Dr. Evanthia Dimara

Buys Ballotgebouw
Princetonplein 5
Kamer 423
3584 CC Utrecht

Dr. Evanthia Dimara

Assistant Professor
Visualization and Graphics
e.dimara@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Verboom, D. E., Mchedlidze, T., Oral, B., Dimara, E., Peres Rebelo, D., Kamoen, N., & Xiong Bearfield, C. (2025). Visualizing Opinion Space in Voting Advice Applications: A User Study. Paper presented at IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS).

2024

Scholarly publications

Chatzimparmpas, A., & Dimara, E. (2024). Aiding Humans in Financial Fraud Decision Making: Toward an XAI-Visualization Framework. Poster session presented at IEEE VIS 2024 Posters, St. Pete Beach, Florida, United States.
Oral, B., Võeras, R., & Dimara, E. (2024). Iterative Quantification of Categorical Criteria for Enhanced Job Seeking. Poster session presented at IEEE VIS 2024 Posters, St. Pete Beach, Florida, United States.
Ge, L. W., Easterday, M., Kay, M., Dimara, E., Cheng, P., & Franconeri, S. (2024). V-FRAMER: Visualization Framework for Mitigating Reasoning Errors in Public Policy. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Article 390. [DOI] [Portal]
Oral, B., Dragicevic, P., Telea, A., & Dimara, E. (2024). Decoupling Judgment and Decision Making: A Tale of Two Tails. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(10), 6928-6940. [DOI] [Portal]
Oral, B., Chawla, R., Wijkstra, M., Mahyar, N., & Dimara, E. (2024). From Information to Choice: A Critical Inquiry Into Visualization Tools for Decision Making. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(1), 359-369. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Cibulski, L., Dimara, E., Hermawati, S., & Kohlhammer, J. (2022). Supporting Domain Characterization in Visualization Design Studies With the Critical Decision Method. Paper presented at IEEE VIS: Visualization Guidelines in Research, Design, and Education, United States. [Repository]
Giannisakis, E., Dimara, E., Goujon, A., & Bailly, G. (2022). Revisiting Menu Design Through the Lens of Implicit Statistical Learning. In AVI 2022: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (pp. 1-9). Article 24 Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Repository]
Dimara, E., & Stasko, J. (2022). A Critical Reflection on Visualization Research: Where Do Decision Making Tasks Hide? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(1), 1128-1138. [DOI] [Repository]
Dimara, E., Zhang, H., Tory, M., & Franconeri, S. (2022). The Unmet Data Visualization Needs of Decision Makers within Organizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(12), 4101 - 4112. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

Buchmüller, J. F., Schlegel, U., Cakmak, E., Keim, D., & Dimara, E. (2021). SpatialRugs: A Compact Visualization of Space and Time for Analyzing Collective Movement Data. Computers & Graphics, 101, 23-34. [DOI] [Repository]
Tian, Z., Zhai , X., van Steenpaal, G., Yu, L., Dimara, E., Espadoto, M., & Telea, A. (2021). Quantitative and Qualitative Comparison of 2D and 3D Projection Techniques for High-Dimensional Data. Information, 12(6), 1-21. Article 239. [DOI] [Repository]
Dennig, F., Fischer, M., Blumenschein, M., Fuchs, J., Keim, D., & Dimara, E. (2021). ParSetgnostics: Quality Metrics for Parallel Sets. Computer Graphics Forum, 40(3), 375-386. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Scholarly publications

Buchmüller, J. F., Schlegel, U., Cakmak, E., Keim, D. A., & Dimara, E. (2020). SpatialRugs: Enhancing spatial awareness of movement in dense pixel visualizations. [DOI] [Repository]
Raissi, R., Dimara, E., Berry, J. H., Gray, W. D., & Bailly, G. (2020). Retroactive Transfer Phenomena in Alternating User Interfaces. In CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–14). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Repository]
Dimara, E., Franconeri, S., Plaisant, C., Bezerianos, A., & Dragicevic, P. (2020). A Task-Based Taxonomy of Cognitive Biases for Information Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 26(2), 1413-1432. [DOI]
Dimara, E., & Perin, C. (2020). What is Interaction for Data Visualization? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 26(1), 119-129. [DOI]

2019

Scholarly publications

Dimara, E., Bailly, G., Bezerianos, A., & Franconeri, S. (2019). Mitigating the Attraction Effect with Visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(1), 850-860. [DOI]

2018

Scholarly publications

Dimara, E., Bezerianos, A., & Dragicevic, P. (2018). Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Evaluating Multidimensional Visualizations for Decision Support. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(1), 749-759. [DOI]

2017

Scholarly publications

Dimara, E., Bezerianos, A., & Dragicevic, P. (2017). Narratives in crowdsourced evaluation of visualizations: A double-edged sword? In CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 5475-5484). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI]
Dimara, E., Valdivia, P., & Kinkeldey, C. (2017). DCPAIRS: A Pairs Plot Based Decision Support System. [DOI]
Dimara, E., Bezerianos, A., & Dragicevic, P. (2017). The Attraction Effect in Information Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(1), 471-480. [DOI]

2015

Scholarly publications

Boukhelifa, N., Giannisakis, E., Dimara, E., Willett, W., & Fekete, J.-D. (2015). Supporting Historical Research Through User-Centered Visual Analytics. [DOI]

2014

Scholarly publications

Dimara, E., Dragicevic, P., & Bezerianos, A. (2014). Accounting for Availability Biases in Information Visualization. In IEEE VIS 2014 DECISIVe: Workshop on Dealing with Cognitive Biases in Visualizations
Beneš, J., O'Connor, A., & Dimara, E. (2014). The CENDARI Project: A User-centered ’Enquiry Environment’ for Modern and Medieval Historians. In The CENDARI Project: A User-centered ’Enquiry Environment’ for Modern and Medieval Historians
Chapoulie, E., Marchal, M., Dimara, E., Roussou, M., Lombardo, J. C., & Drettakis, G. (2014). Evaluation of direct manipulation using finger tracking for complex tasks in an immersive cube. Virtual Reality, 18(3), 203-217. [DOI], [DOI]

2012

Scholarly publications

Bae, B. C., Brunete, A., Malik, U., Dimara, E., Jermsurawong, J., & Mavridis, N. (2012). Towards an empathizing and adaptive storyteller system. In AAAI Workshop - Technical Report (pp. 63-65). (AAAI Workshop - Technical Report; Vol. WS-12-14). https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/6f5bafa4-9140-3ac5-a6c6-166eb556e128/