Recent and Future Information Visualization Research at Inria / Aviz

Lecturer : 
Pierre Dragicevic
Event type: 
Guest lecture
Event time: 
2015-03-12 10:00 to 11:00
Place: 
Lecture Room R037/TU2, TUAS building, Otaniementie 17, 02150 Espoo
Description: 


Abstract

The goal of information visualization is to study how computer-supported visual representations of data can reinforce human cognition. In this talk, I will give a panorama of recent and ongoing information visualization research carried out in the Aviz team at Inria, France. This panorama will be unavoidably biased towards the research projects I was personally involved in, and will emphasize two themes: studying the psychology of information visualization, and leveraging emerging technologies in information visualization. I will describe recent research projects covering these two areas, as well as our future research directions. I will conclude with a few reflections and lessons learned, including the need to go beyond mainstream infovis research questions and to question well-established notions, the importance of cross-fertilization with other disciplines, and the need to better understand the technological artifacts we are contributing to create.


Biography

Pierre Dragicevic defended his PhD thesis on human-computer interaction in Nantes, France, in 2004, after which he worked as a post-doc at the Université Toulouse III, in the IntuiLab company, and at the University of Toronto, Canada. In 2007, he joined the Aviz team at Inria in France as a permanent research scientist, where he has been working on topics such as animated visualizations, physical visualizations, perception and motor control, and visualizations for judgment and decision making.
​www.lri.fr/~dragice


Other

Pierre Dragicevic is visiting HIIT between March 11 and 13. If you would like to talk to him, please email Luana Micallef ([email protected]).

 


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