Information visualization
Venue: Palazzo Piomarta, Corso Bettini 84 (Rovereto) – Room 7
Time: 10.00 - 13.00
Doctoral Course of Cognitive Science - PhD Workshop
Speaker
- Joel Lanir - University of Haifa, Israel
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Abstract
About the Speaker: Joel Lanir is a senior lecture and faculty member in the Information Systems department at the University of Haifa, Israel, where he leads the Haifa human-computer interaction and visualization lab. His research interests lie in the general areas of human-computer interaction and information visualization. More specifically Joel is doing research in the topics of mobile and context-aware computing and the design and evaluation of novel technologies such as augmented reality, wearable computing and smart environments. Within the information visualization, Joel is focusing mostly on the evaluation of information visualization techniques. Dr. Lanir received his PhD in computer science from the University of British Columbia. His research was supported by the European Union (FP7), Israel Science Foundation, Israel’s chief scientist and more. Joel regularly publishes in top-tier HCI conferences and journals (CHI, CSCW, HCI journal, IJHCS) and has received the CHI best paper among other awards.