Papers under review or revision

Empirical Guidance on Integral and Separable Marker Substrate for Large-Magnitude-Range Vector Field Visualization. Henan Zhao, Garnett W. Bryant, Wesley Griffin, Judith E. Terrill, and Jian Chen. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2017 (11 pages).

Rank Vis Encoding: Effectiveness of Extended Bertin’s Retinal Variables in Diffusion Tensor MRI Tractography Visualization. Guohao Zhang, Keqin Wu, Henan Zhao, Alexander P. Auchus, and Jian Chen.  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2017 (14 pages).

TrajectoryFlow: Visual Summarization of a Collection of Temporal Sequences using Adaptive Frequency Mining and Graph-based Event Modeling. Filip Dabek, Jian Chen, and Jesus Caban. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2017 (14 pages).

Guohao Zhang, Alexander P. Auchus, Peter Kochunov, and Jian Chen. Overlaying Quantitative Measurement on Brain Networks: An Evaluation of Three Positioning and Nine Visual Marker Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2017. (14 pages)

Guohao Zhang, Keqin Wu, Alexander P. Auchus, Peter Kochunov, and Jian Chen. Effects of Coloring Schemes on 3D Streamtube Visualization of Brain DMRI Tractography. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2017. (14 pages)

Structural brain alterations in epilepsy: A coordinated case-control analysis of 3,876 individuals via the ENIGMA consortium. Christopher Whelan, Neda Jahanshad, et al., and Sanjay M Sisodiya. Neurology, 2017.

Widespread Cortical Thinning in the Common Epilepsies Implicates Microglial Activation. Sanjay M Sisodiya, Christopher Whelan, Neda Jahanshad, et al.. The Nature Neuroscience, 2017.

Published or Accepted for Publication

Validation of splitVectors encoding and stereoscopy for quantitative visualization of quantum physics data in virtual environments, Henan Zhao, Garnett W. Bryant, Wesley Griffin, Judith E. Terrill, and Jian Chen, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(6):1691-1705, 2017. DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2016.2539949.

Vispubdata.org: A Comprehensive Dataset of IEEE VIS Publications. Petra Isenberg, Florian Heimerl, Steffen Koch, Tobias Isenberg, Panpan Xu, Chad Stolper, Michael Sedlmair, Jian Chen, Torsten Möller, and John Stasko. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(9): 2199-2206, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2615308.

Visualization as Seen Through Its Research Paper Keywords. Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Michael Sedlmair, Jian Chen, and Torsten Möller. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(1): 771-780, 2017. [Impact factor: 2.34]. DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2016.2598827.

Channel Capacity Approach to Hyperspectral Band Subset Selection, Chein-I Chang, Li-Chien Lee, Bai Xue, Meiping Song, Jian Chen, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2017. [Impact factor: 2.9]. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2724604.

Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4,375 individuals: results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group. Sinead Kelly, Neda Jahanshad, Andrew Zalesky, Peter kochunov, Derrek Hibar, Jian Chen,  et al. Molecular Psychiatry (The Nature Publishing Group). 2017. (to appear)

ENIGMA-Viewer: Interactive Visualization Strategies for Conveying Effect Sizes in Meta-Analysis. Guohao Zhang, Peter Kochunov, Elliot Hong, Neda Jahanshad, Paul Thompson, Sinead Kelly, Chris Whelan, and Jian Chen. BMC Bioinformatics, 18:235, 2017 (13 pages). DOI:10.1186/s12859-017-1634-8.  [Website]

WebGIVI: A Web-based Gene Enrichment Analysis and Visualization Tool. Liang Sun, Yongnan Zhu, A.S.M. Ashique Mahmood, Catalina O. Tudor, Jia Ren, K. Vijay-Shanker, Jian Chen, and Carl J. Schmidt. BMC Bioinformatics, 18:237, 2017 (10 pages). DOI:10.1186/s12859-017-1664-2.

(To appear) Wolfgang Buschel, Jian Chen, Raimuund Dachselt, Steven Drucker, Tim Dwyer, Carsten Gorg, Tobias Isenberg, Andreas Kerren, Chris North, and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Interaction for Immersive Analytics, Immersive Analytics, Springer, Fall 2017

(To appear) Kim Marriott, Jian Chen, Marcel Hlawatsch, Takayuki Itoh, Miguel Nacenta, Guido Reina, and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, 2D or 3D, Immersive Analytics. Springer, Fall 2017.

TrajectoryFlow: Visual Summarization of Temporal Sequences. Filip Dabek, Jian Chen, and Jesus J. Caban,  IEEE VIS poster, 2017.

