Have you ever thought: what's the actual difference between two charting tools? We explore a nearby-reading (not quite distant/not quite close) that uses a metrics-driven approach to answer that question.

In @nicolaskruchten, my, and Mike McGuffin's upcoming paper #ieeevis paper we develop an eval framework answering this question (and similar ones) for any charting notation (dsl/grammar/whatever).

Blog post: https://medium.com/multiple-views-visualization-research-explained/metrics-for-reasoning-about-the-usability-of-visualization-notations-6c03b9292780
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16353

Whenever I explain my #research at Google into mobile text editing, I'm usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile "Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What's the problem?"

Text editing on mobile isn't ok. It's actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates. I wrote this post so you can understand why it's so important.
https://jenson.org/text
#UXDesign #UX

Really excited to launch The Journal for Visualization and Interaction (JoVI)! A new open journal for #VIS and #HCI

Best part (IMO) is the experimental track, where you can submit papers using
@Posit's #quarto and have them reviewed via Github. Also means interactive papers (e.g. using JavaScript
@observablehq) are supported!

See https://www.journalovi.org/ and follow @jovi

With @floe @lonnibesancon @[email protected]

Excited to have authored two papers at #CHI2023. While they may be on ostensibly different topics (creative coding and ai in notebooks), they overlap a surprising amount! In both, we study what sorts of features different users (students/data scientists) care about, find intrusive, or understand as central to their various tasks.

We find that effective interventions are considerate of the users time, attention, context, and perceived contribution.

That is: they are polite!