He's also here on bsky: @abhsarma.bsky.social

He timed his arrival in Austria well: his first work-day was spent at IEEE VIS in Vienna. Very glad to have you on board! 🎉

Check out his website to learn about his work: abhsarma.github.io

A special thanks to @sheng-long.bsky.social for contributing the Virtual Chinrest Calibration library—our first community contribution!

ReVISit continues to evolve as a flexible, open-source platform for visualization and HCI research.

* Expanded styling options for customizing the look and accessibility of studies.
* A live monitor and study summary dashboard for real-time progress and insights.
* Dynamic study logic and new validated libraries for visualization literacy, usability, and workload assessment.

Key highlights include:

* Support for Supabase, a self-hosted and GDPR-friendly alternative to Firebase.
* Screen capture for recording participant interactions directly within studies.
* A new qualitative coding interface for analyzing transcripts and study replays.

Revisit by @laneh.bsky.social and team is an excellent option. It requires some configuration and setup, but it works beautifully and all your data stays on your server. (revisit.dev)

We will be covering transportation and lodging (shared room with other participants) for up to 4 participants. Preference will be given to individuals who’ve run studies with reVISit before.

To express interest, e-mail alex@sci.utah.edu

To learn about reVISit, visit revisit.dev

We will be covering transportation from Vienna and three nights in a hotel (shared room with other participants) for up to 4 participants. Preference will be given to who's run studies with reVISit before.

To express interest, e-mail alex@sci.utah.edu

To learn about reVISit, visit revisit.dev

Tingying He, Maggie McCracken, Daniel Hajas, Sarah Creem-Regehr.

We created educational tactile versions of UpSet plots, clustered heatmaps, violin plots, and faceted line charts. In interviews, BLV participants said these models helped them build stronger mental models than textual explanations alone.

good vis design is a lot harder an optimization problem than the data-ink ratio makes it seem, and talking about it as if it were that simple has misled many people into confidently creating bad charts, including Tufte

I’ll be joining the Institute of Human-Centred Computing – hcc.tugraz.at – and look forward to new collaborations with the fantastic team there.
I’ll stay closely connected to Utah, continuing my work with the amazing team at the SCI Institute and the Kahlert School of Computing.