I am a Marie Curie Postdoctoral scholar with Sheelagh Carpendale in her InnoVis group at the Interactions Lab at Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary. My research focuses on information visualization and human-computer interaction.
I am interested in supporting people in understanding and making sense of data. My dissertation research concerned understanding the benefits of using large, high-resolution displays to support this goal through interaction techniques and data visualization.
Internal news
I will try and keep this updated for you to see when I hope to be here, and what I am working on…
Here again
I expect to be here at CHI
- Thursday, April 18
- Monday, April 22
Thursday, April 18
Busy prep’ing for May 1st. Come say hi and see what I am up to!
Sunday, March 31
We just submitted three papers to the IEEE VIS 2019 conference program. I taped them to my window on the right>>>
News
- IEEEVIS 2020 Online
- CHI Virtual Speaker Series – The Value of Data Visualization
- Moving to University of Copenhagen!
- Neil presents our Proxemics work
- Presenting at the Department of Medicine QI Summit
- See you in Vancouver for IEEE VIS 2019?
- WHOFIC 2019 in Banff, Alberta
- NASA Glenn here I come:)
- Attending ACM CHI 2019 in Glasgow, UK
- Dagstuhl seminar
- 2018 Gairdner International Symposium
- Quick visit at Aarhus University
- Attending IEEE VIS 2018 in Berlin
- Grant reviewer for Marie Curie September 2018 call
- Talk at Tamara Munzner’s group at UBC in Vancouver, BC
Biography
2018 | Marie Curie Postdoctoral scholar
With Sheelagh Carpendale in InnoVis / Interactions Lab. University of Calgary, Canada
2017 | Postdoctoral scholar
With Sheelagh Carpendale in InnoVis / Interactions Lab. University of Calgary, Canada
2016 | Postdoctoral scholar
With Mikkel Jakobsen, part of BIOPRO research project. Human Centered Computing at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 | Postdoctoral scholar
With teaching obligations at the Communication and IT study programme. Human Centered Computing at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2011-2015 | Ph.D. student
Supervised by Kasper Hornbæk WallViz research project. Human Centered Computing at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2009-2010 | Research Proposal Writer
targeting the 7th EU framework programme for research and development. Danish Innovation Institute — part of the Pera Innovation Network, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Recent Publications
Belief at first sight: Data visualization and the rationalization of seeing
Data visualizations are often represented in public discourse as objective proof of facts. However, a visualization is only a single translation of reality, just like any other media, representation devices, or modes of representation.
PixelClipper: Supporting Public Engagement and Conversation About Visualizations
In this article, we present PixelClipper, a tool built for facilitating data engagement events. PixelClipper supports conversations around visualizations in public settings through annotation and commenting capabilities. It is recognized that understanding data is important for an informed society.
Exploring Design Opportunities for Visually Congruent Proxemics in Information Visualization: A Design Space
We explore design opportunities for varying visual complexity of information visualizations based on distance. Through considering visual congruency and proxemics interaction, we describe a design space that considers potential transitions between visualizations in relation to distance. Our design space is based on exploring prototyping and design possibilities.
Distributed Synchronous Visualization Design: Challenges and Strategies
We reflect on our experiences as designers of COVID-19 data visualizations working in a distributed synchronous design space during the pandemic. This is especially relevant as the pandemic posed new challenges to distributed collaboration amidst civic lockdown measures and an increased dependency on spatially distributed teamwork across almost all sectors.
Developing a Data Integrated COVID-19 Tracking System for Decision-Making and Public Use
Introduction
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic unveiled a strong need for advanced and informative surveillance tools.
Data Changes Everything: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Design Handoff
Complex data visualization design projects often entail collaboration between people with different visualization-related skills. For example, many teams include both designers who create new visualization designs and developers who implement the resulting visualization software.
PADE: Supporting Collaborative Visual Analysis of Patient Administrative Systems Data with a Large Touch Display System
We present a visual analytics tool for collaboratively exploring data from patient administrative systems on large touch displays in meeting contexts. Large touch displays are becoming commercially available, but we have limited knowledge about how they might be used in such a context. We investigated this with our system, PatientAdministrativeDataExplorer (PADE).