miriah meyer

Professor
Dept of Science & Technology
Linköping University

(mail)
Linköpings Universitet
Kopparhammaren 2, MIT/ITN
601 74 Norrköping, Sweden
miriah (dot) meyer (at) liu (dot) se

(visit)
Kopparhammaren 2, room 3048
Campus Norrköping

about

projects

publications

teaching

talks

bio

book

Making Data Visual: A Practical Guide to Using Visualization for Insight. Danyel Fisher and Miriah Meyer. O'Reilly Media, 2018.

full papers

Transitioning to a Commercial Dashboarding System: Socio-technical Observations and Opportunities. Conny Walchshofer, Vaishali Dhanoa, Marc Streit, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VIS 2023), to appear.

Troubling Collaboration: Matters of Care for Visualization Design Study. Derya Akbaba, Devin Lange, Michael Correll, Alex Lex, Miriah Meyer. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023.

Data Hunches: Incorporating Personal Knowledge into Visualizations. Haihan Lin, Derya Akbaba, Miriah Meyer, Alex Lex. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VIS 2022), 29(1):504-514.

Exploring the Personal Informatics Analysis Gap: 'There's a Lot of Bacon'. Jimmy Moore, Pascal Goffin, Jason Wiese, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VIS 2021), 28(1):96-106, 2022.

An Interview Method for Engaging Personal Data. Jimmy Moore, Pascal Goffin, Jason Wiese, Miriah Meyer. ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (Proceedings of UbiComp 2022), 5(4):1-28, 2021.

Predicting intent behind selections in scatterplot visualizations. Kiran Gadhave, Jochen Görtler, Zach Cutler, Carolina Nobre, Oliver Deussen, Miriah Meyer, Jeff Phillips, Alexander Lex. Information Visualization, 20(4), 2021.

Insights From Experiments With Rigor in an EvoBio Design Study. Jen Rogers, Austin H Patton, Luke Harmon, Alexander Lex, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2020), 27(2), 2021.

HyperLabels: Browsing of Dense and Hierarchical Molecular 3D Models. David Kouřil, Tobias Isenberg, Barbora Kozlikova, Miriah Meyer, Eduard Gröller, Ivan Viola . IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020.

Extending Recommendations for Creative Visualization-Opportunities Workshops. Christian Knoll, Asil Çetin, Torsten Möller, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the IEEE Evaluation and Beyond – Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV) IEEE VIS 2020.

Community-based measurements reveal unseen differences during air pollution episodes. Kerry Kelly, Wei Xing, Tofigh Sayahi, Logan Mitchell, Tom Becnel, Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Miriah Meyer, and Ross Whitaker. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(1):120-128, 2020.

Network architecture of gap junctional coupling among parallel processing channels in the mammalian retina. Crystal Sigulinsky, James Anderson, Ethan Kerzner, Christopher Rapp, Rebecca Pfeiffer, Taryn Rodman, Daniel Emrich, Kevin Rapp, Noah Nelson, Scott Lauritzen, Miriah Meyer, Robert Marc, Bryan Jones. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(23):4483-4511, 2020.

Patterns of distributive environmental inequity under different PM2. 5 air pollution scenarios for Salt Lake County public schools. Casey Mullen, Sara Grineski, Timothy Collins, Wei Xing, Ross Whitaker, Tofigh Sayahi, Tom Becnel, Pascal Goffin, Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Miriah Meyer, Kerry Kelly. Environmental Research, vol 186, 2020.

Integrated Analysis and Hypothesis Testing for Complex Spatio-Temporal Data. Krešimir Matković, Denis Gračanin, Michael Beham, Rainer Splechtna, Miriah Meyer, Elena Ginina. Transactions on Computational Science XXXVII, vol 12230:39-56, 2020.

Criteria for Rigor in Visualization Design Study. Miriah Meyer, Jason Dykes. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2019), 26(1), 2020.

Origraph: Interactive Network Wrangling. Alex Bigelow, Carolina Nobre, Miriah Meyer, Alex Lex. Proceedings of IEEE VAST, 2019.

The State of the Art in Visualizing Multivariate Networks. Carolina Nobre, Miriah Meyer, Marc Streit, Alexander Lex. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2019), 38(3), 2019.

