Remco Chang

Teaching

2012 Spring: Intro to Computer Science

2011 Fall: Computer Graphics

2011 Spring: Visualization

2010 Fall: Topics In Visual Analytics

Recent Activities

MIT Talk

I presented at the HCI Seminar at MIT CSAIL on our work on LOC, interaction logging, and finding distance functions. (video)

Recent Publications

Viewpoint

Viewpoint on understanding visualization by understanding individual users

CG&A 2012 (pdf)

Personality

Study how a personality trait (Locus of Control) affects a person's use of a visualization

VAST 2011 (pdf)

Parallel Topics

Using the Parallel Coordinates metaphor to analyze topics in text documents.

VAST 2011 (pdf)

Agent-Based Modeling

Using two visualizations to analyze agent based modeling in political science.

CG&A 2011 (pdf)

Research - Visual Analytics

Tufts Article

A great review and summary of my research by Helene Ragovin for the Tufts Journal

Tufs (link)

Analytic Provenance

Analysis of interaction logs to recover reasoning process and intent.

(cga09) (chi09) (vast08)

Analytic Systems

Applying visual analytics in domains such as finance, terrorism, transportation.

(ivs08) (cgf08) (cgf10)

Theory & Evaluation

Theory of visual analytics and evaluation methods for visual analytical systems.

(cga09) (ivs09) (beliv10)

Research - Graphics

Urban Modeling

Urban simplification, modeling, and visualization using architectural theory.

(tvcg07) (cga08) (avi10)

Terrain Rendering

Rendering of 2.5D terrain for the purpose of interactive analysis.

(vda07) (cgf08)

Active Grants

Draper (2012-2013)

User-Guided Clustering: A Synergy of Human Interaction, Machine Learning and Visualization

NSF (2009-2012)

SciSIP: A Visual Analytics Approach to Science and Innovation Policy

Tufts (2011-2012)

Visualizing the Circulation of Ideas Across Language, Culture and Space: How Researchers in the Middle East Read Greek and Invented the West

Tufts (2011-2012)

Advancing Disaster Research with Geospatial New Media

Recent Talks

User-Centric Visual Analytics

(04-04-2012) MIT Humans Automation Lab (HAL)
(03-16-2012) MIT CSAIL HCI Seminar
(03-15-2012) Wentworth Institute of Technology
(03-01-2012) Aptima
(02-01-2012) Tufts SIAM Student Chapter Luncheon
(08-03-2011) University of Massachusetts Lowell

Visual Analytics Research at Tufts

(04-29-2011) Fidelity Center for Applied Technology

Data Exploration, Analysis and Representation: Integration Through Visual Analytics

(03-17-2010) Charles River Analytics
(03-16-2010) Tufts University
(03-10-2010) Pacific Northwest National Lab

Thinking Interactively with Visualization

(02-25-2010) University of Georgia(AI Institute)
(07-30-2009) Microsoft Research
(07-28-2009) Pacific Northwest National Lab