Biography
Cecilia Aragon is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and a Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. She directs the Human-Centered Data Science Lab. Previously, she was a data scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for six years, after earning her Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2004. She earned her B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.
Her research focuses on human-centered data science, an emerging field at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), and the statistical and computational techniques of data science. She and her students develop collaborative visual analytics tools to facilitate data science, and study current scientific practice around large and complex data sets. She has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and over 130 other publications in the areas of HCI, CSCW, data science, visual analytics, machine learning, and astrophysics. In 2008, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding scientists in the early stages of their careers, for her work in collaborative data-intensive science.
Education
- Ph D, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
Publications and Contributions
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Conference PaperGroup interactions in location-based gaming: a case study of raiding in Pokémon GO (2019)Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19)
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Journal Article, Academic JournalToward the operationalization of visual metaphor (2017)Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 68, Issue 10, Page 2338–2349
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Journal Article, Public or Trade JournalHow Fan Fiction Mentors Can Change Lives (2016)School Library Journal
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Conference PaperThousands of positive reviews: Distributed mentoring in online fan communities (2016)ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’16), Page 691-704
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Conference ProceedingBuilding an Urban Data Science Summer Program at the University of Washington eScience Institute (2015)
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Conference PaperWriting within community: How mentoring works in online fan fiction (2015)Young Adult Library Services Association Symposium
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Conference ProceedingVizDeck: Streamlining exploratory visual analytics of scientific data (2013)iConference
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Conference ProceedingVizDeck: A Card Game Metaphor for Fast Visual Data Exploration (2012)CHI ’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Page 1667–1672, ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-4503-1016-1
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Conference ProceedingVizdeck: Self-organizing dashboards for visual analytics (2012)Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (demo), Page 681–684
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Book, Scholarly-NewWriters in the secret garden: Fanfiction, youth, and new forms of mentoring