Visual Analysis of Bird Moving Patterns. Krešimir Matković, Denis Gračanin, Michael Beham, Rainer Splechtna, Miriah Meyer, Elena Ginina. Proceedings of the Computer Graphics International Conference, 2019.

Examining Implicit Discretization in Spectral Schemes. P. Samuel Quinan, Lace Padilla, Sarah H. Creem-Regehr, Miriah Meyer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2019), 38(3), 2019.

A Framework for Externalizing Implicit Error Using Visualization. Nina McCurdy, Julie Gerdes, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2018), 25(1), 2019.

A Framework for Creative Visualization-Opportunities Workshops. Ethan Kerzner, Sarah Goodwin, Jason Dykes, Sara Jones, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2018), 25(1), 2019.

Reflection on Reflection in Applied Visualization Research. Miriah Meyer, Jason Dykes. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 38(6):9-16, 2018.

EpiFi: An in-Home IoT Architecture for Epidemiological Deployments. Philip Lundrigan, Kyeong T Min, Neal Patwari, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Kerry Kelly, Jimmy Moore, Miriah Meyer, Scott C Collingwood, Flory Nkoy, Bryan Stone, Katherine Sward. IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks Workshops (LCN Workshops), 2018.

Managing In-home Environments through Sensing, Annotating, and Visualizing Air Quality Data. Jimmy Moore, Pascal Goffin, Miriah Meyer, Philip Lundrigan, Neal Patwari, Katherine Sward, Jason Wiese. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (Proceedings of UbiComp 2018), 2(3), 2018.

Outcomes of an Electronic Social Network Intervention with Neuro-oncology Patient Family Caregivers. Maija Reblin, Dana Ketcher, Peter Forsyth, Eduardo Mendivil, Lauren Kane, Justin Pok, Miriah Meyer, Yelena P Wu, Jim Agutter. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 2018.

Feasibility of Implementing an Electronic Social Support and Resource Visualization Tool For Caregivers in a Neuro-oncology Clinic. Maija Reblin, Dana Ketcher, Peter Forsyth, Eduardo Mendivil, Lauren Kane, Justin Pok, Miriah Meyer, Yelena P Wu, Jim Agutter. Support Care Cancer, 2018.

Graffinity: Visualizing Connectivity in Large Graphs. Ethan Kerzner, Alex Lex, Crystal Sigulinsky, Tim Urness, Bryan Jones, Robert Marc, Miriah Meyer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2017), 36(3):251-260, 2017.

Visual Narrative Flow: Exploring Factors Shaping Data Visualization Story Reading Experiences. Sean McKenna, Nathalie Henry Riche, Bongshin Lee, Jeremy Boy, Miriah Meyer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2017), 36(3):377-387, 2017.

Iterating Between Tools to Create and Edit Visualizations. Alex Bigelow, Steve Drucker, Danyel Fisher, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2016), 23(1):481-490, 2017.

Evaluating the Impact of Binning 2D Scalar Fields. Lace Padilla, P. Samuel Quinan, Miriah Meyer, Sarah Creem-Regehr. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2016), 23(1):431-440, 2017.

Development of the Electronic Social Network Assessment Program Using the Center for eHealth and Wellbeing Research Roadmap. Maija Reblin, Yelena P Wu, Justin Pok, Lauren Kane, Howard Colman, Adam L Cohen, Eduardo Mendivil, Echo L Warner, Miriah Meyer, James Agutter. JMIR Human Factors, 4(3):e23, 2017.

Action Design Research and Visualization Design. Nina McCurdy, Jason Dykes, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV), IEEE VIS 2016.

The rod-cone crossover connectome of mammalian bipolar cells. J. Scott Lauritzen, Crystal Sigulinsky, James Anderson, Noah Nelson, Daniel Emrich, Christopher Rapp, Nicholas McCarthy, Michael Kalloniatis, Ethan Kerzner, Miriah Meyer, Bryan Jones, Robert Marc. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2016.

BubbleNet: A Cyber Security Dashboard for Visualizing Patterns. Sean McKenna, Diane Staheli, Cody Fulcher, Miriah Meyer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2016), 35(3):281-290, 2016.

s-CorrPlot: An Interactive Scatterplot for Exploring Correlation. Sean McKenna, Miriah Meyer, Samual Gerber. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 25(2):445-463, 2016.