Heterochronicity of White Matter Development and Aging and Vulnerability to Schizophrenia. Peter Kochunov, Habib Ganjgahi, Anderson Winkler, Sinead Kelly, Dinesh Shukla, Xiaoming Du, Neda Jahanshad, Laura Rowland, Hemalatha Sampath, Binish Patel, Patricio O’Donnell, Zhiyong Xie, Sara A. Paciga, Christian Schubert, Jian Chen, Guohao Zhang, Paul M. Thompson, Thomas E. Nichols, and L. Elliot Hong. Human Brain Mapping, 2016. [Impact factor: 5.969]. DOI:10.1002/hbm.23336.

Characterizing provenance in visual analytics: an organizational framework of provenance types and purposes, Eric Ragan, Alex Endert, Jibonananda Sanyal, and Jian Chen. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 22(1):31-40, 2016. [Impact factor: 2.34]. DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467551.

Graph Query Algebra and Visual Proximity Rules for Biological Pathway Exploration. Keqin Wu, Liang Sun, Carl Schmidt, and Jian Chen. Information Visualization, 2016. DOI:10.1177/1473871616666394.

ENIGMA-Viewer: Interactive Visualization Strategies for Conveying Effect Sizes in Meta-Analysis, Guohao Zhang, Peter Kochunov, Elliot Hong, Neda Jahanshad, Paul Thompson, and Jian Chen, ACM Brain-KDD, October 2016. [NITRC download][ENIGMA-Viewer site]

Towards A Task Taxonomy for Analyzing Electronic Health Record Cohorts from Mild-Traumatic Brain Injuries. Xiaohui Bian, Lu Liu, Jesus J. Caban, Gaoqi He, and Jian Chen. IEEE VIS, Events on Event, 2016.

A Semiotics Approach to Characterize Diffusion Tensor Imaging Visualization. Jian Chen. IEEE VIS/SciVis poster, 2016.

Empirical Guidance on Integral and Separable Marker Substrate for Large Magnitude-Range Vector Field Visualization. Henan Zhao and Jian Chen. IEEE VIS/SciVis poster, 2016.

Four considerations for supporting visual analysis in display ecologies, Haeyong Chung, Joshi Sarang, Chris North, and Jian Chen, IEEE VIS (VAST), 33-40, Chicago, October 2015. DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347628.

VisGumbo, visMirror, visCut: interactive narrative strategies for large biological pathway comparisons, Alexander Garbarino, Liang Sun, Zachary Garbarino, Carl Schmidt, and Jian Chen, IEEE VIS Workshop on Exploring Graphs at Scale (EGAS), 2015. [weblink][paper link].

Visualization of longitudinal clinical trajectories using a graph-based approach, Filip Dabek, Alexander Garbarino, Jian Chen, and Jesus J. Caban, IEEE VIS Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare, 2015. DOI: 10.1145/2836034.2836039.

A Graph Query Algebra for Biological Pathway Exploration, Keqin Wu, Liang Sun, Carl Schmidt, and Jian Chen, IEEE VIS Workshop on Exploring Graphs at Scale (EGAS), 2015. [weblink][paper link]

A semantic contour tree approach for visual comparison of white matter connectivity in cohorts, Guohao Zhang, Peter Kochunov, Elliot Hong, Keqin Wu, Hamish Carr, and Jian Chen, IEEE VIS Workshop on Exploring Graphs at Scale (EGAS), 2015. [Link]

LDA explorer: visualizing topic models generated using Latend Dirichlet Allocation, Ashwinkuman Ganesan, Kiante Branley, Shimei Pan, ad Jian Chen, IEEE 4th workshop on Visual Text Analytics, IEEE 4th Workshop on Visual Text Analytics, ACM Intelligent User Interface (IUI), Georgia, March 2015.

PathRings: A web-based tool for exploration of orthology and expression data in biological pathways, Yongnan Zhu, Liang Sun, Alexander Garbarino, Carl Schmidt, Jinglong Fang, and Jian Chen, BMC Bioinformatics, 16:165 (7 pages), 2015. (https://github.com/ivcl/PathRings). DOI:10.1186/s12859-015-0585-1.

Validation of splitVector Encoding and Stereoscopy for Quantitative Visualization of Quantum Physics Data in Virtual Environments. Jian Chen, Henan Zhao, Wesley Griffin, Judith E. Terrill, and Garnett W. Bryant. IEEE Virtual Reality poster, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/VR.2015.7223347.

