Synthesis and characterization of vacancy-doped neodymium telluride for thermoelectric applications.

Thermoelectric materials exhibit a voltage under an applied thermal gradient and are the heart of radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which are the main power system for space missions such as I, II, and the Mars rover. However, materials currently in use enable only modest thermal-to-electrical conversion efficiencies near 6.5% at the system level, warranting the development of material systems with improved thermoelectric performance.

Fauxvea: Crowdsourcing Gaze Location Estimates for Visualization Analysis Tasks.

We present the design and evaluation of a method for estimating gaze locations during the analysis of static visualizations using crowdsourcing. Understanding gaze patterns is helpful for evaluating visualizations and user behaviors, but traditional eye-tracking studies require specialized hardware and local users. To avoid these constraints, we developed a method called Fauxvea, which crowdsources visualization tasks on the Web and estimates gaze fixations through cursor interactions without eye-tracking hardware.

A Case Study Using Visualization Interaction Logs and Insight Metrics to Understand How Analysts Arrive at Insights.

We present results from an experiment aimed at using logs of interactions with a visual analytics application to better understand how interactions lead to insight generation. We performed an insight-based user study of a visual analytics application and ran post hoc quantitative analyses of participants' measured insight metrics and interaction logs. The quantitative analyses identified features of interaction that were correlated with insight characteristics, and we confirmed these findings using a qualitative analysis of video captured during the user study.

Monoclonal antibody binding-site diversity assessment with a cell-based clustering assay.

The diversity of a panel of antibodies that target a specific antigen can be established in various assay formats. In conventional epitope binning assays purified antibodies are tested in a pairwise manner: two antibodies that compete with each other for binding to an antigen are grouped into the same cluster or bin, while they are assigned to two different clusters when they do not compete. Here we present a high through put assay that enables grouping of crude hybridoma supernatants without a need for antibody purification.