Purdue Interaction Design

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Publications

Journal

(accepted) Qian, Z.C., and Chen, Y.V. (2014), “Fluency of Visualizations: Linking Spatiotemporal Visualizations to Improve Cybersecurity Visual Analytics”, submitted to Security Informatics, Journal No.: 13388, Springer, New York, NY.
(in press) Chen, V.Y., Qian, Z.C., Dill, J., and R.F. Woodbury, (2014). “Employing a Parametric Model for Analytic Provenance”, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, the special issue of Interactive Computational Visual Analytics, Vol.4, No.1,, ISSN: 2160-6455.
(in press) Qian, Z.C., V.Y. Chen, and P. Peng (2014), “A Comparative Approach to Evaluate and Enhance Information Interaction Design in Visual Analytics Systems”, firstly published in ACM 3rd Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI), Then has been selected to ACM SIGDOC Communication Design Quarterly Review, Vol. X, No.X, pp. X, ISSN: 2166-1200.
Chen, V.Y., Razip, A.M., Ko, S., Qian, Z.C., and Ebert, D.S. (2013), “SemanticPrism: a Multi-aspect View of Large High-dimensional Data”, in 2013 Information Visualization Journal, Issue 3, ISSN: 1473-8716.
Qian, Z.C., V.Y. Chen, and R.F. Woodbury, (2010). “Design Patterns to Support Collaborative Parametric Design”, International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 57-75, ISSN: 1630-7267.
Qian, Z.C., Chen, V.Y., and R.F. Woodbury. (2008). “Developing a Simple Repository to Support Authoring Learning Objects”, firstly published in Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories (I2LOR) Conference, I2LOR ember Montreal, QC. Then has been selected by International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, Vol. 2, No.2, pp. 154-173, ISSN: 1462-4613.
Qian, Z.C. and R.F. Woodbury. (2004). “Between Reading & Authoring: Patterns of Digital Interpretation”, International Journal of Design Computing, Vol. 7, No.2, ISSN: 1379-7147.

