Hi, I am Tingying He

I am a research scientist (postdoctoral researcher) in the Visualization Design Lab at the University of Utah, working with Alexander Lex. I received my PhD at Université Paris-Saclay, where I worked in the AVIZ team at Inria, advised by Tobias Isenberg. I earned a double master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from both Université Paris-Saclay in France and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Tongji University, China.

I have a broad interest in topics related to information visualization, particularly in visual encodings, perception and cognition, and evaluation methods.

News

I join the Visualization Design Lab at the University of Utah as a postdoctoral researcher.
I successfully defended my PhD on Encoding with Patterns: A Design Space and Evaluations .
I give three talks at IEEE VIS 2023 in Melbourne, Australia: one full paper, one workshop paper, and one at the Doctoral Colloquium.
Our paper, “Data Embroidery with Black-and-White Textures,” is accepted to the alt.VIS workshop.
Our paper, “Design Characterization for Black-and-White Textures in Visualization,” is accepted to IEEE VIS 2023.
I present our paper on “Studies of Part-to-Whole Glanceable Visualizations on Smartwatch Faces” at IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2023 in Seoul, South Korea.
Our paper, “BeauVis: A Validated Scale for Measuring the Aesthetic Pleasure of Visual Representations,” is accepted to IEEE VIS 2022.
I start my Ph.D. in AVIZ team, supervised by Tobias Isenberg.
I join AVIZ team as a master student, supervised by Petra Isenberg and Alaul Islam. My work centers on aesthetic preferences for data representation on smartwatch faces.

Projects

Design Characterization for Black-and-White Textures in Visualization
BeauVis: A Validated Scale for Measuring the Aesthetic Pleasure of Visual Representations

Selected publications

Peer reviewed conference & journal papers

[VIS'24 / TVCG 2025]
Anne-Flore Cabouat, Tingying He, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg. PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024. To appear.
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
[VIS'23 / TVCG 2024]
Tingying He, Yuanyang Zhong, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg. Design Characterization for Black-and-White Textures in Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024. To appear. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326941
[VIS'22 / TVCG 2023]
[PacificVis'23]
Tanja Blascheck, Lonni Besançon, Anastasia Bezerianos, Bongshin Lee, Alaul Islam, Tingying He, Petra Isenberg. Studies of Part-to-Whole Glanceable Visualizations on Smartwatch Faces. In Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Visualization (PacificVis, 18-21 April, Seoul, Korea), pages 187-196, IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2023. doi: 10.1109/PacificVis56936.2023.00028

Peer reviewed workshop papers

[CHI'24 Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Visualization Literacy Workshop]
[VIS'23 alt.VIS Workshop]
Tingying He, Yuanyang Zhong, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg. Data Embroidery with Black-and-White Textures. In Proceedings of the alt.VIS Workshop (at IEEE VIS, 23 October, Melbourne, Australia), IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2023.
[MobileHCI'22 New Trends in HCI and Sports Workshop]
Alaul Islam, Lijie Yao, Anastasia Bezerianos, Tanja Blascheck, Tingying He, Bongshin Lee, Romain Vuillemot, Petra Isenberg. Reflections on Visualization in Motion for Fitness Trackers. In Proceedings of New Trends in HCI and Sports Workshop (at MobileHCI, September 2022, Vancouver, Canada), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2022.