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AnchoR: Toward Asynchronous Collaboration and Guided Exploration for Mobile AR Visualizations
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GazeQ-GPT: Gaze-Driven Question Generation for Personalized Learning from Short Educational Videos
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LangEye: Vocabulary Learning From the World Around You
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Card-IT Language Learning
A novel approach to training and testing Italian verb morphology by developing a flashcard application with a finite-state morphological (FSM) analyzer which both analyzes a user’s input and dynamically generates specific verb forms (flashcards).
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Academia is Tied in Knots
A data visualization project aimed at giving visibility to the issue of sexual harassment in the academic community.
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Tilt-Responsive Techniques for Digital Drawing Boards
An investigation into a range of app-specific transitions on tilt-adjustable drawing boards in response to changes in display angle such as reading vs. writing (annotation), public vs. personal, and shared person-space vs. task-space, among others.
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Research Blog
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AI Meets the Piano: How LLMs Are Transforming Sight-Reading Practice
Learning to play the piano is a deeply rewarding journey, but it comes with a notoriously steep hurdle: sight-reading. Sight-reading is the ability to read and play a piece of sheet music fluently on the first look, much like reading a book out loud in your native language. While essential ...Read More
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Visualizing Language Transfer Effects in Large Learner Corpora
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is a research field that studies the process of learning another language. Language transfer effects occur when the learner applies structural, grammatical, or semantic rules from their native language to the language they are trying to learn. For example, a native ...Read More
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Bridging the Gap: How We’re Connecting Text Mining and Visualization
Have you ever wondered how scientists keep track of the thousands of research papers published every year? In fields like Visual Text Analytics, where experts use interactive charts to make sense of massive amounts of text data, the sheer volume of new ideas can be overwhelming. In our survey ...Read More
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How to Evaluate Guidance in Visual Analytics: A Dual Perspective
Visual Analytics pairs human reasoning with computational power to explore massive, complex datasets. Yet, because communication between people and software is rarely seamless, users often spend valuable time in frustrating trial-and-error analysis loops. To bridge these knowledge gaps, modern ...Read More
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NeuroSight: Controlling Cameras with Your Mind and Gaze
We’ve all been there: you are at a concert watching your favorite artist perform live, but instead of taking in the moment, you find yourself reaching into your pocket, unlocking your phone, dodging random notifications, and holding up a screen. Digital devices have blurred the boundaries between ...Read More
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Can We Learn to Trust AI? The Essential Role of Interactive Visualization
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems increasingly influence critical decisions across healthcare, finance, policy, and everyday life, questions around trustworthiness, fairness, interpretability, and accountability have taken center stage. But how do humans actually come to trust these complex ...Read More
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Rethinking the Search Bar: How “Slow” Visual Interfaces Help Scholars Explore the Humanities
We all take the single-line search bar for granted. You type in a few keywords, hit enter, and instantly get millions of results. But this familiar model relies on a major assumption: it presumes you already know exactly what you are looking for. For researchers in the humanities and social ...Read More
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News & Updates
- Technology for AI-Supported Learning: Ontario Tech Student Showcases Research at Prestigious GI ’25 Conference in Kelowna
- Ontario Tech students propose generative AI platform to preserve Indigenous languages
- Vialab members to have largest ever presence at the IEEE VIS Conference
- Vialab members presenting award-winning work at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Vialab member Menna El-Assady to present ‘ThreadReconstructor: Modeling Reply-Chains to Untangle Conversational Text through Visual Analytics’ at EuroVis 2018 in Brno.
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