The final keynote of the VIZBI 2014 meeting on the Usability and Computer Interfaces will be given by Sheelagh Carpendale. Sheelagh Carpendale is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and heads the InnoVis (Innovations in Visualization) laboratory. She uses her combined background in visual arts and computer science to enable the design of accessible visual representations of data. Her research interests include information visualization, user interface design, human-computer multi-touch tabletop interaction, visual languages and graph layout. She has received several major awards in the recognition of her contribution to information visualization including the Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and a BAFTA for Off-Line Learning among others.
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