presented a talk at the ACM/EG Expressive conference on our work on “Interactive Example-based Hatching”. I also presented a poster on “Illustrative Data Graphic Style Elements” as well as two Visual Showcase pieces—one each about the talk and the poster.
June 2013 🎓 My second “own” PhD student Lingyun Yu 俞凌云 has successfully defended her thesis on June 3. Congratulations Yun!
May 2013 A paper by Daniel F. Keefe and myself on a research agenda for future interactive scientific visualization tools was published the journal IEEE Computer.
May 2013 Our article on “The State of the ‘Art’: A Taxonomy of Artistic Stylization Techniques for Images and Videoappears in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
April 2013 🏆 We presented our paper on “Weighted Graph Comparison Techniques for Brain Connectivity Analysis” at ACM CHI 2013 and received a Best Paper Award for it.
March 2013 Our visualization viewpoints article on “Data Visualization on Interactive Surfaces: A Research Agenda” has appeared in the journal IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
March 2013 🎓 My first “own” PhD student Moritz Gerl has successfully defended his thesis on March 15. Congratulations Moritz!
March 2013 Our paper on “Bristle Maps: A Multivariate Abstraction Technique for Geovisualization” was accepted to the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
February 2013 My paper on visual abstraction and stylization of maps has now been published in The Cartographic Journal.
February 2013 Our paper on “Interactive Example-based Hatching” was published in the journal Computers & Graphics.
January 2013 A new book about non-photorealistic stylization has been published by Springer with two chapters that I wrote or co-authored: a chapter on the evaluation of NPR by myself and a chapter on stippling by Oliver Deussen and myself. Check them out!
December 2012 I started my new position as senior research scientist (directeur de recherche) with the AVIZ project team at INRIA-Saclay.
October 2012 🏆 Our paper on “Efficient Structure-Aware Selection Techniques for 3D Point Cloud Visualizations with 2DOF Input” received an Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the IEEE Scientific Visualization conference (VisWeek 2012).
October 2012 The VisWeek 2012 submissions were quite successful: we presented the papers “Efficient Structure-Aware Selection Techniques for 3D Point Cloud Visualizations with 2DOF Input,” “Sketchy Rendering for Information Visualization,” and “Evaluating Sketchiness as a Visual Variable for the Depiction of Qualitative Uncertainty” in Seattle.
October 2012 I co-organized the BELIV workshop at VisWeek 2012.
August 2012 Together with Paul Asente, John Collomosse, and T. Metin Sezgin, I was the guest editor of a special section on CAe, NPAR, and SBIM of the journal Computers & Graphics which has now been published.
June 2012 We presented the paper “A Design Study of Direct-Touch Interaction for Exploratory 3D Scientific Visualization” at EuroVis EG Logo 2012. At the same conference we also presented the short paper “Continuous Navigation of Nested Abstraction Levels
May 2012 I talked about gestures vs. postures: ‘gestural’ touch interaction in 3D environments at the CHI 2012 Workshop on “The 3rd Dimension of CHI: Touching and Designing 3D User Interfaces” (3DCHI 2012).
April 2012 I participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Touching the Third Dimension.
March 2012 Our paper on semantics by analogy for illustrative volume visualization was published in the journal Computers & Graphics.
December 2011 🎓 Maarten H. Everts who I co-supervised has defended his PhD thesis on December 9. Congratulations! Maarten is my first PhD student.
November 2011 We presented the paper RealTimeChess: Lessons from a Participatory Design Process for a Collaborative Multi-Touch, Multi-User Game at ACM ITS.
November 2011 I co-organized DEXIS, an ITS workshop on interactive surfaces for visual data exploration.
October 2011 Together with Thomas Schultz, I was the posters chair of IEEE Visualization 2011.
October 2011 🏆 Our poster and extended abstract at IEEE BioVis 2011 about spatially continuous control of abstraction in molecular visualization received the Best Abstract Award of the symposium, see the project page.
