Speaker: Prof. Chris Weaver (University of Oklahoma)
Abstract
What if we could create and manipulate data directly inside visualizations? How would the visual representation of data affect what we can do to it? How could interaction allow us to express our ideas as evolving data? Building on well-known systems and principles of interactive visualization design, I will offer a glimpse of visualization as an expressive workspace for observing and interpreting the world interactively, and present recent progress on building the foundations of such a workspace.
Short Bio
Chris Weaver is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. He has a B.S. in Chemistry and Math from Michigan State University, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and spent 3 years as a post-doc with the GeoVISTA Center at Penn State University. In 2013 he served as Conference Chair of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization. His research is supported in part by a 2014 NSF CAREER award and focuses on bringing people, data, and visualization together, with a special interest in supporting scholarship and learning in the humanities.