Staff Profile
Alma Cantu is a Lecturer in Data Science with a specialization in Information Visualization at the scalable group within the School of Computing. Before joining the scalable group, she held post-doctoral positions at both Newcastle University and ISAE-Supaero in Toulouse, France. Alma completed her Ph.D. in "Immersive Visualization for Signal Intelligence," a collaborative effort between Thales DMS France and IMT Atlantique in Brest, France. Her research encompasses a diverse range of applications, including signal intelligence, airline cockpit interaction, and digital mobility data analysis.
My main interests are to tackle the exploration of complex data, in massive amounts, by relying on user perceptive biases. It includes Information Visualization, Human Perception, Multivariate Data, and Heterogeneous Data.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested in one of these topics. I am always looking for collaborations and motivated students.
Projects
Mobilise-D - Developing visualization metaphors to support the analysis of mobility data to monitor diseases like Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis. This study led to the design of a tool enabling biomechanical experts to correlate multivariate heterogeneous data.
Airtius - Evaluating the advantages of shape-changing surfaces to overcome the weakness of touchscreen interaction in airline cockpits. This work allowed me to set up an evaluation containing turbulence simulation, eye-tracker, electromyogram, workload generation, and interaction with shape-changing surfaces.
HeloVis - Providing visualisation solutions for Signal Intelligence and Electronic Warfare. This work allowed me to develop solutions to facilitate the exploration of naval and spatial electromagnetic data.
Reviewing
Journals
- Frontiers in Virtual Reality
- International Journal of Aerospace Psychology
Conferences
- IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEE VIS)
- IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality (IEEE VR)
- Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (IHM)
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- Gozzi Z, Peysakhovich V, Cantu A, Causse M. Behavioral and Physiological Assessment of a Virtual Reality Version of the MATB-II Task. In: International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP). 2022, Virtual: Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
- Cantu A, Vinot JL, Letondal C, Pauchet P, Causse M. Human factors evaluation of tangible devices for airplane cockpit. In: International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems (ICCAS). 2021, Virtual: EAAP.
- Cantu A, Vinot JL, Letondal C, Pauchet S, Causse M. Does folding improve the usability of interactive surfaces in future airliner cockpits? An evaluation under turbulent conditions and varying cognitive load. In: IHM '21: Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on l'Interaction Homme-Machine. 2021, Virtual Event France: ACM.
- Cantu A, Duval T, Grisvard O, Coppin G. Expert evaluation of the usability of HeloVis: a 3D Immersive Helical Visualization for SIGINT Analysis. In: International Conference on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (EuroVR). 2019, Tallinn, Estonia: Springer.
- Cantu A, Duval T, Grisvard O, Coppin G. HeloVis: A helical visualization for SIGINT analysis using 3D immersion. In: IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis). 2018, Kobe, Japan: IEEE.
- Cantu A, Grisvard O, Duval T. Visual Analytics for Electronic Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities. In: 21st International Conference Information Visualisation (IV). 2017, London: IEEE.
- Cantu A, Grisvard O, Duval T, Coppin G. Identifying the Relationships Between the Visualization Context and Representation Components to Enable Recommendations for Designing New Visualizations. In: 21st International Conference Information Visualisation (IV). 2017, London: IEEE.