Visually Comparing Weather Features in Forecasts. P. Samuel Quinan, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2015), 22(1):389-398, 2016.

Poemage: Visualizing the Sonic Topology of a Poem. Nina McCurdy, Julie Lein, Katharine Coles, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2015), 22(1):439-448, 2016.

Unlocking User-Centered Design Methods for Building Cyber Security Visualizations. Sean McKenna, Diane Staheli, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec), 2015.

RhymeDesign: A Tool for Analyzing Sonic Devices in Poetry. Nina McCurdy, Vivek Srikumar, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, NAACL HLT 2015.

A Shot at Visual Vulnerability Analysis. Ethan Kerzner, Lee Butler, Charles Hansen, Miriah Meyer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2015), 34(3):391-400, 2015.

The Nested Blocks and Guidelines Model. Miriah Meyer, Michael Sedlmair, P. Samuel Quinan, Tamara Munzner. Journal of Information Visualization, 14(3):234-249, 2015.

Design Activity Framework for Visualization Design. Sean McKenna, Dominika Mazur, James Agutter, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2014), 20(12):2191-2200, 2014.

Reflections on How Designers Design With Data. Alex Bigelow, Steven Drucker, Danyel Fisher, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2014. Best Paper Award.

Information Visualization for Science & Policy: Engaging Users & Avoiding Bias. Greg McInerny, Min Chen, Robin Freeman, David Gavaghan, Miriah Meyer, Francis Rowland, David Spiegelhalter, Moritz Steganer, Geites Tessarolo, and Joaquin Hortal. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 29(3):148-157, 2014.

Visualization Collaborations: Reflections on What Works and Why. Robert M. Kirby, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 33(6):82-88, 2013.

Rule-based Visual Mappings – with a Case Study on Poetry Visualization. Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Julie Lein, Katharine Coles, Emmon Maguire, Miriah Meyer, Martine Wynne, Chris Johnson, Anne Trefethen, and Min Chen. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2013), 32(3), 2013.

Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks. Michael Sedlmair, Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2012), 18(12): 2431-2440, 2012. Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award.

The Four-Level Nested Model Revisited: Blocks and Guidelines. Miriah Meyer, Michael Sedlmair, Tamara Munzner. Proceedings of the Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV), IEEE VisWeek 2012.

Aggregate Gaze Visualization with Real-time Heatmaps. Andrew Duchowski, Margaux Price, Miriah Meyer, Pilar Orero. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA), 2012.

A Conservered Developmental Patterning Network Produces Quantitatively Different Output in Multiple Species of Drosophila. Charless Fowlkes, Kelly Eckenrode, Meghan Bragdon, Miriah Meyer, Zeba Wunderlich, Lisa Simirenko, Cris Luengo, Soile Keranen, Clara Henriquez, David Knowles, Mark Biggin, Michael Eisen, Angela DePace. PLoS Genetics, 7(10):e1002346, 2011.

MulteeSum: A Tool for Comparative Spatial and Temporal Gene Expression Data. Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner, Angela DePace, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2010), 16(6):908-917, 2010.

Pathline: A Tool for Comparative Functional Genomics. Miriah Meyer, Bang Wong, Mark Styczynski, Tamara Munzner, Hanspeter Pfister. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2010), 29(3):1043-1052, 2010.

Genome-wide synteny through highly sensitive sequence alignment: Satsuma. Manfred Grabherr, Pamela Russell, Miriah Meyer, Evan Mauceli, Jessica Alföldi, Federica Di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh. Bioinformatics, 26(9):1145-1151, 2010.

MizBee: A Multiscale Synteny Browser. Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2009), 15(6):897-904, 2009. Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award.

A Framework for Exploring Numerical Solutions of Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Equations Using a GPU-based Approach. Allen Sanderson, Miriah Meyer, Robert M. Kirby, Chris Johnson. Computing and Visualization in Science, 12(4):155-170, 2009.

Particle-based Sampling and Meshing of Surfaces in Multimaterial Volumes. Miriah Meyer, Ross Whitaker, Robert M. Kirby, Christian Ledergerber, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization 2008), 14(6):1539-1546, 2008.

Volume MLS Ray Casting. Christian Ledergerber, Gael Guennebaud, Miriah Meyer, Moritz Bacher, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization 2008), 14(6):1539-1546, 2008.

