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Matthew Kay

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Associate Professor of Communication Studies

Contact

MUDD 2233 Tech Drive
3rd Floor
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

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Departments

Computer Science

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Research Interests

Matthew Kay is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in Computer Science and Communications Studies at Northwestern University. He works in human-computer interaction and information visualization; more specifically, his research areas include uncertainty visualization, personal health informatics, and the design of human-centered tools for data analysis. His current research is funded by multiple NSF awards, and he has received multiple best paper awards across human-computer interaction and information visualization venues (including CHI, InfoVis, UbiComp, and MobileHCI). He co-directs the Midwest Uncertainty Collective and is the author of the tidybayes and ggdist R packages for visualizing Bayesian statistical model output and uncertainty. For more information, visit his website.


Selected Publications

  • Ge, Lily W.; Cui, Yuan; Kay, Matthew, CALVI, Association for Computing Machinery (2023).
  • Raj, Shriti; Gupta, Toshi; Lee, Joyce; Kay, Matthew; Newman, Mark W., "It can bring you in the right direction", Association for Computing Machinery (2023).
  • Pu, Xiaoying; Kay, Matthew, How Data Analysts Use a Visualization Grammar in Practice, Association for Computing Machinery (2023).
  • Yang, Fumeng; Hedayati, Maryam; Kay, Matthew, Subjective Probability Correction for Uncertainty Representations, Association for Computing Machinery (2023).
  • Sarma, Abhraneel; Kale, Alex; Moon, Michael Jongho; Taback, Nathan; Chevalier, Fanny; Hullman, Jessica; Kay, Matthew, multiverse, Association for Computing Machinery (2023).
  • Sarma, Abhraneel; Guo, Shunan; Hoffswell, Jane; Rossi, Ryan; Du, Fan; Koh, Eunyee; Kay, Matthew, Evaluating the Use of Uncertainty Visualisations for Imputations of Data Missing at Random in Scatterplots, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2023).
  • Hall, Brian D.; Liu, Yang; Jansen, Yvonne; Dragicevic, Pierre; Chevalier, Fanny; Kay, Matthew, A Survey of Tasks and Visualizations in Multiverse Analysis Reports, Computer Graphics Forum (2022).
  • Elkin, Lisa A.; Kay, Matthew; Higgins, James J.; Wobbrock, Jacob O., An Aligned Rank Transform Procedure for Multifactor Contrast Tests, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc (2021).