jeffrey michael heer

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

360 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

jheer (at) cs.berkeley.edu
jheer.org | vis.berkeley.edu

Upcoming Travel

Jan 31 Microsoft Research
Feb 4-5 Harvard
Feb 11-12 Stanford
Feb 20-24 Georgia Tech
Feb 25-26 MIT Media Lab
Feb 27-28 Brown University
Mar 6-7 PARC
Mar 11-13 Univ. of Washington
Mar 18-19 Univ. of Toronto
Mar 21-29 Alpine Skiing
Apr 5-10 CHI 2008
Apr 15 Nokia Research Palo Alto
Apr 17 Pixar

about me     projects     vita

Education   Employment   Teaching   Publications   Exhibitions   Talks   Media   Service   Awards


education

(expected) 2008
Ph.D. Computer Science  University of California, Berkeley
Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration for Information Visualization
Advisor: Maneesh Agrawala
Committee: Stuart Card, Marti Hearst, Joe Hellerstein

2004
M.S. Computer Science  University of California, Berkeley
Prefuse: A Software Framework for Interactive Information Visualization
Advisor: James Landay, Second Reader: Marti Hearst

2001
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  University of California, Berkeley
Honors Program Breadth Area: Cognitive Science
Advisors: Christos Papadimitriou, James Landay

1997
High School Diploma  St. Mary's High School   Stockton, CA


employment

2002 - Present
University of California  Berkeley, CA
Graduate Researcher

Winter 2007
Microsoft Research  Redmond, WA
Research Intern

Summer 2006
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center  Cambridge, MA
Research Intern

Summer 2005
Tableau Software  Seattle, WA
User Interface Development Intern

2002 - 2005
Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.  Palo Alto, CA
Research Consultant

2001 - 2002
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center  Palo Alto, CA
Member of Research Staff

2001
University of California, Psychology Department  Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Researcher

2000 - 2001
University of California, EECS Department  Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Researcher

Summer 2000
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center  Palo Alto, CA
Undergraduate Research Intern, User Interface Research Group


teaching

Spring 2006
Visualization (CS294-10, Computer Science Division)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Maneesh Agrawala

Fall 2005
Information Visualization (IS247, School of Information)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Marti Hearst  Teaching Rating: 6.4/7

Spring 2005
Foundations of New Media (IS146, School of Information)
Graduate Student Instructor with Prof. Marc Davis, Prof. Peter Lyman, and danah boyd


refereed publications

Conference Papers
Generalized Selection via Interactive Query Relaxation, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala, Wesley Willett. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 959-968, Apr 2008. [22% Acceptance Rate]

Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 171-178, Nov 2007. [42% Acceptance Rate] [Invited to a special edition of Information Visualization Journal]

Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics, Jeffrey Heer, George G. Robertson. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis’07), 13(6), pp. 1240-1247, Nov/Dec 2007. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations, Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis’07), 13(6), pp. 1129-1136, Nov/Dec 2007. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1029-1038, Apr 2007. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Momento: Support for Situated Ubicomp Experimentation, Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 125-134, Apr 2007. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis’06), 12(5), pp. 853-860, Sep/Oct 2006. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Multi-Scale Banking to 45°, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis’06), 12(5), pp. 701-708, Sep/Oct 2006. [24% Acceptance Rate]

TimeTree: Exploring Time Changing Hierarchies, Stuart K. Card, Bongwon Suh, Bryan Pendleton, Jeffrey Heer, John W. Bodnar. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 3-10, Oct 2006. [43% Acceptance Rate]

Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster, danah boyd, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. HICSS-39, Hawaii Int'l Conf. on System Sciences, Persistent Conversation Track, Jan 2006. [48% Acceptance Rate]

Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks, Jeffrey Heer, danah boyd. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), pp. 32-39, Oct 2005. [27% Acceptance Rate]

Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card, James A. Landay. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 421-430, Apr 2005. [25% Acceptance Rate]

