Dane Coffey, Ph.D.   (he/him)
Ph.D. Program
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Spotlights
Best Paper Award - IEEE VIS 2013
Congratulations to Dane Coffey and co-authors who recieved a Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at the prestigious IEEE VIS 2013 conference for their paper, "Design by Dragging".
Two IV/LAB Papers to Appear at Vis 2013
Papers by Dane Coffey and Bret Jackson have been accepted to appear at the IEEE Visualization conference.
VR Table Impresses at Medical Devices Center opening
At the grand opening of the University of Minnesota's Medical Devices Center, the IV/LAB-produced virtual prototyping table impressed visitors.
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship
Dane Coffey has been awarded the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year.
ACM I3D 2011 Best Paper
Best paper award (honorable mention) at the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2011.
Coffey Honorable Mention for NSF Grad Research Fellowship
Ph.D. student Dane Coffey was awarded an honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award.
Senator Al Franken Visits
Senator Al Franken visits to check out medical device virtual engineering project.
Publications
2015
Invited Talks
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Invited Talk: Medical Device Design Based on Extensive FEA Data: A Case Study using Realistic Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy Cutting Simulations
Chi-Lun Lin, Dane Coffey, Daniel Keefe, and Arthur Erdman. Design of Medical Devices Conference.
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Podium Presentation: Optimizing Design with Extensive FEA Data: A Case Study using Realistic Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy Cutting Simulations
Chi-Lun Lin, Dane Coffey, Daniel Keefe, and Arthur Erdman. BMES/FDA Frontiers in Medical Devices Conference: Innovations in Modeling and Simulation.
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2014
Journal and Conference Articles
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A System for Optimizing Medical Device Development Using Finite Element Analysis Predictions
Chi-Lun L. Lin, Ashutosh Srivastava, Dane Coffey, Daniel Keefe, Marc Horner, Mark Swenson, and Arthur Erdman. Journal of Medical Devices 8, 2, 020941.
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Ph.D. Theses
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Scalable Natural User Interfaces for Data-Intensive Exploratory Visualization: Designing in the Context of Big Data
Dane M. Coffey. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota.
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Posters
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Poster: A System for Optimizing Medical Device Development Using Finite Element Analysis Predictions
Chi-Lun L. Lin, Ashutosh Srivastava, Dane Coffey, Daniel Keefe, Marc Horner, Mark Swenson, and Arthur Erdman. Design of Medical Devices Conference.
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Invited Talks
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Podium Presentation: An Human-Centered Design Approach for Devices Interacting with Soft Tissue
Chi-Lun Lin, Ashutosh Srivastava, Dane Coffey, Marc Horner, Daniel Keefe, and Arthur Erdman. MDIC Modeling and Simulation Summit.
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2013
Journal and Conference Articles
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Design by Dragging: An Interface for Creative Forward and Inverse Design with Simulation Ensembles
Dane Coffey, Chi-Lun Lin, Arthur G. Erdman, and Daniel F. Keefe. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphic (Proceedings of Scientific Visualization / Information Visualization 2013) 19, 12, 2783-2791.

Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
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Invited Talks
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Use of Interactive Supercomputing and Virtual Environments for the Design, Verification, and Manufacture of Medical Devices
Daniel F. Keefe. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference.

Invited Plenary Session and Talk
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2012
Journal and Conference Articles
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Force Brushes: Progressive Data-Driven Haptic Selection and Filtering for Multi-Variate Flow Visualizations
Bret Jackson, Dane Coffey, and Daniel F. Keefe. In Proceedings of EuroVis 2012, Vienna, Austria. Eurographics Association, 7–11.
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#2012
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Interactive Slice WIM: Navigating and Interrogating Volume Datasets Using a Multi-Surface, Multi-Touch VR Interface
Dane Coffey, Nicholas Malbraaten, Trung Le, Iman Borazjani, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Arthur G. Erdman, and Daniel F. Keefe. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18, 1614-1626.
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Visualizing Motion Data in Virtual Reality: Understanding the Roles of Animation, Interaction, and Static Presentation
Dane Coffey, Fedor Korsakov, Haleh Hagh-Shenas, Lauren Thorson, Arin Ellingson, David Nuckley, and Daniel F. Keefe. Computer Graphics Forum (Presented at EuroVis 2012) 31, 3pt3, 1215–1224.
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Vortex formation and instability in the left ventricle
Trung Bao Le, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dane Coffey, and Daniel Keefe. Physics of Fluids 24, 9, 091110.

Gallery of Fluid Motion Award
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Workshop Papers
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Toward Mixed Method Evaluations of Scientific Visualizations and Design Process as an Evaluation Tool
Bret Jackson, Dane Coffey, Lauren Thorson, Kate Schroeder, Arin Ellingson, David Nuckley, and Daniel F. Keefe. BELIV 2012: Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization, Workshop at IEEE VisWeek 2012.
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Immersive VR Touch Workbenches: Applications in Engineering and Art
Dane Coffey, Bret Jackson, and Daniel F. Keefe. The 3rd Dimension of CHI (3DCHI) Touching and Designing 3D User Interfaces Workshop at CHI 2012.
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Posters
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Poster: A User Study to Understand Motion Visualization in Virtual Reality
Dane Coffey, Fedor Korsakov, Haleh Hagh-Shenas, Lauren Thorson, and Daniel F. Keefe.
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2011
Journal and Conference Articles
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Slice WIM: A Multi-Surface, Multi-Touch Interface for Overview+Detail Exploration of Volume Datasets in Virtual Reality
Dane Coffey, Nicholas Malbraaten, Trung Le, Iman Borazjani, Fotis Sotiropoulos, and Daniel F. Keefe. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games. 191–198.

Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
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2010
Journal and Conference Articles
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Drawing with the Flow: A Sketch-Based Interface for Illustrative Visualization of 2D Vector Fields
Kate Schroeder, Dane Coffey, and Daniel F. Keefe. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling 2010. 49–56.
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#2010
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Low Cost VR Meets Low Cost Multi-touch
Dane Coffey, Fedor Korsakov, and Daniel F. Keefe. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing. 351–360.
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#2010
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A Process for Design, Verification, Validation, and Manufacture of Medical Devices using Immersive VR Environments
Daniel F. Keefe, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Victoria Interrante, Birali H. Runesha, Dane Coffey, Molly Staker, Chi-Lun Lin, Yi Sun, Iman Borazani, Nancy Row, and Art Erdman. ASME Journal of Medical Devices 4, 4, .
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Workshop Papers
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Poster: Medical Device Invention and Evaluation Through Simulation, Visualization, and Interactive Design
Dane M. Coffey, Vamsi Konchada, Molly Staker, Iman Borazjani, Nancy Rowe, H. Birali Runesha, Victoria Interante, Daniel F. Keefe, Fotis Sotiropoulos, and Arthur Erdman. FDA/NHLBI/NSF Workshop on Computer Methods for Cardiovascular Devices.
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Posters
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Poster: Shadow WIM: A Multi-Touch, Dynamic World-In-Miniature Interface for Exploring Biomedical Data
Dane M. Coffey, and Daniel F. Keefe. ACM SIGGRAPH 2010.
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Themes
Immersive Data Visualization
When should we walk inside our data?
Ensemble and Comparative Visualization
Todo.
XR User Interfaces
Novel Spatial User Interfaces for 3D Modeling, Navigation, Selection, Manipulation, and More.
Projects
Picturing Motion
Analyzing Multidimensional Time-Varying Data through Perceptually Accurate Exploratory Visualization
BIGDATA: Coupling Data-Intensive Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization with Human Facilities for Design
Application to Next-Generation Medical Device Prototyping