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Luiz Morais

Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (Brazil)

Tuesday December 7th, 2021, 14h, Salle des thèses, IRIT.

Lien visio: https://univ-tlse3-fr.zoom.us/j/99073470315?pwd=T3MwTEVQdHdQd3ZNL0tyVXRWQ3dwdz09
Meeting ID: 990 7347 0315
Passcode: 280862

Exploring how to use data visualization to help humans and the environment

Abstract: Humanitarian and environmental issues such as extreme poverty, species endangerment, or household waste have been acknowledged worldwide over the past few decades. Organizations often have campaigns that focus on emotional strategies, such as showing the picture of a starving child or dead animals to persuade people to act. Another common tactic used by news media is reporting the issues through data visualizations. The psychology literature has extensively investigated the former approach, but there is still a lack of research about the effect of data visualizations to evoke emotions such as compassion or prosocial behaviors such as donating. This presentation shows recent contributions in that direction and discusses future perspectives of research.

Bio: Luiz Morais holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil, and did an internship at the Sorbonne Université, France. During his Ph.D. studies, he investigated how visualization design can affect people's compassion towards others. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Inria Bordeaux, France, where he investigates the use of situated visualizations to support housework management. Morais also collaborates with other institutions around the globe such as Inria Paris-Saclay, University of Toronto, and Monash University, where he works on projects about the use of visualization for dealing with humanitarian issues or for sustainability.