Situated and Immersive Analytics
Bringing data into the places where decisions happen, so people can connect abstract evidence with physical scale, context, and lived experience.
- Research question
- When data leaves the desktop, how should it be represented and manipulated so people can reason accurately while also understanding the real-world situation behind it?
- Methods
- AR and VR prototypes, tangible and spatial interaction, hybrid 2D/3D interfaces, and mixed-method studies that combine task performance with observation and interviews.
- Impact
- Helps analysts, learners, and the public connect measurements to their physical meaning, from landslide risk and printed charts to data storytelling in everyday media.
Related publications
BridgeVis: Linking Quantitative Analysis and Qualitative Experience for Data Visualization in Virtual Reality
Visual Informatics, 2026
- Data Visualization
- AR/VR
LandSAR: Visceralizing Landslide Data for Enhanced Situational Awareness in Immersive Analytics
IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2026
- AR/VR
- Data Visualization
Exploring Spatial Hybrid User Interface for Visual Sensemaking
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2025
- Data Visualization
- AR/VR
VisTellAR: Embedding Data Visualization to Short-form Videos Using Mobile Augmented Reality
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2024
- AR/VR
- Data Visualization
- Storytelling
Make Interaction Situated: Designing User Acceptable Interaction for Situated Visualization in Public Environments
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
- Data Visualization
- AR/VR