Hello all,
This is just a reminder that we will have a student roundtable with Prof Sheelagh Carpendale at 3.45 pm today (Tue March 14th) at BA 5187 (access through BA 5166 DGP lab). Prof Carpendale is visiting us from the University of Calgary. Her research interest is in information visualization, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction. Hope to see you there!
See the forwarded message below for more details.
Thanks,
Jiannan Li
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Subject: Student roundtable with Sheelagh Carpendale -- 3.45 Tue March 14th BA5187
From: "Jiannan Li" <jiannanli(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, March 13, 2017 4:06 pm
To: grad-students(a)cs.toronto.edu
hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu
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Hello all,
Please join us for a student roundtable with Professor
Sheelagh Carpendale on Tuesday March 14th, 3:45-4:45 PM at
BA5187. Professor Carpendale is visiting us from the
University of Calgary. Her research spans information visualization,
visual analytics, and human-computer interaction, drawing upon her
combined background of computer science and visual arts. This will be an
excellent opportunity for students interested in related areas to meet
with a leading expert in the community.
You can access BA5187
through BA5166 (DGP lab on the 5th floor of Bahen Center).
See the
forwarded talk summary below for a more detailed biography and research
interest of Prof. Carpendale.
Cheers,
Jiannan
Li
On 2017-03-13, 10:08 AM, "Steve
Easterbrook" <sme(a)cs.toronto.edu>
wrote:
Invited research seminar
hosted jointly by the departments of Computer Science & Statistical
Sciences
"Information
Visualization: making data
comprehensible"
Sheelagh
Carpendale, University of
Calgary
Monday,
March 13, 2017, at 12:00 PM
Bahen Centre, 40
St. George Street, Rm.
1200
Abstract:
Modern
society demands that people manage, communicate, and interact with digital
information at an ever-increasing pace. While we all want to be informed,
we do not want to experience this information as stress. It is not the
information itself that is the problem, but the manner in which we are
bombarded with information in forms that are often hard to interpret. One
question is – how can we visualize information in a manner aids
comprehension, and provokes interpretation, exploration and appreciation.
This is a non-trivial challenge. How do we provide spatial representations
of non-spatial data that are not only true to the data but help reveal
patterns and characteristics of intrinsically non-spatial data such as
text and tables of numbers? I will discuss these questions in context of
my on-going research, noting how I have both influenced and been
influenced by the emerging and changing trends and challenges in
information visualization
research.
Biography:
Sheelagh
Carpendale is a professor at the University of Calgary where she holds a
Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and the
NSERC/AITF/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies.
She has received many awards including the E.W.R. NSERC STEACIE Memorial
Fellowship; a BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts
Interactive Awards); an ASTech Innovations in Technology Award; and the
CHCCS Achievement Award. She leads the Innovations in Visualization
(InnoVis) research group and initiated interdisciplinary graduate programs
in Computational Media Design. Her research draws upon her combined
backgrounds in computer science and visual arts, benefiting from the
interdisciplinary cross-fertilization to enable the design of innovative,
people-centred information technologies. By studying how people interact
with information both in work and social practices, she works towards
designing more natural, accessible and understandable interactive visual
representations of data. She combines information visualization, visual
analytics and human-computer interaction with innovative new interaction
techniques to better support the everyday practices of people who are
viewing, representing, and interacting with information.