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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A probably very interesting talk tomorrow by former UCSB professor Sara Fabrikant:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Cogsci-faculty [mailto:cogsci-faculty-bounces@lists.cs.ucsb.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Heather Simpson<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2013 3:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> cogsci-students@lists.cs.ucsb.edu; cogsci-faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Cogsci-faculty] CogSci talk tomorrow: Sara Fabrikant - "Cognitive Visualization: Displays that Help People Think Spatially"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>There is another CogSci event this week, see below! <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>UCSB Department of Geography<br><br>COLLOQUIUM<br><br>Date: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013<br>Time: 3:30-4:30 PM<br>Place: Buchanan 1930<br><br>Speaker: SARA FABRIKANT<br>Associate Professor, University of Zürich, Department of Geography<br>PhD: 2000, Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder<br><br>Title: "Cognitive Visualization: Displays that Help People Think Spatially"<br><br>Abstract:<br>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.<br><br>Bio:<br>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.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>