jeffrey michael heer

Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Human-Computer Interaction
& Visualization Groups

642 Paul G. Allen Center, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
Fax: +1 206 543 2969
jheer (at) uw.edu

Twitter: @jeffrey_heer

Admin: Diane Ronsano
Tel: +1 206 543 2421

Office Hours
By appointment, 642 Allen Center, UW

Teaching

Winter 2013
CS247 Interaction Design Studio
CS547 HCI Seminar
STS1 Public Life of Science & Tech.
Fall 2012
CS448b Data Visualization

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Interactive Visualization Toolkits

Over 100,000 downloads!
Software: protovis, flare, prefuse
Papers: InfoVis'09, InfoVis'06, CHI'05
Video: DivX AVI (30M), WMV (33M)

Collaborative Visualization

Social data analysis using interactive visualizations on the web.
Papers: CHI'07, VAST'07, CHI'06
Video: Flash (20M)

Generalized Selection

Enhanced selection and annotation
in graphical interfaces.
Papers: CHI'08
Video: Quicktime (24M)

Scented Widgets

Visualizations embedded in interface
widgets to aid navigation.
Papers: InfoVis'07

Animation in Data Graphics

Using animation to improve perception
of transitions in data graphics.
Papers: InfoVis'07
Video: Quicktime (18M)

Multi-Scale Banking to 45°

Perceptual optimization of the aspect
ratios of data graphics.
Papers: InfoVis'06

Ubiquitous Computing

Distributed systems and evaluation tools
for pervasive computing.
Papers: CHI'07, AVI'04, UbiComp'03

Vizster: Visualizing Social Networks

Visual exploration of networks such as Friendster, Facebook, and MySpace.
Papers: InfoVis'05, HICSS'06
Video: Numb3rs (CBS TV), WMV

Exploring Enron

Visual analysis of e-mail traffic inside
the Enron corporation.
Press: Wired, Der Spiegel, BoingBoing

Active Capture

Automatic direction for automatic movies.
Papers: CHI'04, Multimedia'03
Video: MPG (97M)

Synesthesia

Psychology research in cross-sensory perception.
Papers: Cortex'06, Review'00

All Together Now

Privacy-preserving visualization of
localized activity.
Papers: CHI'04

Seam-Aware Wideband Displays

Toolkit support to handle seams
between multiple monitors.
Papers: CHI'04

Degree-of-Interest Trees

Dynamic, space-constrained visualization
of hierarchies.
Papers: AVI'04

TimeTrees: Time Changing Hierarchies

Coupling trees and timelines to explore evolving organizations.
Papers: VAST'06

LumberJack: Clustering Web Sessions

Understanding web usage by clustering session profiles.
Papers: CHI'02, WebKDD'02

WebQuilt: Remote Web Usability

Web usage logging and visualization
for remote usability tests.
Papers: AVI'02, TOIS'01