Interactive Visual Computing Laboratory Research. Jian Chen, Judith E. Terrill, Henan Zhao, Guohao Zhang, Keqin Wu, Alexander Garbrino, and Yongnan Zhu. IEEE Virtual Reality: Lab and Project, 2015.

Visualization according to research paper keywords, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Michael Sedlmair, Jian Chen, and Torsten Moller, IEEE VIS 2014 (poster). A longer version is online at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01055309, INRIA Technical Report, Hal-01055309.

Visualization according to research paper keywords, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Michael Sedlmair, Jian Chen, and Torsten Moller, INRIA Technical Report, Hal-01055309. 2014.

Gryphon: a “little” domain-specific programming language for diffusion MRI visualization, Jian Chen, Haipeng Cai, David H. Laidlaw, and Alexander P. Auchus, In Huang, T. (eds), Human-Centric Visualization Theories, Methodologies, and Case Studies, Springer, 41-61, 2014. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7485-2.

Environmental visual imagery: applications to site characterization, remedial programs and litigation support, Meng Ling and Jian Chen, Environmental Earth Sciences (EES), 72(10):3839-3846, 2014. DOI:10.1007/s12665-014-3220-y.

Environmental visual imagery: applications to site characterization, remedial programs and litigation support, Meng Ling and Jian Chen, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) Workshop on Visualization in Environmental Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, June 2013. (a longer journal version is also available.)

EINVis: A visualization tool for analyzing and exploring genetic interactions in large-scale association studies, Yubao Wu, X. Zhu, Jian Chen, and Xiang Zhang. BMC Genetics Software, 37(7):675-685, 2013. [Impact factor: 2.36].  [Vis weblink]. DOI:10.1002/gepi.21754.

A Systematic Review on the Practice of Evaluating Visualization, Tobias Isenberg, Petra Isenberg, Jian Chen, Michael Sedlmair, and Torsten Moller, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (also in IEEE Vis), 19(12):2818-2827, 2013. DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2013.126.

HumMod Browser: An Exploratory Visualization Tool for the Analysis of Whole-Body Physiology Simulation Data, Keqin Wu, Jian Chen, William A. Pruett, and Robert L. Hester,  IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (co-located with IEEE VIS), Georgia, 97-104, October 2013. DOI: 10.1109/BioVis.2013.6664352. [Best paper honorable mention]

HumMod Browser: An Exploratory Visualization Tool for Model Validation of Whole-Body Physiology Simulation, Jian Chen, Keqin Wu, William A. Pruett, and Robert L. Hester, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) (short paper), Leipzig, Germany, 7-11, June 2013. [vimeo video]

Environmental Visual Imagery: Applications to Site Characterization, Remedial Programs, and Litigation Support, Meng Ling and Jian Chen,  EuroVis workshop: Visualization in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis)), Leipzig, Germany, June 2013.

Some Thoughts on Augmenting Human-VE Symbiosis to Improve Knowledge Discovery from Volume Rendering, Jian Chen, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Workshop on Immersive Volume Rendering (Wivi), Orlando, Florida, March 2013.

Rendering point clouds with feature texture, Yuping Zhang**, Marc Olano, Jonathan P. Dandois, and Jian Chen. Rendering Point Clouds with Feature Texture, IEEE Visualization poster, 2013 (Student class project).

Effects of Stereo and Screen Size on the Legibility of Three-Dimensional Streamtube Visualization, Jian Chen, Haipeng Cai, Alexander P. Auchus, and David H. Laidlaw, 18 (12), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (also in IEEE VisWeek), 18(12):2130-2139, Seattle, WA, October 2012. [Impact factor: 1.898]. DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2012.216.

InShape: In-situ Shape-based Interactive Multiple-View Exploration of Diffusion MRI Visualizations, Haipeng Cai, Jian Chen, Alexander P. Auchus, Stephen Correia, and David H. Laidlaw, International Symposium on Visual Computing, Rethymnon, Greece, 706-715, 2012. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33191-6_70.

SMATS: Sketch-based Modeling and Analysis of Truss Systems, Neda Mohammadi, Ji-Sun Kim, Xianming Chen, Jian Chen, and Mehdi Setareh, Eurographics Symposium on Sketch-based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM, poster), Annecy, France, June 2012. [Link]

An Interactive Method for Generating Harmonic Color Schemes, Guosheng Hu, Zhigeng Pan, Mingmin Zhang, De Chen, Wenzhen Yang, and Jian Chen, Color Research and Application. 39(1):70-78, 2012. DOI:10.1002/col.21762.

