The Visualization and Design Augmentation Research Group (ViDAR) at UVA’s School of Data Science is a creative and collaborative space where we study how people imagine, design, and build data visualizations—and how intelligent systems can help along the way. Our work blends human-centered design, empirical research, and innovative tool development to both understand the creative process and design new ways to support it. We explore themes such as example-aided ideation (how designers draw inspiration from prior work), new metrics for evaluating visualization properties, intelligent co-design interfaces that adapt to designers’ goals, and expressive tools for visualization programming.
Research Tags: Design; Data Visualization; Human-Computer Interaction; AI Co-Design Tools; Visualization Programming
