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Manager, User Research

Melanie Tory

About

Melanie Tory manages user research in the area of visual analytics. One of Melanie's key projects at Tableau explores natural language interaction with visualizations; her foundational research in this area contributed to the design of AskData. 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

User research
Interaction
Visual analytics
Collaboration

Papers

Do What I Mean, Not What I Say! Design Considerations for Supporting Intent and Context in Analytical Conversation

Melanie Tory and Vidya Setlur

IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), October 20-25, 2019 (to appear)

Toward Interface Defaults for Vague Modifiers in Natural Language Interfaces for Visual Analysis

Marti Hearst, Melanie Tory, Vidya Setlur

IEEE Vis - Oct 20-25, 2019 (to appear)

Would You Like A Chart With That? Incorporating Visualizations into Conversational Interfaces

Marti Hearst and Melanie Tory

IEEE VIS - Oct 20-25, 2019 (to appear)

Inferencing Underspecified Natural Language Utterances in Visual Analysis

Vidya Setlur, Melanie Tory, and Alex Djalali

Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2019

Broadening Intellectual Diversity in Visualization Research Papers

Bongshin Lee, Kate Isaacs, Danielle Szafir, Elizabeth Marai, Catagay Turkay, Melanie Tory, Sheelagh Carpendale, Alex Endert

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Vis Viewpoints)

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards?

Alper Sarikaya, Michael Correll, Lyn Bartram, Melanie Tory, Danyel Fisher

IEEE InfoVis 2018 (Berlin, Oct 21-26, 2018)

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.

Comparing physical, overlay, and touch screen parameter controls

Melanie Tory, Robert Kincaid

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pp. 91-100, 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