Catherine Plaisant

Catherine Plaisant completed her Ph.D. in industrial engineering at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France.[http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/resume.pdf] Catherine Plaisant Resume She also earned a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (one of the French Grandes écoles).

After five years working at the Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaine {{in lang|fr}} in Paris, Catherine Plaisant joined the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab to work with Ben Shneiderman.

Catherine Plaisant is known for her work on human–computer interaction and information visualization. She contributed to the early development of touchscreen interfaces. For example, her work is cited in the lock screen (or "slide to unlock") patent litigation, which cites in particular her 1991 video of a touchscreen slider.{{cite web|title=Apple touch-screen patent war comes to the UK|date=10 December 2011|url=http://www.channel4.com/news/apple-touch-screen-patent-war-comes-to-the-uk|access-date= 3 December 2015}} - UK Channel 4 website{{cite web|title=Apple's $120M jury verdict against Samsung destroyed on appeal|date=26 February 2016|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/appeals-court-reverses-apple-v-samsung-ii-strips-away-apples-120m-jury-verdict/|access-date=26 February 2016}} - ArsTechnica{{cite web|title=1991 video of the HCIL touchscreen toggle switches (University of Maryland)|website = YouTube| date=30 November 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWbdxicvK0|access-date=3 December 2015}}

Plaisant also contributed to the development of Treemap (in particular Treemap 4.0) and Lifelines, a visualization of personal records, such as patient records.[http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap] "Treemap 4.0" from University of Maryland[http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines] LifeLines for Visualizing Patient Records - from University of Maryland Other work has focused on visual analytics tools for exploring patterns of temporal event sequences, with projects such as LifeLines2 and EventFlow that enable analysts to find patterns in large databases of patient records, student records or customer records.{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines2 |title=Lifelines2|website=cs.UMD.edu|access-date=2011-09-23}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/eventflow |title=EventFlow|website=cs.UMD.edu|access-date=2015-03-11}}

Catherine Plaisant was elected to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CHI Academy in 2015, for her contributions to the field of study of human–computer interaction.{{Cite web|url=https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2015-sigchi-awards/|title=2015 SIGCHI Awards|website=SIGCHI.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-23}} Her work has been cited more than 32,000 times.{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VnwWgwIAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Catherine Plaisant - Google Scholar Citations |access-date=2016-03-01}}

In 2018, Dr. Plaisant was awarded an INRIA ({{langx|fr|Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique}}) International Chair.{{Cite web|url=http://hcil.umd.edu/catherine-plaisant/|title=Catherine Plaisant: Human–Computer Interaction Lab – University of Maryland|website=HCIL.umd.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-23|quote=In 2018 she was awarded an INRIA International Chair.}} The chairs are awarded to eminent international researchers to join its project teams.{{Cite web|url=https://www.inria.fr/sites/default/files/2019-12/HoldersChairesInt_EN.pdf|title=Holders of Inria International Chairs|website=inria.fr|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}} Plaisant's research project, for 2018–2022, Visual Analytics for Exploratory Data Analysis, is hosted by INRIA research team AVIZ (Analysis and Visualization).{{Cite web|url=https://aviz.fr/|title=Analysis and Visualization: AVIZ Research team|website=aviz.fr|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}}

In 2020 she received the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).{{Cite web|url=https://sigchi.org/awards-sigchi-award-recipients-2020-sigchi-awards/|title=2020 SIGCHI AWARDS|website=sigchi.org|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13|archive-date=2020-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518032622/https://sigchi.org/awards-sigchi-award-recipients-2020-sigchi-awards/|url-status=dead}}

Later in 2020 Plaisant was recognized by the IEEE Computer Society with the 2020 Visualization Career Award "for her comprehensive body of work within the field of data visualization, including her contributions to evaluation, benchmarks, case studies, and her specific research focus on event sequence visualization."{{Cite web|url=https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/awards/visualization-technical-awards/|title=IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Awards|website=computer.org|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}}

• Designing the User Interface Pearson by Shneiderman, B. and Plaisant, C. - 4th Edition (2005), 5th Edition (2010), and 6th Edition (2016) {{ISBN|978-0-32153735-5}}.

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