John T. Stasko

Author: John T. Stasko

Prof. Stasko is Director of the Information Interfaces Research Group whose mission is to help people take advantage of information to enrich their lives. As the amount of data available to people and organizations has skyrocketed over the past 10-20 years, largely fueled by the growth of the internet, insufficient methods for people to benefit from this flood of data have been developed. A central focus of many of the group's projects is the creation of information visualization and visual analytics tools to help people explore, analyze, and understand large data sets. In particular, they are creating visual analytics systems to help people with "sense-making" activities on data sets such as large document collections. The group also has developed a number of techniques and systems for providing people with peripheral awareness of useful information. Follow the link to the research group in order to visit pages with more details on these projects.
John is a faculty investigator in the Dept. of Homeland Security's VACCINE Center of Excellence (GT page) focusing on developing visual analytics technologies and solutions for grand challenge problems in homeland security, and in the NSF FODAVA Center exploring the foundations of data analysis and visual analytics. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech.

Publications

Publication period start: 2008
Number of co-authors: 80

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Christopher Plaue
5
Zachary Pousman
6
Dugald Ralph Hutchings
7

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Mary Czerwinski
80
Scott E. Hudson
113
Ben Shneiderman
225

Publications

Plaisant, Catherine, Grinstein, Georges G., Scholtz, Jean, Whiting, Mark A., O'Connell, Theresa A., Laskowski, Sharon J., Chien, Lynn, Tat, Annie, Wright, William, Gorg, Carsten, Liu, Zhicheng, Parekh, Neel, Singhal, Kanupriya, Stasko, John T. (2008): Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 28 (2) pp. 12-21. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2008.27

Cook, Kris, Earnshaw, Rae A., Stasko, John T. (2007): Guest Editors' Introduction: Discovering the Unexpected. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 27 (5) pp. 15-19. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2007.126

Conti, Gregory J., Abdullah, Kulsoom, Grizzard, Julian B., Stasko, John T., Copeland, John A., Ahamad, Mustaque, Owen, Henry L., Lee, Christopher P. (2006): Countering Security Information Overload through Alert and Packet Visualization. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 26 (2) pp. 60-70. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2006.30

Hutchings, Dugald Ralph, Stasko, John T., Czerwinski, Mary (2005): Distributed display environments. In Interactions, 12 (6) pp. 50-53.

Pousman, Zachary, Iachello, Giovanni, Fithian, Rachel, Moghazy, Jehan, Stasko, John T. (2004): Design iterations for a location-aware event planner. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8 (2) pp. 117-125. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-004-0266-y

Newcomb, Erica, Pashley, Toni, Stasko, John T. (2003): Mobile computing in the retail arena. In: Cockton, Gilbert, Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 337-344.

McCrickard, D. Scott, Catrambone, Richard, Chewar, C. M., Stasko, John T. (2003): Establishing tradeoffs that leverage attention for utility: empirically evaluating informa. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 58 (5) pp. 547-582.

Hundhausen, Christopher D., Douglas, Sarah A., Stasko, John T. (2002): A Meta-Study of Algorithm Visualization Effectiveness. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 13 (3) pp. 259-290. https://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jvlc.2002.0237

Kehoe, Colleen, Stasko, John T., Taylor, Ashley (2001): Rethinking the Evaluation of Algorithm Animations as Learning Aids: An Observational Study. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 54 (2) pp. 265-284.

Stasko, John T., Catrambone, Richard, Guzdial, Mark, Mcdonald, Kevin (2000): An Evaluation of Space-Filling Information Visualizations for Depicting Hierarchical Struc. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53 (5) pp. 663-694.

Zhao, Qiang Alex, Stasko, John T. (1998): Evaluating Image Filtering Based Techniques in Media Space Applications. In: Poltrock, Steven, Grudin, Jonathan (eds.) Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work November 14 - 18, 1998, Seattle, Washington, United States. pp. 11-18. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/cscw/289444/p11-zhao/p11-zhao.pdf

Jerding, Dean F., Stasko, John T. (1995): Using Information Murals in Visualization Applications. In: Robertson, George G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th annual ACM symposium on User interface and software technology November 15 - 17, 1995, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. pp. 73-74. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/215585/p73-jerding/p73-jerding.pdf

Garcia, Mariano, Badre, Albert N., Stasko, John T. (1994): Development and Validation of Icons Varying in their Abstractness. In Interacting with Computers, 6 (2) pp. 191-211.

Mukherjea, Sougata, Stasko, John T. (1994): Toward Visual Debugging: Integrating Algorithm Animation Capabilities within a Source-Leve. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 1 (3) pp. 215-244. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/tochi/1994-1-3/p215-mukherjea/p215-mukherjea.pdf

Brown, Marc, Domingue, John, Price, Blaine, Stasko, John T. (1994): Software Visualization. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 26 (4) pp. 32-35.

