Network Investigator: Sheelagh Carpendale

Contact Information

University of Calgary Block Captain

• Associate Professor of Computer Science, Calgary
• 1.403.220.6055 (voice)
• 1.403.284.4707 (fax)
• mailto:[email protected]
• http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

GRAND Projects

• Aesthetics and Visualization
• Confronting Pain Redefining Mobility
• Shared Displays
• Sketch Interfaces
• Accessibility of New Media for Disabled, Elderly, and Vulnerable Individuals

Biography

Sheelagh Carpendale holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and an NSERC/SMART/iCORE Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies at the University of Calgary. She is the recipient of several major awards including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (BAFTA) for Off-line Learning, and was a finalist for the Canadian New Media Awards. She has been involved with successful technology transfer to Idelix Software Inc. Her research focuses on creating interactive visualizations of information, currently including: visualizing uncertainty, biological data, linguistic data and the development of methodologies to support collaborative data analysis with visualization. Sheelagh Carpendale’s research in information visualization and interaction design draws on her dual background in Computer Science (Ph.D. Simon Fraser University) and Visual Arts (Sheridan College, School of Design and Emily Carr, College of Art).