

Hrim Mehta
Graduate Student
I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UOIT, co-supervised by Dr. Christopher Collins and Dr. Fanny Chevalier. My main interest lies in mixed-initiative visual analytics. I’m currently developing a framework to formalize and guide the design of semi-automated narratives or tours to prompt and sustain the process of data exploration.
I received my Master’s in Computer Science from UOIT in 2015 under the co-supervision of Dr. Christopher Collins and Dr. Mark Hancock. My thesis focused on leveraging free-form ink annotations, made when performing a close reading, as implicit interactions to augment a literary critic’s analysis process with real-time context-specific metadata.
Contact
If you’d like to know more about my work, send me an email (hrim.mehta@ontariotechu.ca) or connect with me on LinkedIn.
Publications
- H. Mehta, A. Chalbi, F. Chevalier, and C. and Collins, “DataTours: A Data Narratives Framework,” , 2017.
[Bibtex] [PDF]@poster{meh2017b, author = {Hrim Mehta and Amira Chalbi and Fanny Chevalier and and Christopher Collins}, title = {DataTours: A Data Narratives Framework}, venue = {Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Information Visualization (InfoVis), Posters}, series = {Poster}, address = {Phoenix, USA}, year = 2017 }
- H. Mehta, A. J. Bradley, M. Hancock, and C. Collins, “Metatation: Annotation as Implicit Interaction to Bridge Close and Distant Reading,” ACM Trans. on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), p. 35:1–35:41, 2017.
[Bibtex] [PDF]@article{meh2017a, title={Metatation: Annotation as Implicit Interaction to Bridge Close and Distant Reading}, author={Hrim Mehta and Adam James Bradley and Mark Hancock and Christopher Collins}, journal = {ACM Trans. on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)}, publisher={ACM}, pages = {35:1--35:41}, articleno = {35}, numpages = {41}, year=2017, doi = {10.1145/3131609} }
- A. J. Bradley, H. Mehta, Mark Hancock, and C. Collins, “Visualization, Digital Humanities, and the Problem of Instrumentalism,” in IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH), 2016.
[Bibtex] [PDF]@InProceedings{bra2016, author = {Adam James Bradley and Hrim Mehta and Mark Hancock, and Christopher Collins}, title = {Visualization, Digital Humanities, and the Problem of Instrumentalism}, booktitle = {IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH)}, year = 2016, venue = {Baltimore, USA}, eventdate = {2016-10-24} }
- H. Mehta, “Augmenting Free-Form Annotations with Digital Metadata for Close Reading of Poetry,” Master Thesis, 2015.
[Bibtex] [PDF]@MastersThesis{meh2015a, author = {Hrim Mehta}, title = {Augmenting Free-Form Annotations with Digital Metadata for Close Reading of Poetry}, school = {University of Ontario Institute of Technology}, year = 2015 }
- B. Kondo, H. Mehta, and C. Collins, “Glidgets: Interactive Glyphs for Exploring Dynamic Graphs,” , 2014.
[Bibtex] [PDF]@poster{Kon2014c, author = {Brittany Kondo and Hrim Mehta and Christopher Collins}, title = {Glidgets: Interactive Glyphs for Exploring Dynamic Graphs}, venue = {Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Information Visualization (InfoVis)}, note = {Best Poster Award}, series = {Poster}, address = {Paris, France}, year = 2014 }