Events – Valcri https://valcri.org VALCRI is a European Union project Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:27:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 PhD Week Review https://euprojectvalcri.org/valcri/phd-week-review/ Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:27:13 +0000 https://euprojectvalcri.org/?p=1522 ...]]> Between the 23rd and 26th of January a couple of events took place in the course of a PhD week at Middlesex University, London. A lecture on human-factor based design principles on the first day made the start, followed by a demo-session of the VALCRI system. On the second day presentations of the PhD students included an overview of their work and updated research questions. Valuable discussions and feedback helped to plan future work and individual meetings enabled to work on concrete problems. The results of these workshops were manifold from ideas on dissemination to new studies to be planned.

]]> IEEE Infovis 2016 Best Paper Honorable Mention https://euprojectvalcri.org/valcri/ieee-infovis-2016-best-paper-honorable-mention/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:11:57 +0000 https://euprojectvalcri.org/?p=1421 ...]]> A VALCRI research paper has been awarded Best Paper Honorable Mention at IEEE InfoVis, the premier venue for research in Data Visualization. The paper, entitled Map Lineups: Effects of Spatial Structure on Graphical Inference, considers perceptual biases introduced by Choropleth maps. As well as providing new evidence around how well humans are able to discern structure in maps, the paper contributes towards an emerging theory in data analysis of graphical inference. The award places the work amongst the top 3 of 165 papers submitted to this year’s InfoVis conference. The full paper, along with experiment data and analysis code, can be accessed from the paper’s website.

The paper will be presented on Tuesday, 25th Octoberin the InfoVis: Geovisualization paper session at IEEE InfoVis 2016 in Baltimore, US.

]]> London – Hackathon 2016 https://euprojectvalcri.org/events/london-hackathon-2016/ Tue, 16 Aug 2016 04:59:03 +0000 https://euprojectvalcri.org/?p=1384 ...]]> Between the 18th and 20th of July, a hackathon took place at Middlesex University, London. 12 people attended the hackathon. They looked into different issues regarding the assembly box, concept explorer, associative search, search bar, provenance components, touch interaction, 3D mid-air gestures, and how to integrate the different views into the new development branch.

]]> International Crime and Intelligence Analysis Conference 2016 https://euprojectvalcri.org/valcri/international-crime-and-intelligence-analysis-conference-2016/ Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:44:05 +0000 https://euprojectvalcri.org/?p=1331 ...]]> The International Crime and Intelligence Analysis Conference 2016 was held at the Manchester Central Conference Centre UK on the 25th and 26th February 2016. Opening with a plenary and continuing with four parallel sessions over the two day period with talks ranging from strategy and procedure to practical workshops VALCRI was represented by A E Solutions, West Midlands Police and i-Intelligence. West Midlands Police and i-Intelligence presented at four sessions, at the Analyst Skills Development session to a room filled to capacity which generated a series of questions and after talk discussions. There was a great deal of interest in the project and all of the printed leaflets were taken by attendees.

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]]> UI Hack Week https://euprojectvalcri.org/events/ui-hack-week/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:56:25 +0000 https://euprojectvalcri.org/?p=1316 ...]]> UI software developers gathered for a week of collaborative coding in January 2016. Seven of our partners were represented, and having so many of us in the same room allowed us to make good progress with UI development, as well as resolve issues, and plan the next phase of development. In fact, the week was such a success, we are already planning where the next one will be held, and expanding it to include the data analysis and data storage development teams.

11th-15th Jan 2016, Middlesex University, London

]]> Mid-Term Review (MTR1) https://euprojectvalcri.org/events/mid-term-review-mtr1/ Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:16:28 +0000 https://valcri.demo.steellondon.com/?p=1099 ...]]> We have had a successful Mid-Term Review (MTR1) meeting at the beginning of November in Brussels where the work of Phase 1 and selected prototypes that resulted of this work have been presented. The overall progress pleased the reviewers.

]]> Human Factors and Ergonomics Society: 2015 Annual Meeting https://euprojectvalcri.org/events/human-factors-and-ergonomics-society-2015-annual-meeting/ Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:23:29 +0000 https://valcri.demo.steellondon.com/?p=1242 ...]]> This week we presented our work on human issues at the annual meeting of The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society HFES 2015. The conference of the world’s largest scientific association for human factors/ergonomics professionals was held in L.A. this year, which was again a great opportunity to exchange research results, discussions and getting to know new people.
Members of the Consortium shared their insights and presented two papers in the sensemaking and analytics session of the cognitive engineering and decision making group:

  • Haider, Johanna; Pohl, Margit; Hillemann, Eva; Attfield, Simon; Passmore, Peter and Wong, B.L. William: Exploring the Challenges of Implementing Guidelines for the Design of Visual Analytics Systems. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2015 Annual Meeting, 26th – 30th October, Los Angeles, (pp. tba)
  • Wong, B.L. William, Kodagoda, Neesha, Attfield, Simon: How Analysts Think: Inference Making Strategies. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2015 Annual Meeting, 26th – 30th October, Los Angeles. (pp. tba)
]]> VALCRI meeting in Graz https://euprojectvalcri.org/events/valcri-meeting-in-graz/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:06:35 +0000 https://valcri.demo.steellondon.com/?p=1233 The VALCRI meeting in Graz took place from 28 September until 1 October 2015.

]]> EISIC Conference 2015 https://euprojectvalcri.org/events/eisic-conference-2015/ Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:10:41 +0000 https://valcri.demo.steellondon.com/?p=1236 ...]]> VALCRI provided sponsorship to the 5th European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference EISIC 2015 in Manchester, UK (https://www.eisic.eu/). This was part of the project’s dissemination activities.

Through VALCRI, Dr Joe Kielman, Science Advisor, DHS, and member of the project External Advisory Board provided a keynote address to the conference. Members of the Consortium presented a variety of papers

  • Supporting the Externalisation of Thinking in Criminal Intelligence Analysis, by Peter J. Passmore, Simon Attfield, Neesha Kodagoda, Celeste Groenewald, B.L. William Wong;
  • The Role Of Cognitive Biases In Criminal Intelligence Analysis And Approaches For Their Mitigation, by Eva-C. Hillemann, Alexander Nussbaumer, Dietrich Albert; and
  • Benefits and Pitfalls of Predictive Policing, by Eva Schlehahn, Patrick Aichroth, Sebastian Mann, Rudolf Schreiner, Ulrich Lang, Ifan D. H. Shepherd and B.L. William Wong;

and won the Best Poster Award for the poster “Guidelines for sense-making in Intelligence Analysis” by Margit Pohl, Johanna Haider, Chris Pallaris and B.L. William Wong.

VALCRI will be involved in organising the “Decision-making and Interaction” track in next year’s conference. EISIC 2016 will be held at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

]]> Krakow Consortium Meeting https://euprojectvalcri.org/valcri/krakow-consortium-meeting/ Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:45:10 +0000 https://valcri.demo.steellondon.com/?p=1133 ...]]> A three-day Project workshop and a board meeting with EAB and IEB was held in Krakow from 2nd to 4th June 2015. An exceptional opportunity was given on Day 2, when we had a full day presenting VALCRI prototypes to the end users and collecting valuable feedback from them.

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