anastasia bezerianos

I am currently a research scientist at National ICT Australia (NICTA). My interests lie in novel interaction designs and evaluations of large displays, vertical and horizontal. As part of the [braccetto] project, I investigate challenges and benefits in using such displays in multi-user groups, collocated and distributed.

Recently I completed my PhD at the dgp lab of the department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Under the supervision of Ravin Balakrishnan, I investigated challenges when interacting with wall-sized displays at close proximity.

Prior to my PhD, I completed a MSc in University of Toronto under the supervision of Alejo Hausner, where I used projections of scene hierarchies to accelerate ray tracing. I received my BSc from the department of Informatics at the University of Piraeus.

Nathalie Henry, Anastasia Bezerianos, Jean-Daniel Fekete (2008). Improving the Readability of Clustered Social Networks by Node Duplication. To appear In Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis 2008 - the IEEE Information Visualization Conference.

Anastasia Bezerianos, Gregor McEwan (2008). Presence Disparity in Mixed Presence Collaboration. In Proceedings of CHI2008 Extended Abstracts, pages 3285-3290.

Anastasia Bezerianos (2007). Using alternative views for layout, comparison and context switching tasks in wall displays. In Proceedings of OzCHI 2007 - the Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, pages 303-310.

Anastasia Bezerianos, Pierre Dragicevic, Ravin Balakrishnan (2006). Mnemonic Rendering: An Image-Based Approach for Exposing Hidden Changes in Dynamic Displays. In Proceedings of UIST 2006 - ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 159-168. (video 64MB, mnemonic page with demos) Best Student Paper Award.

Anastasia Bezerianos, Ravin Balakrishnan (2005). Canvas Portals: View and Space Management on Large Displays. In IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Special Issue on Applications of Large Displays, vol.25, no.4, July/August 2005, pages 34-43.

Anastasia Bezerianos, Ravin Balakrishnan (2005). The Vacuum: Facilitating the manipulation of distant objects. In Proceedings of CHI 2005 - the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 361-270. (video 64MB)