Pre-Conference Workshop
approaches to designing effective visualizations
Magdalen College, Oxford, UK July 24-26, 2009
Workshop information
There is no registration fee for this workshop – funding from NSF covers all the costs of running the pre-conference workshops. Participants are responsible only for the cost of their meals and accommodation. Two nights accommodation (Friday and Saturday night) costs £112 and must be booked directly through Magdalen College (see below). Unfortunately, Magdalen cannot offer accommodation on the preceding Thursday night - people arriving early will need to make their own arrangements.
After Conference Registration and subsequent acceptance for workshop participation, accommodation can be booked by contacting:
Catherine Hughes
Home Bursar's Assistant
Magdalen College
Oxford
OX1 4AU
catherine.hughes@magd.ox.ac.uk
Please specify the workshop title when booking your accommodation. Only persons who have prepaid the workshop accommodation fee will be admitted to the workshop.
The teaching and doing of science depend more and more on visualizations. While many are effective, others are confusing or cluttered. This workshop offers a combination of hands-on design experience with talks on perception and meaning of visualizations, on graphic tools for creating them, and on ways to improve them. Workshop leaders are a science photographer/educator, a computer scientist specializing in graphics, and a cognitive scientist. Prospective participants should submit a paragraph or two explaining their reasons for participating and their professional backgrounds, and two examples of visualizations: one that seems to work and one that seems to need improvement and could serve as a design challenge. These should be forwarded to the Workshops Organizer, Ghislain Deslongchamps (ghislain@unb.ca), once they have been accepted as Conference participants.
workshop leaders
Felice Frankel
Science photographer & educator
Harvard University
Pat Hanrahan
Computer Scientist
School of Engineering
Stanford University
Barbara Tversky
Cognitive psychologist Teachers College
Columbia University
workshop application
Inquiries and applications for participation in the workshop should be directed to:
Ghislain Deslongchamps
Department of Chemistry
University of New Brunswick
P.O. Box 4400
Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada
ghislain@unb.ca