Stasko, John T., Badre, Albert N., Lewis, Clayton H. (1993): Do Algorithm Animations Assist Learning? An Empirical Study and Analysis. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik, White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 61-66. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/169059/p61-stasko/p61-stasko.pdf

Hudson, Scott E., Stasko, John T. (1993): Animation Support in a User Interface Toolkit: Flexible, Robust and Reusable Abstractions. In: Hudson, Scott E., Pausch, Randy, Zanden, Brad Vander, Foley, James D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology , 1993, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. pp. 57-67. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/168642/p57-hudson/p57-hudson.pdf

Stasko, John T. (1991): Using Direct Manipulation to Build Algorithm Animations by Demonstration. In: Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M., Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 307-314. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/108844/p307-stasko/p307-stasko.pdf

Stasko, John T. (1990): TANGO: A Framework and System for Algorithm Animation. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (3) pp. 59-60.

Stasko, John T. (1990): Tango: A Framework and System for Algorithm Animation. In IEEE Computer, 23 (9) pp. 27-39.

Stasko, John T., Vitter, Jeffrey Scott (1987): Pairing Heaps: Experiments and Analysis. In Communications of the ACM, 30 (3) pp. 234-249.

Hutchings, Dugald Ralph, Stasko, John T. (2007): Consistency, multiple monitors, and multiple windows. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 211-214. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240658

Xiao, Jun, Stasko, John T., Catrambone, Richard (2007): The role of choice and customization on users\' interaction with embodied conversational a. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 1293-1302. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240820

Plaue, Christopher, Miller, Todd, Stasko, John T. (2004): Is a picture worth a thousand words?: an evaluation of information awareness displays. In: Graphics Interface 2004 May 17-19, 2004, London, Ontario, Canada. pp. 117-126. https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1006058.1006073

Hutchings, Dugald Ralph, Stasko, John T. (2004): Revisiting display space management: understanding current practice to inform next-generat. In: Graphics Interface 2004 May 17-19, 2004, London, Ontario, Canada. pp. 127-134. https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1006058.1006074

Hutchings, Dugald Ralph, Stasko, John T. (2005): mudibo: multiple dialog boxes for multiple monitors. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 1471-1474. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1056944

Hutchings, Dugald Ralph, Stasko, John T., Czerwinski, Mary (2005): Distributed display environments. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 2117-2118. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1057114

McCrickard, D. Scott, Catrambone, Richard, Stasko, John T. (2001): Evaluating Animation in the Periphery as a Mechanism for Maintaining Awareness. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT01: Human-Computer Interaction , 2001, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 148-156.

Xiao, Jun, Catrambone, Richard, Stasko, John T. (2003): Be Quiet? Evaluating Proactive and Reactive User Interface Assistants. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction , 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. pp. 383.

Plaue, Christopher, Stasko, John T. (2007): Animation in a peripheral display: distraction, appeal, and information conveyance in vary. In: Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Graphics Interface , 2007, . pp. 135-142. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1268517.1268541

Eagan, James R., Stasko, John T. (2008): The buzz: supporting user tailorability in awareness applications. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 1729-1738. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357324

Kang, Youn-ah, Stasko, John T. (2008): Lightweight Task/Application Performance using Single versus Multiple Monitors: A Comparat. In: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Graphics Interface May 28-30, 2008, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. pp. 17-24.

Conti, Gregory, Ahamad, Mustaque, Stasko, John T. (2005): Attacking information visualization system usability overloading and deceiving the human. In: Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security , 2005, . pp. 89-100. https://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2005/2005proceedings/p89-conti.pdf

Pousman, Zachary, Rouzati, Hafez, Stasko, John T. (2008): Imprint, a community visualization of printer data: designing for open-ended engagement on. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW08 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2008, . pp. 13-16. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460563.1460568

Fithian, Rachel, Iachello, Giovanni, Moghazy, Jehan, Pousman, Zachary, Stasko, John T. (2003): The Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Location-Aware Handheld Event Planner. In: Chittaro, Luca (eds.) Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - 5th International Symposium - Mobile HCI 2003 September 8-11, 2003, Udine, Italy. pp. 145-160. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2795/27950145.htm

Stasko, John T., Miller, Todd, Pousman, Zachary, Plaue, Christopher, Ullah, Osman (2004): Personalized Peripheral Information Awareness Through Information Art. In: Davies, Nigel, Mynatt, Elizabeth D., Siio, Itiro (eds.) UbiComp 2004 Ubiquitous Computing 6th International Conference September 7-10, 2004, Nottingham, UK. pp. 18-25. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/3205/32050018.htm

Plaue, Christopher, Stasko, John T. (2009): Presence & placement: exploring the benefits of multiple shared displays on an intelle. In: GROUP09 - International Conference on Supporting Group Work , 2009, . pp. 179-188. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1531674.1531701

Abdullah, Kulsoom, Lee, Christopher P., Conti, Gregory J., Copeland, John A., Stasko, John T. (2005): IDS RainStorm: Visualizing IDS Alarms. In: Ma, Kwan-Liu, North, Stephen C., Yurcik, William (eds.) VizSEC 2005 - IEEE Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security 26 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. pp. 1. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VIZSEC.2005.8

Grinstein, Georges G., Kobsa, Alfred, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Stasko, John T. (2003): Which Comes First, Utility or Usability?. In: Turk, Greg, Wijk, Jarke J. van, II, Robert J. Moorhead (eds.) 14th IEEE Visualization 2003 Conference VIS 2003 19-24 October, 2003, Seattle, WA, USA. pp. 605-606.

