Visit of the Aviz team
On Friday 18th afternoon Aviz organizes a visit for Master students to give them the opportunity to take a quick look at Aviz's current research and, for those who are interested, to discuss possible internship opportunities.
Signing Up
You need to be signed up by Thursday 12PM to participate.
The visit will consist in two parts, both of which are optional:
- Demos, where some of the Aviz researchers will show their work to small groups of students,
- Individual meetings on possible internship opportunities. See below for more information.
Use this link to sign up to demos and/or meetings. Please provide a valid e-mail, because we may e-mail you a more precise schedule later on.
Schedule
Friday 18th 2013 afternoon.
- 14:00 - 15:30 - Demos (student groups)
- 15:30 - 17:00 - Internship meetings (individual students)
How to come
- From the PUIO building:
- From elsewhere, see here.
- We are in the South part of the PCRI building, second floor, offices 203 - 214. The access to the South building requires a badge. First get in the North building (door facing East), then once in the hall, either try to follow someone who has a badge, or call Pierre at 06 85 35 16 06.
Internship Meetings
These meetings will allow students who are interested in doing an internship in Aviz to discuss their topic with the internship supervisors for about 15-20 minutes. This is only an initial discussion, there can be more extended discussions in the future in case there is a good match.
We suggest you to e-mail your CV to the the topic supervisor(s) right after you sign up. Before Friday think a bit about the topic and what you would be excited to do: topics are vague on purpose and somehow open. Also bring your laptop or a book on Friday, because you may have to wait for a little while.
We expect most students to declare interest in only one among the 4 topics proposed, but you can also possibly sign up for more than one topic, and even propose your own topic if you gave it a serious thought (or if we talked about it with you beforehand). In case you propose your own topic, please send us the details by e-mail early enough, including whom you would like to be supervised by (see list of Aviz researchers and their work here).
List of Internship Topics
Each of these topics can lead to a 3-year PhD thesis on a related or non-related topic, depending on available funding and the candidate's quality (for more information see the jobs page).
- Topic 1. Development of a multi-touch gesture set for data visualizations: (supervised by Petra Isenberg)
The goal of this project is to find and implement a gesture set which allows for the manipulation of data visualizations using a specific set of interaction techniques across different types of data representations. Please contact us if you are interested in this project. - Topic 2. Development of multi-touch data selection for (collaborative) data visualization: (supervised by Petra Isenberg)
The focus of this project is to develop techniques which allow the selection of data items in visual data representations using multi-touch. The problems of allowing multiple people to select data items concurrently on the same visualization should also be taken into account. - Topic 3. Software Tools for Creating Physical Visualizations (supervised by Yvonne Jansen and Pierre Dragicevic)
The goal of this project is to develop a toolkit with which suitable data sets can be visualized in 3D such that they can be made physical using digital fabrication tools. - Topic 4. Using Visualizations to Better Communicate Scientific Findings: (supervised by Pierre Dragicevic)
The goal of this project is to investigate how information visualization and human-computer interaction can help communicate the data behind scientific findings effectively. - Topic 5. Controlling the Visualization on a Large Display Wall Remotely with Direct-Touch: (supervised by Tobias Isenberg)
This project will investigate the integration of a large wall display with a smaller vertical direct-touch surface for controlling and exploring scientific visualizations. - Topic 6. Interactive Illustrative Map Visualization: (supervised by Tobias Isenberg)
This project will investigate stylization of geographic map data using generalization and processing of geometry. - Topic 7. Illustrative Visualization in Fluid Dynamics: (supervised by Tobias Isenberg)
This project will investigate the use of illustrative visualization for the depiction of dynamic fluid flow data.