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Director

Brian Fisher

 

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Brian Fisher is a Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University and Associate Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) at the University of British Columbia. He is also a member of the SFU Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences (IRMACS), and the UBC Brain Research Centre and Institute for Computing, Intelligent and Cognitive Systems. His research focuses on the cognitive science of human interaction with information systems, with the goal of developing new theories, methods, and methodologies for development and evaluation of technology to support human understanding, decision-making, operation management, and collaboration. Brian is a member of the Leadership Board of VACCINE, the US DHS Center of Excellence in Command, Control and Interoperability. He has served as General Chair for IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2010 and continues as a member of the VAST Steering Committee and VIS Executive Committe.  Brian's Linked-in,  Google Scholar page, Academic.edu page, and ORCID page.


Research Associates

Dr. Linda Kaastra

Linda's areas of  expertise include: pair and group analytics, distributed and embodied cognition, creativity and coordination in Western Art Music performance, and qualitative and mixed methods research design. Her research background includes various studies of embodied and distributed cognition in music performance. She played a central role in the development of the "Pair Analytics Methodology" which examines embodied and distributed reasoning in interactions with big data and wicked problems. Linda's Academia.edu, Linked_in, and Google+ pages

 

 


PhD Students 

 

 

 

Masters Students



 

Ann Chou

Zohreh D.Champiri

 


Undergrad Researchers

 

Pouria Delfanazari


Alumni

 

Aldo Ahkin Barrera-Machuca

Dr. Nadya Calderon

Dr Angele  Beausoleil (with Moura Quayle at UBC ISGP) 

Dr. Tera Greensmith

Dr. Payam Rahmdel

Dr. Richard Arias-Hernández

Dr. Nathalie Prevost

Dr. Samar Al-Hajj

Dr. Mona Haraty

Dr. Syavash Nobarany

Andrew Wade

Caitlin Akai

Daniel Ha

Ali Khalili-Araghi

Hon Cheong Lam 

Amanda D. Pype

 

 

         

 

         

Integrated Science Lab

  • Integrated science methods
    • Pair Analytics
    • Visualization literacy
    • Personal Equation of Interaction
    • Distributed Collaborative Analytics
    • Exploratory Information Seeking
    • ALIDA: Intent discerning agent
    • Financial Planning Decision Processes
  • Health analytics
    • VA for Personalized Medicine
    • VA System to support Health decision-making
    • VA for Flow Cytometry Data Analysis
  • Aircraft Safety & Reliability
  • Emergency Management
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    • UBC Media And Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC)
    • UBC Institute for Computer, Information and Cognitive Systems
    • UNC Charlotte Vis Center
    • VACCINE DHS Center of Excellence
    • Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics
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Integrated Science Lab                School of Interactive Arts and Technology                 Simon Fraser University