Ph.D
Group : Human-Centered Computing
From data exploration to presentation: designing new systems and interaction techniques to enhance the sense-making process
Starts on 01/06/2016
Advisor : PIETRIGA, Emmanuel
Funding : Convention industrielle de formation par la recherche
Affiliation : vide
Laboratory : LRI - HCC
Defended on 03/10/2019, committee :
Directeur de thèse :
- Emmanuel Pietriga, Directeur de Recherche, Inria Saclay
Co-directeur de thèse :
- Caroline Appert, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
Rapporteurs :
- David Auber, Professeur, Université de Bordeaux
- Daniel Wigdor, Professeur, University of Toronto
Examinateurs :
- Jean-Daniel Fekete, Directeur de Recherche, Inria Saclay
- Uta Hinrichs, Professeur, University of St Andrews
- Stephane Huot, Directeur de Recherche, Inria Lille
Research activities :
Abstract :
During the last decade, the amount of data has been constantly increasing. These data can come from several sources such as smartphones, audio recorders, cameras, sensors, simulations, and can have various structure. While computers can help us process these data, human judgment and domain expertise is what turns the data into actual knowledge. However, making sense of this increasing amount of diverse data requires visualization and interaction techniques.This thesis contributes such techniques to facilitate data exploration and presentation, during sense-making activities.
We show in this thesis that the sense-making process can be enhanced in both processes of exploration and presentation, by using ink as a new medium to transition between exploration and externalization, and by following a flexible, iterative process to create expressive data representations.The resulting systems establish a research framework where presentation and exploration are a core part of visual data systems.