Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

AVIZ has received two best paper honorable mentions at the VisWeek 2012 conference [22] , [26] .

AVIZ has also received a best poster award [41] and best poster honorable mention [42] .

Tobias Isenberg has been recruited as Senior Researcher and will broaden the scope of AVIZ in the direction of Scientific Visualization and Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) for interactive visualization.

AVIZ has started to port its visualizations for standard Web platforms and collaborate with industry to deploy it in various domains. For example, the French Open Data Provider “Data Publica” has deployed ScatterDice to visualize employment data in France: http://labs.data-publica.com/emploi .

Best Papers Awards :

[22] Assessing the Effect of Visualizations on Bayesian Reasoning Through Crowdsourcing in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

L. Micallef, P. Dragicevic, J.-D. Fekete.



[26] Efficient Structure-Aware Selection Techniques for 3D Point Cloud Visualizations with 2DOF Input in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

L. Yu, K. Efstathiou, P. Isenberg, T. Isenberg.