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Derya Akbaba

I am a PhD student in the School of Computing working with Miriah Meyer. In my work, I focus on understanding the role that design and technology plays in people’s ability to find information and create lasting understanding. Inspired by great interdisciplinary thinkers before me, I hope to emulate work that is as thoughtful and inventive in the realm of data visualization.

Derya Akbaba
Derya Akbaba,
PhD Student

Contact
derya@cs.utah.edu
SCI Institute,
School of Computing,
University of Utah
72 South Central Campus Drive,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

Twitter

Publications

Preprints

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Haihan Lin, Maxim Lisnic, Derya Akbaba, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex
Here’s what you need to know about my data: Exploring Expert Knowledge’s Role in Data Analysis
Preprint, 2023

Peer-reviewed Journal and Conference Publications

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

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Haihan Lin, Derya Akbaba, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex
Data Hunches: Incorporating Personal Knowledge into Visualizations
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS), 2022

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Derya Akbaba, Jack Wilburn, Main T. Nance, Miriah Meyer
Manifesto for Putting 'Chartjunk' in the Trash 2021!
alt.VIS, a workshop co-located with IEEE VIS, 2021