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IAS Seminar: Andreas Loizides
Speaker: Dr Andreas Loizides, Assistant Professor, Department of Computing, PA College, Larnaca, Cyprus
Title: The Empathic Visualisation Algorithm (EVA) and its Application on Real Data: The Financial and Fear of Public Speaking (FOPS) Cases
Abstract: This research work demonstrates a technique for visualizing multidimensional data sets holistically, and discusses results from applications in financial data as well as data gathered from a Virtual Reality (VR) experiment – Fear of Public Speaking (FOPS). The EVA algorithm to be presented provides an automatic mapping from semantically important features of the multi-variate data set to emotionally or perceptually significant features of a corresponding visual structure (such as a human face and more specifically human facial expressions). In other words a single glance at the visual structure informs the observer of the global state of the data, since the visual structure has an emotional impact on the observer. The visualization is designed to correspond to the impact that would have been generated had the observer been able to access the relevant semantics of the underlying data.