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Speaker:
Prof. Dr. April Wang, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Date: Thursday, 26 September 2024, 17:15
Location: room BIN 2.A.01 at the Department of Informatics (IfI), Binzmühlestrasse 14, 8050 Zürich (information here)
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Effective knowledge exchange with data and code is crucial for enhancing collaboration among programmers in the workplace and for improving teaching and learning in programming classrooms. This exchange can be challenging due to issues such as synchronicity, interdisciplinary backgrounds, loss of context, abstract topics, and scalability. How can we design programming tools to facilitate effective knowledge exchange with data and code in both workplace and classroom settings? In this talk, I will introduce how our lab develops technology to support users in collaboratively exploring, understanding, and communicating in a data-centric world. We will discuss three key design aspects: (1) creating interactive techniques to capture connections between information entities, (2) generating visual elements to aid in the understanding of abstract concepts, and (3) designing infrastructure to support collaborative learning and collaborative exploration of data-related tasks.
April Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. She leads the Programming, Education, and Computer-Human Interaction Lab (PEACH). April is passionate about creating collaborative, intelligent, and human-centric programming environments that cater to evolving educational and professional needs. Her work has been published in top-tier HCI venues such as CHI, TOCHI, and CSCW, and she has received several paper awards. April completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under the guidance of Professor Steve Oney and Professor Christopher Brooks.
