[4eyes] CogSci talk tomorrow: Sara Fabrikant - "Cognitive Visualization: Displays that Help People Think Spatially"

[Matthew Turk]

A probably very interesting talk tomorrow by former UCSB professor Sara
Fabrikant:

 

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There is another CogSci event this week, see below! 

 

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UCSB Department of Geography

COLLOQUIUM

Date: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Time: 3:30-4:30 PM
Place: Buchanan 1930

Speaker: SARA FABRIKANT
Associate Professor, University of Zürich, Department of Geography
PhD: 2000, Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder

Title: "Cognitive Visualization: Displays that Help People Think Spatially"

Abstract:
The basic idea of visual analytics is to construct tools that combine the
strengths of both human and computer-based data exploration and knowledge
extraction. This is based on the assumption that interactive visual
representations can amplify human natural capabilities for detecting
patterns, establishing links, and making inferences from massive,
multivariate datasets. In this talk I will argue for the challenge of
constructing cognitively inspired geographic information visualizations that
facilitate spatio-temporal inference making, and help people make more
efficient and more effective spatio-temporal decisions. I will highlight how
knowledge from cognitive science and vision research can help display
designers systematically assess their displays which are becoming
increasingly dynamic and interactive. The change blindness paradigm coupled
with eye tracking have been applied for this purpose. Cognitive/vision
theories help make sense of the collected results, and these guide the
process of designing maps for salience, and creating useful and usable
toolboxes. I will also discuss how geovisual analytics methods themselves
can help researchers make sense of the data collected in user studies.

Bio:
Sara Irina Fabrikant is currently an Associate Professor of Geography, and
the head of the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA)
group in the GIScience Center at the Geography Department of the University
of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research and teaching interests lie in
geographic information visualization and visual analytics (geovis),
GIScience and cognition, graphical user interface design and evaluation,
including dynamic cartography. She was awarded a Rotary International
Ambassadorial Scholarship to study Geographic Information Science for one
academic year at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in
1993. She is the current elected chair of the International Cartographic
Association's Cognitive Visualization Commission. She publishes in a variety
of GIScience/geovis related journals and is currently a member of various
editorial journal boards (i.e., Annals of the Association of American
Geographers, Cartographica, Cartographic Journal, Computers Environment and
Urban Systems, Transactions in GIS, etc.) in addition to her program
committee memberships for various international GIScience/geovis related
conferences (e.g., GIScience, COSIT, InfoVis (UK), etc.). She has been the
program committee chair of the GIScience 2010 conference. She has made
various presentations at national and international professional meetings,
including invited keynotes and other lectures at universities across Europe,
North America, Asia, and New Zealand. Other service includes memberships and
functions with the Association of American Geographers, the International
Cartographic Association’s Commission on Geovisualization, the North
American Cartographic Information Society, and the Swiss Society of
Cartography.








 

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