HCI Seminar - Lane Harrison - Shaping Visualization Ecosystems in a Changing Technosocial Landscape

Speaker: Lane Harrison , Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

Public: Yes

Location: 32-G882 (Hewlett)

Event Type: Seminar

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Host: Arvind Satyanarayan, CSAIL

Contact: Cynthia Rosenthal, crosenth@csail.mit.edu

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Speaker URL: http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~ltharrison/

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Reminder Subject: TALK: HCI Seminar - Lane Harrison - Shaping Visualization Ecosystems in a Changing Technosocial Landscape

Abstract:
Progress across visualization systems, data journalism, and social media has brought charts and interactives into peoples’ daily lives. But this progress brings new challenges: How do people engage with visualizations they encounter? How might people differ in their ability to read and use visualizations, and can these skills be improved? Do visualization tools and creators favor audiences with particular social or cultural characteristics over others? This talk will cover research initiatives that interrogate these challenges through experiments and design, and propose how we might anticipate and respond to coming shifts in visualization ecosystems.

Bio:
Lane Harrison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Before joining WPI, Lane was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Lane directs the Visualization and Information Equity lab at WPI (VIEW), where he and students leverage computational methods to understand and shape how people engage with data visualizations and visual analytics systems. Lane’s work has been supported by the NSF, DoED, DoD, and industry.

This talk will also be streamed over Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91991608861

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Created by Cynthia Rosenthal at Monday, September 16, 2024 at 5:08 PM.