Data-Centric Design Jacky Bourgeois

In this episode, we have a Data-Centric Design conversation with Marit Bentvelzen about Reflection by Interaction. Marit is a PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Utrecht. She recently authored the CHI paper 'How Instructional Data Physicalisation Fosters Reflection in Personal Informatics' and also the fascinating review paper 'Revisiting Reflection in HCI' published in the IMWUT journal. She shares insights into what led her to explore reflection in personal informatics as the core of her PhD, and how technology can support users in reflecting on personal data.

In this episode, we have a Data-Centric Design conversation with Samuel Huron about Making with Data. Samuel is an information designer and associate professor in the Design of information technologies inside the Social and Economical Science department of Télécom Paris (https://www.telecom-paris.fr/) at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and part of the CNRS Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Innovation. His research address how humans create visual and physical representations of abstract information to think, collaborate, learn, analyze, explore, and design new data representations, systems, and information artifacts.

Alex Bowyer is a researcher and software engineer from North East England who has recently finished his PhD thesis at Newcastle University specialising in 'Understanding and Improving Human Data Relations'. This Digital Civics research bridges participatory design, HCI, UX, social science and computer science. His research explores the power imbalance caused by organisations (in both public and private sector) holding personal data about service users, creating problems of access, representation, control and reduced accountability. Through legal routes such as GDPR requests and adversarial design approaches such as web extensions and data flow auditing, he now works to try and help individuals and collectives take control of their data and pressure digital service providers for better data rights and fairer treatment. He is currently working as a senior software engineer at Hestia.ai, a Swiss company specialising in building tools and delivering training on how to obtain and make sense of one's personal data. Hestia works with disadvantaged groups such as Uber drivers, helping them gather data to demand fairer treatment from their employers, or better rights as users.

Sandy Gould is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University. One aspect of Sandy’s research focuses on the ways that computing technology is affecting how we work and what it means to work. In particular, he has been investigating how people’s work is tracked by digital technology (explicitly and implicitly) as they work, and how measures of work are constituted in workplaces.

This presentation discusses several university class-based design projects for helping learners better understand themselves and their surroundings while learning the fundamental knowledge and techniques of information design. The metacognitive learning approach illustrates the potential of using data-driven information design and information visualization as an empowerment tool to support the students’ well-being.