About Us
The Visualization and Design Augmentation Research Group (ViDAR) investigates how creativity shapes design, with a focus on data visualization. We blend human-centered design, empirical research, and tool development to study design processes create novel systems that scaffold creative work.
Research Themes
Example-Aided Visualization Design Ideation
Investigating how visualization designers repurpose existing examples to inspire new designs.
Visualization Design Knowledge & Representations
Expanding our understanding of visualization design knowledge through formal representations and metrics that enable computational reasoning over design spaces.
Design support Tools
Creating intelligent co-design tools that adapt to evolving designer goals without replacing the designer's role.
Support for Visualization Programming
Studying how people write visualization code and developing tools to support expressive prototyping.
