Racquel Fygenson - Khoury Vis Lab, Northeastern University

Racquel Fygenson

PhD Student, Computer Science

Research focus: Affordances in data visualization, perception/cognition, uncertainty, data art & physicalization

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Advisors

Enrico Bertini

Lace Padilla

Publications

2026

Thumbnail image for publication titled: Croissant Charts: Modulating the Performance of Normal Distribution Visualizations with Affordances

Croissant Charts: Modulating the Performance of Normal Distribution Visualizations with Affordances

Racquel Fygenson, Enrico Bertini, and Lace M. Padilla. Computer Graphics Forum—EuroVis/CGF. 2026.

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Thumbnail image for publication titled: Striking a Balance: Evaluating How Aggregations of Multiple Forecasts Impact Judgment Under Uncertainty

Striking a Balance: Evaluating How Aggregations of Multiple Forecasts Impact Judgment Under Uncertainty

Ruishi Zou, Siyi Wu, Racquel Fygenson, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, and Lace Padilla. PacificVis. 2026.

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Thumbnail image for publication titled: Examining Interpretation Strategies for Multiple Forecast Visualizations with Two and Four Forecasts

Examining Interpretation Strategies for Multiple Forecast Visualizations with Two and Four Forecasts

Lace Padilla, Racquel Fygenson, Connor Wilson, Kristi Potter, and Spencer C. Castro. Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2026.

2025

Cognitive Affordances in Visualization: Related Constructs, Design Factors, and Framework

Racquel Fygenson, Lace Padilla, and Enrico Bertini. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—TVCG. 2025.

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2024

Opening the Black Box of 3D Reconstruction Error Analysis with VECTOR

Racquel Fygenson, Kazi Jawad, Isabel Li, Francois Ayoub, Robert G. Deen, Scott Davidoff, Dominik Moritz, and Mauricio Hess-Flores. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—VIS/TVCG. 2024.

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Impact of vertical scaling on probability density function plots

Racquel Fygenson and Lace Padilla. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—VIS/TVCG. 2024.

2023

Thumbnail image for publication titled: The arrangement of marks impacts afforded messages: ordering, partitioning, spacing, and coloring in bar charts

The arrangement of marks impacts afforded messages: ordering, partitioning, spacing, and coloring in bar charts

Racquel Fygenson, Steven Franconeri, and Enrico Bertini. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—VIS/TVCG. 2023.

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Eco-Mending

Jane L. Adams and Racquel Fygenson. VISAP. 2023.

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2022

Thumbnail image for publication titled: Multiple Forecast Visualizations (MFVs): trade-offs in trust and performance in multiple COVID-19 forecast visualizations

Multiple Forecast Visualizations (MFVs): trade-offs in trust and performance in multiple COVID-19 forecast visualizations

Lace Padilla, Racquel Fygenson, Spencer C. Castro, and Enrico Bertini. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—VIS/TVCG. 2022.

Impact of COVID-19 forecast visualizations on pandemic risk perceptions

Lace Padilla, Helia Hosseinpour, Racquel Fygenson, Jennifer Howell, Rumi Chunara, and Enrico Bertini. Scientific Reports. 2022.

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