Minsuk Chang

Minsuk Chang

PhD Student in Computer Science @ Georgia Tech

My research field is Data Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction, focusing on how humans perceive and interact with visualizations. I try to combine cognitive science and computing to better understand human behavior.

I'm currently a 2nd-year PhD student advised by Dr. Cindy Xiong Bearfield. I've also interned at Tableau Research @ Salesforce in Summer 2025.

Research Interests

Data VisualizationBehavior ModelingEye-trackingGraphical PerceptionCognitive Science

News

January 2026

Our paper on critical thinking and decision-support was accepted to ACM IUI 2026! See you all in Paphos!

October 2025

Our paper on visualization literacy and visual attention was accepted to IEEE VIS 2025! See you all in Vienna!

May 2025

Starting my Summer Research Internship at Tableau Research @ Salesforce.

April 2025

Two papers accepted to EuroVis 2025 and VSS 2025.

Selected Publications

Criticality: Scaffolding Decision-Making with Interactive Critical Thinking and Evidence-Based Reasoning Traces visualization

ACM IUI

2026

Criticality: Scaffolding Decision-Making with Interactive Critical Thinking and Evidence-Based Reasoning Traces

We introduce Criticality, a system that operationalizes the Paul-Elder Critical Thinking framework to structure reasoning into interactive elements and grounds claims in verifiable evidence.

Tell Me Without Telling Me: Two-Way Prediction of Visualization Literacy and Visual Attention visualization

IEEE VIS

2025

Tell Me Without Telling Me: Two-Way Prediction of Visualization Literacy and Visual Attention

We trained a bidirectional prediction model that predicts visualization literacy based on visual attention and vice versa.

Grid Labeling: Crowdsourcing Task-Specific Importance from Visualizations visualization

EuroVis

2025

Grid Labeling: Crowdsourcing Task-Specific Importance from Visualizations

We created a new annotation method where users can efficiently label the important area in a visualization.

Early Stage Eye-fixations Reveal Belief-Driven Bias in Correlation Perception visualization

Vision Sciences Society (VSS)

2025

Early Stage Eye-fixations Reveal Belief-Driven Bias in Correlation Perception

We found that early stage eye-fixations show belief-driven bias in correlation perception.

Assessing Graphical Perception of Image Embedding Models using Channel Effectiveness visualization

IEEE VIS

2024

Assessing Graphical Perception of Image Embedding Models using Channel Effectiveness

CLeVer: Continual Learning Visualizer for Detecting Task Transition Failure visualization

IEEE PacificVis

2024

CLeVer: Continual Learning Visualizer for Detecting Task Transition Failure