Interactive visual analysis of diffusion-tensor MRI data using the expectation maximization algorithm, Jian Chen, Andrew Maxwell, Haipeng Cai, Alexander P. Auchus,  American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting (AAN) , 2012 (abstract). DOI:10.1016/j.jalz.2012.05.137

The effects of seeding resolution on DTI streamtube visualization comprehension,  Jian Chen, Haipeng Cai, Alexander P. Auchus,  Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) , Vancouver, Canada, July 2012 (abstract) (poster) [Link].

Effects of illumination, texture, and motion on task performance in 3D tensor-field streamtube visualizations,  Devon Penney, Jian Chen, David H. Laidlaw, IEEE Pacific Visualization, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/PacificVis.2012.6183579. (front cover).

VisBubbles: A Workflow-Driven Framework for Scientific Data Analysis of Time-Varying Biological Datasets,  Guangxia Li, Andrew C. Bragdon, Zhigeng Pan, Mingmin Zhang, Sharon M. Swartz, David H. Laidlaw, Chaoyang Zhang, Hanyu Liu, and  Jian Chen, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (sketch), 2011. DOI: 10.1145/2073304.2073333.

HumMod Explorer: A Multi-Scale Time-Varying Human Modeling Navigator, Liming Xu, Jeremy Lyle, Yubao Wu, Zhigeng Pan, Mingmin Zhang, David H. Laidlaw, Robert L. Hester, and Jian Chen, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (sketch), 2011. DOI: 10.1145/2073304.2073334.

InBox: In-situ multiple-selection and multiple-view exploration of diffusion tensor MRI visualization,  Haipeng Cai, Jian Chen, Alexander P. Auchus, Stephen Correia, and David H. Laidlaw, IEEE BioVis Conference (poster), 2011. [Link]

Measuring seeding resolution dependence of diffusion tensor streamtube visualization,  Haipeng Cai, Jian Chen, Alexander P. Auchus, Juebin Huang, and David H. Laidlaw, IEEE Visualization (poster), 2011.

Diffusion tensor MRI tractography (DTT) reveals altered brainstem fiber connections accompanying agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC),  Juebin Huang,  Jian Chen, Haipeng Cai, Robert P. Friedland, Mohamad Z. Koubeissi, David H. Laidlaw, and Alexander P. Auchus, American Neurological Association’s (ANA) 136th Annual Meeting (oral presentation), San Diego, CA, 2011.[Link]

Diffusion tensor MRI tractography (DTT) identifies altered brain stem fiber connections accompanying agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC), Auchus AP, Huang J, Chen J, Cai H, Friedland RP, Koubeissi MZ, Laidlaw DH, the 20th World Congress of Neurology (poster), November 12-17, 2011.

Programming by sketch for scientific Computing,  Hanyu Liu, Andrew Bragdon, Attila Bergou, and Jian Chen, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D poster), February 2011. [Link]

Cognitive Scaffolding in Web3D Learning Systems: A Case Study for Form and Structure, Felipe Bacim, Nicholas Polys, Jian Chen, Mehdi Setareh, Ji Li, and Lee Ma. Proceedings of ACM Web3D, Los Angeles, July 2010. DOI: 10.1145/1836049.1836063.

Exploration of Bat Wing Morphology Through A Strip Method and Visualization, Jian Chen, Daniel Riskin, Tatjana Y. Hubel, David Willis, Arnold Song, Hanyu Liu, Kenneth Breuer, Sharon Swartz, and David H. Laidlaw, ACM SIGGRAPH (talk), Los Angeles, July 2010. [Link]. DOI: 10.1145/1837026.1837039.

A Global Spatio-Temporal Representation for Action Recognition, Chao Deng, Xianchun Cao, Hanyu Liu, and Jian Chen, Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010.

A Hybrid Direct Visual Editing Method for Architectural Massing Study in Virtual Environments, Jian Chen, In Wang, X. and Tsai, J. (eds.), Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments, Springer, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0605-7_12. (video)

Domain-Specific Design of 3D Interaction Techniques: an Approach for Designing Useful Virtual Environment Applications, Jian Chen and Doug A. Bowman, 18(5): 370-386,  Presence:  Tele-operators and Virtual Environments, MIT press, Oct, 2009 (Front cover image). DOI:10.1162/pres.18.5.370.

Comparing 3D Vector Field Visualization Methods: A User Study, Andrew S. Forsberg, Jian Chen, and David H. Laidlaw, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (also in IEEE Visualization), 15(6): 1219-1226, Oct, 2009. DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2009.126.