International Conferences

(Accepted)Chen, Y.V. and Qian, Z.C., (2014), “Enhance Design Thinking through Collaborating with Designers”, in the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2014 Annual Conference & Exposition: 360 Degrees of Engineering Education, June 15-18, Indianapolis, IN.
Qian, Z.C., V.Y. Chen, and P. Peng (2014), “A Comparative Approach to Evaluate and Enhance Information Interaction Design in Visual Analytics Systems”, in ACM 3rd Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI), February 24-25, Greenville NC.
Promann, M., Ma, Y., Wei, S., Lei, W., Chang, J.S., Qian, Z.C., and Chen, Y. V. (2013), “SpringRain: an Ambient Information Display”, in 2013 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, November 9-14, Atlanta, GA.
Chang, J.S., Lei, W., Wei, S., Promann, M., Ma, Y., Chen, Y.V., and Qian, Z.C., (2013), “SoalrWheels: an Interactive Situation Awareness Visual Display for Large-scale Computer Networks”, in 2013 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, November 9-14, Atlanta, GA.
V.Y. Chen and Qian, Z.C. (2013), “From When and What to Where: Linking Spatio-temporal Visualizations in Visual Analytics”, in 2013 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), June 4-7, Seattle, WA. ISBN: 978-1-4673-6211-5.
Qian, Z.C. and V.Y. Chen. (2013), “Beyond the Computer Screen: Applying Information Visualization in Product Design”, in IDSA 2013 International Conference and Education Symposium, August 21-24, Chicago, IL.
Visser, S., Qian, Z.C. and V.Y. Chen. (2013), “Breaking the Rules of Visual Perception”, in IDSA 2013 International Conference and Education Symposium, August 21-24, Chicago, IL.
Qian, Z.C. (2013), “Collaborating Interaction Design into Engineering Projects in Community Service”, in NCIIA 17th conference, March 22-23, Washington D.C.
Chen, V.Y., Razip, A.M., Ko, S., Qian, Z.C., and Ebert, D.S. (2012), “SemanticPrism: a Multi-aspect View of Large High-dimensional Data”, in 2012 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, October 14-19, Seattle, WA. ISBN: 978-1-4673-4753-2.
Qian, Z.C., Zoltowski, C. B. and Oakes, W. (2012), “Collaborating Interaction Design in Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)”, in 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference, October 3-6, Seattle, WA, pp. 1141-1146.
Rasche, N, and Qian, Z.C. (2012), “Application Design on Touch Screen Mobile Computers (TSMC) to Improve Autism Instruction”, in 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference, October 3-6, Seattle, WA. pp. 450-451.
Qian, Z.C. and V.Y. Chen. (2012), “When Simple Products are not Simple to Operate: Attaining Simplicity in Interaction Design”, in IDSA 2012 International Conference and Education Symposium, August 15, Boston, MA.
Visser, S., Qian, Z.C. and V.Y. Chen. (2012), “What You can Get from 48 Hours: Time-sensitive Collaborative Design Experience”, in IDSA 2012 International Conference and Education Symposium, August 15, Boston, MA.
Qian, Z.C., Visser, S. and V.Y. Chen. (2011), “Integrating user experience research into industrial design education: interaction design program in Purdue”, in NCIIA 15th conference, March 24-26, Washington D.C.
Qian, Z.C. and S. Visser, (2011), “Design for All: a Multi-disciplinary Design Experience”, in Mudd Design Workshop VIII: Design Education: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, May 26-28, Claremont, CA.
Hutzel, W.J., Kilmer, W.H., Kilmer, R.L., Qian, Z.C., Cory, C.A., Horton, T., Shaurette, M., and Hassan, R.P. (2011). “Preparing for the 2011 Solar Decathlon”, the American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 26-29, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Visser, S. and Qian, Z.C. (2011), “Enhancing Interaction Design Education with a Multi-disciplinary Approach”, in the 4th ICMEM (International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics), August 10-12, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, pp. 904-910.
Qian, Z.C. and S. Visser, (2011), “A Collaborative Effort: Integrating Interaction Design Evaluation into Product Design Process”, in IDSA 2011 International Conference and Education Symposium, September 14-17, New Orleans, LA.
Qian, Z.C. (2011), “From the Edges of Creative Collaboration: Designing Innovative Healthcare Products”, in Design at the Edges 2011 IDA Congress Taipei, October 24-26, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 68-76.
Chen, V.Y., Qian, Z.C., and Zhang, L. (2011), “MobileAnalymator: Animating Data Changes on Mobile Devices”, in 2011 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, October 23-28, Providence, RI. ISBN: 978-1-4673-0013-1.
Chen, V.Y., Dunsmuir, D., Lee, E., Dill, J., Shaw, C., Woodbury, R., and C.Z. Qian, (2010) “Using CZsaw to Analyze Messy Documents”, in 2010 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, October 24-29, Salt Lake City, UT. ISBN: 978-1-4244-9486-6.
Chen, V.Y., Dunsmuir, D., Kadivar, N., Lee, E., Qian, Z.C., Dill, J., Shaw, C. & R.F. Woodbury. (2009). “CZsaw: a VA Tool to Help Analysts both do the Analysis and Understand the Analysis Process”, in NVAC Consortium Meeting – Visual Analytics: the Next Five Years, National Visualization and Analytics Center, August 18-19, Richland, WA.
Kadivar, N., Chen, V.Y., Dunsmuir, D., Lee, E., Qian, Z.C., Dill, J., Shaw, C. and R.F. Woodbury. (2009). “Capturing and Supporting the Analysis Process”, in IEEE VAST conference, October 11-16, Atlantic City, NJ, pp. 131-138. ISBN: 978-1-4244-5283-5.
Qian, Z.C., Chen, V.Y. and R.F. Woodbury. (2007). “Participant Observation can Discover Design Patterns in Parametric Modeling”, in ACADIA 2007: Expanding Bodies, October 1-7, Halifax, NS, Canada. pp. 230-241.
Qian, Z.C. and R.F. Woodbury. (2007). “Above the System: Attending to What Designers Do with Parametric Modeling System”, in the Design Exchange Conference, June 14-16, Toronto, ON, Canada. pp. 55-63.
Chen, V.Y., Qian, Z.C. and R.F. Woodbury. (2007). “Local Navigation Can Reveal Implicit Relations”. In the CAADFutures (Computer Aided Architecture Design Futures) July 11-13, Sydney, NSW, Australia. pp. 403-416.
Chen, V.Y., Qian, Z.C. and R.F. Woodbury. (2007). “Visualizing Collaborative Filtering in Digital Collections”, in IEEE Information Visualization 2007, July 4-6, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 203-208.
Qian, Z.C., Chen, V.Y., and R.F. Woodbury. (2007). “NEAR: Visualizing Information Relations in Multimedia Repository A·VI·RE”, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 11, pp. 898-903, ISSN: 2010-376X.
Qian, Z.C., and R.F. Woodbury. (2006). “NEAR: Visualizing Information Relations in Multimedia Repository A·VI·RE”, in the International Conference on Computer Science 2006, March 12-14, Prague, Czech, pp. 216-221.
Qian, Z.C., Chen, V.Y. & R.F. Woodbury. (2006). “NEAR: Visualizing Information Relations in a Multimedia Repository”, in the International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2006, July 23-25, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp.236-241.
Chen, V.Y., Qian, Z.C., & Woodbury, R.F. (2006). NEAR: Visualizing Information Relations in the Multimedia Repository A•VI•RE”, in the Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering, June 14-16, Montreal, QC, Canada. pp. 4035 – 4044
Qian, Z.C. and R.F. Woodbury. (2003). “Interpreting Digital Interpretation”, in the Western Canadian Computer Graphics Workshop and Conferences (SKIGRAPH’03), March 4-8, Sunshine, AB, Canada, pp. 81-87.

