How Do LLMs See Charts? A Comparative Study on High-Level Visualization Comprehension in Humans and LLMs

Hyotaek Jeon, Hyunwook Lee, Minjeong Shin, Tapendra Pandey, Joohee Kim, Shinwook Seon, Daeun Jeong, Sungahn Ko and Ghulam Jilani Quadri, In Proceedings of EuroVis 2026: Eurographics Conference on Visualization. Read More

Seeing graphs like humans: Benchmarking computational measures and MLLMs for similarity assessment

Seokweon Jung, Jeongmin Rhee, Seoyoung Doh, Hyeon Jeon, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Jinwook Seo, Information Visualization, 2024. Read More

Designing Annotations in Visualization: Considerations from Visualization Practitioners and Educators

MD Rahman, Devin Lange, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Paul Rosen, In Proceedings of EuroVis 2026: Eurographics Conference on Visualization. Read More

Redundant is Not Redundant: Automating Efficient Categorical Palette Design Unifying Color & Shape Encodings with CatPAW

Best Paper Honorable Mention (ACM CHI 2026)

Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Danielle Albers Szafir, In Proceedings of ACM CHI’ 2026: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Read More

Visual Stenography: Feature Recreation and Preservation in Sketches of Noisy Line Charts

Rifat Ara Proma, Michael Correll, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Paul Rosen, (in press) To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025. Read More

Discrepancies in Mental Workload Estimation: Self-Reported versus EEG-Based Measures in Data Visualization Evaluation

Soobin Yim, Sangbong Yoo, Chanyoung Yoon, Chanyoung Jung, Chansoo Kim, Yun Jang and Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Preprint Read More

Evaluating Line Chart Strategies for Mitigating Density of Temporal Data: The Impact on Trend, Prediction and Decision-Making

Rifta Ara Proma, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Paul Rosen, In Proceedings of 20th International Symposium on Visual Computing 2025 Read More

Animated Visual Encoding and Layer Blending for Identification of Educational Game Strategies

Braden Roper, William Thompson and Chris Weaver, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025. Read More

Distortion-aware Brushing for Reliable Cluster Analysis in Multidimensional Projections

Hyeon Jeon, Micha ̈el Aupetit, Soohyun Lee, Kwon Ko, Youngtaek Kim, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Jinwook Seo, (in press) To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025. Read More

Understanding Bias in Perceiving Dimensionality Reduction Projections

Seoyoung Doh, Hyeon Jeon, Sungbok Shin, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Nam Wook Kim and Jinwook Seo, In Proceedings of Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm) at IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025. Read More

Characterizing Visualization Perception with Psychological Phenomena: Uncovering the Role of Subitizing in Data Visualization

Best Paper Honorable Mention (IEEE VIS 2025)

Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Mengyuan Zhu, Chin Tseng and Danielle Albers Szafir, In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2025. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025. Read More

A Survey on Annotations in Information Visualization: Empirical Insights, Applications, and Challenges

Md Dilshadur Rahman, Bhavana Doppalapudi, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Paul Rosen, (in press) To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025. Read More

Shape It Up: An Empirically Grounded Approach for Designing Shape Palettes

Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Danielle Albers Szafir, In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2024; published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025. Read More

A Qualitative Analysis of Common Practices in Annotations: A Taxonomy and Design Space

Dilshad ur Rahman, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Bhavana Doppalapudi, Danielle Albers Szafir and Paul Rosen, In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2024; published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025. Read More

Striking the Right Balance: Systematic Assessment of Evaluation Method Distribution Across Contribution Types

Feng Lin, Arran Zeyu Wang, Dilshad ur Rahman, Danielle Albers Szafir and Ghulam Jilani Quadri, In Proceedings of BELIV Workshop at IEEE VIS 2024. Read More

Our Stories, Our Data: Co-designing Visualizations with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Keke Wu, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Arran Zeyu Wang, David Kwame Osei-Tutu, Emma Peterson, Varsha Koushik and Danielle Albers Szafir, In the Proceedings of ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2024. Read More

Exploring Annotation Taxonomy in Grouped Bar Charts: A Qualitative Classroom Study

Dilshad ur Rahman, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Danielle Albers Szafir and Paul Rosen, Information Visualization, 2024. Read More

Toward Constructing Frameworks for Task- and Design-Optimized Visualizations

Ghulam Jilani Quadri, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 2024. Read More

Do You See What I See? A Qualitative Study Eliciting High-Level Visualization Comprehension

Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Arran Zeyu Wang, Zhehao Wang, Jennifer Adorno, Paul Rosen and Danielle Albers Szafir, In Proceedings of ACM CHI 2024: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024. Read More

Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes

Best Short Paper Award (Top 1% submissions)

Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri and Danielle Albers Szafir, In Proceedings of EG/VGTC European Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2024, Odense, Denmark. Read More

CLAMS: Cluster Ambiguity Measure for Estimating Perceptual Variability in Visual Clustering

Best Paper Honorable Mention (IEEE VIS 2023)

Hyeon Jeon*, Ghulam Jilani Quadri*, Hyunwook Lee, Paul Rosen, Danielle Albers Szafir and Jinwook Seo, IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (Proc. IEEE VIS 2023), 2024. Read More