Visual Analysis of Dimensionality Reduction in an Interactive Virtual Environment for Exploring Bat Flight Kinematics, Jian Chen, M. Kostandov, I.V. Pivkin, D.K. Riskin, D.J. Willis, S.M. Swartz, and David Laidlaw, Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - ICAT - EuroVR, France, December, 2009. DOI: 10.2312/EGVE/JVRC09/077-084. (front cover)

Bookstein Coordinate-based Shape Analysis of Bat Wing Kinematics, Jian Chen, Daniel K. Riskin, Kenneth S. Breuer, Sharon M. Swartz, and David H. Laidlaw,  Integrative and Comparative Biology, Also in the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, January 2009.

A Hybrid Direct Visual Editing Method for Architectural Massing Study in Virtual Environment, Jian Chen, Doug Bowman, and David Laidlaw, IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces, Lafayette, LA, March 2009. DOI: 10.1109/3DUI.2009.4811227. (video)

Work in progress: A head-to-head comparison of navigation techniques for exploring 3D geoscience data sets, Andrew S. Forsberg, John N. Huffman, Joseph LaViola, Jay Dickson, Caleb Fassett, Robert Zeleznik, and Jian Chen. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Boston, MA, February 2009 (Best poster award). [Link]

Comparison of 3D Vector Field, Andrew S. Forsberg, Jian Chen, and David H. Laidlaw, IEEE Visualization poster, IEEE VIS 2008. An extended version is in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (IEEE Vis) 2009.

Quantify the Complexity of Bat Wing Kinematics, Daniel K. Riskin, David J. Willis, Jose Iriartz-Diaz, Tyson L. Hedrick, Mykhaylo Kostandov, Jian Chen, David H. Laidlaw, Kenneth S. Breuer, and Sharon M. Swartz, Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol.254: 604-615, 2008.

Towards Comparing 3D Flow Visualization Methods, A User Study. Andrew S. Forsberg, Jian Chen, and David H. Laidlaw. IEEE Visualization poster, Columbus, OH, October 2008.

Exploring Dimensionality Reduction of Animal Flight Kinematics in An Interactive Virtual Reality Setting. Misha Kostandov, Jian Chen, Igor Pivkin, Sharon M. Swartz, and David H. Laidlaw. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), Redwood City, CA, February 2008. [Link]

(Panel) Rachael Brady, Daniel Coming, Jian Chen, Alfred Inselberg, and Laura Monroe, Visualization and Simulation on Immersive Display Devices, International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) panel, Las Vegas, NV, December 2008.

(Panel) Robert Lindeman, Gabriel Zachmann, Kristopher Bolm, Kristopher Blom, Jian Chen, Gerwin de Haan, and Andrew Raji, Building the Future of - and a Career in - VR, IEEE Virtual Reality, Reno, NV, 2008.

Interactive Multiple Scale Small Multiples, Jian Chen, Andrew S. Forsberg, Sharon M. Swartz, and David H. Laidlaw, IEEE Visualization poster, Sacramento, CA, October 2007. [Link]

Modeling Perceptual Dominance Among Visual Cues in Multilayered Icon-based Scientific Visualization, Daniel Acevedo, Jian Chen, and David H. Laidlaw, IEEE Visualization poster, Sacramento, CA, October 2007 (Best poster runner up).[Link]

Getting Human-Centered Computing and Scientific Visualization Married: the Myth and Critical Issues, David H. Laidlaw, Victoria Interrante, William Ribarsky, and Jian Chen (moderator and organizer), IEEE Visualization panel, 2007.

The Effects of Using Large, High-Resolution Stereoscopic Displays for Flow Visualization, Jian Chen, Andraw S. Forsberg, David M. Willis, and David H. Laidlaw, ACM SIGGRAPH poster, San Diego, CA, August 2007. [acceptance rate: 37%][Link]

New Directions in 3D User Interfaces, Doug A. Bowman, Jian Chen, Chad A. Wingrave, John Lucas, Andrew Ray, Nicholas F. Polys, Qing Li, Yonca Haciahmetoglu, Ji-Sun Kim, Si-Jung Kim, Robert Boehringer, and Tao Ni. International Journal of Virtual Reality, 5(2): 3-14, 2006. DOI:10.1109/MCG.2008.109.

