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

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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

Building BRIDGES within the Computer Science Major

Kalpathi Subramanian, Jamie Payton, Robert Kosara, Paula Goolkasian

November 6, 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

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

Click2Annotate: Automated Insight Externalization with Rich Semantics

Yang Chen

October 21, 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

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