11 December 2017: Caroline Jay Investigating interaction with information Supporting human interaction with complex data is both challenging, and important. As decision support systems become increasingly sophisticated, the value of keeping the 'human-in-the-loop’ remains, both for interpreting results - for example, a doctor to a patient - and also as a way of improving the analysis algorithms themselves, by feeding in expertise. An open question though, is how we should build the interface between a complex system, and a human. User-centred design is a well-established and effective approach to software engineering, but it relies on people being able to articulate what they want. Humans are often not fully conscious of how they perform complex tasks, and as such it is hard for them to explain the process in terms that are suitable for UI design. This seminar explores methods for understanding how humans respond to and work with complex data, using examples from ontology authoring, ECG interpretation, and Bayesian reasoning. -- Caroline is a Senior Lecturer in Empirically Sound Software Engineering in the School of Computer Science. She is qualified as both a Psychologist (BA, CPsychol) and Computer Scientist (MSc, PhD), and undertakes research crossing these domains. She is a Fellow of the Software Sustainabilty Institute, and a keen advocate for open and reproducible science. Dec 11 2017 14.00 - 15.00 11 December 2017: Caroline Jay Investigating interaction with information IF 4.31/4.33
11 December 2017: Caroline Jay Investigating interaction with information Supporting human interaction with complex data is both challenging, and important. As decision support systems become increasingly sophisticated, the value of keeping the 'human-in-the-loop’ remains, both for interpreting results - for example, a doctor to a patient - and also as a way of improving the analysis algorithms themselves, by feeding in expertise. An open question though, is how we should build the interface between a complex system, and a human. User-centred design is a well-established and effective approach to software engineering, but it relies on people being able to articulate what they want. Humans are often not fully conscious of how they perform complex tasks, and as such it is hard for them to explain the process in terms that are suitable for UI design. This seminar explores methods for understanding how humans respond to and work with complex data, using examples from ontology authoring, ECG interpretation, and Bayesian reasoning. -- Caroline is a Senior Lecturer in Empirically Sound Software Engineering in the School of Computer Science. She is qualified as both a Psychologist (BA, CPsychol) and Computer Scientist (MSc, PhD), and undertakes research crossing these domains. She is a Fellow of the Software Sustainabilty Institute, and a keen advocate for open and reproducible science. Dec 11 2017 14.00 - 15.00 11 December 2017: Caroline Jay Investigating interaction with information IF 4.31/4.33
