VisuaLab member publications prior to 2016 were completed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Visual Computing Lab. Visit Dr. Szafir's personal website for a complete list of publications prior to 2016.

Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes." In the Proceedings of the 2024 EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis). Odense, Denmark.
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Matt-Heun Hong, Zachary Sundberg, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Cieran: Designing Sequential Colormaps via In-
Situ Active Preference Learning." In the Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Jade Kandel, C.J. Parker, Qian Zheng, Harold Jiang, Angelos Angelopoulos, Ashley Neall, Pranav Wagh, Daniel Szafir, Henry Fuchs, Mike Lewek, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "PD-Insighter: A Visual Analytics System to Monitor
Daily Actions for Parkinson's Disease Treatment." In the Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Zeyu Wang, Zhehao Wang, Jennifer Ardono, Paul Rosen, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Do You See What I See?
Eliciting High-Level Visualization Comprehension." In the Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Ian Thomas, Song Young Oh, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Assessing User Trust in Active Learning Systems: Insights
from Query Policy and Uncertainty Visualization." In the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference
on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2024. Greenville, South Carolina.
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Briana Wimer, Lauren South, Keke Wu, Danielle Albers Szafir, Michelle Borkin & Ronald Metoyer. "Beyond Vision Impairments: Redefining the Scope of Accessible Data." To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics.
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Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Michael Rivera, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "A Computational Design Process for Sensing Network Physicalizations." IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2023.[Best Paper Honorable Mention]
Paper | Code | Project Page
Paper | Code | Project Page

Hyeon Jeon*, Ghulam Jilani Quadri*, Hyunwook Lee, Paul Rosen, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Jinwook Seo. "CLAMS: A Cluster Ambiguity Measure for Estimating Perceptual Variability in Visual Clustering." IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2023.[Best Paper Honorable Mention]
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Paper | Demo

Eli Kravitz, Hunter Ray, Nick Conlon, Nisar Ahmed, Ian Thomas, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Probabilistic Learning
of Operator Interest in Surveillance Environments for Online Track Characterization." AIAA SciTech Forum, 2024.

Hunter Ray, Nick Conlon, Eli Kravitz, Nisar Ahmed, Ian Thomas, Danielle Albers Szafir, Trevor Wilson, Samuel Elting, & Lynn Montgomery. "Intelligent Decision Support for Target Tracking Analysis and Characterization." AIAA SciTech Forum, 2024.

Colin Ware, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Maureen Stone. "Rainbow Colormaps are Not All Bad." IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 43(3): 88-93, 2023.
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Sandra Bae, Rishi Vanukuru, Ruhan Yang, Peter Gyory, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Cultivating Visualization
Literacy for Children through Curiosity and Play." IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2023. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2022.
Paper | Talk | Instructable
Paper | Talk | Instructable

Keke Wu, Michelle Tran, Emma Petersen, Varsha Kourshik, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Data, Data, Everywhere: Uncovering
Everyday Data Experience for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." In
the Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023), 2023.
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Chin Tseng, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Zeyu Wang, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Measuring Categorical Perception in
Color-Coded Scatterplots." Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023), 2023.
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Clementine Zimnicki, Chin Tseng, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Karen Schloss. "Effects of data distribution and granularity
on color semantics for colormap data visualizations." In the Proceedings of IEEE VIS Short Papers, 2023.
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Matt-Heun Hong, Lauren Mark,, Jes Feuston, Janet Rupport, Jed Brubaker, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Scholastic: Forging
Human-AI Collaboration for Inductive and Interpretive Text Analysis." In the Proceedings of the
35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2022.
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Sandra Bae, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Ellen Yi-Luen Do. "Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Data Physicalization."
In the Proceedings of the Fifth European Tangible Interaction Studio (ETIS), 2022.
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Amelia Warden, Jessica Witt, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Visualizing Temperature Trends: Higher Sensitivity to Trend
Direction with Single-Hue Palettes." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 28(4): 717–745,
2022.
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Kyle Wm. Hall, Anthony Kouroupis, Anastasia Bezerianos, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Christopher Collins. "Professional Differences: A
Comparative Study of Visualization Task Performance and Spatial Ability Across Disciplines." IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2022. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2021.
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Matt-Heun Hong, Jessica Witt, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "The Weighted Average Illusion: Biases in Perceived Mean
Position in Scatterplots." IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2022. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2021.
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Keke Wu, Emma Petersen, Tahmina Ahmad, David Burlinson,, E. Shea Tanis, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Understanding Data Accessibility for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), 2021. [Best Paper Award]
Paper | Project Page
Paper | Project Page