Multimaterial Meshing of MRI Head Data for Bioelectric Field Simulations. Ross Whitaker, Robert M. Kirby, Jeroen Sinstra, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the 17th International Meshing Roundtable, 2008.

Topology, Accuracy, and Quality of Isosurface Meshes Using Dynamic Particles. Miriah Meyer, Robert M. Kirby, Ross Whitaker. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization 2007), 13(6):1704-1711, 2007.

Particle Systems for Efficient and Accurate High-Order Finite Element Visualization. Miriah Meyer, Blake Nelson, Robert M. Kirby, Ross Whitaker. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(5):1015-1026, 2007.

Entropy-based Particle Systems for Shape Correspondence. Josh Cates, Miriah Meyer, Tom Fletcher, Ross Whitaker. Proceedings of the Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, MICCAI, pp90-99, 2006.

Robust Particle Systems for Curvature Dependent Sampling of Implicit Surfaces. Miriah Meyer, Pierre Georgel, Ross Whitaker. Proceedings of the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), pp124-133, 2005.

abstracts and short papers

Two Heads are Better than One: Pair-Interviews for Visualization. Derya Akbaba, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of IEEE VIS (Short Papers), 2023.

A New Tool for Annotating Scientific Animations and Supporting Scientific Dialogue. Hui Liu, Margot Riggi, Jen Rogers, Miriah Meyer, Janet Iwasa. LoS Biology, 20(8):e3001731, 2022.

Manifesto for Putting ‘Chartjunk’ in the Trash 2021!. Derya Akbaba, Jack Wilburn, Main T. Nance, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS alt.VIS Workshop, 2021.

Reflections on Applying Feminist Theory to Visualization Research. Derya Akbaba, Lauren Klein, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the Information+ Conference, 2021.

GalStamps: Analyzing Real and Simulated Galaxy Observations. Nina McCurdy, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS (Short Papers), 2019.

Challenges in Urban Air Quality Data Visualization. Pascal Goffin, Aspen Hopkins, Wesley Willett, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualizing Cities (CityVis), 2018.

Worksheets for Guiding Novices through the Visualization Design Process. Sean McKenna, Alex Lex, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Workshop on Pedagogy of Data Visualization (PDV), 2017.

Towards Ecological Validity in Evaluating Uncertainty. P. Samuel Quinan, Lace Padilla, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Miriah Meyer. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Decision Making Under Uncertainty, 2015.

Designing Visualizations for Biological Data. Miriah Meyer. Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks Symposium keynote, in Leonardo Transactions, MIT Press, 46(3), 2013.

compreheNGSive: A Tool for Exploring Next-Gen Sequencing Variants. Alex Bigelow, Miriah Meyer, Nicola Camp. Symposium on Biological Data Visualization, IEEE VisWeek 2012.

Contributions, Methods, and Unique Characteristics of Design Studies. Miriah Meyer. Workshop on the Role of Theory in Information Visualization, IEEE VisWeek 2010.

Comparison of gene expression at cellular resolution in Drosophila reveals distinct transcriptional niches between species. Angela DePace, Charless Fowlkes, Cris Luengo, Soile Keränen, Clara Henriquez, Lisa Simirenko, Kelly Eckenrode1, Miriah Meyer, David Knowles, Mark Biggin, Jitendra Malik, Michael Eisen. 50th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, 2009.

book chapters

From Genomes to Cells: Visualization in Biology. Heike Leitte and Miriah Meyer. Chapter 22 in Scientific Visualization, Springer London, 2014.

dissertation and thesis

Dynamic Particle Systems for Adaptive Sampling of Implicit Surfaces. Miriah Meyer. PhD Dissertation, School of Computing, University of Utah, 2008.

Pre-Main Sequence Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster. Miriah Meyer. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 1999.

technical reports

Rethinking abstractions for big data: Why, where, how, and what. Mary Hall, Robert M Kirby, Feifei Li, Miriah Meyer, Valerio Pascucci, Jeff M Phillips, Rob Ricci, Jacobus Van der Merwe, Suresh Venkatasubramanian. arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3295.

Image-based Volume Rendering Using Opacity Light Fields. Miriah Meyer, Hanspeter Pfister, Charles Hansen, Chris Johnson. SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2005-002, University of Utah, 2005.