My New Book! Social Media and the Contemporary City
With Eric Sauda and Ginette Wessel, I explore several cases of how social media has impacted our lives in cities using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Can't wait for you to read it!
My name is Alireza Karduni.
I am a researcher in Human Computer Interaction, Visualization, and Computational Social / Urban Sciences.
Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University's
Departments of Computer Science and Psychology.
I study how humans interact with information from two lenses of
social / urban interactions and individual judgements. I also create
tools and visualizations that can potentially help humans make
better decisions in a variety of tasks.
Doing Literature Reviews with Transformers and Visual Analytics
Check out our upcoming paper at IEEE Vis 2022 that helps with doing literature review and finding papers that are harder to find with conventional methods.
A Bayesian Cognition Approach for Belief Updating of Correlation Judgement Through Uncertainty Visualizations
At IEEE VIS 2021: I presented our work on how people update their beliefs about correlations when shown new data with and without uncertainty.
Du Bois Wrapped Bar Charts
At CHI 2020:I presented my work uncovering and evaluating the amazing designs of W.E.B Du Bois. His charts, can help users understand categorical data with disproportionate values.
Studying the Effects of Cognitive Biases in Evaluation of Conversational Agents
Our Honerable Mention CHI2020 paper about how numerical anchors can significantly alter results of survey evaluations.
Visual Analytics for reasoning about misinformation sources
at the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (1), and the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (2), I presented two related works on designing Visual Analytics Systems for decision-making about misinformation.
Visual Analytics, Social Media, and Urban Planning
Urban Activity Explorer, is a visual analytics system, designed in collaboration with urban planners, to study human social media activities in urban space.