Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Personnel

Nicolas Roussel, founder and former leader of the team, left Inria Lille in July 2017 after being promoted Director of the Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest research center. Stéphane Huot has been appointed team leader since then, and until the team comes to an end in December 2017.

Ed Lank, Associate Professor at University of Waterloo who already spent one year in our team funded by Région Hauts-de-France and Université Lille 1 until Aug. 2017, extended his stay for 6 months (funded by Inria).

In partnership with Campus France and Inria, Mitacs' Globalink Research Award program sponsored the visit of a Canadian student in our group: Jeff Avery (University of Waterloo).

Publications

Mjolnir presented four papers at ACM CHI and three papers at ACM UIST, the most prestigious conferences in our field.

Awards

“Honorable mention” (top 5% of the 2400+ submissions) from the ACM CHI conference to the paper “Visualization Literacy at Elementary School”, from B. Alper, N. Henry Riche, F. Chevalier, J. Boy & T. M. Sezgin .

“Best paper honorable mention” (top 5% of the 173 submissions) from the IEEE VIS-VAST conference to the paper “Supporting Handoff in Asynchronous Collaborative Sensemaking Using Knowledge-Transfer Graphs”, from J. Zhao, M. Glueck, P. Isenberg, F. Chevalier & A. Khan .

Best Papers Awards:

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