The Challenges Faced by Academia Preparing Students for Industry: What We Teach and What We Do

This workshop re-opens the discussion of the challenges faced by academia when preparing students to take jobs in industry. The workshop's goal is to develop a framework by which academia and industry can better communicate and resolve their differing needs and goals. The workshop will provide practical guidance for academia and industry to take forward and continue the dialogue

Timeline Localization

International audienceThe research findings provide evidence that time-oriented data visualizations can contribute to faster information processing, bet-ter understanding and improved recall. Thus, they are used in many application domains – medicine, law enforcement, traffic and navigation control to name but a few. Simultaneously, human's time perception varies depending inter alia on culture, language, personal experience and situational factors. Although, the differences caused by the aforemen-tioned aspects were acknowledged and addressed in the Human Com-puter Interaction (HCI) field for decades their impact on time-oriented data visualizations was largely neglected. To fill this gap, we investigate the influence of time spatializations (or-ganization of time along axes) on the response time and accuracy of inferences based on time-oriented data visualizations. Moreover, we ex-amine users' preferences toward different time arrangements. Our find-ings show that user-adapted organization of time along axes can speed up the decision-making process and increase the user experience

Improving performance, perceived usability, and aesthetics with culturally adaptive user interfaces

When we investigate the usability and aesthetics of user interfaces, we rarely take into account that what users perceive as beautiful and usable strongly depends on their cultural background. In this paper, we argue that it is not feasible to design one interface that appeals to all users of an increasingly global audience. Instead, we propose to design culturally adaptive systems, which automatically generate personalized interfaces that correspond to cultural preferences. In an evaluation of one such system, we demonstrate that a majority of international participants preferred their personalized versions over a non-adapted interface of the same web site. Results show that users were 22% faster using the culturally adapted interface, needed less clicks, and made fewer errors, in line with subjective results demonstrating that they found the adapted version significantly easier to use. Our findings show that interfaces that adapt to cultural preferences can immensely increase the user experience