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Maureen Stone

About

Maureen Stone is best known for her expertise in digital color and its applications, but has broad experience in digital design, interactive graphics and user interface design. She spent the first part of her career at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center working on projects related to the then new fields of desktop publishing, digital document design and digital printing. She is the author of A Field Guide to Digital Color. Her work at Tableau Research is focused on the interaction between visual perception and design. In addition to her research, she offers both scientific and practical advice to development teams on all topics visual, from color selection to map design. She inaugurated into the  IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy in October, 2020.

She has been involved with Tableau since 2004, when she designed the initial data colors for Tableau 1.5. She joined the company in late 2011, was a founding member of the Research Team in 2012. As a member of Tableau research, she continued her work on optimizing the use of color in visualization, and in Tableau 10, she led a major redesign of the Tableau colors. She has helped lead Tableau research starting in 2015, as a Research Manager. She took over the leadership of Tableau Research in 2017. Now, in December 2021, she has returned to a Researcher role, to allow more time for personal engagement across the company as well as the chance to do some new research.

Focus

  • Color
  • Applied perception
  • Algorithms for design
  • Vision and visualization
Combining perception and design to make Tableau beautiful and effective

Papers

Affective Color in Visualization

Lyn Bartram, SFU-SIAT, Abhisekh Patra, SFU-SIAT, Maureen Stone, Tableau Software
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, May 6-11 2017.
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Affective Colour Palettes in Visualization (poster)

Abhisekh Patra (SFU-SIAT), Lyn Bartram (SFU-SIAT), Maureen Stone
IEEE Visualization Conference (Baltimore, October 23-28, 2016)
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A Linguistic Approach to Categorical Color Assignment for Data Visualization

Vidya Setlur, Maureen C. Stone
The IEEE Information Visualization Conference (Chicago, October 25-30, 2015)
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An Engineering Model for Color Difference as a Function of Size.

Maureen Stone, Danielle Szafir, Vidya Setlur
22nd IS&T Color and Imaging Conference (Boston, November 3-7, 2014)
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Adapting Color Difference for Design

Danielle Albers Szafir, Maureen Stone, Michael Gleicher
22nd IS&T Color and Imaging Conference (Boston, November 3-7, 2014)
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Selecting Semantically-Resonant Colors for Data Visualization

Lin, S., Fortuna, J., Kulkarni, C., Stone, M., Heer, J.
Computer Graphics Forum, 32: 401–410 (Proceedings of Eurovis, 2013).
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Color Naming Models for Color Selection, Image Editing and Palette Design

Jeff Heer, Maureen Stone
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2012.
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In Color Perception, Size Matters.

Maureen Stone
Vis Viewpoints, Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE (Volume:32 , Issue: 2 ), 8-11.
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The Effect of Colour and Transparency on the Perception of Overlaid Grids

Lyn Bartram, Billy Cheung, Maureen Stone
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17 (12 ), 2011, pp 1942 – 1948.
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Whisper, Don't Scream: Grids and Transparency

Bartram, L., Stone, M.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , 17(10), October 2011, pp 1444 – 1458.
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Alpha, Contrast and the Perception of Visual Metadata

M. Stone, L. Bartram
Proceedings of the 16th IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference (Portland November 11-14, 2008), pp 355-359.
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A Probabilistic Model of the Categorical Association Between Colors

J. Chuang, M. Stone, P. Hanrahan
Proceedings of the 16th IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference (Portland November 11-14, 2008), pp 6-11.
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Representing Color as Three Numbers

Maureen Stone
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/August 2005, pp 79-85
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A Field Guide to Digital Color

Maureen C. Stone
AK Peters, now CRC Press, 2003.

Toolglass and Magic Lenses: The See-Through Interface

Eric Bier, Maureen Stone, Ken Pier, William Buxton, Tony DeRose
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '93 (Anaheim, CA, August 1993), Computer Graphics Annual Conference Series, ACM, 1993, pp. 73–80.
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Color gamut mapping and the printing of digital color images

Maureen C. Stone, William B. Cowan, John C. Beatty
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 7 Issue 4, Oct. 1988, Pages 249-292
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Graphical Style: Towards High Quality Illustrations

Rick Beach, Maureen Stone
SIGGRAPH '83: Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, July 1983
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