Sara Su

Publications & Presentations

How Visualization Layout Relates to Locus of Control and Other Personality Factors
C. Ziemkiewicz, A. Ottley, J. Crouser, A. Yauilla, S. Su, W. Ribarsky, and R. Chang
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 19(7), July 2013
Understanding Visualization by Understanding Individual Users
C. Ziemkiewicz, A. Ottley, J. Crouser, K. Chauncey, S. Su, and R. Chang
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), November 2012
Molli: Interactive Visualization for Exploratory Protein Analysis
S. Su, C. Gramazio, M. Strait, C. Crumm, D. Extrum-Fernandez, M. Menke, and L. Cowen
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), September 2012
Heapviz: Interactive Heap Visualization for Program Understanding and Debugging
E. Aftandilian, S. Kelley, C. Gramazio, N. Ricci, S. Su, and S. Guyer
Information Visualization, May 2012
How Locus of Control Influences Compatibility with Visualization Style
C. Ziemkiewicz, J. Crouser, S. Su, A. R. Yauilla, W. Ribarsky, and R. Chang
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
Providence, RI, October 2011
Honorable Mention for Best Paper
Near to the Brain: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy as a Lightweight Brain
Imaging Technique for Visualization
E. Peck, E. Solovey, S. Su, R. Jacob, and R. Chang
Poster, IEEE Conference on Information Visualization
Providence, RI, October 2011
Best Poster Award
Moleint: Reducing Workload through Adaptive Interaction
M. Strait, J. Park, S. Su, and L. Cowen
Poster, Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI)
Cambridge, MA, March 2011
Heapviz: Interactive Heap Visualization for Program Understanding and Debugging
E. Aftandilian, S. Kelley, C. Gramazio, N. Ricci, S. Su, and S. Guyer
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS), pp. 53-62
Salt Lake City, UT, October 2010
Heapviz: A Programmer's Tool for Data Structure Visualization
E. Aftandilian, S. Kelley, C. Gramazio, N. Ricci, S. Su, and S. Guyer
Demo, IEEE VisWeek 2010
Salt Lake City, UT, October 2010
TuftsViewer: An Intuitive Interface for Viewing 3D Protein Structures
M. Menke, S. Su, C. Gramazio, C. Crumm, D. Extrum-Fernandez, and L. Cowen
Demo, 3DSIG 2010: The 6th Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics Meeting
Boston, MA, July 2010
Interactive Visual Histories for Vector Graphics
S. Su, S. Paris, F. Aliaga, C. Scull, S. Johnson, and F. Durand
Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-031, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, June 2009
QuickSelect: History-Based Selection Expansion
S. Su, S. Paris, and F. Durand
Proceedings of the 35th Graphics Interface Conference, pp. 215-221
Kelowna, BC, Canada, May 2009
Enhanced Visual Authoring Using Operation History
S. Su
Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, May 2009
Visualizing, Editing, and Inferring Structure in 2D Graphics
S. Su
Doctoral Symposium, 20th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2007)
Newport, RI, October 2007
Dead-End Elimination as a Heuristic for Min-Cut Image Segmentation
M. Radhakrishnan and S. Su
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2006)
Atlanta, GA, October 2006
De-Emphasis of Distracting Image Regions Using Texture Power Maps
S. Su, F. Durand, and M. Agrawala
Texture 2005: Proceedings of the 4th ICCV Workshop on Texture Analysis and Synthesis, pp. 119-124
Beijing, China, October 2005
De-Emphasis of Distracting Image Regions Using Texture Power Maps
S. Su, F. Durand, and M. Agrawala
Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'05)
A Coruña, Spain, August 2005
Image Editing With Texture Power Maps
S. Su, F. Durand, and M. Agrawala
Poster, Symposium on Computational Photography and Video (SCPV'05)
Cambridge, MA, May 2005
Perceptual Picture Emphasis Using Texture Power Maps
S. Su
Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, January 2005
M.J. Levin Prize for Best Thesis Presentation in Computer Science
An Inverted Saliency Model for Display Enhancement
S. Su, F. Durand, and M. Agrawala
MIT Student Oxygen Workshop
Ashland, MA, September 2004
A Hybrid Approach to Rendering Handwritten Characters
S. Su, C. Wu, Y. Xu, and H. Shum
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and
Computer Vision, pp. 427-434
Plzeň, Czech Republic, February 2004
Simulating Artistic Brushstrokes Using Interval Splines
S. Su, Y. Xu, H. Shum, and F. Chen
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, pp. 85-90
Kauai, HI, August 2002
The Tutored Video Instruction Pilot Project: Overview and Experiences in Introductory Programming Courses
S. Su and R. Anderson
Poster, First ACM Richard Tapia Symposium on Diversity in Computing
Houston, Texas, October 2001

Updated November 2012