jeffrey michael heer

Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Stanford University

Human-Computer Interaction
& Visualization Groups

375 Gates Hall (3B Wing)
Stanford, CA 94305-9035
Fax: +1 650 723 0033
jheer (at) cs.stanford.edu

Admin: Monica Niemiec
Tel: +1 650 725 9494

Teaching

Fall 2009
CS448b Data Visualization

Spring 2009
CS376 Research Topics in HCI

Travel

Jun 29-Jul 2 SIGMOD, Providence
Jul 12-15 Seattle, WA
Aug 22-30 VLDB, Lyon, France
Oct 11-16 VisWeek, Atlantic City

about     projects     vita     bio    

Education   Employment   Teaching   Publications   Exhibitions   Talks   Media   Service   Awards


education

2008
Ph.D. Computer Science  University of California, Berkeley
Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration for Interactive 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

2009
Stanford University  Stanford, CA
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

2002 - 2008
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 2009
Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction (CS376, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2009
Data Visualization (CS448b, Stanford Computer Science)

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

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

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


refereed publications

Conference Papers
Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization, Michael Bostock, Jeffrey Heer. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'09), Oct 2009.

Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations, Jeffrey Heer, Nicholas Kong, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1303-1312, Apr 2009. [24.5% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Award]

Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation, Jeffrey Heer, Jock D. Mackinlay, Chris Stolte, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'08), 14(6), pp. 1189-1196, Nov/Dec 2008. [26% Acceptance Rate]

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
Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. Communications of the ACM, 52(1), pp. 87-97, Jan 2009.

Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Information Visualization Journal, 7(1), pp. 49-62, 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
The Design of Sense.us, Jeffrey Heer. In T. Segaran, J. Hammerbacher (eds), Beautiful Data, O'Reilly Media, 2009.

Point, Talk, Publish: Visualization and the Web, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Maneesh Agrawala. 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. In 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.

Dissertation
Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration for Interactive Visualization, Jeffrey Heer. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, December 2008.


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, Switzerland
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 Social Data Analysis

30 Jul 2009
Computational Journalism Workshop, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Stanford, CA

30 Jun 2009
SIGMOD Invited Session on HCI with Information. Providence, RI

12 Mar 2009
IBM Almaden Research Center. Almaden, CA

5 Jan 2009
Keynote Address, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). Monterey, CA

A Brief History of Data Visualization

6 Mar 2009
HCI Seminar, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Reflections on Visualization System Design

4 Dec 2008
VisMaster Workshop on Visual Analytics Software Architectures. Paris, France

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Collaborative Information Visualization

3 Dec 2008
Paris HCI/InfoVis Seminar. Paris, France

25 Sep 2008
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. Giheung-gu, South Korea

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 coverage

21 Sep 2009
Chart of the Day II. Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish.

19 Sep 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Secretary. Matthew Yglesias, ThinkProgress.org.

28 Aug 2009
Jeffrey Heer: Easy-to-use tools allow people to present data in creative and interesting ways. MIT Technology Review TR 35.

25 Jun 2009
Simpler Data Visualization. MIT Technology Review.

21 May 2009
Researchers visualize complex data. Stanford Daily.

1 Dec 2008
Sense.us: Towards a more social 'social visualization'. Sluijs, J.P. First Monday, 13(12).

16 Jun 2008
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. Abelson, H., Ledeen, K., Lewis, H. Addison-Wesley.

10 Mar 2008
Flare: Visualization Tools with Adobe Flash. Adobe Developer Connection.

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
ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2009
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2007-2009
IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2009
International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2008
Int'l Conf on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV) 2007

Publications Chair
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2008-2009

Workshop Organizer
Stanford Media-X 2009 Workshop on Visualization for Collective, Connective & Distributed Intelligence with B. Devarco & Katy Börner
Stanford Media-X 2009 Workshop on Data Visualization: Theory and Practice with D. Kasik & J. Gerth
CHI 2008 Social Data Analysis Workshop with F. B. Viégas, M. Wattenberg, & M. Agrawala
Berkeley Visualization Workshop, 12 May 2006 with M. Agrawala

Instructor
VLDB 2009 Visualization + Social Data Analysis Tutorial with J. Hellerstein
SIGGRAPH 2008 Computation + Journalism Course with I. Essa, B. Stenger, M. Agrawala, E. Ulken, & C. Sladden

Reviewer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2004-2009
ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2007-2009
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008-2009
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions (TOCHI) 2009
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2008-2009
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2005-2009
IEEE Visualization (Vis) 2006
IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2006-2009
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2004-2008
IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2008
World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2009
Graphics Interface (GI) 2006, 2009
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

2009
MIT Technology Review TR35, Innovators Under the Age of 35
C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley
IBM Faculty Award
Intel Faculty Award

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