Alma Cantu

About

Alma received a PhD in Information Visualisation from IMT Atlantique, Brest, France, in 2018. Her research interests focus on improving understanding of user perception to facilitate acquisition of complex data, including human perspectives in on-screen or virtual environments, diverse user needs toward visualisation, characterisation of complex data, and evaluation of proposed outcomes. She teaches Data Visualization modules and chairs the Board of Examiners for the MSc Computer Science programme.

Education

• Ph.D. Information Visualisation, IMT Atlantique, 2018

Selected publications

• Cocreating the visualisation of digital mobility outcomes: a Delphi-process with patients
• Mobilise-D insights to estimate real-world walking speed in multiple conditions with a wearable device
• Mobilizing Patient and Public Involvement in the Development of Real-World Digital Technology Solutions: Tutorial
• Ecological validity of a deep learning algorithm to detect gait events from real-life walking bouts in mobility-limiting diseases
• Assessing real-world gait with digital technology? Validation, insights and recommendations from the Mobilise-D consortium
• Parallel Assemblies Plot, a visualization tool to explore categorical and quantitative data: application to digital mobility outcomes
• Behavioral and Physiological Assessment of a Virtual Reality Version of the MATB-II Task
• Human factors evaluation of tangible devices for airplane cockpit
• Does folding improve the usability of interactive surfaces in future airliner cockpits? An evaluation under turbulent conditions and varying cognitive load
• Expert evaluation of the usability of HeloVis: a 3D Immersive Helical Visualization for SIGINT Analysis