Innovations in Visualization

John Brosz

John was a post doctoral researcher working with Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale. In 2011 John completed his PhD with the Graphics Jungle Lab at the University of Calgary. His research interests include Nonlinear Projection, Information Visualization, and Nonphotorealistic Rendering.

Currently, John is the Co-ordinator of Research Data & Visualization and Visualization Research Services at the Taylor Family Digital Library at the University of Calgary.

Research

Publications

Uta Hinrichs, Alice Thudt, Lindsay MacDonald, Miguel Nacenta, John Brosz and Sheelagh Carpendale. Beyond Efficiency: Intriguing Interaction for Large Displays in Public Spaces. In Frank Maurer (Ed.) SurfNet: Designing Digital Surface Applications, pages 347 - 373. NSERC SurfNet, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2016.
John Brosz, Miguel A. Nacenta, Richard Pusch, Sheelagh Carpendale and Christophe Hurter. Transmogrification: UIST Demo Software. Earned UIST 2013 Honorable Mention Demo Award. Available at transmogrifiers.org., 2013. Video File
Florian Perteneder, Christian Grossauer, Thomas Seifried, Jagoda Walny, John Brosz, Tony Tang and Sheelagh Carpendale. Idea Playground: When Brainstorming is Not Enough. In Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces for e- Creativity, e-Science and e-Learning Workshop, ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI’12)., May, 2012. PDF Paper
Katayoon Etemad, Dominikus Baur, John Brosz, Sheelagh Carpendale and Faramarz F. Samavati. PaisleyTrees: A Size-Invariant Tree Visualization. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies, 14(1) ICST, 10, 2014. PDF Paper
Fateme Rajabiyazdi, Jagoda Walny, Carrie Mah, John Brosz, Sheelagh Carpendale. Understanding Researchers’ Use of a Large, High-Resolution Display Across Disciplines. In ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. ACM, pages 107-116, 2015. PDF Paper
Lindsay MacDonald, John Brosz, Miguel A. Nacenta and Sheelagh Carpendale. Designing the Unexpected: Endlessly Fascinating Interaction for Interactive Installations. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pages 41-48, 2015. PDF Paper
John Brosz, Miguel A. Nacenta, Richard Pusch, Sheelagh Carpendale and Christophe Hurter. Transmogrification: casual manipulation of visualizations. In Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. (New York, NY, USA), ACM, pages 97-106, 2013. PDF Paper
Lindsay MacDonald, David Ledo, Miguel Nacenta, John Brosz and Sheelagh Carpendale. Authorship in Art/Science Collaboration is Tricky. In Proceedings of the CHI'13 Workshop on Crafting Interactive Systems: Learning from digital arts practice, April, 2013. PDF Paper
John Brosz, Sheelagh Carpendale, Faramarz Samavati, Hao Wang and Alan Dunning. Art and Nonlinear Projection. In Bridges 2009: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music andScience, 2009. PDF Paper
Ricardo Langner, John Brosz, Raimund Dachselt and Sheelagh Carpendale. PhysicsBox: Playful Educational Tabletop Games. In Extended Abstracts of Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces - ITS'10, 2010. PDF Paper Video File
John Brosz, Sheelagh Carpendale and Miguel Nacenta. The Undistort Lens. Computer Graphics Forum, 30(3):881-890, June, 2011. PDF Paper
Kimberly Mikulecky, Mark Hancock, John Brosz and Sheelagh Carpendale. Exploring physical information cloth on a multitouch table. In ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. ACM, pages 140-149, 2011. PDF Paper Video File
Christian Grossauer, Florian Perteneder, Michael Haller, Jagoda Walny, John Brosz, Anthony Tang and Sheelagh Carpendale. MathSketch: Designing a dynamic whiteboard for instruction contexts. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Workshop on Educational Interfaces, Software, and Technology, May, 2012.