This $316,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop "provably effective" data visualization solutions. The project will create computer-based tools and techniques to assist analysts in making effective visualization design decisions, integrating established scientific theories and guidelines into new and existing visualization software. Key goals include automating...
This $343,324 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northeastern University to develop empirically validated perceptual tasks for data visualization. The goal is to refine and evaluate a model of the lower-level perceptual processes underlying higher-level data analysis and visualization tasks. Researchers will conduct qualitative studies to document how people decompose tasks and then empirically evaluate proposed perceptual subtasks like filtering images, judging...
This three-year, $350,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop a knowledge platform and related tools to bridge the gap between visualization research and design practice. Specifically, the Trustees of Boston College will receive funding to build a comprehensive online framework for improving access to and learning about effective visualization design principles. This framework will consolidate existing...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $192,864 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop an Archiving Infrastructure for Reproducible Interactive Visualization (AIRIV). The University will build a general AIRIV JavaScript library to enable automatic generation and storage of provenance information for web-based visualization dashboards. This will allow...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,518 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Maryland, College Park. This five-year grant, which began on September 1, 2023, will support research into "Manipulable Semantic Components in Data Visualization Design." The key focus of the project is to develop new interaction paradigms for data visualization design, enabling flexible manipulation of graphical...
This $320,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports core visualization research and new methods for scientific visualization. The research team at the University of Notre Dame will develop novel neural field representation techniques to enable advanced synthesis, management, exploration, and communication of complex scientific data and visualization outputs. Key project outcomes will...
This Project Grant award of $632,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to enable computers to serve as more reliable and robust assistants in data visualization design. The project aims to develop "provably effective" visualization analyses that can be tested against best practices, theoretical models, and experimental data. By integrating these automated features into...
This $187,194 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a research study on how effectively data visualizations communicate scientific information to the general public. The researchers at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) will conduct an online survey of 2,000 U.S. adults to evaluate their understanding and interpretation of different data visualization designs, such as bar and...
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville was awarded a $316,168 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop an Archiving Infrastructure for Reproducible Interactive Visualization (AIRIV). The grant aims to address challenges in reproducible and accessible scientific research by creating a scalable framework and tools to capture, store, share, and reuse visual explorations of large, complex datasets....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $550,000 project grant to Arizona State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. The grant will support the development of novel techniques and open source software tools to enable the creation of privacy-preserving data visualizations. A visualization grammar will be established to specify visualization designs that consider...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, totaling $1,494,566, will support the development of the Revisit infrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. Revisit is a suite of modular tools for designing and conducting online studies of interactive data visualizations. It will provide infrastructure for flexible experiment creation, instrumented data collection including user interactions, insights and rationales. The tools will wrangle results into formats for off-the-shelf analysis and enable advanced analytics of diverse data streams. This will allow researchers to gather empirical evidence on the merits of different visualization techniques and understand the types of insights different approaches support. The awardee, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will develop this infrastructure to democratize evaluation of interactive visualizations and enable researchers to run a broader range of crowdsourced experiments, advancing the foundation's mission to support basic research in computing fields.