Jeffrey Heer

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

University of Washington

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Jerre D. Noe Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering

Projects

AltGeoViz

2024 – Present

AccessVis

2018 – Present

Recent Papers

A Demo of GeoQA3 : Towards An Accessible AI-based Question-Answering System for Geoanalytics

ASSETS 2025 To Appear

Chu Li, Rock Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ather Sharif, Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | GeoQA^3

AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization

IEEE VIS 2024

Chu Li, Rock Pang, Ather Sharif, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Talk | AltGeoViz

Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study

CHI 2022

Manaswi Saha, Siddhant Patil, Emily Cho, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Chris Horng, Devanshi Chauhan, Rachel Kangas, Richard McGovern, Anthony Li, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Talk | Project Sidewalk • AccessVis • Accessibility-Infused Maps • Multi-Stakeholder Interviews to Examine Urban Accessibility

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AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization

YouTube | Paper | AltGeoViz

Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study

YouTube | Paper

Urban Accessibility as a Socio-Political Problem: A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis

YouTube | Paper

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.

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