Clementine Zimnicki received a 2023 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award to present her work at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Congratulations Clementine!
Presentation title: “Hue variation masks effects of lightness on interpretations of colormap data visualizations”
Kelsey Campbell was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar Award from the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This award recognizes outstanding undergraduate Psychology majors for their contribution to research in our department. We thank Kelsey for her outstanding work in our lab!
Congratulations Kelsey, and best of luck with your graduate studies!
Melissa Schoenlein received a 2022 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award to present her work at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Talk title: “Color category boundaries predict generalization of color-concept associations”
Congratulations Melissa!
Clementine Zimnicki was awarded a Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant from the McPherson Eye Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her project is on understanding factors that influence people’s interpretations of colormap data visualizations. Congrats Clementine!
PI Karen Schloss received an NSF CAREER award to advance the understanding of visual reasoning for visual communication. This research can be translated to producing online tools for designing visualizations, which will improve STEM education and increase public literacy and engagement with science and technology. Our education plan will use visual communication to make science more accessible and engaging through virtual reality (VR) and accompanying hands-on experiences with color and visualization. Click here for more details.
Autumn Wickman received an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar Award from the UW-Madison Department of Psychology. Congratulations Autumn!
Brianne Sherman received a Welton Sophomore Honors Summer Apprenticeship to support her summer research studying the effects of object recognition on color perception. We are excited to have Bri in the lab!
Congrats to Melissa Schoenlein, Shannon Sibrel, and Karen Schloss for receiving awards to present their research at the 2019 annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Melissa Schoenlein: McPherson Eye Research Institute Walsh Research Travel Award
Shannon Sibrel: UW-Madison Psychology Department Undergraduate Travel Award
Karen Schloss: Vision Sciences Society National Eye Institute Travel Grant
Our paper “Mapping color to meaning in colormap data visualizations” was awarded honorable mention for Best Paper at InfoVis 2018!
In the photo: Petra Isenberg (InfoVis Paper Chair), Karen Schloss, Tim Dwyer (InfoVis Paper Chair).
Co-authors not in the photo: Connor Gramazio, A. Taylor Silverman, Madeline Parker, and Audrey Wang.
Katie Foley received a UW – Madison Department of Psychology Spring Undergraduate Travel Award to present her research at the 2018 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society:
Interpreting color-coding systems: the effects of concept activation on color inference
By Kathleen Foley, Laurent Lessard, Karen B. Schloss
