Our Projects

The project explores how charts related to climate change and COVID-19 are created and understood by researchers and public audiences using perspectives and methods from Computer Science and Science & Technology Studies.

More and more decision making in society and politics is supported by intelligent and complex models (ICM). This project explores ways to better engage the electorate in this process by developing interpretable and explainable ICMs and informing the public about how these systems are used.

News

New Publication! Presenting the XAI Novice Question Bank – a catalogue of lay people’s information needs about AI systems

We are happy to announce that Timothée Schmude's paper was accepted to the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies!
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We are taking part in the Climate Change Visualization Project

Laura Koesten is Co-PI of this research project, which is exploring the impacts of different visualizations of climate change data.
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Workshop on "Human-Centered Data Discovery"

Laura Koesten and Kathleen Gregory recently conducted a workshop on "Human-Centered Data Discovery" for the Data Curation Network.

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Laura Koesten was interviewed in Spontan gefragt about visual data communication

We are happy to share that Laura Koesten, PI of the Talking Charts project, has been interviewed by Markus Hengstschläger about her work in the program Spontan gefragt.
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Workshop on Social Media Visualization at FMS im Zentrum

On June 15th, Laura Lotteraner, Regina Schuster, and Judith Staudner hosted a workshop on visualizing social media data at FMS im Zentrum, a public school in Vienna."
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Talk by
Jen Christiansen

On Sept. 01, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., Jen Christiansen of Scientific American will give a talk on "Special Considerations for Science Graphics (from a journalist's point of view)."
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Congrats, Timothée Schmude!

Timothée's paper “On the Impact of Explanations on Understanding of Algorithmic Decision-Making” was accepted at ACM FAccT 2023! On the 14th of June, Timothée will present the paper at the conference’s venue in Chicago.
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Congratulations,
Regina Schuster!

Regina just presented her paper “'The main message is that sustainability would help' -- Reflections on takeaway messages of climate change data visualizations" at the CHI 2023 Workshop on HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures in Hamburg.
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Connecting the Dots...

On September 21st we hosted our first Talking Charts Team Workshop.
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Welcome Regina Schuster!

We are excited that Regina Schuster has joined our team as a PhD candidate!

Talking Charts @ Data Stories

On May 23rd Laura Koesten and Kathleen Gregory will be giving a talk on "Talking Charts: How are everyday visualisations produced and understood?"
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Come work with us!

We are hiring for six exciting new PhD positions at the University of Vienna, Austria.
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Coming soon!

Our projects will be starting on the 1st of November 2021.
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Welcome Kathleen Gregory!

We are happy that Kathleen Gregory has joined our team at the University of Vienna!