Habiliation à Diriger Des Recherche - Presentation
Habiliation a diriger des recherche - Presentation
It is my great pleasure to invite you to my public presentation for the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR). It will take place in English (with a strong french accent) on 3 December at 2 p.m. at Télécom Paris (the lecture room will be the Amphi Thevenin, or if it’s change it will be posted at the reception desk) and on Zoom.
Céline Coutrix, CNRS Researcher, University of Grenoble Alpes.
Annie Gentes, Professor, Director of Research, CY School of Design
Lucy Kimbell, Professor of Contemporary Design Practices, Central Saint Martins,
Wendy Elizabeth Mackay, Research Director, INRIA, University of Paris Saclay
Miriah Meyer, Professor, Linköpings Universitet
Abstract
The manuscript is entitled ``Data Representation, Output to Input’’.
I have spent the last ten years exploring how humans can construct data representations that are accessible to all and low-cost, using various means such as sketching on paper or building with physical tokens. I compared these to digital tools and reflected on how they differ and complement each other. I then became interested in how experts from different fields (art, design, research) construct and produce physical representations of data. Finally, I studied with my doctoral students the use of data representations in the fields of energy feedback devices and online debate platforms.
These diverse works led me to question the relationship between data and its representations in the digital world.
With the tools mentioned above, humans produce data by creating their own representations and adding data to them. However, in the community of visualisation and human-machine interactions, for the past 20 or 30 years, there has been a clear distinction between visualisations intended to represent existing data and graphical interfaces that allow data to be captured, manipulated, and represented.
My co-authors and I explored this dilemma within a design space that allowed us to define and show how data visualisations can also be a means of collecting and modifying data for various purposes, such as: individual reflection, public collective reflection, documentation of public activities, discussion of data, investigation, planning, and collective organisation. This new paradigm for visualisations opens up a vast, underexplored field of research.
To conclude this presentation, I will attempt to offer a practical and critical reflection on the different methods I have used over the past ten years: qualitative visual data analysis and design spaces. Finally, if I have time, I would like to offer a provocative question: why, over the last 30 years, has the field of data visualisation given little or no consideration to the issue of input in data visualisations?
References
This habilitation is based on the following work
Micro focus on Designing and Authoring Visualization :
Jagoda Walny, Samuel Huron, and Sheelagh Carpendale. An exploratory study of data sketching for visual representation. In Computer Graphics Forum, volume 34, pages 231–240. Wiley Online Library, 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12635
Alice Thudt, Uta Hinrichs, Samuel Huron, and Sheelagh Carpendale. Self-reflection and personal physicalization construction. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’ 18, page 1–13, New York, NY, USA, 2018. Association for Computing Machinery. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173728.
Tiffany Wun, Jennifer Payne, Samuel Huron, and Sheelagh Carpendale. Comparison of bar chart authoring with Microsoft Excel and tangible tiles. In Computer Graphics Forum, volume 35, pages 111–120. Wiley Online Library, 2016. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12887.
Wei Wei, Samuel Huron, and Yvonne Jansen. Towards autocomplete strategies for visualization construction. In 2023 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS), pages 141–145, 2023. doi: 10.1109/VIS54172.2023.00037.
Sandra Bae, Clement Zheng, Mary Etta West, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Samuel Huron, and Danielle Albers Szafir. 2022. Making Data Tangible: A Cross-disciplinary Design Space for Data Physicalization. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 81, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501939
Samuel Huron, Till Nagel, Lora Oehlberg, and Wesley Willett, eds. Making with data: Physical design and craft in a data-driven world. A K Peters/CRC Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003264903
Meso focus on debates platforms and Domestic energy visualization devices:
Tallullah Frappier, Nathalie Bressa, and Samuel Huron. 2024. Jumping to Conclusions: A Visual Comparative Analysis of Online Debate Platform Layouts. In Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 42, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685377
Samuel Lacroix, Thesis, Domesticating the energy information. : Comparing the feedback device design choices and user practices to develop a new design approach, 28/05/2020. Institut polytechnique de Paris
Nathalie Bressa, Jordan Louis, Wesley Willett, and Samuel Huron. Input visualization: Collecting and modifying data with visual representations . In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’24, pages 1–18, New York, USA, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642808.