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On 19th November 2024, Uppsala University hosted an insightful session on Information Visualization, featuring the renowned Professor Alexandru C. Telea from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The colloquium tackled the challenges of visualizing high-dimensional data, which is central to many fields yet notoriously difficult to represent beyond three dimensions. 🔹 Part 1: Explored classical visualization techniques for lower-dimensional data. 🔹 Part 2: Focused on dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques, showcasing their scalability and utility in high-dimensional contexts. DR’s potential was further highlighted through applications in explainable AI. A huge thanks to Prof. Telea for sharing his expertise and advancing our understanding of this vital field! #InformationVisualization #HighDimensionalData #ExplainableAI #UppsalaUniversity #InfraVis

🌟 Excited to share the Nordic Churches and Prayer Houses Project! 🌟 How do you visualize religious studies, history, archaeology? This initiative aims to create a comprehensive resource for researching churches and prayer houses while preserving the rich historical heritage of these religious sites across the Nordic region. Targeted at researchers in religious studies, the project currently features data on sites in Norway and Sweden, with plans to expand to other Nordic countries. Key Highlights: ✅ Unified Dataset: Integrated data from Norway and Sweden with a focus on accuracy and usability. ✅ Interactive Web Application: Built with ArcGIS, enabling dynamic exploration through filters, timelines, and visualizations. ✅ Future Growth: Clear guidelines for expanding and sustaining this valuable resource. Explore the project and its major results here: https://lnkd.in/d2aEtdfP or read more about NordPow on our website https://lnkd.in/dQyJkWTk #ReligiousStudies #NordicHeritage #DataVisualization #GIS #ResearchTools

Dear friends and colleagues, I am super excited to announce that starting January 2025, I will join the Link��ping University faculty as Senior Associate Professor. While I will continue to be the National Technical Manager of InfraVis, my new role will include leading research at Visualiseringscenter C and at the unit of Immersive Visualization, part of the division of Media and Information Technology led by Anders Ynnerman. I will also serve as scientific advisor to Visual Sweden. I look forward to the new collaborations while remaining connected with my excellent colleagues at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I am very grateful and humbled to have this opportunity. Let's stay connected! #newjob #research #science #outreach #highereducation #viusualization #datavisualization #computergraphics #immersivevisualization #XR #AR #VR #HCI #AI #interactiondesign #virtualreality #augmentedreality #mixedreality

The students of Advanced Graphics and Interaction #AGI24 at the Visualization Studio VIC at KTH will present their projects at our13th annual #OpenHouse on Friday Dec 13 15:00-19:00. Please join us to explore the boundaries between the real and the virtual and to stay connected with Mario as he starts a new position at Link��ping University in January 2025. - What: projects exploring immersive interactive graphics - Who: 30 KTH students presenting and the faculty coordinating - When: December 13, 2024 - What time: 15:00 - 17:00 - Where: Visualization Studio VIC For more information about the projects, please visit the course's webpage: https://lnkd.in/d9htCw8C Directions to the Studio: https://lnkd.in/dWRkVThR #highereducation #expobasedlearning #EBL #PBL #computergraphics #VR #AR #XR #tabletopinteraction #hci #humancomputerinteraction #interactiondesign #graphics #immersivegraphics #immersive #virtualreality #augmentedreality #extendedreality #stayconnected #connect Photos CC-BY4.0 Mario Romero 2024.

Next week, on Thursday the 28th I'll give a talk at Digital Futures @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology with my host Mario Romero. I'll be talking about research integrity and artificial intelligence. If you'd like to join the event, online or in person, please go to: https://lnkd.in/dvETTZ7B Here is an abstract for the whole talk: Within months of the SARS-CoV-2 virus being identified the disease progression to COVID viral transmission routes and treatment options had been carefully catalogued and effective vaccines had begun development. This stands as one of the most impressive scientific achievements of the modern era. However it is likely that the response to COVID-19 has succeeded in spite of, rather than thanks to, the present system for disseminating scientific outcomes. In fact in many ways the current dissemination system has failed us and been used during the pandemic. In this interactive talk I will explore, through examples in which I was involved in, how the publication system has been too opaque, politicized, and prone to fast publication without adequate correction. I will then involve the attendees in detecting and trying to understand some of the current manipulations and misconduct that are the most often seen in the literature. The talk will cover everything from: questionable research practices to fake papers and include image/visualization manipulation, fake data, peer-review fraud, meta-data fraud, and paper mills and tackle the impact of Artificial Intelligence for the production and detection of questionable research practices.

It was my pleasure and honor to reflect on the future of #XR and #AI during the Visual Sweden Day at Tekniska museet together with many of the leading Swedish actors in this field. I must let everyone know: this was my first public presentation in Swedish! Thanks Björn Thuresson for the coaching. Thanks to Ylva Hansdotter for being an excellent master of ceremonies, to Peter Skogh for hosting us, to Felicia Lai Jakobsson, Peter Westerdahl, and Fredrik Larsson for coordinating, and to all the speakers and panelists: Anders Ynnerman, Tove Jaensson, Jan Bergdahl, Oscar Nöjd, Bengt Parkedal, Lonni Besançon, Jonas Lantz, Daniel Kemppi, Asreen Rostami, My Weidel, Tomas Bendz, Emma Hansson, Patrik Hakanen, and David Granberg. And, most of all, thank you to all the participants. We had insightful discussions in and outside the #Wisdome! For more information, please follow: https://lnkd.in/dvesx7At Photos CC-BY4.0 Mario Romero 2024. #visualsweden #visualswedenday #xr #ai #vr #ar #innovation #research #science #outreach #industry

📢 Excited to announce an upcoming GIS workshop using QGIS! Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences and InfraVis are organising this introduction to GIS. 👩💻 Learn key concepts like vector/raster data and coordinate systems, practice integrating spatial data, and georeference historical maps. This session is ideal for anyone interested in applying GIS to fields like climate research, urban planning, or cultural heritage. 💾 Bring a laptop with QGIS 3.34 LTR installed (qgis.org/download) and join us to explore powerful spatial analysis tools. Date: 14 November 2024, 13:15–16:00 Location: English Park, 4-0027 Type: Workshop Organiser: Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Read more and sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dNniyVRz #GIS #QGIS #SpatialAnalysis #DataVisualization

My good friend Lonni Besançon from Link��ping University and from InfraVis will talk about "research integrity in the era of artificial intelligence" at our Digital Futures seminar on November 28, 13:00, both online and at the hub. Join us! More details below. #research #integrity #researchintegrity #AI Photo by: Thor Balkhed, Linköping University.

📢 Excited to announce an upcoming GIS workshop using QGIS! Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences and InfraVis are organising this introduction to GIS. 👩💻 Learn key concepts like vector/raster data and coordinate systems, practice integrating spatial data, and georeference historical maps. This session is ideal for anyone interested in applying GIS to fields like climate research, urban planning, or cultural heritage. 💾 Bring a laptop with QGIS 3.34 LTR installed (qgis.org/download) and join us to explore powerful spatial analysis tools. Date: 14 November 2024, 13:15–16:00 Location: English Park, 4-0027 Type: Workshop Organiser: Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Read more and sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dNniyVRz #GIS #QGIS #SpatialAnalysis #DataVisualization

✨ ✨ InfraVis Days in Lund, Nov. 5-7, 2024 ✨ ✨ Thank you, InfraVis, National Research Infrastructure for Data Visualization, for wonderful days in Lund and for coming to Lund University Humanities Lab. Come back soon! Photo: Mario Romero #researchinfrastructure #visualisation #humanities