About myself

n Kamran Sedig (come-run se-deeg)n Joint appointment between Computer Science &

Information and Media Studies

n sedig@uwo.ca

n MC 420

n Interdisciplinary, at the cross-roads ofn Human-centered computingn Information & data sciencen Cognitive sciencen Systems theoryn Design (interaction, visualization, cognitive, game,

motivation)

n Investigate how to Design of interactive software tools that support data-intensive complex human tasks

n Data analysis & interpretation, investigation, problem solving, planning, decision making, …

My research

n Human-data interaction & human-steered analyticsn Design of interactive visualization tools

n Data/information visualizationn Data and visual analyticsn Geospatial visualizations

n Data-intensive complex activitiesn Health & medical informaticsn Decision-support toolsn Design of cognitive gamesn Cyberlearningn Interactive reasoning

n Interface designn Information artifacts and toolsn …

Sub-areas and applications of my research

New book

n Visit our research lab:

insight.uwo.ca

My research

n 1 Post Docn 7 PhD in Computer Sciencen 3 PhD in Health Information Sciencen 1 PhD in Information Sciencen 1 MSc in Computer Sciencen Areas:

n Visual analytics; medical visual analytics; human-data interaction; visualization design; role of information & cognition in evidence-based medicine; text visualization; public health; …

Graduate students (13)

n Topics in data presentation, analytics, and human-centered informatics in healthcaren will examine topics related to health informatics—

with particular emphasis on health informatics tools, big data in healthcare, presentation of health data, analytics methods and their role in healthcare, and the importance of human-centeredness of tools

n cross-listed (CS & Information Science & Health Information Science)

n Mondays, 9-12 (Rm. MC 16a)n Start date: September 12 (be on time)

Fall 2016 (CS 9855a)

n Paper presentation 20%n Tool presentation 15%n Research paper 40%n Participation 25%

Evaluation scheme for CS 9855a

n Information Visualization (9639A)n 1 cross-listed course (CS & Library & Information

Science)

Winter 2017

n Human-Computer Interaction (9521B)n Conceptualization, design, and evaluation of

computational tools that support and facilitate human activities

Winter 2017

Dating software

n Evaluation for CS9639b & CS9521b will be decided later on

Winter courses