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Catherine Plaisant is a Research Scientist Emerita at the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). She holds a Doctorat d’Ingénieur from Université Pierre et Marie Curie and has been affiliated with HCIL since 1988. Her work focuses on user interface design, information visualization, and healthcare informatics, emphasizing usability, accessibility, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Education: PhD (Doctorat d’Ingénieur), Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Research Interests: User interface design/evaluation, information visualization, medical informatics, digital libraries, and temporal data analysis. Key projects include EventAction, Twinlist, and PAOHVIS.
Articles Trends: Recent work emphasizes visual analytics for temporal event sequences, healthcare decision-making tools, and historical HCI preservation. Key themes include explainable AI, cohort comparison, and user-centered design.
Scientific Awards: IEEE VIS Career Award (2020), ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award (2020), ACM SIGCHI Academy membership (2015), and multiple Test of Time Awards for influential papers.
Grants & Advising: Collaborations with INRIA and industry sponsors. Advised on projects like SHARP-C and EventFlow. Retired from direct student mentoring but remains active in research.
Labs/Teams: HCIL and UMIACS. Collaborates internationally with institutions like INRIA (France) on projects such as PKclustering and Dynamic Hypergraph visualization.
