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Overview

Today’s computer user is inundated with information, and making sense of this growing mountain of material is becoming an overwhelming task. We believe that more powerful methods for presenting the information users need to make sense out of can greatly reduce cognitive load. Also, by exploring elegant, subtle, peripheral awareness techniques, we strive to preserve the user’s task flow and minimize interruption. Please refer to our Mission Statement for a longer discussion of what the VIBE group is up to.

Operationally, VIBE comprises multiple sub-groups: VIBEVis, Computational User Experiences (CUE), Everyday Technology, and Social Computing.

Featured Projects

Some of our most recent TechFest 2008 projects have not yet been released to the public. Microsoft employees may view information on these projects on our internal web page.

Visualization	Interaction	Business	Entertainment
DynaVis	TapGlance	*	MySong*
		Stay tuned for a new TechFest 2008 project!
Dynamic Business Visualization Framework	Glanceable Group Awareness on the Smartphone		Automatically generates chords to accompany a vocal melody. Songwriting for everyone!
FacetMap	Muscle-Computer Interfaces	SearchBar	SuperBreak
Interactive scaling and interactive facets	Muscle-computer interfaces directly sense and decode human muscular activity rather than relying on physical actuation or perceptible user actions.	SearchBar is a browser history centered around search topics and queries, instead of the less-intuitive constructs like domain and date that current browsers use to organize Web history.	SuperBreak adds hands-free interactivity to traditional ergonomic break-reminder software, using vision-based input.

* These projects were featured at TechFest 2008

Archived Projects

As time goes by, we occasionally move content from our VIBE front page to our archives. We will try our best to maintain the integrity of our links as we make these updates.

Primary Contact: Mary Czerwinski
Brush, A.J.	Counts, Scott	Czerwinski, Mary	Fernandez, Roland
Fisher, Danyel	Jacobs, Andy	Lee, Bongshin	Meyers, Brian
Morris, Dan	Nachmanson, Lev	Robbins, Daniel	Robertson, George
Smith, Greg	Tan, Desney
Affiliate Members
Baudisch, Patrick	Drucker, Steven	Grudin, Jonathan	Regan, Tim
Rowan, Kael	Scott, James	Zhang, Zhengyou

Recent Publications

2008

• Stay tuned for a list of 2008 publications!

2007

• Lee, B., Robertson, G., Czerwinski, M., and Parr, C.S. (2007) CandidTree: Visualizing Structural Uncertainty in Similar Hierarchies, Information Visualization, Vol. 6, pp. 233-246. (Extended version of the Interact paper)

• Tan, D., Smith, G., Lee, B., and Robertson, G. (2007) AdaptiviTree: Adaptive Tree Visualization for Tournament-Style Brackets, IEEE TVCG (InfoVis 2007), Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1113-1120.

• Nachmanson, L., Robertson, G, and Lee, B. (2007). Drawing graphs with GLEE. To be presented at GD 2007. (short paper)

• Biehl, J.T., Czerwinski, M., Smith, G., Robertson, G.G. & Bailey, B. (2007). FASTDash: A visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams. To be presented at CHI 2007.

• Brush, A.J., Meyers, B.R., Tan, D.S., & Czerwinski, M. (2007). Understanding memory triggers for task tracking. To be presented at CHI 2007.

• Kim, B., Lee, B., and Seo, J. (2007) Visualizing Set Concordance with Permutation Matrix and Fan Diagram, Interacting with Computers, Vol. 19, No. 5-6, pp.630-643.

• Lee, B., Robertson, G., Czerwinski, M., and Parr, C.S. (2007) CandidTree: Visualizing Structural Uncertainty in Similar Hierarchies, Proceedings of Interact 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4663, pp. 250-263.

• Parr, C.S., Lee, B., and Bederson, B.B. (2007) EcoLens: Integration and Interactive Visualization of Ecological Datasets, Ecological Informatics, Vol. 2, No.1, pp. 61-69.

• Kang, H., Plaisant, C., Lee, B., and Bederson, B.B. (2007) NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Data, Information Visualization Special Issue on Visual Analytics, Vol. 6, pp. 18-31. (Extended version of the VAST paper)

Our entire publications list is on our publications page.

Conferences we tend to submit papers to

• ACM CHI Conference (conference in April, paper submission in September)
• UIST (conference in Oct, paper submission in April)
• ACM SIGGRAPH (conference in July, paper submission in January)
• British HCI conference (conference in September, paper submission in February)
• Interact (bi-annual conference in September every other year)
• Advanced Visual Interfaces - AVI (conference in May, paper submission in mid-December)
• OZCHI - Australian CHI (conference in late November, paper submission in mid-June)
• Human Factors (conference in late September, paper submission early Feb)
• Ubicomp (conference in September, paper submission in March)
• Pervasive (conference in May, paper submission in March)
• CSCW (conference in November, paper submission March)