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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 sexual harassment in academia: How researchers conveyed the bigger picture behind the data without compromising the individual significance of the stories.
Sexual harassment in academia is an unusually overlooked component of the greater societal conversation around sexual assault and harassment. This is especially puzzling when you consider the intense power dynamics that exist in academic institutions, as well as the non-academic aspects of universit ...Read More
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Digital Time Capsules: Exploring Geolocated Media Sharing
We rarely think about past experiences until we actively scroll back through our phone galleries or physical photo albums. But what if your surroundings could remind you of those moments automatically? Inspired by real-world treasure hunting in Geocaching and the historical photo overlays of Replay ...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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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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Spotting the Truth in the Social Media Storm: How Smart Algorithms Help Catch Rumors as They Spread
We’ve all seen it: a shocking headline or a blurry photo starts tearing across your social media feed. Before you know it, everyone is sharing it, and the “news” feels real, even if it seems a bit off. In the middle of a crisis, like a hurricane or a major news event, misinformation can be ...Read More
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Beyond the Static Page: A New Framework for Interactive Conference Posters
Poster sessions are a staple of academic conferences, offering a fantastic space to share research and spark informal conversations. However, standard printed posters have some major limitations: they aren’t very memorable, they can’t be easily saved for later, and their charts are stuck in a ...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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