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Senior Research Scientist

Melanie Tory

About

Melanie Tory is a senior research scientist focusing on interactive visual data analysis. Her research explores techniques and tools to help people analyze data more effectively. This includes intuitive interactions with visualizations and the design and evaluation of tools that support sensemaking, analytical guidance, and collaboration. Before joining Tableau, Melanie was an Associate Professor in visualization at the University of Victoria. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University and her BSc from the University of British Columbia. Melanie is an active member of the visualization research community. She is Associate Editor of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications and has served as Papers Co-chair for the IEEE Information Visualization and ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces conferences.

More details at www.melanietory.com.

Focus

Interaction techniques
Visual Data Analysis Workflow
Collaboration

Papers

ChangeCatcher: Increasing Inter-author Awareness for Visualization Development

Mona Loorak, Melanie Tory, and Sheelagh Carpendale

Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis 2018)

Applying Pragmatics Principles for Interaction with Visual Analytics

Enamul Hoque, Vidya Setlur, Melanie Tory, and Isaac Dykeman

IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 1-6, 2017

Bridging From Goals to Tasks with Design Study Analysis Reports

Heidi Lam, Melanie Tory, Tamara Munzner

IEEE InfoVis 2017 (Phoenix, Oct. 1-6, 2017)

Exploring Synergies between Visual Analytical Flow and Language Pragmatics

AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing the User Experience of Machine Learning Systems

Visualizing Dimension Coverage to Support Exploratory Analysis

Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, and Narges Mahyar

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST 2016)

Eviza: A Natural Language Interface for Visual Analysis

Vidya Setlur, Sarah E. Battersby, Melanie Tory, Rich Gossweiler, Angel X. Chang

ACM User Interfaces and Software Technology (UIST) 2016

Exploiting Analysis History to Support Collaborative Data Analysis

Ali Sarvghad and Melanie Tory

Graphics Interface 2015, June 3-5, 2015

Personal Visualization and Personal Visual Analytics

Dandan Huang, Melanie Tory, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Lyn Bartram, Scott Bateman, Sheelagh Carpendale, Anthony Tang, and Robert Woodbury

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 420 - 433, Mar. 2015

Supporting Communication and Coordination in Collaborative Sensemaking

Narges Mahyar and Melanie Tory

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST 2014), vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 1633 - 1642, 2014

Empirical Guidance on Scatterplot and Dimension Reduction Technique Choices

Michael Sedlmair, Tamara Munzner, and Melanie Tory

IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2013) 19(12): 2634-2643, 2013.

How information visualization novices construct visualizations

Lars Grammel, Melanie Tory, and Margaret-Anne Storey

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. of Information Visualization’10), vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 943-952, Nov./Dec. 2010