{"599503":{"#nid":"599503","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IC Professor John Stasko Earns Grant to Explore Future Interfaces for Data Visualization","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe film industry has explored a future in which characters interact with large, projected wall displays through speech, gaze, and gesture. Characters like Tony Stark from the \u003Cem\u003EIron Man\u003C\/em\u003E franchise or those in \u003Cem\u003EMinority Report\u003C\/em\u003E can perform data exploration and analysis activities using various visualizations by non-haptic means.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToday\u0026rsquo;s systems for data visualization, which utilize desktop and laptop computers to interact via mouse-driven direct manipulation interfaces following the window-icon-menu-pointer (WIMP) paradigm, pale in comparison to the natural, fluid interactions presented in those futuristic film sequences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1717111\u0022\u003Enew grant\u003C\/a\u003E provided by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/index.jsp\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E (NSF) Information \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503303\u0026amp;org=CISE\u0022\u003EIntegration and Informatics (III) program\u003C\/a\u003E, School of Interactive Computing Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/john-stasko\u0022\u003EJohn Stasko\u003C\/a\u003E aims to explore, design, develop, and evaluate post-WIMP interfaces for data visualization and data analytics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project, titled \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/gvu\/ii\/naturalvis\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECreating Natural Data Visualization and Analysis Environments\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, has received three years of funding worth a total of $493,752.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo move beyond WIMP interfaces, Stasko said, new forms of natural user interfaces (NUIs) employing multimodal interactions such as speech, pen, touch, gestures, gaze, and head and body movements must be developed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While no one interaction modality may provide all desired capabilities, combinations of modalities \u0026ndash; speech, gaze, and pen, for example \u0026ndash; could provide a more natural, intuitive, and integrated interface experience,\u0026rdquo; Stasko said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this scenario, the system could assist individuals who know the information they want to extract from their data but not the specific commands or interface actions to take in a visualization system to produce the proper charts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If the objects to be acted upon are not clear from speech commands, then gaze, gesture, and touch can clarify a person\u0026rsquo;s intent,\u0026rdquo; Stasko said. \u0026ldquo;Furthermore, these input modalities may excel when a conventional mouse and keyboard are not available.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStasko is assisted on the project by Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/content\/arjun-srinivasan\u0022\u003EArjun Srinivasan\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Through a new grant provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Information Integration and Informatics (III) program, School of Interactive Computing Professor John Stasko aims to explore, design, develop, and evaluate interfaces for data analytics"}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2017-12-04 19:34:15","changed_gmt":"2017-12-04 19:34:15","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599502":{"id":"599502","type":"image","title":"Minority report interface","body":null,"created":"1512415792","gmt_created":"2017-12-04 19:29:52","changed":"1512415792","gmt_changed":"2017-12-04 19:29:52","alt":"Man uses interactive visualization interface","file":{"fid":"228556","name":"Minority Report.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Minority%20Report.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Minority%20Report.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":123635,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Minority%20Report.jpg?itok=0FIN6o-X"}}},"media_ids":["599502"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/gvu\/ii\/","title":"Information Interfaces"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11632","name":"john stasko"},{"id":"172922","name":"information visualization"},{"id":"176401","name":"visual analytics"},{"id":"33301","name":"data analytics"},{"id":"176402","name":"minority report"},{"id":"9614","name":"Iron Man"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}