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Overview

William Ribarsky was affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States. Their research focused primarily on Environmental Science, with a notable emphasis on subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Transportation, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics covered in their work included Turfgrass Adaptation and Management, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Urban Transport and Accessibility, Water Quality and Resources Studies, Environmental Justice and Health Disparities, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

They published research in several academic venues including the International Turfgrass Society Research Journal, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Preventive Medicine Reports, and Frontiers in Plant Science. Among their recent papers were:

  • A data framework for assessing social inequality and equity in multi-sector social, ecological, infrastructural urban systems: Focus on fine-spatial scales, 2022, Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • ArcGIS Online, 2022, Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge
  • NTEP-DB 1.0: A relational database for the national turfgrass evaluation program, 2021, International Turfgrass Society research journal
  • Simulation as a Teaching Method: Evaluation of the University of Minnesota Humanitarian Crisis Simulation, 2022, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
  • A novel method to map community- and neighborhood-level access to rural physical activity built environments in the United States, 2022, Preventive Medicine Reports

Frequent co-authors in their work included Yuanshuo Qu, Kevin N. Morris, Peter Wiringa, Yiqun Xie, and Eric Watkins. These collaborations contributed to multiple publications and reflected a multidisciplinary approach across environmental and social science research.

Best Publications

  • Real-time, continuous level of detail rendering of height fields

    Peter Lindstrom;David Koller;William Ribarsky;Larry F. Hodges

  • Instant architecture

    Peter Wonka;Michael Wimmer;François Sillion;William Ribarsky

  • Data, Information, and Knowledge in Visualization

    Min Chen;D. Ebert;H. Hagen;R.S. Laramee

  • Virtual GIS: a real-time 3D geographic information system

    David Koller;Peter Lindstrom;William Ribarsky;Larry F. Hodges

  • iPCA: an interactive system for PCA-based visual analytics

    Dong Hyun Jeong;Caroline Ziemkiewicz;Brian Fisher;William Ribarsky

  • The State of the Art in Integrating Machine Learning into Visual Analytics

    A. Endert;W. Ribarsky;C. Turkay;B.L. William Wong

  • Defining Insight for Visual Analytics

    R. Chang;C. Ziemkiewicz;T.M. Green;W. Ribarsky

  • HierarchicalTopics: Visually Exploring Large Text Collections Using Topic Hierarchies

    Wenwen Dou;Li Yu;Xiaoyu Wang;Zhiqiang Ma

  • Glyphmaker: creating customized visualizations of complex data

    W. Ribarsky;E. Ayers;J. Eble;S. Mukherjea

  • WireVis: Visualization of Categorical, Time-Varying Data From Financial Transactions

    R. Chang;M. Ghoniem;R. Kosara;W. Ribarsky

  • Recovering Reasoning Processes from User Interactions

    Wenwen Dou;Dong Hyun Jeong;F. Stukes;W. Ribarsky

  • EventRiver: Visually Exploring Text Collections with Temporal References

    Dongning Luo;Jing Yang;M. Krstajic;W. Ribarsky

  • ParallelTopics: A probabilistic approach to exploring document collections

    Wenwen Dou;Xiaoyu Wang;Remco Chang;William Ribarsky

  • Building and applying a human cognition model for visual analytics

    Tera Marie Green;William Ribarsky;Brian Fisher

  • The Perceptive Workbench: toward spontaneous and natural interaction in semi-immersive virtual environments

    B. Leibe;T. Starner;W. Ribarsky;Z. Wartell

  • Visual analytics for complex concepts using a human cognition model

    T.M. Green;W. Ribarsky;B. Fisher

  • An Integrated Global GIS and Visual Simulation System

    Peter Lindstrom;David Koller;William Ribarsky;Larry F. Hodges

  • Effects of variation in system responsiveness on user performance in virtual environments.

    Benjamin A. Watson;Neff Walker;Neff Walker;Neff Walker;William Ribarsky;William Ribarsky;Victoria Spaulding;Victoria Spaulding

  • Next-Generation Data Visualization Tools

    William Ribarsky;James D. Foley

  • Simulator sickness and presence in a high FOV virtual environment

    A.F. Seay;D.M. Krum;L. Hodges;W. Ribarsky

  • Semantic Image Browser: Bridging Information Visualization with Automated Intelligent Image Analysis

    Jing Yang;Jianping Fan;D. Hubball;Yuli Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Remco Chang
Remco Chang Tufts University
Larry F. Hodges
Larry F. Hodges Clemson University
Frits H. Post
Frits H. Post Delft University of Technology
Thad Starner
Thad Starner Georgia Institute of Technology
Jianping Fan
Jianping Fan University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Shin'ichi Satoh
Shin'ichi Satoh National Institute of Informatics
Peter Lindstrom
Peter Lindstrom Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David S. Ebert
David S. Ebert University of Oklahoma
Karsten Schwan
Karsten Schwan Georgia Institute of Technology
Douglas D. Davis
Douglas D. Davis Georgia Institute of Technology

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