2017| Catherine Plaisant

Catherine Plaisant is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and Associate Director of Research of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. Catherine Plaisant earned a Doctorat d’Ingénieur degree in France (similar to a Industrial Engineering PhD). In 1988 she joined the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory where she has been working with multidisciplinary teams on designing and evaluating new interface technologies that are useful and usable.

Catherine Plaisant has over 160 published papers, on subjects as diverse as information visualization, medical informatics, universal access, decision making, digital humanities or technology for families. Her work spans the interface development lifecycle, with contributions to requirements gathering, interface design, and evaluation. In 2015 she was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy (recognizing principal leaders in the field of Human-Computer Interaction).

With long term collaborator Ben Shneiderman she co-authored the 4th, 5th and 6th Editions of Designing the User Interface, one of the major books on Human-Computer Interaction.

From june to july 2017, she goes to work with Aviz’s team Aviz, Inria

Son programme :

  • Journées Visu 2017 – 7 & 8 juin 2017 – 8h30 – 17h , IFP Energies nouvelles –
  • Journée Event Analytique – 30 juin 2017 – 10h – 17h30 – Telecom ParisTech – Paris
  • Exposé : Prescriptive analytics – 6 juillet 2017 – 10h30 – PCRI – Bâtiment 660 – Camus Orsay – 91400 Orsay
  • séminaire D2K – 12 juillet 2017 au matin de 10 h à 13 h, dans la salle 455 du LRI
    • Relier des événements à partir de données de formulaires et de texte ou Event linking from records or texts.

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