Seminar Series

Spring 2020 Seminars

IEEE Virtual Reality: Reports, Experiences, Takeaways (COVID-19 CANCELED) Prof. Zachary Wartell and others.	April 2, 2020 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 232
Special Seminar Celebrates the Life and Work of Dr. William Ribarsky CCI Dean Dr. Fatma Milii, Associate Dean Dr. William Tolone, Dr. Wenwen Dou, Dr. Zach Wartell, Dr. Larry Hodges.	February 21, 2020 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130 and 232
Modern digital imagery for capturing and representing data from nature. Dr. John Wenzel -- Director, Powdermill Nature Reserve, Carnegie Museum of Natural History	February 14, 2020 - 12:30 PM	Halton Reading Room, Atkins Library
Modern Digital Imagery for Capturing and Representing Data from Nature Dr. John Wenzel - Director, Powdermill Nature Reserve, Carnegie Museum of Natural History	February 13, 2020 - 12:00 PM	Halton Room, Atkins Library

Fall 2019 Seminars

IEEE VisWeek: Reports, Experiences, Takeaways to be announced	October 31, 2019 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 232
Ribarsky Center for Visual Analytics: A Sampling of Current Projects Prof. Zachary Wartell, Ali Karduni, Aileen Benedict, Raihan Nayeem, Maggie Reichard	October 25, 2019 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 106
VisCenter: Research, Grants, Collaborations from 2018 and Goals for 2019 Dr. Zachary Wartell and Dr. Dan Janies, Co-Directors	September 19, 2019 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 232

Spring 2018 Seminars

Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and Visualization Theresa-Marie Rhyne, www.theresamarierhyne.com	April 19, 2018 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
BRIDGES and Beyond: Strategies for Improving CS Student Engagement and Success Prof. K.R. Subramanian, VisCenter, UNCC	April 5, 2018 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Visualizing Genomic Data on Someone Else's Computer Prof. Ann Loraine, Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, UNCC	March 22, 2018 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Cancelled -	February 22, 2018 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Reconstructing, Visualizing, and Simulating Dynamics of Mobility on Demand Systems for Scenario Analysis Dr. Dimitris Papanikolaou	February 1, 2018 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Fall 2017 Seminars

Parallel Space-Time Kernel Density Estimation Dr. Erik Saule	November 9, 2017 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Cloud and Big Data Computing Mohammed Elshambakey, Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee	October 26, 2017 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Post IEEE VisWeek 2017 David Burlinson, KR Subramanian, Alireza Karduni	October 12, 2017 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Research, Trends and Visions for 2017 Dan Janies Zachary Wartell Wenwen Dou Ryan Wesslen Isaac Cho	September 21, 2017 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
VisCenter - Fall Kickoff Meeting Zachary Wartell, Dan Janies, Wenwen Dou	September 7, 2017 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Fall 2016 Seminars

Urban Trajectory Data Analytics Jing Yang	December 1, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Visual Analysis of Toxics Release Inventory Data for Outreach and Expert Analysis David Burlinson	November 10, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
What We Learned at IEEE VIS 2016 Yueqi Hu, Tinghao Feng, and Omar Eltayebi	November 3, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Mixed-initiative dialogue agents for machine augmented intelligence Samira Shaikh, Departments of Computer Science and Psychology	September 29, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
How the Internet of Things will Transform the Electric Distribution System of the Future, and What We Are Doing about It. William Ribarsky and Isaac Cho	September 15, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward

Spring 2016 Seminars

Tales of VR: Highlights from the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Zach Wartell, Isaac Cho, and Jialei Li	April 21, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
An Integrated Model for Human-Computer Reasoning and Decision Making William Ribarsky	April 7, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Semantic Visual Framework for Patent Analytics: from the Lab to first steps in the Open World Walid Shalaby, Wlodek Zadrozny, Sean Gallagher, and Kripa Rajshekar	March 24, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Data-to-Knowledge-to-Action Through Visualization: R&D Opportunities and Challenges Ashit Talukder	February 11, 2016 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward

