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

2025-07-15	Three papers are accepted to IEEE VIS 2025 (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.
2024-09-06	Defend my Ph.D. thesis on Encoding with Patterns: A Design Space and Evaluations.

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, To appear, January 2026 (VIS 2025).

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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, To appear, January 2026 (VIS 2025).

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BibTeX entry:

. ReVISit 2: A Full Experiment Life Cycle User Study Framework . IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, To appear, January 2026 (VIS 2025).

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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, 31(1):1083–1093, January 2025 (VIS 2024).
doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456318.

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

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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, 30(1):1019–1029, January 2024 (VIS 2023).
doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326941.

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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 (PacificVis, 18-21 April, Seoul, Korea), pages 187-196, IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2023 (PacificVis 2023).
doi: 10.1109/PacificVis56936.2023.00028.

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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/},
url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/VideosAndDemos/He2023BVS},
url2        = {https://www.aviz.fr/Research/BeauVis-Scale},
github_url  = {https://github.com/tingying-he/beauvis},
pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/He_2023_BVS.pdf},
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, 29(1):363–373, January 2023 (VIS 2022).
doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209390.

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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, 6.2(2018):30-42, April 2018
doi: 10.15302/J-LAF-20180204.

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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},
url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Cabouat2025PPR},
url2        = {https://visualization-literacy.github.io/CHI2024/},
pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Cabouat.2024.PPC.pdf},
}

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 CHI Workshop “Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Visualization Literacy”, article no. 5, 10 pages, 2024

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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/},
url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/VideosAndDemos/He2024DCB},
pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/He_2023_DEB.pdf},
}

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

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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, September 2022, Vancouver, Canada), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2022

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