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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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Guiding University Success: How AI and Smart Visuals Are Transforming Student Advising
Navigating university can be overwhelming. Between picking prerequisites, balancing demanding course loads, and adjusting to campus life, many students find themselves in academic jeopardy. While academic advisors play a crucial role in keeping students on track to graduate, their time is limited ...Read More
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Making Every Letter Count: Abbreviating Text Labels on Demand
Have you ever tried to read a complex data visualization only to find the information buried under a mess of overlapping text or font so tiny you need a magnifying glass? Whether it’s a packed treemap or a busy map, fitting long words into small spaces is a classic headache in the world of data ...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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Before the Vision Pro: How a Retro Gaming Hack Previewed the Future of Brain Surgery
We’ve all seen medical dramas where doctors intently stare at a flat computer monitor, analyzing black-and-white brain scans before a high-stakes operation. Advanced 3D imaging techniques like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT) scans have become vital tools for clinical ...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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Professional Differences: How Disciplinary Training Affects Visualization Task Performance
Empowering people across all disciplines and professions to understand their data is the enduring promise of visualization. When designing a visualization for a specific industry or discipline, visualization designers will consider the nature of the data and how it is used by that specific disciplin ...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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