Refereed Journal Articles
Visualizing Dimension Coverage to Support Exploratory Analysis. Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, and Narges Mahyar, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST 2016), In press. [Paper]
Supporting Communication and Coordination in Collaborative Sensemaking. Narges Mahyar, and Melanie Tory. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST 2014), pp. 1633-1642, 2014. 22.6% acceptance rate Best paper award [Paper] [Video]
Note Taking in Co-located Collaborative Visual analytics: Analysis of an Observational Study. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, and Melanie Tory. Information Visualization, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 190-204, July 2012. [Paper]
Refereed Conference Papers
A Framework for Classifying BIM Design Coordination Issues. Sarmad Mehrbod, Sheryl Staub-French, Melanie Tory, Narges Mahyar. Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Construction Specialty Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 8-10, 10 pages, 2015, In press. [Paper]
Observations of Record-Keeping in Co-located Collaborative Analysis. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, and Tyler Weeres. HICSS 2013, pp. 460-469, Jan. 2013. [Paper] [Video]
A Closer Look at Note Taking in the Co-located Collaborative Visual Analytics Process. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, and Melanie Tory. IEEE Conf. Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST’10), pp. 171-178, October 2010. 28% acceptance rate Selected for publication in the “Information Visualization” journal [Paper]
On Two Desiderata for Creativity Support Tools. Yeap Wai K., Opas Tommi, and Mahyar Narges. In Proc. of the Intl. Conference on Computational Creativity, pp. 180-189, 2010. [Paper]
Refereed Workshop Papers
Towards a Taxonomy for Evaluating User Engagement in Information Visualization. Narges Mahyar, Sung-Hee Kim, and Bum Chul Kwon. Workshop on Personal Visualization: Exploring Everyday Life, IEEE VIS 2015, 4 pages, 2015. [Paper]
Collaboration Technology for Stakeholder Engagement in Urban Planning. Ronald Kellett, Kellogg Booth, Narges Mahyar. Information Technology and City Life Workshop, CSCW 2015, 2 pages, March 14-16, 2015. [Paper]
CLIP: A Visual Thinking Space to Support Collaborative Sensensemaking and Reasoning. Narges Mahyar, and Melanie Tory. Graphics, Animation and New Media (“GRAND”) NCE AGM, 4 pages, 2014. Best Honourable Mention Research Paper [Paper]
CoSpaces: Workspaces to Support Co-located Collaborative Visual Analytics. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory and Tyler Weeres. Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Exploration for Interactive Surfaces DEXIS 2011, 36-39, 2012. [Paper]
Roles of Notes in Co-located Collaborative Visualization. Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, and Melanie Tory. Workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces (CoVis 2009), 4 pages, 2009. [Paper]
History Tools for Collaborative Visualization. Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, and Melanie Tory. Workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces (CoVis 2009), 4pages, 2009. [Paper]
Other Publications
A Multi-Display Environment for Community Planning. Narges Mahyar, Siyi Meng, Jialiang Xiang, Kellogg S. Booth, Cynthia Girling, and Ronald Kellett, Graphics Interface, 2 pages, 2016, in press. Best Honourable Mention Poster [Paper]
Supporting Note Taking in Co-located Collaborative Visual Analytics on Large Interactive Surfaces. Narges Mahyar. ITS ’11 Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, Nov 2011. 33.9% acceptance rate [Paper]
Dissertation & Thesis
Supporting Sensemaking during Collocated Collaborative Visual Analytics. PhD Dissertation. University of Victoria, 2014. [Dissertation]
Implementation of Creative-Pad: a New Creativity Support System. MSC Thesis. University of Malaya, 2008. [MSC Thesis]