Integrating art with information visualization to create interactive tabletop applications

Integrating the arts with computer science can open doors to discovery and creation and point the way to new understandings of the aesthetic in interactions with digital technologies. I will discuss how our integrated research methodology has impacted the development of our interactive information visualizations and tabletop computing research.

I will illustrate this with examples of information visualizations on tabletop displays that have been developed for accessible exploration by the general public.

Speaker Bios

Sheelagh Carpendale holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and an NSERC/SMART/iCORE Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies at the University of Calgary. She is the recipient of several major awards including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (BAFTA) for Off-line Learning, and was a finalist for the Canadian New Media Awards. She has been involved with successful technology transfer to Idelix Software Inc. Her research focuses on creating interactive visualizations of information, currently including: visualizing uncertainty, biological data, linguistic data and the development of methodologies to support collaborative data analysis with visualization. Sheelagh Carpendale’s research in information visualization and interaction design draws on her dual background in Computer Science (Ph.D. Simon Fraser University) and Visual Arts (Sheridan College, School of Design and Emily Carr, College of Art).

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Haut-parleurs:
Sheelagh Carpendale
Affiliation:
University of Calgary