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The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) cordially invites you to join us for the next talk in the spring semester of our 2017-2018 invited speaker series: “Re-Centering Human Centered Visualization” Lane Harrison Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Worcester Polytechnic Institute Friday, February 23, 2018 12 PM - 1:30 PM West Village G Room 102, Northeastern University (*note location change) 450 Parker Street Boston, MA 02115 Event Page<https://nuvis.northeastern.edu/events/event/lane-harrison/> Pizza will be served Abstract: Data visualization is making strides in delivering new tools, techniques, and systems to analysts engaged in data analysis and communication. But providing more options leads to a paradox of choice- how do creators of data visualizations navigate the tradeoffs between available design and techniques? One promising approach towards addressing this growing problem is to quantify and model the role of the human in data visualization. In this talk I'll share recent developments ranging from modeling low-level perceptual processes in visualization, to quantifying higher level concepts like engagement in interactive visualizations. Re-centering visualization on the human not only aids creators in designing data visualizations, but also leads to new opportunities for next-generation visualization tools, techniques, and systems. [cid:62f1d186-ef96-45a6-95e4-4029f38f22f0] [cid:fd0de913-2706-4e0a-8d5a-935ad1a8bdaf] About the speaker: Lane Harrison is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining WPI, Lane was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. He obtained his Bachelor’s and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, supported by a DHS Visual Analytics Fellowship for his work on designing visualization tools for cyber security data. In 2015 he served as general chair for the IEEE Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) Symposium, held in conjunction with the IEEE VIS Conference. Lane's research leverages cognitive and perceptual principles to advance the science of information visualization and visual analytics. Visualization has emerged as an indispensable tool for analysis and understanding. As the world is beginning to rely on data to make high-impact, even life-critical decisions, the goal of this research is to ensure that people have the best possible interfaces to data for the decisions they face. About NUVis: The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis)<https://nuvis.northeastern.edu/> is an interdisciplinary cross-university initiative to support the university’s research efforts in visualization and to connect faculty, researchers, and students across campus to foster a visualization community. Northeastern University’s interdisciplinary focus and structure is an ideal environment for such an interdisciplinary field of study, and the goal of NUVis, funded through a collaboration between the College of Arts, Media and Design and the College of Computer and Information Science, is to continue to foster and grow this important area of research. NUVis sponsors talks and symposia including a bi-weekly seminar, connects faculty and students through its online portal, provides resources to support visualization-related research at the university through avenues including workshops and library-sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the NUVIS-LIST list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NUVIS-LIST