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Information Technology

Visualization research

News and Updates

Blog Posts

Leroy Jia poses smiling at his desk, with piles of books in the background.

Mathematical Models Can Help Us Understand — and Possibly Treat — Complex Diseases 

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an RNA molecule

RNA Structure and Dynamics: The One-Two Punch in the Fight Against COVID-19

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Alicia, Bob, Carrie and Dave working in a factory equipped with augmented reality. Hazards and detours are shown as Carrie would see them through her augmented reality headset. Machines display digital info. Bob checks a machine in error. Alicia watches the scene on her computer screen seeing the same digital information on her screen.

Industrial XR: Fulfilling Human Potential in Smart Factories

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Projects and Programs

AI User Trust

Ongoing
The Visualization and Usability Group’s AI User Trust project provided foundational work for our new AI User Trust Measurement research, and continues to inform our larger Human-Centered AI program. Please read more about our current work on those pages. The information that follows is maintained

Biometric Usability

Ongoing
The Visualization and Usability Group conducting research on the usability of biometrics. With the plans for integrating biometrics into many areas of government and public life, the importance of usability research has increased. We hope this site can broaden the awareness of what usability
A double-helix rheometer measuring the viscosity of mortar.

High Performance Computing

Ongoing
Current HPC technology broadly consists of: Leadership systems, such as the Department of Energy INCITE systems. Production Systems, such as clusters We work on both types of systems. For example, our work on the Rheology or Flow Properties of Concrete (see pages 15-16 in the latest INCITE report)

Human-Centered Cybersecurity

Ongoing
Championing the Human in Cybersecurity The Human-Centered Cybersecurity program within the NIST Visualization and Usability Group provides research evidence and guidance to policymakers, system engineers, organizational decision makers, and cybersecurity professionals so that they can make better

Publications

Software

Dual rheometer simulation visualization in the NIST CAVE

HEV: High End Visualization

We have developed a virtual measurement and analysis laboratory in a 3D immersive virtual environment using a CAVE hardware configuration and a software

Video Analytic Quality Measurement Tools

This Tool set has been created to facilitate video quality metric research and foster future R&D. Development was sponsored as part of video quality research by

OpenSceneGraph Multi-card Scaling Test

We have observed a problem with OpenSceneGraph (OSG) in which parallel, multi-threaded, applications do not scale properly to multiple graphics cards. The
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