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SUMMARY:Accelerating Discovery: A Grand Challenge for HCI - Professor Ben 
 Shneiderman
DTSTART:20070521T130000Z
DTEND:20070521T140000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Regan
DESCRIPTION:Information visualization tools are a growing success story\, 
 as users find that they can comprehend larger data sets and find key featu
 res more rapidly.  This talk will show examples such as multi-variate data
  (www.spotfire.com)\, treemaps (hivegroup.com)\, and temporal data (TimeSe
 archer\, www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher).  \nThese discovery tools are a
  research topic with high risk but potentially very high payoff. The goal 
 is to develop improved user interfaces for creativity support tools that e
 mpower diverse users in the sciences\, engineering and design to explore a
 lternatives rapidly.  \nEnhanced interfaces could enable more effective se
 arching of intellectual resources\, improved collaboration among teams\, a
 nd more rapid discovery processes.  These advanced interfaces should also 
 provide potent support in goal setting\, speedier exploration of alternati
 ves\, improved understanding through visualization\, and better disseminat
 ion of results (demos will be shown).  For creative endeavors that require
  composition of novel artifacts (computer programs\, engineering diagrams\
 , symphonies\, animations\, artwork)\, enhanced interfaces could facilitat
 e rapid exploration of alternatives\, prevent unproductive choices\, and e
 nable easy backtracking. \nTwo key human factors issues are (1) Formulatio
 n of guidelines for design of creativity support tools (2) Novel research 
 methods to assess creativity support tools – for example\, Multi-dimensi
 onal In-Depth\, Long-term Case studies (MILCs).  These issues will be the 
 core of the June 2007 Conference on Creativity and Cognition in Washington
 \, DC (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007).
LOCATION:Small public lecture room\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomso
 n Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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