Will
| Personal Website | http://alexander-lex.net |
| Lab Website | https://vdl.sci.utah.edu/ |
| Company Website | https://www.datavisyn.io/ |
Alexander Lex
@alexlex@vis.social
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Data visualization researcher. Associate Prof at the SCI Institute and School of Computing University of Utah. Running the Visualization Design Lab: http://vdl.sci.utah.edu. Co-founder of datavisyn.
If you're curios about how reVISit can help you run your user studies, join us for a meetup at #CHI2025 tomorrow from 9:00-10:30 in Room G218!
Maxim Lisnic is having a busy day presenting two #chi2025 papers on "guardrails against cherrypicking" and on "composing text in dashboard tools". Max is on the job market for PostDocs and academic positions. Talk to him if you're hiring!
https://vdl.sci.utah.edu/publications/2025_chi_guardrails/
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713580
I’ll be joining the Institute of Human-Centred Computing – https://hcc.tugraz.at/ – and look forward to new collaborations with the fantastic team there.
I’ll also stay closely connected to Utah, continuing my work with the amazing team at the SCI Institute and the Kahlert School of Computing.
After an incredible decade at the University of Utah, I’m happy to share that I’ll be returning to my alma mater, TU Graz, this fall as a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction.
I’ll be hiring a PhD student and a PostDoc in Graz—if you're interested in HCI and visualization get in touch!
We’ll also hold an in-person get-together for course participants and anyone interested in reVISit in Room G218, 9:00–10:30am on Thursday, May 1.
Course details:
Title: Running Online User Studies with the reVISit Framework
Mounday, Apr 28, 11:10 AM – 5:50 PM (with breaks)
Session links:
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/program/content/188383
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/program/content/191128
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/program/content/191129
Title: Running Online User Studies with the reVISit Framework
Mounday, Apr 28, 11:10 AM – 5:50 PM (with breaks)
Session links:
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/program/content/188383
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/program/content/191128
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/program/content/191129
Going to CHI in Japan? Interested in running user studies?
Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples.
It’s the time of the year when students accepted to graduate programs make decisions on where to go, while others might still be anxiously waiting to hear back. Unfortunately, the grad admissions process is opaque, so I’ve written a post that gives background: https://vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2025/04/09/grad-school-admission/
Can you run a think-aloud study via crowdsourcing? Yes you can! We used reVISit for running and analyzing online TA studies. And yes, online participants do actually speak, though they’re more critical than lab participants. Check out the CHI paper: https://vdl.sci.utah.edu/publications/2025_chi_crowdaloud/ #datavis #chi2025