DOITrees Revisited: Scalable, Space-Constrained Visualization of Hierarchical Data, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 421-424, May 2004. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Presiding Over Accidents: System Direction of Human Action, Jeffrey Heer, Nathaniel Good, Ana Ramirez, Marc Davis, and Jennifer Mankoff. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 463-470, 2004. [16% Acceptance Rate]

liquid: Context-Aware Distributed Queries, Jeffrey Heer, Alan Newberger, Christopher Beckmann, Jason I. Hong. Proc. UbiComp 2003, 5th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 140-148, Oct 2003. [14% Acceptance Rate]

LumberJack: Intelligent Discovery and Analysis of Web Traffic Composition, Ed H. Chi, Adam Rosien, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. WEBKDD 2002: Web Mining for Usage Patterns and User Profiles, pp. 1-16, Jul 2002. [40% Acceptance Rate]

What Did They Do? Understanding Clickstreams with the WebQuilt Visualization System, Sarah Waterson, Jason I. Hong, Tim Sohn, Jeffrey Heer, Tara Matthews, James A. Landay. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 94-102, 2002. [30% Acceptance Rate]

Separating the Swarm: Categorization Methods for User Access Sessions on the Web, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 243-250, Apr 2002. [15% Acceptance Rate]

Journal Articles
Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. To appear in Information Visualization Journal, 7(1), 2008.

Does Binding of Synesthetic Color to the Evoking Grapheme Require Attention? Noam Sagiv, Jeffrey Heer, Lynn Robertson. Cortex, 42(2), pp. 232-242, 2006.

WebQuilt: A Proxy-based Approach to Remote Web Usability Testing, Jason I. Hong, Jeffrey Heer, Sarah Waterson, James A. Landay. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 19(3), pp. 263-285, 2001.

Book Chapters
Point, Talk, Publish: Visualization and the Web, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Maneesh Agrawala. To appear in E. Zudilova-Seinstra, T. Adriaansen, R. van Liere (eds), Trends in Interactive Visualisation, Springer, 2008.

Creation and Collaboration: Engaging New Audiences for Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Frank van Ham, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chris Weaver, Petra Isenberg. To appear in J. Fekete, A. Kerren, C. North, J. T. Stasko (eds), Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation, Springer, 2008.

Short Papers
Wideband Displays: Mitigating Multiple Monitor Seams, Jock Mackinlay, Jeffrey Heer. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1521-1524, 2004.

All Together Now: Visualizing Local and Remote Actors of Localized Activity, Scott Lederer, Jeffrey Heer. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1107-1110, 2004.

Efficient User Interest Estimation in Fisheye Views, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing systems (CHI), pp. 836-837, 2003.

Workshop Papers
Evaluating Visualizations to Unearth Behavior and Insight, Jeffrey Heer. Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Information Visualization Workshop, ACM CHI, 2008.

Socializing Visualization, Jeffrey Heer. Social Visualization Workshop, ACM CHI, 2006.

Seeing the Invisible, Jeffrey Heer, Peter Khooshabeh. Workshop on Invisible & Transparent Interfaces, Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2004.

Capturing and Analyzing the Web Experience, Jeffrey Heer. Workshop on Automatic Capture, Representation, and Analysis of User Activity, ACM CHI, 2002.

Mining the Structure of User Activity using Cluster Stability, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Web Analytics Workshop, SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2002.

Identification of Web User Traffic Composition using Multi-Modal Clustering and Information Scent, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Workshop on Web Mining, SIAM Conference on Data Mining, pp. 51-58. Chicago, IL, 2001.

Demos
Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card, James A. Landay. User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2004.

Active Capture: Automatic Direction for Automatic Movies, Marc Davis, Jeffrey Heer, Ana Ramirez. ACM Multimedia, 2003.


unrefereed publications

Dangerous Liaisons, Jeffrey Heer. Ambidextrous Magazine. Issue Four, Summer 2006

Bits, Bäume, und Bilder, Jeffrey Heer. einfach komplex - Bildbäume und Baumbilder in der Wissenschaft. Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, 2005


exhibitions

Apr-Sep 2005
einfach komplex - Bildbäume und Baumbilder in der Wissenschaft
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switerland
Curators: Andres Janser, Marius Kwint, Barbara Bader
Exhibited images of the Degree-of-Interest Tree browser and other visualizations.

