Data Science Seminars

VizMe

Sala 6.2.51, Ciências ULisboa (com transmissão via Zoom)

Por Daniel Gonçalves (LASIGE/DI-FCUL).

We live surrounded by sensors, and even carry some with us, in the guise of smartphones, smartwatches and other wearables. With their help, it is easy to gather information about ourselves and our activities. This will help us better understand our lives, reminisce about past moments, lead to self-reflection and behaviour change, or even as our legacy. However, while collecting that data is easy, making sense of it is still a challenge. This can be made possible by using Information Visualization (InfoVis), to help find meaningful patterns in all that data. We will present the latest results of our current research regarding the visualization of geo-referenced personal data, including the related problems of visualization customization, and visualization of Big Data in general.

Short bio: Prof. Daniel Gonçalves is a researcher in the Graphics and Interaction are of INESC-ID and Professor of Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/UL), the School of Engineering of the University of Lisboa, Portugal. His research encompasses the areas of Information Visualization, Gamification, Human-Computer Interaction, and Personal Information Management, He has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers publications in those areas, as well as being the co-author of a textbook on Human-Computer Interaction. He has supervised 9 PhD and over 80 MSc students. He was PI of the VisBig project, on the real- time visualization of streaming big data. He is was also a researcher in the GameCourse (education gamification) and DARGMINTS (argument mining, and their visualization) projects. He was one of the organizers and Technical Program Chair of IFIP INTERACT 2011 (September 2011) and of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (February 2012). Since 2015 he is part of the Editorial Board of the Universal Access to the Information Society journal. He is a member of ACM and the Portuguese Computer Graphics Group (the national Eurographics chapter), of which he was a member of the board of directors from to 2014 to 2022.


Transmissão via Zoom.

14h30
Departamento de Informática | Ciências ULisboa