Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

We had a number of highlights this year:

• Aviz researchers contributed 29 publications this year. Amongst these seven papers were presented at IEEE VIS, the largest international Visualizations and Visual Analytics conference. Four full papers were presented at CHI, the largest international conference on human computer interaction;

• Aviz researchers organized two workshops and one tutorial at international conferences (ACM ITS, and IEEE VIS);

• Eight awards were won by Aviz researchers for papers, service contributions, and PhD theses (see below);

• We welcomed three international researchers and students to our lab for research visits;

• Aviz researchers taught four lectures at various French and international universities.

Awards

• Samuel Huron won the best thesis award at the IEEE VGTC Vis Pioneer Group Best PhD Dissertation Award for his thesis “Constructive Visualization: A Token-based Paradigm Allowing to Assemble Dynamic Visual Representation for Non-experts” [11]

• Jeremy Boy got an honorable mention award at the IEEE VGTC Vis Pioneer Group Best PhD Dissertation Award for his thesis “Engaging the People to Look Beyond the Surface of Online Information Visualizations” [10]

• Jean-Daniel Fekete received an IEEE TVCG service award for organizing VIS'14 in Paris

• Petra Isenberg and Tobias Isenberg received a IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for co-chairing the http://beliv-2014.cs.univie.ac.at/index.php 2014 BELIV Workshop on “Beyond Time And Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods For Visualization”

• Wesley Willet, Tobias Isenberg, and Pierre Dragicevic received a best paper award from the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) for their paper “Lightweight Relief Shearing for Enhanced Terrain Perception on Interactive Maps” [34] .

• Charles Perin, Jeremy Boy and Frédéric Vernier received an honorable Mention (2nd prize) for “Le Tour de France at a Glance” visualiation in the IEEE VGTC/VPG International Data Visualization Contest.

• Jeremy Boy won the World Statistics Day 2015 Data Visualization Contest with his “Is the World a Better Place Today” online visualization platform.

Best Papers Awards:

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