Steve Haroz is a research scientist on the Aviz team at Inria in Saclay, France near Paris. His research explores how the brain perceives and understands visually displayed information like charts and graphs.
He got my PhD on perception and attention for data visualization at UC Davis working with David Whitney. He has also been a postdoc at Northwestern University with Steve Franconeri and at Sorbonne Université with Yvonne Jansen
KEYNOTE: Using Crowdsourcing to Study How the Brain Perceives and Remembers Visual Quantities
We routinely encounter quantitative visual information in the form of charts, maps, and infographics. But the guidelines for creating these visual representations often rely on unsubstantiated opinions and traditions without a clear origin. I will instead discuss the science of how our brain perceives and reasons with visual information. And I will describe how my research uses both in-lab and crowdsourced experiments to empirically formulate visualization guidelines and test their validity.