Welcome
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I am member of the Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics research group within the Johann Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Since September 2010, I also hold a Digiteo Chair of Excellence position for the topic »Advanced Visual Exploration with Interactive Illustrative Rendering«, in collaboration with VENISE–LIMSI–CNRS and AVIZ–INRIA at Saclay (south of Paris, France).
My research focuses on interactive scientific visualization and illustrative rendering, using methods from computer graphics, non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), and human-computer interaction. I am specifically interested in (2D and, in particular, 3D) interaction techniques for work with illustrative visualizations on large, touch-sensitive displays as well as illustrative visualization that is inspired by traditional illustration.
News and Upcoming Events
| December 2011 | Maarten H. Everts who I co-supervised has defended his PhD thesis on December 9. Congratulations! Maarten is my first PhD student. |
| November 2011 | Together with Paul Asente, John Collomosse, and T. Metin Sezgin, I am the guest editor of a special section on CAe, NPAR, and SBIM of the journal Computers & Graphics. |
| November 2011 | We presented the paper RealTimeChess: Lessons from a Participatory Design Process for a Collaborative Multi-Touch, Multi-User Game at ACM ITS. |
| November 2011 | I co-organized DEXIS, an ITS workshop on interactive surfaces for visual data exploration. |
| October 2011 | Together with Thomas Schultz, I was the posters chair of IEEE Visualization 2011. |
| October 2011 | Our poster and extended abstract at IEEE BioVis 2011 about spatially continuous control of abstraction in molecular visualization received the Best Abstract Award of the symposium, see the project page. |
| October 2011 | I gave an invited talk at the 2011 Annual Digiteo Forum. |
| August 2011 | Together with Douglas Cunningham, I was the chair of Computational Aesthetics 2011 which is part of a joint symposium with NPAR 2011 and SBIM 2011, all being co-located with SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. |
| May 2011 | We presented the paper »Illustrative Molecular Visualization with Continuous Abstraction« at EuroVis 2011. |
| April 2011 | Reuters has created a video segment about our collaboration with the University of Groningen's Visualization Center on creating a very large touch-sensitive display (not »the largest« as they claim in the video, but probably »the largest curved one«) |
| February 2011 | I started to serve as Associate Editor for the journal Computers & Graphics. |
| February 2011 | Together with John Collomosse, I was the guest editor of a special section on non-photorealistic animation and rendering of the journal Computers & Graphics which has now been published. |
