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Speaker:

B L William Wong, Head Interaction Design Centre, Middlesex University

Title:

Cognitive engineering of a criminal intelligence analysis system: VALCRI

Location:

Owheo G34 - 1:00 pm, Friday 17 August

Abstract:

In this talk I will discuss the application of cognitive engineering in the design and development of the VALCRI system - Visual Analytics for sense making in Criminal Intelligence Analysis. VALCRI is a 16.8 mil Euro EU-funded, 18-organisation industry and university consortium, aimed at developing a suite of advanced data processing, analytics, and sense-making tools that will augment rather than replace human analytic and investigative sense-making capability. Its goals are to enable crime analysts and investigators to gain insight, enable them to use their imagination, ensure transparency, and to engage with fluidity and rigour. We will briefly introduce our work on visual analytics, analytic reasoning and inference making, differentiating between how analysts think and what analysts do; designing for ambiguity and uncertainty in investigative sense-making; the idea of a "thinking landscape" and "tactile reasoning" as ways to improve reasoning and generation of ideas; supporting variability in analytic reasoning; ethical issues in designing systems that can impact our freedoms; algorithmic transparency as an approach to revealing key functional relationships in black box automation / machine learning algorithms to help us understand how the black box arrived at its conclusion.

About the Speaker:

B L William Wong PhD FNZCS FBCS is professor of Human Computer Interaction and head of the Interaction Design Centre at Middlesex University. His research interest is in cognitive engineering and the representation design of user interfaces that enhance information uptake, sense making, situation awareness, reasoning, and decision making in dynamic environments. He has received over US$25.3 million in research grants. Most recently he was Project Coordinator for the 18-partner EU-funded FP7 project VALCRI. He has also led other multi-partner R&D consortia including the FP7 CRISIS a MORPG-type critical incident interactive simulation environment, US-UK government funded UK Visual Analytics Consortium (UKVAC), and the Eurocontrol-funded 3D-in-2D project for future ATC. He has published over 100 scientific peer reviewed articles with his students and colleagues.

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