Tingying He

WELCOME

I am a Research Scientist in information visualization. I study how to design visual representations that help people make sense of data. My research focuses on visual encodings, accessibility, and evaluation methods.

Currently, I am part of the Visualization Design Lab at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah, where I work with Alexander Lex.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Paris-Saclay, where I was a member of the AVIZ team at Inria. I was advised by Tobias Isenberg. I also hold dual master’s degrees in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from Université Paris-Saclay and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Tongji University.

NEWS

2025-08-04	🏆 ReVISit2 wins the Best Paper Award at IEEE .
2025-07-15	📄📄📄 Three papers are accepted to IEEE (Reframing Pattern, Tactile Charts for BLV Individuals, and ReVISit2).
2025-06-16	📄 Our paper on Visualizing Information on Smartwatch Faces is accepted to the Information Visualization journal. Part of this work is based on my master thesis.
2025-05-01	🙌 Serve on the committee of IEEE VIS 2025 Short Papers.
2024-10-01	💼 Join the Visualization Design Lab at the University of Utah.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer reviewed conference & journal papers

Reframing <i>Pattern</i>: A Comprehensive Approach to a Composite Visual Variable

BibTeX entry:

Tingying He, Jason Dykes, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg

Reframing Pattern: A Comprehensive Approach to a Composite Visual Variable

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026 (VIS 2025)

paper talk arXiv OSF

Using Tactile Charts to Support Comprehension and Learning of Complex Visualizations for Blind and Low-Vision Individuals

BibTeX entry:

Tingying He, Maggie McCracken, Daniel Hajas, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Alexander Lex

Using Tactile Charts to Support Comprehension and Learning of Complex Visualizations for Blind and Low-Vision Individuals

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026 (VIS 2025)

paper website talk arXiv OSF

ReVISit 2: A Full Experiment Life Cycle User Study Framework

BibTeX entry:

Zach Cutler, Jack Wilburn, Hilson Shrestha, Yiren Ding, Brian Bollen, Khandaker Abrar Nadib, Tingying He, Andrew McNutt, Lane Harrison, Alexander Lex

ReVISit 2: A Full Experiment Life Cycle User Study Framework

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026 (VIS 2025)

Best Paper Award

paper website talk arXiv OSF

Visualizing Information on Smartwatch Faces: A Review and Design Space

BibTeX entry:

Alaul Islam, Tingying He, Anastasia Bezerianos, Tanja Blascheck, Bongshin Lee, Petra Isenberg

Visualizing Information on Smartwatch Faces: A Review and Design Space

Information Visualization, 2025

doi: 10.1177/14738716251360339

PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations

BibTeX entry:

@article{Cabouat:2025:PPR,
author      = {Anne-Flore Cabouat and Tingying He and Petra Isenberg and Tobias Isenberg},
title       = {{PREVis}: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations},
journal     = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
year        = {2025},
volume      = {31},
doi         = {10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456318},
doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456318},
oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.science/hal-04665390},
preprint    = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.14908},
osf_url     = {https://osf.io/9cg8j/},
url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Cabouat2025PPR},
github_url  = {https://github.com/AF-Cabouat/PREVis-scales},
pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Cabouat_2025_PPR.pdf},
}

Anne-Flore Cabouat, Tingying He, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg

PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025 (VIS 2024)

doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456318

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

paper website arXiv OSF bibtex

Design Characterization for Black-and-White Textures in Visualization

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{He:2024:DCB,
author      = {Tingying He and Yuanyang Zhong and Petra Isenberg and Tobias Isenberg},
title       = {Design Characterization for Black-and-White Textures in Visualization},
journal     = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
year        = {2024},
oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-04167900},
preprint    = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.10089},
osf_url     = {https://osf.io/n5zut/},
github_url  = {https://github.com/tingying-he/design-characterization-for-black-and-white-textures-in-visualization},
url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/VideosAndDemos/He2024DCB},
pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/He_2024_DCB.pdf},
}

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 (VIS 2023)

doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326941

paper talk arXiv OSF bibtex

Studies of Part-to-Whole Glanceable Visualizations on Smartwatch Faces

BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{blascheck:2023:studies,
author      = {Tanja Blascheck and Lonni Besan{\c{c}}on and Anastasia Bezerianos and Bongshin Lee and Alaul Islam and Tingying He and Petra Isenberg},
title       = {Studies of Part-to-Whole Glanceable Visualizations on Smartwatch Faces},
booktitle   = {Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium},
page        = {187-196},
year        = 2023
}

