The case for more flexible data visualization interfaces

Speaker: Charles Perin

October 13th, 2021, 12:00pm

Abstract: When we interact with the world around us, we use a wide range of interactions with our environment, and we discover, learn, and understand through series of actions and perceived reactions. In this talk, I will explain that we (want to) interact with visualizations the same way. But also that standard data visualization interfaces are rigid in that they do not support such diversity of interactions. I will illustrate what flexible data interfaces can look like when designed to support wider, more diverse interactions, before discussing the benefits of flexibility to broaden the use of visualization to diverse contexts with various audiences.

2021 Series

DFP Seminar

Viz@UBC

About the speaker

Charles Perin

Assistant Professor

Charles Perin is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, where he co-leads the Victoria Interactive eXperiences with Information (\//X\) research group specializing in Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization. He and his students are interested in designing and studying new interactions for visualizations, in understanding how people may make use of and interact with visualizations in their everyday lives, and in visualization beyond the desktop such as mobile and physical visualization. Before joining the University of Victoria in 2018, Charles was a Lecturer at City, University of London, before that a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Calgary, before that a PhD student at University Paris-Sud/INRIA, and long before that a kid in Brittany, France.