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ACMD Seminar: Always Annexing Pixels: On Techniques and Infrastructures for Cross-Device Visualization
Niklas Elmqvist
Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Abstract: Data visualization lives and dies by screen real estate, or, more accurately, the pixels it can leverage. While typical screen resolutions grow only slowly--we're up to commodity-level 4k displays now--mobile computing is making leaps and bounds in both increasing the pixel density as well as the number of screens we surround ourselves with. Combining these two facts--visualization's hunger for pixels as well as the proliferation of mobile devices--means that the future of visualization likely spans many separate devices and screens. This kind of cross-device visualization has been the implicit guiding principle for my research for several years now. In this talk, I will review my past work on techniques and infrastructures for cross-device visualization, including our most recent Vistrates platform, and discuss my ideas for the future.
Niklas Elmqvist is a full professor in the iSchool (College of Information Studies) at University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2006 from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. Prior to joining University of Maryland, he was an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. Since 2016, he is the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) at University of Maryland, one of the oldest and most well-known HCI research labs in the country. His research area is information visualization, human-computer interaction, and visual analytics. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award as well as best paper awards from the IEEE Information Visualization conference, the ACM CHI conference, the International Journal of Virtual Reality, and the ASME IDETC/CIE conference. He was papers co-chair for IEEE InfoVis 2016 and 2017. He is also associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and the Information Visualization journal, and co-editor of the Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Visualization. His research has been funded by both federal agencies such as NSF, NIH, and DHS as well as by companies such as Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft. He is also the recipient of the Purdue Student Government Graduate Mentoring Award (2014), the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award (2012), and the Purdue ECE Chicago Alumni New Faculty award (2010).