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, 2023 (PacificVis 2023)

doi: 10.1109/PacificVis56936.2023.00028

paper OSF bibtex

BeauVis: A Validated Scale for Measuring the Aesthetic Pleasure of Visual Representations

BibTeX entry:

@article{He:2023:BVS,
author      = {Tingying He and Petra Isenberg and Raimund Dachselt and Tobias Isenberg},
title       = {{B}eau{V}is: A Validated Scale for Measuring the Aesthetic Pleasure of Visual Representations},
journal     = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
year        = {2023},
volume      = {29},
number      = {1},
month       = jan,
pages       = {363--373},
doi         = {10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209390},
doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209390},
oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03763559},
preprint    = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.14147},
osf_url     = {https://osf.io/fxs76/},
osf_url2    = {https://osf.io/djrn3/},
github_url  = {https://github.com/tingying-he/beauvis},
video       = {https://youtu.be/b5SkPLsd2p0},
}

Tingying He, Petra Isenberg, Raimund Dachselt, Tobias Isenberg

BeauVis: A Validated Scale for Measuring the Aesthetic Pleasure of Visual Representations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023 (VIS 2022)

doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209390

paper talk arXiv OSF bibtex

Application of Intelligent-Interaction-Based Landscape Experience Augmentation

BibTeX entry:

@article{cao:2018:application,
author      = {Jing Cao and Tingying He and Zheng Chen},
title       = {Application of Intelligent-Interaction-Based Landscape Experience Augmentation},
journal     = {Landscape Architecture Frontiers},
year        = {2018},
volume      = {6},
number      = {2},
pages       = {30--41},
doi         = {10.15302/J-LAF-20180204},
doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.15302/J-LAF-20180204},
}

Jing Cao, Tingying He, Zheng Chen

Application of Intelligent-Interaction-Based Landscape Experience Augmentation

Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 2018

doi: 10.15302/J-LAF-20180204

paper bibtex

Peer reviewed workshop papers

Position Paper: A Case to Study the Relationship between Data Visualization Readability and Visualization Literacy

BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{Cabouat:2024:PPC,
author      = {Anne-Flore Cabouat and Tingying He and Florent Cabric and Tobias Isenberg and Petra Isenberg},
title       = {Position Paper: A Case to Study the Relationship between Data Visualization Readability and Visualization Literacy},
booktitle   = {Proceedings of CHI Workshop ``Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Visualization Literacy''},
year        = {2024},
pages       = {5:1--5:10},
articleno   = {5},
numpages    = {10},
oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.science/hal-04523790}
}

Anne-Flore Cabouat, Tingying He, Florent Cabric, Tobias Isenberg, Petra Isenberg

Position Paper: A Case to Study the Relationship between Data Visualization Readability and Visualization Literacy

In Proceedings of Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Visualization Literacy Workshop at CHI, 2024

paper talk bibtex

Data Embroidery with Black-and-White Textures

BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{He:2023:DEB,
author      = {Tingying He and Petra Isenberg and Tobias Isenberg},
title       = {Data Embroidery with Black-and-White Textures},
booktitle   = {Proceedings of the alt.VIS Workshop (at IEEE VIS, 23 October,
Melbourne, Australia)},
OPTeditor   = {Lonni Besançon and Derya Akbaba and Andrew McNutt and Sara Di Bartolomeo and Victor Schetinger},
year        = {2023},
oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-04197527},
preprint    = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.02864},
osf_url     = {https://osf.io/f5b6d/},
}

Tingying He, Yuanyang Zhong, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg

Data Embroidery with Black-and-White Textures

In Proceedings of alt.VIS Workshop at IEEE VIS, 2023

paper talk arXiv OSF bibtex

Reflections on Visualization in Motion for Fitness Trackers

BibTeX entry:

@article{Islam:2022:Reflections,
author      = {Alaul Islam and Lijie Yao and Anastasia Bezerianos and Tanja Blascheck and Tingying He and Bongshin Lee and Romain Vuillemot and Petra Isenberg},
title       = {Reflections on Visualization in Motion for Fitness Trackers},
journal     = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
year        = {2022},
month       = sep,
preprint    = {https://inria.hal.science/hal-03775633/file/Lijie_Alaul_MobileHCI_Workshop_Relfection_on_Visualization_in_Motion_for_Fitness_Trackers.pdf},
video       = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qy-dgjE4L4},
}

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, 2022

paper talk bibtex

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PUBLICATIONS

Peer reviewed conference & journal papers

Peer reviewed workshop papers

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