Margit Pohl

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Margit Pohl (* 1957 ) is an Austrian computer scientist in the fields of cognitive psychology and human-computer interaction and professor at the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Margit Pohl began her academic career with a degree in business informatics and psychology at the University of Vienna. She graduated from the former in 1989 with a Master of Science degree in information systems with a focus on econometrics . She wrote her diploma thesis on a value theory model in a Leontief economy. Pohl completed his studies in psychology in 1993 with a doctoral thesis on gender-specific differences in language behavior . She has been working at the Vienna University of Technology since 1991. She received her habilitation in computer science in the field of human-computer interaction in 2002 with a thesis on hypertext and analogue knowledge representation . She is currently working as an associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology.

research

Her research focus is on human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. Other focal points of her research are e-learning , information visualization and gender studies .

Research projects

  • Business Awareness on Sustainable Innovation Strategies - BASIS. 2000–2002, funded by: European Commission , Directorate General XIII, Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research
  • MobiLearn - Mobile Learning: Media Informatics Any-Time Any-Where. 2002–2004, financed by: Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture ( New media initiative in teaching at universities and technical colleges ).
  • Interactive Information Visualization: Exploring and Supporting Human Reasoning Processes. 2004-2006. funded by: WWTF .
  • Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age. 2008–2010, funded by: European Commission , DG Information Society and Media

Publications (selection)

According to ResearchGate , Pohl has more than 90 research publications and these publications have been read more than 10,000 times and cited 460 times. The following is a selection of her most cited works:

  • Solving Problems with Visual Analytics. 2011
  • Gravi ++: Interactive Information Visualization to Explore Highly Structured Temporal Data. 2005
  • TimeCleanser: a visual analytics approach for data cleaning of time-oriented data . 2014
  • Cognitive Biases in Visual Analytics - A Critical Reflection. Cognitive Biases in Visualizations 2018 - Chapter in a Book.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margit Pohl. TU Vienna, December 12, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Margit Pohl | Human Computer Interaction Group. In: TU Wien - Human Computer Interaction Group. TU Wien, accessed on January 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Project :: in2vis. TU Wien, accessed on January 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957