Hi, I’m Tom Horak!

I’m a software engineer & product owner at elevait, working on web applications for AI-powered business process automation. Before that, I finished my Ph.D. at the Interactive Media Lab Dresden in 2021, where I focussed on utilizing multi-device environments for visual data exploration in my research, i.e., investigating ways how people can work with interactive visualizations across different devices.

Selected publications

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  Responsive Visualization Design for Mobile Devices Tom Horak, Wolfgang Aigner, Matthew Brehmer, Alark Joshi, Christian Tominski. In: Mobile Data Visualization. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 33--66, 2021. Book Chapter Details
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  Visual Data Analysis in Device Ecologies Tom Horak. Qucosa - Technische Universität Dresden, 2021. Ph.D. Thesis Details
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  Responsive Matrix Cells: A Focus+Context Approach for Exploring and Editing Multivariate Graphs Tom Horak, Philip Berger, Heidrun Schumann, Raimund Dachselt, Christian Tominski. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 1644--1654, 2021. The first two authors contributed equally.
  VIS '20 / TVCG Journal Article Details
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  Watch+Strap: Extending Smartwatches with Interactive StrapDisplays Konstantin Klamka, Tom Horak, Raimund Dachselt. In: Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 72:1--72:15, 2020. The first two authors contributed equally.
  CHI '20 Conference Paper Details
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  Vistribute: Distributing Interactive Visualizations in Dynamic Multi-Device Setups Tom Horak, Andreas Mathisen, Clemens N. Klokmose, Raimund Dachselt, Niklas Elmqvist. In: Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 616:1--616:13, 2019.
  CHI '19 Conference Paper Details
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  When David Meets Goliath: Combining Smartwatches with a Large Vertical Display for Visual Data Exploration Tom Horak, Sriram Karthik Badam, Niklas Elmqvist, Raimund Dachselt. In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 19:1-19:13, 2018. The first two authors contributed equally.
  CHI '18 Conference Paper Honorable Mention Award Details
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  VisTiles: Coordinating and Combining Co-located Mobile Devices for Visual Data Exploration Ricardo Langner, Tom Horak, Raimund Dachselt. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 626-636, 2018.
  VIS '17 / TVCG Journal Article Details

Latest publications

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  Visual Analysis of Hyperproperties for Understanding Model Checking Results Tom Horak, Norine Coenen, Niklas Metzger, Christopher Hahn, Tamara Flemisch, Julián Méndez, Dennis Dimov, Bernd Finkbeiner, Raimund Dachselt. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 357--367, 2022.
  VIS '21 / TVCG Journal Article Details
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  Responsive Visualization Design for Mobile Devices Tom Horak, Wolfgang Aigner, Matthew Brehmer, Alark Joshi, Christian Tominski. In: Mobile Data Visualization. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 33--66, 2021. Book Chapter Details
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  Characterizing Glanceable Visualizations: From Perception to Behavior Change Tanja Blascheck, Frank Bentley, Eun Kyoung Choe, Tom Horak, Petra Isenberg. In: Mobile Data Visualization. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 151--176, 2021. Book Chapter Details