Visualization: Cognition, Knowledge, Design and Analysis - Einzelansicht

With a growing prevalence of data in personal, professional, and political contexts, data visualization offers new perspectives on complex issues. Utilizing our visual perception and interactive capabilities, visualizations allow us to grasp abstract data and make sense of complex information spaces. Despite the great potential to reveal invisible patterns and relationships, visualization also raises many questions about its perceptual, epistemological, and ethical qualities. In this transdisciplinary block seminar, we consider data visualization as both a research subject and a method. The seminar will bring together current perspectives from cognitive science, interface design, information science, and sociology to explore novel directions for visualization research and design. Through a variety of formats including presentations, hands-on workshops, and seminar discussions students and researchers will collaboratively develop an agenda for visualization research. Based on these exchanges each student (team) will write a position paper that discusses recent work on a specific research topic in visualization and elaborates directions for future work.



The language of teaching for this course is English. All communication during lectures and seminars as well as literature and auxiliary materials will be in English.

The seminar takes place:
Mo 24.04.2017, 14-16 Campus Griebnitzsee, Building 6, Room H10 


Mo 24.04.2017, 16-18 Campus Griebnitzsee, Building 6, Room, S13 



Mo 12.06.2017, 14-18 Campus Griebnitzsee, Building 7, Room 0.39 



Seminar week: 31.07.2017 – 04.08.2017 (Mo-Fr), 09-18, Campus Griebnitzsee, Building 6, Room S23