Dr Sheelagh Carpendale and Dr Saul Greenberg
Interactive Technologies Research
Dr Carpendale and Dr Greenberg were co-awarded an iCORE Industrial Chair ($500K). Funding was also provided by SMART Technologies Inc ($500K), NSERC ($844K) and CFI ($182K). In addition, Dr Carpendale holds a CRC Research Chair award ($500K).
Leverage
For every dollar of industry cash contributions, this research program receives over four dollars of cash and in-kind contributions from Government and University.
Research Program Overview
Modern society demands that people effectively manage and interact with ever increasing masses of digital information. Challenges arise when information is presented and managed through awkward interactive technologies.
Dr Carpendale’s and Dr Greenberg’s research programs aim to explore the fundamental nature of information, how people can interact with information via technology, and how interactive technology can manifest itself within everyday routines of people.
Dr Carpendale’s and Dr Greenberg’s research focuses upon interactive visualization (e.g. technologies and techniques that improve the ability to navigate dense and complex information spaces) and embodied interaction (e.g. interactive displays and devices that improve the ability to navigate dense and complex information spaces) and embodied interaction (e.g. interactive displays and devices that integrate into the social practices of people and their environment).
Research activity focuses upon techniques and technologies for:
o Visualizing Uncertainty
o Visual Decision Support
o Interactive Information Exploration through Semantic Zooming
o Social Visualization
o Groupware Interaction Technologies
o Infrastructure for Embodied Interaction
Biographical Information
Dr Sheelagh Carpendale is director of the University of Calgary’s Innovations in Visualization Interactions Laboratory and an assistant professor of Computer Science. She specializes in the development of large table displays for group interaction, as well as visualization of a variety of complex relationships (including genetic information, oil exploration data, and hospital workflow information).
Dr Saul Greenberg is a professor of Computer Science and director of GroupLab and has served as editorial board member for the International Journal of Human Computer Studies. He is an expert in the ethics of human-computer interaction, including privacy issues surrounding always-on video displays (such as Webcams).
Related Links
Dr Sheelagh Carpendale’s Homepage
Dr Saul Greenberg’s Homepage
InnoVis
Laboratory for HCI and CSCW
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