Khairi Reda

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Sequoia: An interactive visual analytics platform for interpretation and feature extraction from nanopore sequencing datasets
R. Koonchanok, S. V. Daulatabad, Q. Mir, K. Reda, S. C. Janga. BMC Genomics, 22, 513 (2021)

Color Nameability Predicts Inference Accuracy in Spatial Visualizations
K. Reda, A. Salvi, J. Gray, M. E. Papka. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis'21), 2021 [data + materials] (Best Paper award)

Data Prophecy: Exploring the Effects of Belief Elicitation in Visual Analytics
R. Koonchanok, P. Baser, A. Sikharam, N. K. Raveendranath, K. Reda. In Proceedings of CHI'21 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021 [data + materials]

Rainbows Revisited: Modeling Effective Colormap Design for Graphical Inference
K. Reda, D. A. Szafir. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VIS'20), 2021 [data + materials]

Pushing the (Visual) Narrative: the Effects of Prior Knowledge Elicitation in Provocative Topics
J. Heyer, N. K. Raveendranath, K. Reda. In Proceedings of CHI'20: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Honolulu, HI, April 25-30, 2020 [data + materials]

Evaluating Gradient Perception in Color-Coded Scalar Fields
K. Reda, M. Papka. In Proceedings of VIS'19: IEEE Conference on Visualization. Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct 20-25, 2019 [data + materials]

Dynamic Glyphs: Appropriating Causality Perception in Multivariate Visual Analysis
K. Reda, C. Potts, T. Childers. In Proceedings of Vis X Vision: Novel Directions in Vision Science and Visualization Research. Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct 20, 2019 [data + materials]

Visual (dis)Confirmation: Validating Models and Hypotheses with Visualizations
I. K. Choi, N. K. Raveendranath, J. Westerfield, K. Reda. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV). Adelaide, Australia, July 16-19, 2019, IEEE

Concept-Driven Visual Analytics: an Exploratory Study of Model- and Hypothesis-Based Reasoning with Visualizations
I. K. Choi, T. Childers, N. K. Raveendranath, S. Mishra, K. Harris, K. Reda. In Proceedings of CHI'19: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May 4-9, 2019

Graphical Perception of Continuous Quantitative Maps: the Effects of Spatial Frequency and Colormap Design
K. Reda, P. Nalawade, K. Ansah-Koi. In Proceedings of CHI'18: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, QC, Canada, April 21-26, 2018 [data + code]

A Visual Analytics System for Optimizing Communications in Massively Parallel Applications
T. Fujiwara, P. Malakar, K. Reda, V. Vishwanath, M. Papka, K-L. Ma. In Proceedings of VAST'17: IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology. Phoenix, AZ, October 1-6, 2017 (in press) [supplementary materials]

Modeling and Evaluating User Behavior in Exploratory Visual Analysis
K. Reda, A. Johnson, M. Papka, J. Leigh. Information Visualization 15(4):325-339, 2016

Effects of Display Size and Resolution on User Behavior and Insight Acquisition in Visual Exploration
K. Reda, A. Johnson, M. Papka, J. Leigh. In Proceedings of CHI'15: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seoul, Korea, April 18-23, 2015, pp. 2759-2768, ACM. doi: 10.1145/2702123.2702406M

BactoGeNIE: A Large-Scale Comparative Genome Visualization for Big Displays
J. Aurisano, K. Reda, A. Johnson, G. E. Marai, J. Leigh. BMC Bioinformatics 2015, 16(11):S6 (BioVis '15), Springer. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-16-S11-S6

RBF Volume Ray Casting on Multicore and Manycore CPUs
A. Knoll, I. Wald, P. Navratil, A. Bowen, K. Reda, M. Papka, K. Gaither. Computer Graphics Forum 33(3): 71-80 (EuroVis '14), Eurographics Association, 2014. doi: 10.1111/cgf.12363

Evaluating User Behavior and Strategy During Visual Exploration
K. Reda, A. Johnson, J. Leigh, M. Papka. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization (BELIV'14), Paris, France, Nov 10, 2014, pp. 41-45, ACM. doi: 0.1145/2669557.2669575

Design Guidelines for Multiplayer Video Games on Multi-touch Displays
K. Reda, D. Chau, Y. Mostafa, S. Nagarajan, J. Leigh, A. Nishimoto, E. Kahler, J. Demeter. Computers in Entertainment 11(1):1-17, ACM, 2014. doi: 10.1145/2543698.2543699

The Desktop is Dead, Long Live the Workstation!
A. Knoll, C. Brownlee, K. Reda, B. Haymore, M. Papka, V. Pascucci. In workshop on the Death of the Desktop: Envisioning Visualization without Desktop Computing. Paris, France, Nov 9, 2014

Expanding the porthole: Leveraging Large, High-Resolution Displays in Exploratory Visual Analysis
K. Reda, C. Offord, A. Johnson, J. Leigh. In CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, ON, Canada, Apr 26 - May 1, 2014, pp. 2047-2052, ACM. doi: 10.1145/2559206.2581202

Multiuser-Centered Resource Scheduling for Collaborative Display Wall Environments
S. Nam, K. Reda, L. Renambot, A. Johnson, J. Leigh. Future Generation Computer Systems 45: 162-175, Elsevier, 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.future.2014.08.012

Visualizing Large, Heterogeneous Data in Hybrid-Reality Environments
K. Reda, A. Febretti, A. Knoll, J. Aurisano, J. Leigh, A. Johnson, M. E. Papka, M. Hereld. Computer Graphics and Applications 33(4): 38-48, IEEE Computer Society, 2013. doi: 10.1109/MCG.2013.37

