Uta Hinrichs

Uta Hinrichs is a Reader in Data Visualisation at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. She is based in Room 4.19A at the Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street. Her research bridges computational methods and human-centered design, with a focus on innovative visualization techniques.

Her core research explores:

• Information Visualization: Developing novel methods for data representation
• Human-Computer Interaction: Specializing in tabletop interfaces and tangible interactions
• Digital Humanities: Applying visualization to cultural and participatory contexts
• Physical Data Representation: Including paper-based and 3D object visualizations

She leads projects like the Bumpkin Island Map Archive (participatory mapping for the 2011 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment) and Peace Paper Vis (paper-based visualization of peace vs. GDP relationships), often collaborating with the traubensaft collective.