Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Steve Haroz joined Aviz as a research scientist (SRP) for three years.

• Catherine Plaisant joined Aviz as an International Chair for 5 years.

• The team welcomed two invited professors (Claudio Silva and Michael McGuffin).

• Aviz members presented seven papers at IEEE VIS 2018 and won a best paper award at Eurovis 2018.

• Former Aviz PhD student Lonni Besançon received a PhD thesis prize honorable mention award from GDR, AFIG, AFRV, and EGFR for his thesis “An interaction Continuum for 3D Data Visualization.”

• Aviz started an Associated Team with the ilab at the University of Calgary on the topic of Situated and Embedded Visualization.