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SUMMARY:Information Visualization - Bob Spence\, Imperial College
DTSTART:20070514T174500Z
DTEND:20070514T193000Z
UID:TALK7053@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Michele Ide-Smith
DESCRIPTION:“Basically\, visualization has nothing to do with computers
 ”. This title of an earlier talk by Bob Spence emphasises the fact that 
 visualization tools must be designed to support the formation of an intern
 al model by human users of such tools.  Bob will discuss\, among other fea
 tures of information visualization\, how the successful realisation of the
  benefits of visualization depends upon an appreciation of human capabilit
 ies: “Forget the technology” will summarise much of his talk.\n \n*Abo
 ut the speaker:*\n \nFrom the unlikely schoolboy hobby of telephone exchan
 ge design Bob Spence became a designer of electronic circuits. Then\, in 1
 968\, he realised the enormous potential that interactive graphics held fo
 r engineering design\, a realisation that led via research and development
  to the first (1985) commercially available interactive-graphic circuit de
 sign facility.  His work in Human-computer Interaction also led naturally 
 into information visualization\, and along the way Bob was the co-inventor
  of the first Focus+Context technique (the Bifocal Display) and the Attrib
 ute and Influence Explorers.  An influence upon his work in information vi
 sualization came from his parallel research into engineering design for ma
 ss production\, leading to visualization tools such as the Prosection Matr
 ix and the Influence Explorer.  Bob is currently Emeritus Professor of Inf
 ormation Engineering at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal 
 Academy of Engineering.  He presents courses on Information Visualization 
 around the world: “have course\, will travel”.  He has just published 
 the textbook “Information Visualization: Design for Interaction” (Pren
 tice Hall\, 2007). \n \nCambridge Usability Group: www.ukupa.org.uk/cambri
 dge   
LOCATION:Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road
 )\, Cambridge
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