Visualizations of mass shooting incidents in the United States appearing in the media can influence people’s beliefs and attitudes. However, different data sources each use their own definition of mass shootings, resulting in varying counts and trends of ...

The article offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creation process of last year's special issue article commemorating five decades of SIGGRAPH conferences. In this edited transcription of an interview, the article's editors, Mary Whitton, Chris Johnson, ...

Recent developments in extended reality (XR) are already demonstrating the benefits of this technology in the educational sector. Unfortunately, educators may not be familiar with XR technology and may find it difficult to adopt this technology in their ...

As a self-professed AI artist, Nina Rajcic presented an opportunity for us to explore a curiosity regarding how AI artists have been developing a process during an AI boon brought on by transformer and generative AI tools. Although her journey has been ...

ParaView is one of the most prominent software tools for scientific visualization used by scientists around the world. Color is a primary conduit to visually map data to its representation and, thus, enable investigation and interpretation of the data. ...

The metaverse, driven by mixed reality (MR), is positioned as the future market, revolutionizing product exploration in virtual space. Existing literature on this subject mainly focuses on business-to-consumer perspectives, leaving a gap in understanding ...

Learning space for children with different sensory needs, nowadays, can be interactive, multisensory experiences, designed collaboratively by 1) specialists in special-needs learning, 2) extended realities (XR) technologists, and 3) sensorial diverse ...

We address the problem of modifying a given well-designed 2-D sewing pattern to accommodate garment edits in the 3-D space. Existing methods usually adjust the sewing pattern by applying uniform flattening to the 3-D garment. The problems are twofold: ...

We introduce a workflow for the visual assessment of interobserver variability in medical image segmentation. Image segmentation is a crucial step in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of many diseases. Despite the advancements in autosegmentation, ...

The current issue features three articles from our regular queue that cover a range of topics in visualization, rendering, and mixed reality (MR), including interactive visual analytics, ray tracing, appearance rendering, and augmented reality (AR) and ...

We requested an interview with the Winnipeg-based JNZNBRK art collaborative upon being curious about their work process. The artwork they present on jnznbrk.com suggested a thoughtful aesthetic involving compelling physical exhibits. As we are always ...

When the pandemic hit, Alasdair Rae was teaching urban planning in Sheffield, England, writing papers on global population density and consulting on the side. His department needed to downsize, so he took a voluntary redundancy.

I have been fortunate to have experienced and contributed to the software development of virtual humans. Whether they are Avatars, Conversational Agents, game NPCs, or Virtual Influencers, they all have origins in computer graphics (CG). Indeed, the “DNA” ...

VR United is a virtual reality application that we have developed to support multiple people simultaneously interacting in the same environment. Each person is represented with a virtual body that looks like themselves. Such immersive shared environments ...

This article describes the design and evaluation of a virtual field trip on the topic of radioactive waste management research for university education. We created an interactive virtual tour through the Mont Terri underground research laboratory by ...

Many subsystems of Earth are constantly monitored in space and time and undergo continuous anthropogenic interventions. However, research into this transformation remains largely inaccessible to the public due to the complexity of the Big Data generated ...

This design study presents an analysis and abstraction of temporal and spatial data, and workflows in the domain of hydrogeology and the design and development of an interactive visualization prototype. Developed in close collaboration with a group of ...

We present an interactive visual analysis tool for analyzing the spread of wildfires and what influences their evolution. Multiple time-varying 3-D scalar and vector fields are investigated and related to each other to identify causes of atypical fire ...

Material appearance is largely determined by complex light attenuation processes. The distinct bluish colorations that can be observed when light is transmitted through snow are among the most striking outcomes of these processes. In this article, we ...

Fault detection is essential to ensure the proper operation of solar-thermal plants. Hence, monitoring personnel frequently analyze the data to detect unusual behavior. While visualization approaches may considerably support the monitoring of personnel ...