Lawrence, Andrea W., Badre, Albert N., Stasko, John T. (1994): Empirically Evaluating the Use of Animations to Teach Algorithms. In: VL 1994 , 1994, . pp. 48-54.

Stasko, John T. (1990): Simplifying Algorithm Animation with TANGO. In: VL 1990 , 1990, . pp. 1-6.

Stasko, John T., Muthukumarasamy, Jeyakumar (1996): Visualizing Program Executions on Large Data Sets. In: VL 1996 , 1996, . pp. 166-173.

Stasko, John T., Patterson, Charles (1992): Understanding and Characterizing Software Visualization Systems. In: Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages September 15-18, 1992, Seattle, Washington, USA. pp. 3-10.

Stasko, John T., Turner, Carlton Reid (1992): Tidy Animations of Tree Algorithms. In: Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages September 15-18, 1992, Seattle, Washington, USA. pp. 216-218.

Stasko, John T., Wehrli, Joseph F. (1993): Three-Dimensional Computation Visualization. In: Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages August 24-27, 1993, Bergen, Norway. pp. 100-107.

Stasko, John T. (2008): Visualization for information exploration and analysis. In: VL-HCC 2008 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 15-19 September, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. pp. 7-8. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639049

Hutchings, Dugald Ralph, Stasko, John T. (2004): Shrinking window operations for expanding display space. In: Costabile, Maria Francesca (eds.) AVI 2004 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 25-28, 2004, Gallipoli, Italy. pp. 350-353. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/989863.989922

Pousman, Zachary, Stasko, John T. (2006): A taxonomy of ambient information systems: four patterns of design. In: Celentano, Augusto (eds.) AVI 2006 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 23-26, 2006, Venezia, Italy. pp. 67-74. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133265.1133277

Eagan, James, Harrold, Mary Jean, Jones, James A., Stasko, John T. (2001): Technical Note: Visually Encoding Program Test Information to Find Faults in Software. In: InfoVis 2001 , 2001, . pp. 33-36. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/infovis/2001/1342/00/13420033abs.htm

Amar, Robert A., Eagan, James, Stasko, John T. (2005): Low-Level Components of Analytic Activity in Information Visualization. In: InfoVis 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 23-25 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. pp. 15. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFOVIS.2005.24

Amar, Robert A., Stasko, John T. (2004): BEST PAPER: A Knowledge Task-Based Framework for Design and Evaluation of Information Visu. In: InfoVis 2004 - 10th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 10-12 October, 2004, Austin, TX, USA. pp. 143-150. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFOVIS.2004.10

Csallner, Christoph, Handte, Marcus, Lehmann, Othmar, Stasko, John T. (2003): FundExplorer: Supporting the Diversification of Mutual Fund Portfolios Using Context Treem. In: InfoVis 2003 - 9th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 20-21 October, 2003, Seattle, WA, USA. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/infovis/2003/2055/00/20550026abs.htm

Stasko, John T., Zhang, Eugene (2000): Focus+Context Display and Navigation Techniques for Enhancing Radial, Space-Filling Hierar. In: InfoVis 2000 , 2000, . pp. 57-. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/infovis/2000/0804/00/08040057abs.htm

Tyman, Jaroslav, Gruetzmacher, Grant P., Stasko, John T. (2004): InfoVisExplorer. In: InfoVis 2004 - 10th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 10-12 October, 2004, Austin, TX, USA. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFOVIS.2004.39

Jerding, Dean F., Stasko, John T. (1995): The information mural: a technique for displaying and navigating large information spaces. In: Gershon, Nahum D., Eick, Stephen G. (eds.) InfoVis 1995 - IEEE Symposium On Information Visualization 30-31 October, 1995, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. pp. 43-50. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528685

Stasko, John T. (2008): Visualization for information exploration and analysis. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization , 2008, . pp. 7-8. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409720.1409721

Hutchings, Dugald Ralph, Stasko, John T. (2007): Quantifying the Performance Effect of Window Snipping in Multiple-Monitor Environments. In: Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio, Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) DEGAS 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of e-Government Applications and Services September 11th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp. 461-474. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74800-7_42

Stasko, John T., Doo, Myungcheol, Dorn, Brian, Plaue, Christopher (2007): Explorations and Experiences with Ambient Information Systems. In: Hazlewood, William R., Coyle, Lorcan, Consolvo, Sunny (eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ambient Information Systems - Colocated at Pervasive 2007 May 13, 2007, Toronto, Canada. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-254/paper08.pdf

Pousman, Zachary, Stasko, John T. (2007): Ambient Information Systems: Evaluation in Two Paradigms. In: Hazlewood, William R., Coyle, Lorcan, Consolvo, Sunny (eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ambient Information Systems - Colocated at Pervasive 2007 May 13, 2007, Toronto, Canada. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-254/paper06.pdf

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