Good Morning Tux! It’s a snowy day today in Toronto. What better way to warm up than with hot food and an even hotter research presentation? This is your reminder of Prof. Sheelagh Carpendale’s talk today: The Power of Alternate Representations. Details are below; we look forward to seeing you at the first Tux event of 2017! Research Poster Day Submissions due Friday Please also remember that submissions are due Friday for our student Research Poster Day. It’s a lightweight application, and a wonderful chance to share your work with the Tux community. Today! Tuesday, January 10 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Sheelagh Carpendale, PhD The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St. (Lower Level) Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Our exciting guest speaker: Prof. Sheelagh Carpendale, a Professor at the University of Calgary, will deliver her lecture at 1:00 sharp. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. Sheelagh Carpendale is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and NSERC/AITF/SMART Technologies 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 on information visualization, large interactive displays, and new media draws on her background in Computer Science, Art and Design (Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr, Institute of Art and Design, Sheridan College, School of Design). She has found the combined visual arts and computing science background invaluable in her information visualization research. The power of Alternate Representations To visualize data, one of the first steps is to develop a visual representation. This representation is a result of a mapping by which the data can be specified. Much has been said of about the power of these visual representations. Simon (1981) said that solving a problem is simply a matter of representing so as to make the solution transparent – implying that finding the right representation solves the problem. Card et al. (1998) said that interactive visual representations can amplify our cognition – can in effect make us smarter.  In spite of this, the small box in the visualization creation pipeline that signifies the development of the visual representation remains one of the least unpacked. Through examples from my own work and others’, I will discuss the power and potential of alternate visual representations.
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