Visualizing Large-Scale Atomistic Simulations in Ultra-Resolution Immersive Environments
K. Reda, A. Knoll, K. Nomura, M. Papka, A. Johnson, J. Leigh. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV'13), Atlanta, GA, Nov 13-14, 2013, pp. 59-65, IEEE. doi: 10.1109/LDAV.2013.6675159

A Human-Computer Collaborative Workflow for the Acquisition and Analysis of Terrestrial Insect Movement in Behavioral Field Studies
K. Reda, V. Mateevitsi, C. Offord. EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2013:48, Springer, 2013. doi: 10.1186/1687-5281-2013-48

Visualization Design Patterns for Ultra-Resolution Display Environments
K. Reda, J. Aurisano, A. Febretti, J. Leigh, A. Johnson. In Proceedings of the workshop on Visualization Infrastructure and Systems Technology (VISTech '13), Denver, CO, Nov 22, 2013

Context-Dependent Navigation in a Collectively Foraging Species of Ants, Messor cephalotes
C. Offord, K. Reda, V. Mateevitsi. Insectes Sociaux 60(3): 361-368, Springer, 2013. doi: 10.1007/s00040-013-0301-y

Scalable Visual Queries for Data Exploration on Large, High-Resolution 3D Displays
K. Reda, A. Johnson, V. Mateevitsi, C. Offord, J. Leigh. Proceedings of the SC'12 Companion: High Performance Computing, Networking Storage and Analysis, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov, 2012, pp. 196-205, IEEE. doi: 10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.35

Visualizing the Evolution of Community Structures in Dynamic Social Networks
K. Reda, C. Tantipathananandh, A. Johnson, J. Leigh, T. Berger-Wolf. Computer Graphics Forum 30(3): 1061-1070 (EuroVis '11), Eurographics Association, 2011. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01955.x

Towards Concept-Driven Visual Analytics
I. K. Choi, S. Mishra, K. Harris, N. K. Raveendranath, T. Childers, K. Reda. IEEE VIS 2018 posters

A Prochlorococcus proving ground for constraint-based metabolic modeling and multi-`omics data integration
J. Casey, B. Ji, S. Shaoie, A. Mardinoglu, P. Sarathi Sen, O. Jahn, K. Reda, K., J. Leigh, M. J. Follows, J. Nielsen, D. M. Karl. American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2016

Tell Me What Do You See: Detecting and Summarizing Perceptually-Separable Patterns for Exploratory Data Analysis
K. Reda, A. Gonzalez, J. Leigh, M. Papka. 8th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, Oct 8, 2015 (Robert G. Sachs award)

Tell Me What Do You See: Detecting perceptually-separable visual patterns via clustering of image-space features in visualizations
K. Reda, A. Gonzalez, J. Leigh, M. Papka. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VIS'15), Chicago, IL, Oct 25-30, 2015

"Show Me Data": Observational study of a conversational interface in visual data exploration
J. Aurisano, A. Kumar, A. Gonzalez, K. Reda, J. Leigh, B. Di Eugenio, A. Johnson. IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (VIS'15), Chicago, IL, Oct 25-30, 2015 (honorable mention)

Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment: A Large-Scale Genome Visualization for Big Displays
J. Aurisano, K. Reda, A. Johnson, J. Leigh. IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV'14), Paris, France, Nov 9-10, 2014 (best poster award)

Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment: A Large-Scale Genome Visualization for Big Displays
J. Aurisano, K. Reda, A. Johnson, J. Leigh. In the 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis’14), Boston, MA, July 11-12, 2014

The Health Bar: A Persuasive Ambient Display to Improve the Office Worker's Well Being
V. Mateevitsi, K. Reda, J. Leigh, A. Johnson. In Proceedings of the 5th Augmented Human International Conference, Kobe, Japan, March 7-9, 2014, ACM. doi: 10.1145/2582051.2582072

SocioScape–a Tool for Interactive Exploration of Spatio-Temporal Group Dynamics in Social Networks
K. Reda, C. Tantipathananandh, T. Berger-Wolf, J. Leigh, A. Johnson. Proceedings of the IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis '09), Atlantic City, New Jersey, 2009

Exploratory Visual Analysis in Large High-Resolution Display Environments
M. K. Reda, PhD Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014

SocioScape - Spatio-temporal Visual Analysis of Group Dynamics in Social Networks
M. K. Reda, MS Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2009

Understanding the Interaction of Visual and Verbal Metaphors from Eye Gaze Behavior
K. Reda, D. Chau, and R. Dargad. HCI Project Report, University of Illinos at Chicago, 2011

Design Challenges in Creating a High Resolution LCD-based Multi-touch Display
E. Kahler, H. Hur, K. Reda, R. Kooima, D. Chau, R. Jagodic, L. Renambot, A. Johnson, J. Leigh. Technical Report, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, 2009

SIGGRAPH 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Demonstrated interactive applications for Large, High-Resolution displays including SAGE and a 20-foot virtual paint canvas.

Chicago Field Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, and others 2009 - 2011
RainTable was featured as part of the H2O=Life exhibit, travelling to several cities in North America and Australia. The application was demonstrated at major museums including Chicago's Field Museum, Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, National Museum of Australia in Canberra, and the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2009 meeting, Chicago, IL
Demonstrated TacTile and RainTable as part of a showcase for National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation program.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2009 meeting, San Francisco, CA
Demonstrated RainTable, an application for real-time interactive simulation and visualization of watershed patterns.

Supercomputing 2009: IEEE / ACM conference on High-performance computing, Austin, TX
Demonstrated interactive multi-touch visualizations on TacTile.