Post #2030603
2024-10-13 18:59 UTC
In the first week of my phd i wound up trapped in a party conversation with a cs-theory person
their big question about vis was "where does the field of vis want to be in 10 years". I kinda stumbled out a "its a human factors field, that's not how it works" answer
(they weren't satisfied by this answer and eventually convinced themselves it was showing higher and higher numbers of dimensions graphically, which is dumb)
but here i am 8 years later and i basically don't really know still
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@mcnutt@vis.social 2024-10-13 19:03
sometimes i think we need some more "grand challenges" type north starring, other times i think we need to change the name of the field (so that we aren't as focused on pictures). a throughline from the VDS disco was that maybe we should go work with other people in their home venues also feels salient, but also raises a question: why is vis itself a field? if we're support should we not just go do support where it's needed?