The Information Interfaces Group, an HCI research group in the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, develops computing technologies that help people take advantage of information to enrich their lives.
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Jigsaw
Using visualization and visual analytics to help intelligence analysis and sensemaking.


Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
Helping people understand and analyze data through interactive visualization techniques and systems.


The Buzz
Supporting end-user mashup creation and content aggregation onto photo and text collages.


InfoCanvas
Developing Information Art: Virtual paintings that peripherally convey information to people.

M5
Making multiple monitors more manageable and exploring how window management techniques can improve the use of multiple monitor systems.

AuraOrbs
Communicating presence and awareness data through an ambient information system.
Talking Heads
Exploring the use of embodied interface agents who assist people with daily tasks.

BlueGoo
Combining information and aesthetics in a peripheral awareness system.
FundExplorer
Aiding equity investors with mutual fund portfolio diversification through the use of Context Treemaps.
Dust & Magnet
Assisting people understand multivariate data sets using a magnet metaphor-based visualization.
Sports Visualization
Promoting advanced statistical analysis in sports through the use of information visualization.
Ambient Trolley
Communicating trolley travel times in an ambient toy display.
iShop
Exploring how PDAs could be used in shopping at grocery stores and other retail environments.
SunBurst
Developing circular, space-filling visualizations for depicting information hierarchies and trees.
Software Visualization
Helping people understand software through visualization of programs, data structures, algorithms, and executions.

     

 

 

Doctoral fellowships in visual analytics are available for Fall 2009. More details

John gave the the opening keynote at the 2008 VL/HCC and SoftVis Symposia in September.

We had 3 papers accepted at the 2008 IEEE InfoVis Conference in October.

John visited the CEPS Center and DSTO in Australia in June to give talks about the Jigsaw system to government, industry, and academic officials.

We won the university component of the VAST 2007 Contest using our Jigsaw system.

Videos of CS 7450 InfoVis lectures now available at the Visual Analytics Digital Library

Together with our partners at UNC-Charlotte, we run the Southeastern Regional Visualization and Analytics Center with research support by the NVAC Program and DHS.

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Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award IIS-0414667, the Dept. of Homeland Security's NVAC program, and TravelPort Corp.