Petra Isenberg

On my way to Bremen for a PhD defense. One of the nice things about working in Paris are the many train connections. Today: Paris - Cologne - Bremen. One stop, no airport, no baggage to check, no drinks to throw out, no cramped seating, no waiting at a gate or security check or baggage claim, arrival and departure directly from the city center, good conscience. The price to pay? Longer travel time (7h vs. 1.5h on board). But, I can read, look at the beautiful countryside, and listen to podcasts.

Anne-Flore Cabouat presents our position paper on how difficult it is to understand how readable a visualization is and how this might relate to visualization literacy. Here, were at para.chi.paris but the paper was part of the fantastic Visualization literacy workshop at Chi this year. https://visualization-literacy.github.io/CHI2024/

The new https://www.vispubdata.org/ update is out. New: VIS 2023 papers with downloads & GRSI columns, TVCG journal papers presented at VIS, and a github repository.
https://github.com/pisenberg/vispubdata

Attending para.chi.paris today and tomorrow. I really enjoyed the presentation of : Supporting Interdisciplinary Research with Cards-based Workshops - A Case Study on Participatory Planning for Mountain Pastoralism
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3637107.. Nice use of cards to perhaps support design study research.

Stuck on an ICE train in the west of Germany. The train will not move. A computer scientist seems to be in charge. The train will now be rebooted. Reboot time: 10 minutes. I can't help but wonder if this is the future experience of hacked transportation.

With @elm@vis.social at the University of Bremen giving talks. Enjoying listening to Niklas' thinking about HCAI tools.

Today at para.chi we had interesting discussions around the panel on relationships between advisors and PhD students: https://www.phd-advising-hci.com/. There is also a survey you can still take about it but you must dig it up from the CHI Meta Facebook group.