Fall 2015 Seminars

IEEE VIS 2015 PostView Tom Polk, Chong Zhang, Omar ElTayeby, Yueqi Hu, Isaac Cho, KR Subramanian	December 3, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Data analytics and search behavior Xi Niu, Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte	November 19, 2015 - 12:00 PM	130 Woodward
Making Small Spaces Feel Large: Practical Illusions in Virtual Reality Evan Suma, MxR Lab, Institute of Creative Technologies, University of Southern California	November 5, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
IEEE VIS 2015 Preview Isaac Cho, Omar ElTayeby, William Ribarsky	October 22, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Towards a System that Supports Citizen Science Isaac Cho, Wenwen Dou, William Ribarsky, and Eric Sauda	September 24, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Comparison of Device-Based, One and Two-Handed 7DOF Manipulation Techniques Jinbo Feng, Isaac Cho, Zachary Wartell	September 10, 2015 - 12:30 PM	154 Woodward

Spring 2015 Seminars

VisCenter Seminar Chong Zhang, Jing Yang	April 23, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
VisCenter Distinguished Lecture - Christopher Healey, NC State University	April 9, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Extracting Space-Time Patterns in Infectious Diseases Dr. Eric Delmelle, Geography and Earth Sciences	March 26, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
VisCenter Distinguished Lecture: The State of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage: Massive 3D Mapping and Simpiricism Bernard Frischer, Indiana University	March 12, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
VisCenter Distinguished Lecture: Supporting Reasoning in Geo-Visual Analytics: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives Alan MacEachren, Penn State University	February 19, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
A Weather Map for Infectious Diseases Dan Janies, Bioinformatics and Genomics	February 5, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Learn, Grow, and Excel with Visual Analytics Derek Wang - Taste Analytics	January 22, 2015 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward

Fall 2014 Seminars

What I Learned at IEEE VIS 2014 Tom Polk	November 20, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
A Web-based 2D Floorplan Editor David Burlinson, Kalpathi Subramanian, Bill Ribarsky	November 6, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Building BRIDGES within the Computer Science Major Kalpathi Subramanian, Jamie Payton, Robert Kosara, Paula Goolkasian	November 6, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Modeling and Visualizing Critical Infrastructure Breakdown during Large-Scale Disasters Todd Eaglin and Bill Ribarsky, Computer Science Department	October 23, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
IBM Watson in the Classroom and in Research Wlodek Zadrozny, Walid Shalaby and Sean Gallagher, Computer Science Department	October 9, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Interactive Visual Analytics of Urban Trajectory Data Ye Zhao, Kent State University	September 25, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Interactive Architecture >>> prepared music field Eric Sauda and Evan Danchenka, School of Architecture	September 11, 2014 - 12:30 PM	161 CHHS
The Kaa Observatory: A Public/Private Portal for Providing Big Data Analytics Tools to a Large Number of Users William Ribarsky, Computer Science Department	August 28, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward

Spring 2014 Seminars

Dimensionality Reduction From Several Angles Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia	April 17, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Ph.D. Students Research Highlights Tom Polk, Stephen MacNeil and Jialei Li	April 3, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Invariant Searching and Metric Ranking for Fault Diagnosis of Distributed Systems Yong Ge, Computer Science Department	March 20, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Design for "Walk up and use" Interactive Visualizations Mary Lou Maher, Software and Information Systems Department	February 20, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Robust and Scalable Knowledge Discovery in Large Medical Image Databases Shaoting Zhang, Computer Science Department	February 6, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Evolutionary Visualization of H7 Influenza Dan Janies, Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics	January 23, 2014 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward

Fall 2013 Seminars

Large Scale Data Processing Erik Saule	November 21, 2013 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
Dynamic Just-in-Time Manufacturing and The Future of Production William Ribarsky, Derek Wang, and William Tolone	November 7, 2013 - 12:30 PM	130 Woodward
VisWeek Review and Highlights! Toma Kraft, Bill Ribarsky, Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, K.R. Subramanian, Jialei Li, Jing Yang, and others!	October 24, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Urban Traffic Visual Analysis Xiaoru Yuan	October 10, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
PIWI: Visually Exploring Graphs Based on Their Community Structure Jing Yang	September 26, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Discovering Hidden Patterns in Patent Data Wlodek Zadrozny	September 12, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Visual Analytics for Competitive Advantage William Ribarsky	August 29, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Spring 2013 Seminars