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Cloning Techniques for Architectural Virtual Environment, Jian Chen and Doug A. Bowman, Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality, (VR), 103-110, Alexandria, VA, March 2006 [acceptance rate: 29%]. (videos). DOI: 10.1109/VR.2006.57.

Increased Display Size and Resolution Improve Task Performance In Information-Rich Virtual Environments, Tao Ni, Doug A. Bowman, and Jian Chen. Proceedings of ACM Graphics Interface (GI), 139-146, Quebec City, Canada, June 2006 [acceptance rate: 31/94 = 33%][ACM weblink].

Doug A. Bowman, Dennis Gracanin, Chad Wingrave, Jian Chen, Nicholas Polys, Tao Ni, Regis Kopper, and Ji-sun Kim. 3D Interaction Group Research. Lab exhibit at IEEE Virtual Reality 2006.

The Use of Hand-held Devices for Search Tasks in Virtual Environments, Jian Chen, Michael A. Narayan, and Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, Proceedings of the workshop on new directions in three-dimensional user interfaces (3DUI), IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), 15-18, Bonn, Germany, March 2005.

Design and Evaluation of 3D Multiple Object Selection Techniques, John F. Lucas, Doug A. Bowman, Jian Chen, and Chad A. Wingrave, ACM I3D poster, Washington, D.C., February 2005. [Link]

Interfaces for Cloning in Immersive Virtual Environments, Jian Chen, Doug A. Bowman,  John F. Lucas, and Chad A. Wingrave, Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EuroVR), Grenoble, France, June 2004. (videos). DOI: 10.2312/EGVE/EGVE04/091-098.

Designing Explicit Numeric Input Interfaces for Immersive Virtual Environments, Jian Chen, Doug A. Bowman, Chad A. Wingrave, and John F. Lucas, Virginia Tech Technical Report TR-04-13, 2004.

Testbed Evaluation of Navigation and Text Display Techniques in an Information-Rich Virtual Environment, Jian Chen, Pardha S. Pyla, and Doug A. Bowman, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), 181-188, Chicago, IL, March 2004 [acceptance rate: 23%]. DOI: 10.1109/VR.2004.1310072.

Effective Interaction Techniques in Information-Rich Virtual Environments, Jian Chen, Proceedings of the Young Virtual Reality Symposium, 2003 (Selected as the Best paper: the only paper that got the highest scores from all four reviewers)

Information-Rich Virtual Environment: Theory, Tools, and Research Agenda, Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, Jian Chen, Nicholas F. Polys, Pardha S. Pyla, and Uma Yilmaz, Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 81-90, 2003. DOI: 10.1145/1008653.1008669.

Exploring Cognitive Strategies for Integrating Multiple-View Visualizations, Young-Sam Ryu, Beth A. Yost, Gregorio Convertino, Jian Chen, and Chris North, Proceedings of Human Factor and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting (HFES), 2003 (Best paper award)

Exploring Context Switching and Cognition in Dual-View Coordinated Visualizations, Gregorio Convertino, Jian Chen, Beth A. Yost, Young-Sam Ryu, and Chris North, Proceedings of the International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, 57-66, 2003. DOI: 10.1109/CMV.2003.1215003.

A Virtual Environment System for the Comparison of DOME and HMD Systems, Jian Chen, Deborah L. Harm, R. Bowen Loftin, Ching-yao Lin, and Ernst L. Leiss, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Spatial Information System (CG&SIS), 50-58, Beijing, China, February 2003 (Best paper runner-up)

Interacting with Visible Human Data Using an ImmersaDesk, Ching-yao Lin, David T. Chen, R. Bowen Loftin, Jian Chen, and Ernst L. Leiss, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality, 267-268, 2002. [Link]

An Immersive Virtual Environment training System on Real-time Motion Platform, Jian Chen, Yung-Chin Fang, R. Bowen Loftin, Ernst L. Leiss, Ching-yao Lin, and Simon Su, Proceedings of the Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD&CG), vol.2: 951-954. 2001.

(In Chinese) Jian Chen, Lanfeng Sun, and Da Lu, A review of virtual reality, Journal of Tianjin Institute of Textile Science and Technology, 17(2):91-96, 1998. [publisher’s link]

(In Chinese) A Design Method of Variables for Parameterization Drafting Based on Shape Features. Lanfeng Sun, Jian Xu, Jian Chen, and Liangsheng Zhou. Journal of Tianjin Institute of Textile Science and Technology, 17(2): 32-36, 1998 (in Chinese) [publisher’s link]

Pipeline Quick Joint, Jian Chen, Patent Office of the P.R. China, No. ZL98250034.3, 1998.