miriah meyer

Associate Professor
School of Computing
University of Utah

Visualization Design Lab

Warnock Engineering Building
72 S. Central Campus Dr, Rm 4887
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
miriah (at) cs (dot) utah (dot) edu

models for visualization design

Making Data Visual

Practical guidance for translating data into insightful visualizations.
related material: [book18]

book

Rigor and Knowledge Construction

How visualization designers (can) construct rigorous knowledge.
related material: [infovis20] [infovis19] [cga18]

rigor

Visualization Design Research

Models that describe what visualization design researchers do and the design decisions they make.
related material: [beliv16] [infovis14] [iv13] [leo13] [cga13] [beliv12] [infovis12] [visweek10]

nbgm

Workshops

Participatory design workshops for discovering visualization opportunities.
related material: [beliv20] [infovis18] [methods]

vmls

design studies

Design Studies

Projects that target specific, real-world, data analysis challenges.
related material: [Trevo] [ImplicitError] [Graffinity] [BubbleNet] [WeaVER] [Poemage] [ShotViewer] [PoemViewer] [MulteeSum] [Pathline] [Mizbee]

design studies

sensing with citizens

AQ&U

Empowering citizens to reason about air quality using networks of low-cost sensors.
related material: [ubicomp18] [lcn18] [cityvis18] [website]

rapid prototyping with data

Reshaping Graphs

Tool for representing, reshaping, and reimagining data as a graph.
related material: [vast19] [software]

origraph

Iterating Between Tools

Model that describes how to bridge between generative and drawing tools, and Hanpuku, a tool that bridges D3 and Illustrator.
related material: [infovis16] [software]

hpk

How Designers Design with Data

Results of a qualitative study that describe how designers use data and existing tools to create infographics.
related material: [avi14]

vmls

digital humanities

Visualizing Poetry

Visual encoding of poetic devices for poets.
related material: [infovis15] [eurovis13]
software: [poemage] [poemviewer]

PoemViewer

RhymeDesign

A formalism for analyzing sonic devices in poetry.
related material: [clfl15] [software]

RhymeDesign

visualization of biological data

inSite

Interactive viewer for comparing patterns of binding sites across multiple genomics regions.
related material: [software]

inSite

MulteeSum

Exploration tool that supports the comparison of multiple gene expression data sets defined both spatially and temporally.
related material: [infovis10] [software]

ExpExp

Pathline

Tool that visualizes temporal gene expression data over multiple molecular pathways and across multiple species.
related material: [eurovis10] [software]

Pathline

MizBee

Browser that enables analysis of comparative genomics data through visualization across multiple scales.
related material: [infovis09] [software] [video]

MizBee

volume visualization

Volume MLS

Unified framework for ray-casting arbitrary volumetric datasets using the method of Moving Least Squares.
related material: [vis08]

vmls

Visualizing High-Order Finite Elements

Particle system approach to visualizing isosurfaces embedded in high-order finite element data sets.
related material: [tvcg07]

high_order_fem

mesh generation

High-Quality Mesh Generation Using Dynamic Particles

Method for constructing high-quality isosurface triangulations of volumetric scalar fields using a particle system.
related material: [vis07]

meshing

Meshing Multiple Material Volumes

Strategy for meshing multimaterial volumes that explicitly samples corners, edges, and surfaces of material intersections.
related material: [vis08] [mrt08] [software]

mm_meshing

dynamic particle systems

Sampling Surfaces with Particles

Robust and controllable method for adaptive sampling of implicit surfaces.
related material: [smi05] [dissertation]

particles

gp-gpu

Computing Reaction-Diffusion

Approach for solving partial differential equations within advection–reaction–diffusion models using the GPU.
related material: [cvs08]

reaction-diffusion