1. Dr. Ehud Reiter, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen1 Explaining Data to People Ehud Reiter (Univ of Aberdeen) http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ereiter

2. Dr. Ehud Reiter, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen2 The Problem l A person’s memories is likely to include technical data »Medical, finance, legal, educational, … l How can we explain these to “the man in the street” »Not very useful otherwise…

3. Dr. Ehud Reiter, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen3 Example: Scuba Dive l Many divers wear sensors which record depth at time points »Surely part of divers Memory »But kilobytes of numbers not very useful l Want summaries »“your deepest dive ever” l Want analyses »“this dive was dangerous, you ascended too quickly”

4. Dr. Ehud Reiter, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen4 Challenges l Data analysis »What is interesting, relevant? l Linguistic (graphical) communication »What is user has reading age of 8? l Affect »Bad news (“don’t dive again today”) l Many more!