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Tamara Munzner

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Tamara Munzner

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University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2023.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 NSERC), most recently in 2024.

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Human-Computer Interaction Visualization

Latest papers

"Making Data the Drug": A Pragmatic Pilot Feasibility Randomized Crossover Trial of Data Visualization as an Intervention for Pediatric Chronic Pain.
Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Data visualization as an intervention for pediatric chronic pain: a pilot feasibility study protocol for a randomized controlled crossover trial.
Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022
A systematic method for surveying data visualizations and a resulting genomic epidemiology visualization typology: GEViT.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2019 · senior author

All 11 publications

Latest funding

Strengthening the Methodological Foundations of Visualization
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$62,000
NSERC CREATE in Designing for People (DFP): Cross disciplinary Program in Interactive Computational Technology
NSERC · 2017 · Co-investigator
$1,650,000
Ocupado: Visual analytics for occupancy applications
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$25,000

All 12 grants and awards

11 publications.

"Making Data the Drug": A Pragmatic Pilot Feasibility Randomized Crossover Trial of Data Visualization as an Intervention for Pediatric Chronic Pain.

Boerner KE, Desai U, Luu J, MacLean KE, Munzner T, Foladare H, Shen J, Gill J, Oberlander TF

Children (Basel, Switzerland)2023

DOI: 10.3390/children10081355 PMID: 37628354

Data visualization as an intervention for pediatric chronic pain: a pilot feasibility study protocol for a randomized controlled crossover trial.

Boerner KE, Desai U, MacLean KE, Munzner T, Foladare H, Gill J, Oberlander TF

Pilot and feasibility studies2022

DOI: 10.1186/s40814-022-01170-5 PMID: 36192779

A systematic method for surveying data visualizations and a resulting genomic epidemiology visualization typology: GEViT.

Crisan A, Gardy JL, Munzner T

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty832 PMID: 30256887

Adjutant: an R-based tool to support topic discovery for systematic and literature reviews.

Crisan A, Munzner T, Gardy JL

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty722 PMID: 30875428

A Novel Methodology for Characterizing Cell Subpopulations in Automated Time-lapse Microscopy.

Hattab G, Wiesmann V, Becker A, Munzner T, Nattkemper TW

Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2018

DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2018.00017 PMID: 29541635

Evidence-based design and evaluation of a whole genome sequencing clinical report for the reference microbiology laboratory.

Crisan A, McKee G, Munzner T, Gardy JL

PeerJ2018

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4218 PMID: 29340235

Glimmer: multilevel MDS on the GPU.

Ingram S, Munzner T, Olano M

IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics2009

DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2008.85 PMID: 19147889

GrouseFlocks: steerable exploration of graph hierarchy space.

Archambault D, Munzner T, Auber D

IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics2008

DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2008.34 PMID: 18467763

InnateDB: facilitating systems-level analyses of the mammalian innate immune response.

Lynn DJ, Winsor GL, Chan C, Richard N, Laird MR, Barsky A, Gardy JL, Roche FM, Chan TH, Shah N, Lo R, Naseer M, Que J, Yau M, Acab M, Tulpan D, Whiteside MD, Chikatamarla A, Mah B, Munzner T, Hokamp K, Hancock RE, Brinkman FS

Molecular systems biology2008

DOI: 10.1038/msb.2008.55 PMID: 18766178

Cerebral: a Cytoscape plugin for layout of and interaction with biological networks using subcellular localization annotation.

Barsky A, Gardy JL, Hancock RE, Munzner T

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)2007Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm057 PMID: 17309895

Strengthening the Methodological Foundations of Visualization

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Munzner, Tamara

Keywords: visualization; visual analytics; human-computer interaction

$62,000

NSERC CREATE in Designing for People (DFP): Cross disciplinary Program in Interactive Computational Technology

Co-investigatorNSERC2017Collaborative Research and Training Experience

Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon KE

$1,650,000

Ocupado: Visual analytics for occupancy applications

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Munzner, Tamara

$25,000

Ecosystem Services, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (ECOSCOPE)

Co-investigatorNSERC2015Collaborative Research and Training Experience

Principal investigators: Hallam, Steven

$1,548,148

Accelerating the Improvement of Visualization Design Methodology

Principal investigatorNSERC2014Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Munzner, Tamara

Keywords: evaluation methods; human-computer interaction; information visualization; qualitative methods; quantitative methods; user studies; visual analytics; visualization

$460,000

Geomatics for Informed Decisions/La géomatique pour des inerventions et des décisions éclairées

Co-investigatorNSERC2009Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Chrisman, Nicholas

$7,883,000

Building and evaluating information visualization systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2008Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Munzner, Tamara

$125,000

Visually enhanced exploration of high-dimensional data

Co-investigatorNSERC2007Strategic Projects - Group

Principal investigators: MËller, Torsten

$489,648

Geomatics for Informed Decisions/La géomatique pour des inerventions et des décisions éclairées

Co-investigatorNSERC2005Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Chrisman, Nicholas

$11,391,000

Decision coordination for critical linkages in a national network of infrastructures

Co-investigatorNSERC2004Joint Infrastructure Interdependencies Research Program

Principal investigators: Marti, Jose

$511,804

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