26 Mar 2005
False Profit: LIQUIDATE
False Profit, San Francisco, CA
Interactive installation of the Vizster social network browser.


invited talks

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Collaborative Information Visualization

17 Apr 2008
Pixar. Emeryville, CA

15 Apr 2008
Nokia Research Lab. Palo Alto, CA

18 Mar 2008
University of Toronto. Toronto, ON

11 Mar 2008
University of Washington. Seattle, WA

6 Mar 2008
Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. Palo Alto, CA

27 Feb 2008
Brown University. Providence, RI

25 Feb 2008
MIT Media Lab. Cambridge, MA

21 Feb 2008
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA

11 Feb 2008
Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

4 Feb 2008
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA

31 Jan 2008
Microsoft Research. Seattle, WA

16 Nov 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cambridge, MA

15 Nov 2007
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA

14 Nov 2007
HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA.

26 Sep 2007
PowerSet, Inc. San Francisco, CA

29 Jun 2007
Yahoo! Research Berkeley Brain Jam. Berkeley, CA

23 Jun 2007
O'Reilly FOO Camp. Sebastopol, CA

19 Jun 2007
Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA

28 May 2007
Human-Centered Issues in Information Visualization. Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany

12 Apr 2007
DUB Seminar, University of Washington. Seattle, WA

Sensemaking and Information Visualization Panel

23 Feb 2008
Symposium on Computation and Journalism, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, GA

Visualization

6 Mar 2006
CME340: Computational Methods in Data Mining. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

25 Apr 2005
CME340: Computational Methods in Data Mining. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks

14 Feb 2006
BayCHI: The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI. Palo Alto, CA

Presiding Over Accidents: Techniques for Designing Directive Systems

14 Oct 2005
Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Exploring Enron: A Sketch of Visual Data Mining of E-Mail Archives

2 Jun 2005
Email Archive Visualization Workshop, HCIL University of Maryland. College Park, MD

190 Lines of Code

5 May 2005
050505: Zoning and Grinding. Center for New Media, University of California. Berkeley, CA

Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization

9 Oct 2004
InfoVis 2004 Workshop on Information Visualization Software Architectures. Austin, TX

Undergraduate HCI Projects at UC Berkeley

8 Feb 2000
BayCHI: The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI. Palo Alto, CA


media

27 Feb 2008
Computational Journalism Symposium. Information Aesthetics Blog.

3 Mar 2006
Numb3rs. Season 2, Episode 16: "Protest", CBS Television.

30 Jan 2006
Science Puts Enron E-Mail to Use. Wired News.

16 Jun 2005
500.000 E-Mails erzählen Geschichte der Enron-Pleite. Der Spiegel.

13 Jun 2005
Exploring Enron. Metafilter.com.

7 Jun 2005
Social network analyzer for Enron's emails. BoingBoing.net.


professional activities

Program Committee
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2007-2008
Int'l Conf on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV) 2007

Publications Chair
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2008

Workshop Organizer
CHI 2008 Social Data Analysis Workshop with F. B. Viégas, M. Wattenberg, & M. Agrawala
Berkeley Visualization Workshop, 12 May 2006 with M. Agrawala

Reviewer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2004-2008
ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2007-2008
ACM Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2008
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2005-2008
IEEE Visualization (Vis) 2006
IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2006-2008
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2004-2008
IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2008
Graphics Interface (GI) 2006
Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics) 2006
Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2003
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) 2007
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR) 2008

Committees
Graduate Admissions, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley 2004, 2006, 2008

Member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)


awards

2006
Microsoft Graduate Fellowship
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

2004
Outstanding Performance Award, A3I NIMD Team, PARC, Inc.

2002
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (declined)
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Finalist

2001
Warren Y. Dere Engineering Design Award, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley
Honors Degree Program, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley