Intra, Extra, Read all about it! How Readers Interpret Visualizations with Intra- and Extratextual Information

Alyxander Burns and Claudia Gonzalez-Vazquez. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 13 pages. 2025.

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Who Do We Mean When We Talk About Visualization Novices?

Alyxander Burns, Christiana Lee, Ria Chawla, Evan Peck, and Narges Mahyar. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 16 pages. 2023.

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From Invisible to Visible: Impacts of Metadata in Communicative Data Visualization

Alyxander Burns, Christiana Lee, Thai On, Cindy Xiong, Evan Peck, and Narges Mahyar. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16 pages. 2022.

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Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and benefits of disclosing metadata in visualization

Alyxander Burns, Thai On, Christiana Lee, Rachel Shapiro, Cindy Xiong, and Narges Mahyar. To appear in Visualization for Social Good Workshop, 5 pages. 2021.

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Designing with pictographs: Envision topics without sacrificing understanding

Alyxander Burns, Cindy Xiong, Steven Franconeri, Alberto Cairo, and Narges Mahyar. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13 pages. IEEE, 2021.

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How to evaluate data visualizations across different levels of understanding

Alyxander Burns, Cindy Xiong, Steven Franconeri, Alberto Cairo, and Narges Mahyar. In 2020 IEEE Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond-Methodological Approaches to Visualization (BELIV), pp. 19-28. IEEE, 2020.

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Looking to the Past to Visualize the Present: Revisiting W.E.B. Du Bois’ Abolitionist Visualizations

Andrew Cunningham, Alyxander Burns, and Narges Mahyar, Posters of the IEEE Conference on Visualization, 2 pages. IEEE, 2020.

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Redundant Persistent Acylic Formations for Vision-based Control of Distributed Multi-Agent Formations

Alyxander Burns, Peter Klemperer, Jaemarie Solyst, Audrey St. John. Proceedings of the 31st Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2019), pp. 29-37. 2019.

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Persistent Multi-Robot Formations with Redundancy

Alyxander Burns, Bernd Schulze, and Audrey St John. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 133-146. Springer, Cham, 2018.

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