Keke Wu
MS, TMS—Creative Technologies + Design '19
ATLAS Institute
keke.wu@colorado.edu

Keke Wu is a designer, developer and visualization researcher working with Danielle Albers Szafir. With an interdisciplinary background in both technology and fine art, her interest is to design and explore new approaches to make technology more accessible to people. She is particularly interested in designing and building interactive visualization tools to help people communicate with data and solve real-life problems. Keke received a Bachelor of Engineering in digital media technology from Central China Normal University and a Master of Fine Arts in multimedia production from Communication University of China. She also has an MS from the ATLAS CTD program, where her focus was data visualization. In her spare time, she likes photography, cooking, traveling and thinking!

Keke Wu has moved along with Danielle Szafir's lab to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Projects

Publications

K. Wu, E. Petersen, T. Ahmad, D. Burlinson, E. S. Tanis, & D. Albers Szafir. 2021. Understanding Data Accessibility for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. (to appear) In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘21). (Yokohama, Japan–May 8-13, 2021)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445743. [Best Paper Award]. pdf.

Matt Whitlock, Keke Wu, & Danielle Albers Szafir. 2019. Designing for Mobile and Immersive Visual Analytics in the Field. Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2020. In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2019. (Vancouver, Canada–Oct. 20-25, 2019). DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934282.

Stephen Smart, Keke Wu & Danielle Albers Szafir. 2019. Color Crafting: Automating the Construction of Designer Quality Color Ramps. Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics. In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2019. (Vancouver, Canada–Oct. 20-25, 2019). DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934284.

Keke Wu, Shea Tanis, and Danielle Szafir. 2019. Designing Communicative Visualization for People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities. Visualization for Communication (VisComm) at IEEE VIS 2019. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/zbjhr. (Vancouver, Canada–Oct. 20-25 2019).

E. S. Tanis, D. Albers Szafir, & K. Wu. Accessible Data: Understanding Visualization Literacy and Graphical Perceptions of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Presented at AAIDD, 2019. (Twin Cities, Minnesota–June 24-27, 2019). DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445743.

 

In the news

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Eight ATLAS researchers receive Graduate School awards

May 18, 2021

ATLAS PhD students Katie Gach, Keke Wu, Fiona Bell, Kailey Shara and Sasha Novack, and Affiliated PhD students Gabrielle Johnson, Dreycey Albin and Varsha Koushik recently received graduate school awards.

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ATLAS @ CHI 2021

May 14, 2021

ATLAS researchers have 10 published works and one special interest group associated with the CHI 2021 conference, the world’s preeminent conference for the field of human-computer interaction. Held virtually, CHI 2021, also known as ACM’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, took place May 8-13.

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Data accessibility: Leveling the field for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities

May 10, 2021

In a world where decisions of all kinds are based on statistical information, maximizing access to data is more important than ever. However, a recent study finds that common practices may be cutting large portions of the population out of the picture.