Computer Science and Big Data Systems Research at Clemson Amy Apon, Professor and Chair, Division of Computer Science, Clemson University	May 23, 2013 - 2:00 PM	338 Woodward
VisCenter Distinguished Lecture: What Would Calculating be Like if Turing were an Artist and Not a Logician; What Does This Say about Seeing and Counting? George Stiny (Design and Computation, MIT)	April 25, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Getting Big Data and Getting the Word Out Bill Ribarsky	April 11, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
3D Modeling By the Masses: A Mobile App for Modeling Buildings / Visualization Mosaics for Multivariate Visual Exploration Todd Eaglin and Stephen MacNeil	February 28, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploring Protein Flexibility Subspaces / Visually Mining High Dimensional Environmental Health Data to Identify Risk Factors for Birth Defects Jing Yang, Scott Barlowe and Chong Zhang	February 14, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Analytics approaches for the era of 10,000 genomes Cynthia Gibas and her students	January 31, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Towards a Sustainable and Resilient Charlotte Kyle Thieman, Xiaoyu Wang, William Ribarsky, and William Tolone	January 17, 2013 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Fall 2012 Seminars

Supporting an Interval Training Program with the Astrojumper Video Game Andrea Nickel, Hugh Kinsey, Tiffany Barnes and Zachary Wartell	November 29, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Retweeting Behavior in Microblogging: Explanation, Prediction, and Burst Detection Dr. Xintao Wu	November 8, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Highlights from VisWeek 2012 Conferences VisCenter conference attendees	October 25, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
NV: Nessus Vulnerability Visualization for the Web Lane Harrison	October 11, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Taking the true needs and goals of users into consideration: a golden rule in visual analytics research Dr. Jing Yang	September 27, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
State of Visualization: The Rise of Big Data Analytics Dr. William Ribarsky	September 13, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Spring 2012 Seminars

Exploring Impossible Spaces: Practical Illusions in Virtual Reality Evan Suma, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Institute for Creative Technologies, USC.	April 26, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 356
Visualization and Interactive Data Analysis Dr. Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University	April 19, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Sustainable Charlotte: Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability in an Agent-Based Model Ted Carmichael and Kyle Thieman	April 5, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Quantifying the Personal, Creative Experience: Evaluation of Digital Creativity Support Tools Using Self-Report and Physiological Responses Erin Carroll	March 22, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Vis. Center Student Research Alex Midgett, Lane Harrison	February 23, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Situationally Aware Tools for Response to Large Coastal Disasters Xiaoyu Wang, Li Yu, William Ribarsky, Aidong Lu	February 9, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Public Displays of Computing Donna Lanclos, Heather Lipford, Richard Souvenir, Jay Dominick, Eric Sauda, Chris Beorkrem	January 26, 2012 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Fall 2011 Seminars

Effective Emergency Response and Communication (EERC) Within Urban Structures Kalpathi Subramanian, Bill Ribarsky, John Merritt, David Fuller, Jack Guest, Todd Eaglin	December 1, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Visualization Software on Mobile Devices Dr. Robert Kosara	November 17, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
VisWeek Review and Highlights and Pizza! Numerous Presenters	November 3, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
VisCenter at VisWeek: A Preview! Drew Skau, Lane Harrison, Aritra Dasgupta, Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou	October 20, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
The State of Multi-Touch Visualization Amy Ingram	September 29, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Cool things I did at XYZ this summer! Drew Skau, Yang Chen, Roman Pyzh, Alex Midget (and others)	September 15, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
State of Visualization, 2011 Bill Ribarsky	September 1, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Spring 2011 Seminars

Computing in Place Eric Sauda, Michael Youngblood, Heather Lipford, and Richard Souvenir	April 21, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Visual Analytics for Protein Feature Discovery Scott Barlowe	April 7, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Interactive Detection of Network Anomalies via Coordinated Multiple Views Lane Harrison	March 24, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Sharp Stick & Digital Mud: A Tale of Letterforms & Technology Michael Swisher	February 24, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Visual Analysis of Coastal Natural Disasters Zach Wartell, Bill Ribarsky, Li Yu, and Aidong Lu	February 10, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Using The Integrated Genome Browser to View Genomic Data Alyssa Gulledge and Ann Loraine	January 27, 2011 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Fall 2010 Seminars

EDM Vis Matt Johnson and Tiffany Barnes	December 10, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Human Perception of Volume Data under Virtual Environment and Volumetric Rendering Conditions Isaac Cho and Zachary Wartell	November 18, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Comparing Different Levels of Interaction Constraints for Deriving Visual Problem Isomorphs Wenwen Dou	October 21, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Click2Annotate: Automated Insight Externalization with Rich Semantics Yang Chen	October 21, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Pargnostics: Screen-Space Metrics for Parallel Coordinates Aritra Dasgupta	October 7, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
“Astrojumper: Motivating Exercise with an Immersive Virtual Reality Exergame” Samantha L. Finkelstein with Andrea Nickel, Zachary J. Lipps, Tiffany Barnes, Zachary Wartell, Evan A. Suma	September 23, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
State of Visualization Report 2010 Bill Ribarsky	September 9, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Spring 2010 Seminars