October 2011 I gave an invited talk at the 2011 Annual Digiteo Forum.
August 2011 Together with Douglas Cunningham, I was the chair of Computational Aesthetics 2011 which is part of a joint symposium with NPAR 2011 and SBIM 2011, all being co-located with SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, Canada.
May 2011 We presented the paper »Illustrative Molecular Visualization with Continuous Abstraction« at EuroVis EG Logo 2011.
April 2011 Reuters has created a video segment about our collaboration with the University of Groningen's Visualization Center on creating a very large touch-sensitive display (not »the largest« as they claim in the video, but probably »the largest curved one«)
February 2011 I started to serve as Associate Editor for the journal Computers & Graphics.
February 2011 Together with John Collomosse, I was the guest editor of a special section on non-photorealistic animation and rendering of the journal Computers & Graphics which has now been published.
November 2010 We presented the paper »Integrating 2D Mouse Emulation with 3D Manipulation for Visualizations on a Multi-Touch Table« at ACM ITS 2010.
October 2010 We presented the paper »FI3D: Direct-Touch Interaction for the Exploration of 3D Scientific Visualization Spaces« at IEEE Visualization 2010.
October 2010 Together with Alark Joshi, I was the poster's chair of IEEE Visualization 2010.
September 2010 I started a temporary Digiteo Chair of Excellence position for the topic »Advanced Visual Exploration with Interactive Illustrative Rendering«, in collaboration with VENISELIMSICNRS and AVIZINRIA at Saclay (south of Paris, France), while maintaining my tenure-track position at the University of Groningen.
June 2010 Together with Neil Dodgson, I was the general chair of Computational Aesthetics 2010.
June 2010 We presented the paper »DTI in Context: Illustrating Brain Fiber Tracts In Situ« at EuroVis EG Logo 2010.
June 2010 We presented the paper »Exploring Frame Gestures for Fluid Freehand Sketching« at SBIM 2010.
June 2010 We presented the paper »Example-Based Stippling using a Scale-Dependent Grayscale Process« at NPAR 2010.
April 2010 We presented the paper »Supporting Sandtray Therapy on an Interactive Tabletop« at CHI 2010.
November 2009 🏆 The poster »Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line using Data Depth-Dependent Halos« at VisWeek 2009 received the Best Poster Award of SIREN 2009.
October 2009 🏆 We presented the project »Depth-Dependent Halos: Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data« at VisWeek 2009 and won the Best Paper Award of IEEE Visualization 2009 for this.
October 2009 I co-organized the VisWeek 2009 workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces – CoVIS 2009.
August 2009 Together with Craig Kaplan, I was the program chair of NPAR 2009.
June 3–4, 2009 I was an invited speaker on the IllustraVis09 symposium at the University of Bergen, Norway.
April, 2009 I taught an invited block course on non-photorealistic rendering at the University of Granada, Spain.
October 2, 2008 We presented the projects »Presenting using Two-Handed Interaction in Open Space« and »Mobile Spatial Tools for Fluid Interaction« at Tabletop 2008.
September 15, 2008 Lingyun Yu 俞凌云 started as a PhD student in my group in September, working on interactive visualization techniques.
August 2008 The paper »Mimicking Hand-Drawn Pencil Lines« was selected as one of the best papers of the conference Computational Aesthetics 2008 and appears as an extended version in a special issue of Computers & Graphics.
June 1, 2008 Moritz Gerl started as my PhD student, working on non-photorealistic illustrative rendering.
May 28, 2008 At EuroVis EG Logo 2008 I presented the paper »Interactive Exploratory Visualization of 2D Vector Fields«, which has thus also become an article in the Computer Graphics Forum special issue, see the online video.
April 17, 2008 At Eurographics 2008 I presented the short paper »Interactive Stroke-Based NPR using Hand Postures on Large Displays«.