Fwd: open position in visual design

[Yannick Wurm]

Merry xmas! On the off chance that someone here might be eligible/interested  (I can highly recommend the PI, Jan Aerts)

cheers

yannick

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From: Jan Aerts <jan....@esat.kuleuven.be>

Date: 26 December 2014 14:00:45 CET

Subject: open position in visual design

To: Jan Aerts <jan....@kuleuven.be>

Hi all,

We recently acquired funding for a research project and are now of course trying to find good and motivated researchers to help us reach the goals that we set out. Could we ask you - as visualization experts - to help us distribute this message as widely as possible?

Many thanks! (I will treat those who can get us in contact with interviewable candidates to a Belgian beer and/or chocolates :-)

jan.

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Did you ever want to use your design background to save lives? We’re hiring!

Cancer- and epilepsy-patients as well as early-born babies are a few examples of people who are in the care of entire teams of specialists, ranging from radiologists and oncologists to cardiologists, neurologists and other -ologists. Communication between these experts is of course crucial, but the tools that they use for this often date from the stone age (powerpoint with screenshots, for example.)

We want to change that.

In collaboration with companies such as Barco, which develops big screen hardware, we will focus on the design/visualization-end of these interactions. Some questions that we would like to answer include: To what extent can data from one field be abstracted so that an expert in another field can still understand it? What would a good patient infographic look like that can be used as a scaffold to attach more detailed information? Can we find a way to gracefully degrade the infographic in settings where one of the collaborators works remotely on a small or low-resolution screen?

The position is initially for 15 months, but in case of a good match additional funding will be sought for PhD study.

If you have a design background and know your way around user-driven design and programming data visualizations using Processing or D3, you may be the person we are looking for. If you’re interested to play a role, please send an email to jan....@esat.kuleuven.be, and include (preferably in PDF): [a] your CV, [b] two references (with email and phone number), [c] one or more figures and/or screencasts of previous data visualization work. We’d like to find someone by February…

See http://visualanalyticsleuven.be/?page_id=381 for more information.

Kind regards,

Jan Aerts

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Prof Jan Aerts
* Data Visualization Lab (datavislab.org)
* Bioinformatics - ESAT/STADIUS, Faculty of Engineering (www.kuleuven.be/bioinformatics)
* iMinds Medical IT Department (www.iminds.be)

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