Michael Walker, Zhaozhong Chen, Matt Whitlock, David Blair, Danielle Albers Szafir,, Christoffer Heckman, & Daniel Szafir. "A
Mixed Reality Supervision and Telepresence Interface for Outdoor Field Robotics." In the Proceedings
of the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
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Sandra Bae, Yang, Peter Gyory, Julia Uhr, Danielle Albers Szafir,, & Ellen Do. "Touching Information with DIY Paper Charts & AR Markers." In the Poster Proceedings
of the 2021 Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC), 2021.
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Barrett Ens, Benjamin Bach, Maxime Cordeil, Ulrich Engelke, Marcos Serrano, Wesley Willett, Arnaud Prouzeau, Christoph Anthes, Wolfgang Buschel, Cody Dunne, Tim Dwyer, Jens Grubert, Jason Haga, Nurit Kirshenbaum, Dylan Kobayashi, Tica Lin, Monsurat Olaosebikan, Fabian Pointecker, David Saffo, Nazmus Saquib, Dieter Schmalsteig, Danielle Albers Szafir, Matt Whitlock,, & Yalong Yang. "Grand Challenges in Immersive Analytics." Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), 2021.
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William Christopher Payne, Yoav Bergner, Mary Etta West, Carlie Charp, R. Benjamin Shapiro, Danielle Albers Szafir, Edd Taylor, & Kayla DesPortes. "danceON:
Culturally Responsive Creative Computing for Data Literacy." Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), 2021. [Best Paper Honorable Mention]
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Paper Coming Soon

Daniel J. Szafir & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Connecting Human-Robot Interaction and Data Visualizations." Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021), 2021.
Paper | Design Example
Paper | Design Example

Kim Marriott, Bongshin Lee, Matthew Butler, Ed Cutrell, Kirsten Ellis, Catagay Gonchu, Marti Hearst, Kathleen McCoy, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Inclusive Data Visualization for People with Disabilities: A Call to Action." ACM Interactions, 28(3): 47-51, 2021.
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Jeremy Muesing, Nisar Ahmed, Luke Burks, Michael Iuzzolino, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Fully Bayesian Human-Machine Data
Fusion for Robust Online Dynamic Target Characterization." Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2021.
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Paper Coming Soon

Danielle Albers Szafir, Francesca Samsel, Stephanie Zeller, & Richard Saltus. "Enabling Crosscutting Visualization for Geoscience." Computer Graphics & Applications, 2021.
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Madison Elliott, Cindy Xiong, Christine Nothelfer, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "A Design Space of Vision Science Methods for Visualization
Research." IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2021. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2020.[Best Paper Honorable Mention]
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Khairi Reda & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Rainbows Revisited: Modeling Effective Colormap Design for Graphical Inference." IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2021. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2020.
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Matt Whitlock, Danielle Albers Szafir & Kenny Gruchalla. "HydrogenAR: Interactive Data-Driven Storytelling for Dispenser
Reliability." Proceedings of the Joint IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2020.
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Muyang Shi, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Eric Alexander. "Effect of Word Placement on At-a-glance Perception in Word Clouds." Poster Proceedings of IEEE VIS, 2020.

Matt Whitlock, Stephen Smart, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Graphical Perception for Immersive Analytics." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality (VR), 2020. [Best Paper Nominee]
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Paper | Project Page | Talk

Matt Whitlock,, Daniel Leithenger, Daniel Szafir, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Toward Effective Multimodal Interaction in Augmented Reality." Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGCHI Workshop on Immersive Analytics, 2020.
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Matt Whitlock, Jake Mitchell, Nick Pfeufer, Brad Arnot, Ryan Craig, Bryce Wilson, Brian Chung, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "MRCAT: In Situ Prototying of Interactive AR Environments." Proceedings of the International Conference on Virtual and Mixed Reality (VAMR), 2020.
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David Burlinson & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Shape size judgments are influenced by fill and contour closure." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 2020.

Muyang Shi, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Eric Alexander. "A Survey of Data and Encodings in Word Clouds." Digital Humanities, 2020.