Short Papers, Posters & Presentations

Guo, C., Ma, Y., Chen, Y, and Qian, Z.C., “Ambient Intelligence Technology to Amplify Family Remote Connection”, in 2014 Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing, February 10-11, Spencer, IN.
Ma, Y., Promann, M., Wei, S., Lei, W., Chang, J.S., Qian, Z.C., and Chen, Y. V. “Monitoring Enterprise Networks through Rain Drops”, in 2013 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, November 9-14, Atlanta, GA.
Lei, W., Chang, J.S., Wei, S., Promann, M., Ma, Y., Chen, Y.V., and Qian, Z.C., “Movement-based Interaction with Large-scale Situation Awareness Display”, in 2013 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, November 9-14, Atlanta, GA.
V.Y. Chen and Qian, Z.C. “Weave Temporal Visualization with Spatial Visualization to Enhance Visual Analytics Experience”, in 2013 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2013, June 4-7, Seattle, WA.
Rasche, N., Pourcho, J., Wei, S., Qian, Z.C., and V.Y. Chen, “Literacy LABELS: Emergent Literacy Application Design for Children with Autism”, in the 40th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH2013), July 21-25, Anaheim, CA.
Qian, Z.C., “The Explorative Framework to Conduct Interactive Product Design”, to graduate students in Computational Design and Innovation Lab, School of Mechanical Engineering, Mann Hall RoomB066, February 23, Purdue University.
Qian, Z.C. and S. Visser, “Design for All: a Multi-disciplinary Design Experience”, in Mudd Design Workshop VIII: Design Education: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, May 26-28, Claremont, CA.
Peng, P.Y. and C.Z. Qian, “Social Health Data Visualization”, in Create 11 Innovative Interactions, June 23, Shoreditch House, London, UK.
Qian, Z.C., Bendito, Petronio, and Visser, S. “The Interactive Face of Industrial Design”, in IDSA Mideast District Conference, May 1, Grand Rapids, MI.
Qian, Z.C., Chen, V.Y. and R.F. Woodbury, “Design Patterns to Augment Collaborative Parametric Design”, demonstration in the CSCW 2008 conference, November 8-12, San Diego, CA.
Qian, Z.C., Chen, V.Y. and R.F. Woodbury, “DesignPatterns: a Simply Repository to Support Authoring Parametric Modeling Learning Objects”, poster and demo in the Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories (I2LOR) Conference, November 4-7, Montreal, QC, Canada. Won the 1st Prize of Demo Contest.
Chen, V.Y., Qian, Z.C., and R.F. Woodbury, “Interactive Visual Query”, poster and demo in the Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories Conference, November 8-10, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Qian, Z.C., Botta, D. and R.F. Woodbury, “Learning Objects for Design”, poster and demo in the Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories (I2LOR) Conference, November 14-18, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Won the 2nd Prize.
Qian, Z.C., Chen, V.Y. and R.F. Woodbury, “A•VI•RE: a Multimedia Database for Learning”, demo in the Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories (I2LOR) Conference, November 14-18, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Antle, A., Woodbury, R., Silverman, M., Qian, Z.C., Leo, D. and D. Mulligan, “Moving beyond Access: curatorship in Online Heritage Libraries”, short paper in Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 7-11, Tuscon, AZ.
Charles, A., Qian, Z.C., Chang, W. and DiPaola, S. (2002), 3D Visualization Poster Presentation “F(r)iction”, Showcased at the British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute (ASI) Exchange, March 12, Vancouver, BC, Canada.