David Saffo - Khoury Data Visualization, Northeastern University

David Saffo

PhD CS 2023 → Applied Research Associate Sr. @ JPMC

Research focus: Immersive analytics interaction design and evaluation methodologies

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2023

Unraveling the design space of immersive analytics: a systematic review

David Saffo, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Laura South, Justin Raynor, Caglar Yildirim, and Cody Dunne. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—VIS/TVCG. 2023.

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Through their eyes and in their shoes: providing group awareness during collaboration across virtual reality and desktop platforms

David Saffo, Andrea Batch, Cody Dunne, and Niklas Elmqvist. In Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2023.

2022

Effective use of Likert scales in visualization evaluations: a systematic review

Laura South, David Saffo, Olga Vitek, Cody Dunne, and Michelle A. Borkin. Computer Graphics Forum—EuroVis/CGF. 2022.

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The state of the art in BGP visualization tools: A mapping of visualization techniques to cyberattack types

Justin Raynor, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Laura South, David Saffo, and Cody Dunne. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—VIS/TVCG. 2022.

2021

Detecting and defending against seizure-inducing GIFs in social media

Laura South, David Saffo, and Michelle A. Borkin. In Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2021.

VisConnect: distributed event synchronization for collaborative visualization

Michail Schwab, David Saffo, Yixuan Zhang, Shash Sinha, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, James Tompkin, Cody Dunne, and Michelle A. Borkin. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—VIS/TVCG. 2021.

Two paths towards the future of remote studies using social VR

David Saffo, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Liudas Panavas, Caglar Yildirim, and Cody Dunne. In Proc. 1st XR Remote Research Workshop @ CHI 2021. 2021.

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Scalable Scalable Vector Graphics: Automatic translation of interactive SVGs to a multithread VDOM for fast rendering

Michail Schwab, David Saffo, Nicholas Bond, Shash Sinha, Cody Dunne, Jeff Huang, James Tompkin, and Michelle A. Borkin. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—TVCG. 2021.

Remote and collaborative virtual reality experiments via social VR platforms

David Saffo, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Caglar Yildirim, and Cody Dunne. In Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2021.

Grand challenges in immersive analytics

Barrett Ens, Benjamin Bach, Maxime Cordeil, Ulrich Engelke, Marcos Serrano, Wesley Willett, Arnaud Prouzeau, Christoph Anthes, Wolfgang Büschel, Cody Dunne, Tim Dwyer, Jens Grubert, Jason H. Haga, Nurit Kirshenbaum, Dylan Kobayashi, Tica Lin, Monsurat Olaosebikan, Fabian Pointecker, David Saffo, Nazmus Saquib, Dieter Schmalstieg, Danielle Albers Szafir, Matt Whitlock, and Yalong Yang. In Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2021.

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2020

Two dimensions for organizing immersive analytics: toward a taxonomy for facet and position

David Saffo, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Caglar Yildirim, and Cody Dunne. In Proc. 4th Workshop on Immersive Analytics: Envisioning Future Productivity for Immersive Analytics—IA Workshop. 2020.

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Evaluating the effect of timeline shape on visualization task performance

Sara Di Bartolomeo, Aditeya Pandey, Aristotelis Sigiouan Leventidis, David Saffo, Uzma Haque Syeda, Elin Carstensdottir, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Michelle A. Borkin, and Cody Dunne. In Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2020.

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Data Comets: Designing a visualization tool for analyzing autonomous aerial vehicle logs with grounded evaluation

David Saffo, Aristotelis Leventidis, Twinkle Jain, Michelle A. Borkin, and Cody Dunne. Computer Graphics Forum—EuroVis/CGF. 2020.

Crowdsourcing virtual reality experiments using VRChat

David Saffo, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Caglar Yildirim, and Cody Dunne. In Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late-Breaking Work—CHI LBW. 2020.

2019

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GeoSocialVis: Visualizing geosocial academic co-authorship networks by balancing topology- and geography-based layout

David Saffo, Michail Schwab, Michelle A. Borkin, and Cody Dunne. Poster at InfoVis: IEEE Information Visualization—VIS Posters. 2019.

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