Matt Whitlock, Keke Wu, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Designing for Mobile and Immersive Visual Analytics in the Field." Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2020. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2019.
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Paper | Project Page

Stephen Smart, Keke Wu, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Color Crafting: Automating the Construction of Designer Quality Color Ramps." Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2020. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2019.
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Keke Wu, Shea Tanis, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Designing Communicative Visualization for People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities." VisComm Workshop at IEEE VIS 2019.
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Harshini Muthukrishnan & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Using Machine Learning and Visualization for Qualitative Inductive Analyses of Big Data." Machine Learning from User Interactions Workshop at IEEE VIS 2019.
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Matt Whitlock & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Situated Prototyping of Data-Driven Applications in Augmented Reality." In the Proceedings of the Interaction Design & Prototyping for Immersive Analytics Workshop at CHI 2019, 2019.
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Stephen Smart & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Measuring the Separability of Shape, Size, and Color in Scatterplots." In the Proceedings of the 2019 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systtems (CHI 2019), 2019.
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Paper | Project Page

Shea Tanis, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Keke Wu. "Accessible Data: Understanding Visualization Literacy and Graphical Perceptions of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), 2019.

Bongshin Lee, Kate Isaacs, Danielle Albers Szafir, G.E. Marai, Cagatay Turkay, Melanie Tory, Sheelagh Carpendale, & Alex Endert. "Broadening Intellectual Diversity in Visualization Research Papers." IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 2019.
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Paper | Project Page

Jeremy Muesing, Luke Burks, Michael Iuzzolino, Danielle Albers Szafir, & Nisar Ahmed. "Fully Bayesian Human-Machine Data Fusion for Robust Dynamic Target Surveillance and Characterization." AIAA SciTech Forum, 2019.
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Hayeong Song & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Where's My Data? Evaluating Visualizations with Missing Data." IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics, 25(1): 914-924, 2019. In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2018.
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Danielle Albers Szafir. "The Good, the Bad, and the Biased: Five Ways Visualizations can Mislead (and How to Fix Them)." ACM Interactions, 25(4): 26-33, 2018.
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Alper Sarikaya, Michael Gleicher, & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Design Factors for Summary Visualization in Visual Analytics." Computer Graphics Forum, 2018. In Proceedings of EuroVis 2018.
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Matt Whitlock, Ethan Hanner, Jed Brubaker, Shaun Kane & Danielle Albers Szafir. "Interacting with Distant Objects in Virtual Reality." IEEE Virtual Reality, 2018.
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Paper | Project Page

Danielle Albers Szafir. "Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2018. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE VIS Conference. [Best Paper Award]
Paper | Video Preview | Project Page
Paper | Video Preview | Project Page

Catherine Diaz, Michael Walker, Danielle Albers Szafir, and Daniel Szafir. "Designing for Depth Perceptions in Augmented Reality." Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2017.
Paper | Video | Project Page
Paper | Video | Project Page

Christie Nothelfer, Zoya Bylinskii, Madison Elliott, Cindy Xiong, and Danielle Albers Szafir. "Visualization Meets Vision Science." IEEE VIS Panels, 2017.
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Annie Kelly, Matthew Whitlock, Brienne Nickoloff, Angel Lam, Danielle Albers Szafir, and Steven Voida. "Becoming Butterflies: Interactive Embodiment of the Butterfly Lifecycle." UbiComp Poster Proceedings, 2017.
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Dasha Pruss, Ashlynn Daughton, Brad Arnot, Danielle Albers Szafir, and Michael Paul. "Content Analysis of Zika Related Tweets." American Public Health Association Annual Conference, 2017.


Danielle Albers Szafir, Steve Haroz, Michael Gleicher, and Steven Franconeri. "Four Types of Ensemble Encoding in Data Visualization." Journal of Vision, 16(11), 2016.
Paper | Supplemental Materials | Examples Repository
Paper | Supplemental Materials | Examples Repository

Danielle Albers Szafir, Alper Sarikaya, and Michael Gleicher. "Lightness Constancy in Surface Visualization." Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 22(9), 2016.
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Danielle Albers Szafir, Deidre Stuffer, Yusef Sohail, & Michael Gleicher. "TextDNA: Visualizing Word Usage Patterns with Configurable Colorfields." Computer Graphics Forum, 2016. In Proceedings of the 2016 Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis).
Paper | Video | Project Page
Paper | Video | Project Page

Danielle Albers Szafir & Daniel Szafir. "Cognitive Load in Visualization: Myths & Misconceptions." Creation, Curation, Critique, and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization (C4PGV) Workshop, 2016.
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Danielle Albers Szafir. "Considering Connectivity for Visualization Design." Human-Computer Interaction Consortium, 2016.
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