DIY Culture and Citizen Science Eric Paulos	April 8, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
To Draw or Not To Draw: Student use of Visual Representation in Explanation Lynn Andrea Stein	February 11, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
The RENCI Project: Integrating Urban Models and Visualization Ross Meentemeyer and Tom Butkiewicz	February 4, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Extending Urban Models and the Vision of the City Eric Sauda, Jean-Claude Thill, and Remco Chang	January 21, 2010 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Fall 2009 Seminars

The CIA Analytic Division: What They Do Presentation by members of the CIA Analytic Division	November 12, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Renaissance Situation Room Open House Zach Wartell, Tom Butkiewicz, Dong Jeong, and William Ribarsky	October 29, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Viscenter Lab
Visualizing Document Activity over Time Xiaoyu Wang	October 1, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Story Structure and the News Caroline Ziemkiewicz	October 1, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
State of Visualization Report 2009: Opportunities and Challenges William Ribarsky	September 17, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Developing a Visualization Viewpoint Theresa-Marie Rhyne	February 21, 2009 - 1:30 PM	Woodward 130

Spring 2009 Seminars

Remote Sensing by Infrared Signals: Quantitative Analysis David Tsu, Ming Scientific	April 16, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Data Collection and Visualization of Weather and Sunlight Data Drew Skau	April 16, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
A Blackboard-based Approach towards Predictive Analytics Anita Raja	April 2, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Adventures in Virtual Reality Zachary Wartell, Brady Fulmer, and Isaac Cho	March 19, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
PacificVis and Visualization ?09 Paper Discussion Yang Chen, Wenwen Dou, Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara	March 5, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Interactive Surveillance Collaborative Live Art Celine Latulipe and Annabel Manning	February 19, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
The DHS International Project: Developing Multimedia Analytics with the University of Konstanz Dongning Luo, Jianping Fan, and Bill Ribarsky	February 5, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
The Payoff of Integrated Visualization and Analysis for Modern Bridge Management Xiaoyu Wang, Bill Ribarsky and Shen-en Chen	January 22, 2009 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Fall 2008 Seminars

The City: Information, Technology & Representation, Part II Ginette Wessel (College of Architecture, UNCC)	November 20, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Theoretical and practical consideration of human cognition in visual analytics Tera Green (Computer Science, UNCC)	November 6, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
	October 23, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Visual Analytics for Complex Concepts Using a Human Cognition Model Tera Green	October 9, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Focused Geospatial Analysis Using Probes Tom Butkiewicz	October 9, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
An Alternative Definition and Model for Knowledge Visualization Dong Jeong	October 9, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Integrating visual analysis with ontological knowledge structure Xiaoyu Wang	October 9, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
	September 25, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
The Shaping of Information by Visual Metaphors Caroline Ziemkiewicz	September 11, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
A Practical Approach to Visualization Theory Dr. Robert Kosara	September 11, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
2008 State of Visualization Report Bill Ribarsky (Director, Charlotte Visualization Center)	August 28, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130

Spring 2008 Seminars

The City: Information, Technology, & Representation Ginette Wessel (College of Architecture, UNCC)	April 17, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
	April 10, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
5 Minute Madness ? 2008 Everyone	March 27, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Tabletop Computing Decipher the Myths and Misnomers Chia Shen, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories	March 13, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Visual Analysis of Entity Relationships in Global Terrorism Database Alex Godwin	February 28, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Visual Analysis for Live LIDAR Battlefield Change Detection Tom Butkiewicz	February 28, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Using Human Cognition Model In the Creation of Collaborative Knowledge Visualization Tera Green	February 28, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
Report on the Financial Visual Analytics Workshop Bill Ribarsky, Remco Chang, Robert Kosara, Jing Yang, and Caroline Ziemkiewicz	February 18, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
RENCI Engagement Site Research Plan Ross Meentemeyer and Jean-Claude Thill, Center for Applied GIS	January 31, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130
	January 17, 2008 - 12:30 PM	Woodward 130