Zach Cutler

I’m a third year PhD student at the School of Computing working with Alexander Lex. My current research is focused on making user studies easier to design, run, and analyze. I’ve previously worked mostly on provenance in visualization systems, and helped develop both Trrack and Trrack-Vis. For more information, see my personal site.

Zach Cutler
Zach Cutler,
PhD Student


Contact
zach.t.cutler@gmail.com
SCI Institute,
Kahlert School of Computing,
University of Utah
72 South Central Campus Drive,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

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Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal and Conference Publications

Teaser picture of the experiment life cycle in revisit, ranging form experiment design, debug & pilot, data collection, analysis, and dissemination. reVISit also provides learning materials and the project emphasizes community support.

Zach Cutler, Jack Wilburn, Hilson Shrestha, Yiren Ding, Brian Bollen, Khandaker Abrar Nadib, Tingying He, Andrew McNutt, Lane Harrison, Alexander Lex
ReVISit 2: A Full Experiment Life Cycle User Study Framework
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS), 2026
 IEEE VIS 2025 Best Paper Award

Teaser image the design space of guardrails for line charts along the dimensions Layout and Context. Layout refers to superimposition of juxtaposition of guardrails as supplementary marks, context refers to whether the additional information is primary data, or a statistical summary.

Maxim Lisnic, Zach Cutler, Marina Kogan, Alexander Lex
Visualization Guardrails: Designing Interventions Against Cherry-Picking in Interactive Data Explorers
SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025

Teaser image showing the revisit interface for analyzing crowdsourced think-aloud data, with the replay interface and a coding interface visible in separate windows.

Zach Cutler, Lane Harrison, Carolina Nobre, Alexander Lex
Crowdsourced Think-Aloud Studies
SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025

Persist screenshot

Kiran Gadhave, Zach Cutler, Alexander Lex
Persist: Persistent and Reusable Interactions in Computational Notebooks
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis), 2024

Reusing Workflows screenshot

Kiran Gadhave, Zach Cutler, Alexander Lex
Reusing Interactive Analysis Workflows
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis), 2022

Intent-Inference screenshot

Kiran Gadhave, Jochen Görtler, Zach Cutler, Carolina Nobre, Oliver Deussen, Miriah Meyer, Jeff Phillips, Alexander Lex
Predicting Intent Behind Selections in Scatterplot Visualizations
Information Visualization, 2021

revisit screenshot

Carolina Nobre, Dylan Wootton, Zach Cutler, Lane Harrison, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander Lex
reVISit: Looking Under the Hood of Interactive Visualization Studies
SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021

Trrack screenshot

Zach Cutler, Kiran Gadhave, Alexander Lex
Trrack: A Library for Provenance-Tracking in Web-Based Visualizations
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2020