Alvitta Ottley

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering | Washington University in St. Louis

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I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. I am also the director of the Visual Interface and Behavior Exploration (VIBE) Lab and hold a courtesy appointment in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department.

My research uses interdisciplinary approaches to solve problems such as how best to display information for effective decision-making and how to design human-in-the-loop visual analytics interfaces that are more attuned to how people think.

I am deeply honored to have received the NSF CRII Award in 2018 for using visualization to support medical decision-making, the NSF Career Award in 2022 for creating context-aware visual analytics systems, and the 2022 EuroVis Early Career Award. My work has also appeared in leading conferences and journals such as CHI, VIS, and TVCG, where it has received the best paper and honorable mention awards.

Supervised by Dr. Remco Chang, I received my Master’s and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tufts University in 2013 and 2016, respectively. I completed my Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 2010.

news

May 10, 2023 Paper titled “Mini-VLAT: A Short and Effective Measure of Visualization Literacy” recieved the EuroVis 2023 best paper award! :trophy: :sparkles:
Mar 31, 2023 Paper titled “Mini-VLAT: A Short and Effective Measure of Visualization Literacy” was accepted to EuroVis and Computer Graphics Forum!
Mar 31, 2023 Paper titled “Human-Computer Collaboration for Visual Analytics: an Agent-based Framework.” was accepted to EuroVis and Computer Graphics Forum!
Jan 16, 2023 Paper titled “Why Combining Text and Visualization Could Improve Bayesian Reasoning: A Cognitive Load Perspective” was accepted to ACM CHI 2023!

selected publications

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    Mini-VLAT: A Short and Effective Measure of Visualization Literacy
    Saugat Pandey, and Alvitta Ottley
    Computer Graphics Forum, In Proceedings of the 25th EG Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 2023
    :trophy: BEST PAPER AWARD
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    Human-Computer Collaboration for Visual Analytics: an Agent-based Framework
    Shayan MonadjemiMengtian GuoDavid Gotz, and 2 more authors
    Computer Graphics Forum, In Proceedings of the 25th EG Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 2023
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    Why Combining Text and Visualization Could Improve Bayesian Reasoning: A Cognitive Load Perspective
    Melanie Bancilhon, Amanda Wright, Sunwoo Ha, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
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    A Unified Comparison of User Modeling Techniques for Predicting Data Interaction and Detecting Exploration Bias
    Sunwoo HaShayan MonadjemiRoman Garnett, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS), 2022