News

June 2026

Our lab presented three papers at the EuroVis 2026 conference in Nottingham. Additionally, our paper "Believing is Seeing: Cognitive Risks of High Confidence AI Predictions in Human Decision Making" received the Best Paper Award at the 17th EuroVA workshop.

May 2026

Prof. Kelly L'Engle and I received funding for the Jesuit Foundation grant titled "Cultivating Student Well-Being Through Spiritual Health and Mind-Body Practices with Nala-Examen." to continue work on our Nala chatbot to support spiritual health.

March 2026

Our paper 'Mastery learning improves performance on complex tasks on PCP literacy test' was accepted for publication in the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications journal (May-June 2026 issue)

August 2025

Our paper 'Examining a PCP Intervention through the Anderson and Krathwohl Taxonomy Lens' was accepted for presentation at the IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities (EduVis '25')

July 2025

Our paper 'Applying Self-Regulated Learning Principles in an Undergraduate Computer Science Seminar' was accepted for presentation at the IEEE Frontier in Education conference (FIE '25')

May 2025

We received funding for the 'AI Coaching for Health and Well-Being' from the CRASE Interdisciplinary Action Group (IAG) at USF.

April 2025

Our paper 'Evaluating the Impact of a Constructivist Approach to Treemap Literacy' was published in the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications journal.

August 2024

Our paper 'An Inductive Approach for Identification of Barriers to PCP Literacy' was accepted for presentation at the IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities (EduVis '24)

Jan 2024

Our paper `Evaluating the Recommendations of LLMs to Teach a Visualization Technique using Bloom's Taxonomy' was presented at the Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2024 conference.

May 2023

Our paper `Constructivism-based approach for Treemaps Literacy’ was presented at the Eurographics Education 2023 conference. We have been invited to submit an extension to the IEEE CG&A journal.

March 2023

Our poster on ‘Acknowledging Inequities in Tech through a Community-Engaged Learning course’ was presented at SIGCSE 2023

September 2022

Our paper on ‘Lessons Learned From Quantitatively Exploring Visualization Rubric Utilization for Peer Feedback’ was accepted for publication in the IEEE CG&A journal with an invited talk to IEEE VIS 2023.

July 2022

Our survey paper on ‘Interactive Visualization Literacy: The State-of-the-art’ was published in the Information Visualization Journal.

June 2022

Our lab published 4 papers on Visualization Literacy and Pedagogy at IEEE CG&A (2), Eurographics Education, and the Information Visualization Journal.

March 2022

Our paper on `Evaluating Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Learning Modules for Parallel Coordinates Literacy’ was accepted for publication in the Computer Graphics Journal.

January 2022

Our paper on `Nirmaan: Dataset generation for multiclass scatterplot studies’ was accepted for publication in the Electronic Imaging Journal.

December 2021

Co-authored two chapters in the Mobile Data Visualization book that was published by CRC Press

October 2021

Organized a panel at IEEE VIS 2021 on `Visualization Literacy for General Audiences-Can We Make A Difference?’ with Katy Börner, Robert S Laramee, Lane Harrison, Elif E Firat, and Bum Chul Kwon.