Lab member Daniel Perry presented at the 2013 iConference (February 12 – 15) in Fort Worth, Texas. His presentation was titled “VizDeck: Streamlining exploratory visual analytics of scientific data,” and described the design and evaluation of VizDeck, a web-based visual analytics tool that automatically recommends a set of appropriate visualizations based on the statistical properties of the data and adopts a card game metaphor to present the results to the user. The talk was well received, and one of three visualization long papers presented this year. Daniel commented that “the iConference is just getting better and better each year. I was really impressed with some of the social media and other visualization presentations this year.”
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Professor Cecilia Aragon, SCC Lab director, has been awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science from the Division of Computer Sciences of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. The award was announced at the annual Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS) on February 14, 2013. Aragon was one of two recipients of the 2013 award, along with Eric Allman, a computer programmer who developed sendmail. Previous winners of this award have included Douglas Engelbart, Jim Gray, Butler Lampson, Niklaus Wirth, Eric Schmidt, Steven Wozniak, and Peter Norvig.
Lab member and HCDE undergraduate Megan Torkildson has been accepted to the CHI Student Research Competition (36% acceptance rate) for her work on “Visualizing Performance of Classification Algorithms with Additional Re-Annotated Data”. The next round of the competition involves a poster presentation during the conference. Currently, she is working with PhD students Katie Kuksenok and Sean Mitchell to run additional user studies on the visualization.
Lab members Katie Kuksenok and Michael Brooks have won the 2012-2013 Shobe Prize with their proposal for Feedback Sandwich, an “app for collecting real-time feedback from friends and colleagues in a non-awkward way.” Competing teams submitted a pitch for a technology design project, and two winning teams were selected by a panel of judges to receive $5000, office space, and one-on-one mentoring to develop their product idea. The other winning team was Go-Go-Games, a startup founded by HCDE PhD student Alexis Hiniker and Stanford University Graduate School of Education alumni Joy Wong Daniels and Heidi Williamson.
