Roland Fernandez
PRINCIPAL RSDE
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Roland works as a developer in the VIBE group of Microsoft Research. His areas of interest include visualization, animation, HCI, and cognitive science. In cognitive science, he is especially interested in embodied computational neuroscience, and theories of mind, behavior, learning, and development.
Before coming to MSR, he worked (at Microsoft and other companies) in the areas of Natural User Interfaces, Activity Based Computing, Advanced Prototyping, Programmer Tools, Operating Systems, and Databases.
Before coming to MSR, he worked (at Microsoft and other companies) in the areas of Natural User Interfaces, Activity Based Computing, Advanced Prototyping, Programmer Tools, Operating Systems, and Databases.
Projects
- Microsoft Research Data Visualization Apps for OfficeA set of embeddable apps that let Excel users experiment with new data visualizations against their own data.
- What Designers WantA grounded theory study into the tools designers use for design and interactivity, what problems they run into, and what the need to improve their productivity.
- PipeDreamVisual designer for Mercury - PipeDream lets users build applets without programming using the Mercury library, property settings, and data and event flow between components.
- TapGlanceDesigning a unified smart phone interface.
- Mercury"Components for End Users" - Visualization, Data, and UI components that users can put together without needing to write code. Mercury comes with over 200 prebuilt components and hundreds of samples applets, including the Mercury IDE (shown here).
- WIPDashA developer dashboard showing workitems and people.
- VisAVisA visual language for spreadsheet visualizations.
- AniTimeA study in the effectiveness of animation in trend visualization
- DynaVisStudying the effectiveness of animated transitions in charts and visualizations.
- SandDanceNatural, Dynamic, Data Visualization
- WebChartsIn order to use new visualizations, most toolkits require application developers to rebuild their applications and distribute new versions to users. The WebCharts Framework take a different approach by hosting Javascript from within an application and providing a standard data and events interchange.. In this way, applications can be extended dynamically, with a wide variety of visualizations
- FASTDashA visual dashboard for project awareness in software teams.
- GroupBanterGroupBanter is a prototoype extension to Windows Live Messager to enable people to have public conversations that other can view and join.
Publications
- Danyel Fisher, Steven Drucker, Roland Fernandez, and Xiaoji Chen, Vis-à-vis: A Visual Language for Spreadsheet Visualizations, no. MSR-TR-2011-142, June 2011
- Danyel Fisher, Steven Drucker, Roland Fernandez, and Scott Ruble, Visualizations Everywhere: A Multiplatform Infrastructure for Linked Visualizations, in Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010
- Valentina Grigoreanu, Roland Fernandez, Kori Inkpen, and George Robertson, What Designers Want: Needs of Interactive Application Designers, in Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VLHCC 2009), IEEE, September 2009
- Mikkel R. Jakobsen, Roland Fernandez, Mary Czerwinski, Kori Inkpen, Olga Kulyk, and George G. Robertson, WIPDash: Work Item and People Dashboard for Software Development Teams, in 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2009), Springer Verlag, August 2009
- Kori Inkpen, Steven Whittaker, Mary Czerwinski, James Wallace, and Roland Fernandez, GroupBanter: Supporting Serendipitous Group Conversations with IM, in The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2008), Orlando, FL, November 2008
- George Robertson, Danyel Fisher, Bongshin Lee, John Stasko, and Roland Fernandez, Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization, in IEEE TVCG (InfoVis 2008), 2008
- Daniel C. Robbins, Bongshin Lee, and Roland Fernandez, TapGlance: Designing a Unified Smartphone Interface, in Designing Interactive Systems 2008, 2008
