Hi! I’m Gabriela Molina León,
I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Bremen, working under the supervision of Andreas Breiter and Petra Isenberg. I’m interested in designing interactive visualizations to support data exploration by domain experts.
I am part of the Institute of Information Management Bremen (ifib) and the Collaborative Research Center 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy. I received my Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Prior to that, I studied Computer Engineering at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela and at INSA Lyon in France.
Together with Moritz Stefaner and Niels Ohlsen, I co-organize the Data Visualization Bremen meetup.
Publications
Eliciting Multimodal and Collaborative Interactions for Data Exploration on Large Vertical Displays. Gabriela Molina León, Petra Isenberg, and Andreas Breiter. Forthcoming at IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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Talking to Data Visualizations: Opportunities and Challenges. Gabriela Molina León, Petra Isenberg, and Andreas Breiter. To be presented at the MERCADO workshop at IEEE VIS 2023.
Mobile and Multimodal? A Comparative Evaluation of Interactive Workplaces for Visual Data Exploration. Gabriela Molina León, Michael Lischka, Wei Luo, and Andreas Breiter. EuroVis 2022.
Co-Creating a Research Data Infrastructure with Social Policy Researchers. Gabriela Molina León, Gabriella Skitalinskaya, Nils Düpont, Jonas Klaff, Anton Schlegel, Hendrik Heuer, and Andreas Breiter. ECSCW 2022.
Beyond Participation: A Review of Co-Creation in Computing. Juliane Jarke, Gabriela Molina León, Irina Zakharova, Hendrik Heuer, and Ulrike Gerhard. 2021. ZeMKI Working Paper No. 39. ZeMKI Communicative Figurations. University of Bremen.
Citational Practices: Interrogating Hegemonic Knowledge Structures in Computing Research in Latin America. Citational Justice Collective, Débora de Castro Leal, Gabriela Molina León, Juan F. Maestre, Kristin Williams, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Sushil K. Oswal, Teresa Cerratto Pargman, and Vishal Sharma. Panel and Workshop at CLIHC 2021.
Following the Trail of Citational Justice: Critically Examining Knowledge Production in HCI. Citational Justice Collective, Gabriela Molina León, Lynn Kirabo, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Naveena Karusala, Neha Kumar, Nicola Bidwell, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pranjal Protim Borah, Radhika Garg, Sushil K. Oswal, Tee Chuanromanee, and Vishal Sharma. Workshop at CSCW 2021.
Mapping the Global South: Equal-Area Projections for Choropleth Maps. Gabriela Molina León, Michael Lischka, and Andreas Breiter. IEEE VIS 2020.
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Co-creating Visualizations: A First Evaluation with Social Science Researchers. Gabriela Molina León and Andreas Breiter. EuroVis 2020.
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Short-Contact Touch-Manipulation of Scatterplot Matrices on Wall Displays. Patrick Riehmann, Gabriela Molina León, Joshua Reibert, Florian Echtler, and Bernd Froehlich. EuroVis 2020.
pART bench: A Hybrid Search Tool for Floor Plans in Architecture. Veronika Krauß, Ekaterina Fuchkina, Gabriela Molina León, Oana-Iuliana Popescu, Florian Echtler, and Sven Bertel. ITS 2015.
Projects
Co-creating the Global Welfare State Information System
This is an interdisciplinary project to co-create an interactive web-based information system with social scientists that provides visual analysis tools to support social policy research. The project is part of the CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy.
I presented the results of our project so far at IC2S2 2019 in Amsterdam and at ECSCW 2022 in Coimbra.
pART bench: A Hybrid Search Tool for Floor Plans in Architecture
We designed and built a hybrid search tool that allows to look for floor plans on tablets and on tabletops, using multi-touch gestures and tangibles. The first results were presented in the ITS 2015 publication mentioned above. Our project was supported by the Women’s Promotion Fund.
Public Talks
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Eliciting Multimodal Interactions for Data Exploration on Large Vertical Displays. Journée Visu 2023. Institut de Mathématique d’Orsay, France. June 2023.
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Advanced Topics on Data Visualization. Data Science Guest lecture. University of Bremen. July 2022.
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Participation in the HCI Science Slam at Math-IT-GIRLS, go! to showcase CS projects to schoolgirls. University of Bremen. October 2020.
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Data Visualization in Python. Guest lecture. University of Bremen. June 2019.
Teaching
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Rebooting Social Media (Master Project). University of Bremen, Winter Semester 2023, together with Hendrik Heuer and Hannah-Marie Büttner.
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CSS4Impact: Computational Social Science for Positive Impact (Master Project). University of Bremen, Winter Semester 2022 and Summer Semester 2023, together with Andreas Breiter, Hannah-Marie Büttner and Gabriella Skitalinska.
Volunteering Experience
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Equal Opportunities Committee member at CRC 1342. University of Bremen, Germany. 2022-2024.
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Student Volunteer at CHI 2023 (in-person), EuroVis 2022 (in-person), EuroVis 2021 (virtual), IEEE VIS 2021 (virtual), and IEEE VIS 2020 (virtual).
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Web & Social Media Chair at ECSCW 2022. Coimbra, Portugal. June 2022.
Reviewing Experience
Reviewer for CHI 2022 (incl. Special Recognition), EuroVis 2022, CSCW 2022, and CHI 2021.