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KU Leuven is an autonomous university. It was founded in 1425. It was born of and has grown within the Catholic tradition.
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Visit the employer pageLUCA School of Arts is a multidisciplinary educational and research environment in which creative talent can develop on an artistic, performative, and technical level. LUCA promotes the practice of art and creative design as well as the development of innovative insight. LUCA combines the strength and expertise of five renowned institutions on as many campuses: Sint-Lukas Brussel, Narafi Brussel, C-mine Genk, Sint-Lucas Gent, and Lemmens Leuven. With over 700 staff members and about 3,800 students, LUCA School of Arts is a creative hub for over 4,500 artists, musicians, theatrical and filmmakers, photographers, and designers. Within the Group of Humanities of KU Leuven, an associated Faculty of Arts was established, to which the researchers in the arts belong. Nearly 150 professors, postdocs, doctoral candidates, and project staff are appointed with a mandate in artistic research within audiovisual arts, visual arts, design, music, and drama. Within the research unit Intermedia at LUCA, and the cluster Mediated Environments specifically, we explore the boundaries of novel digital technologies through the application of art and design. We create artistic work as a means to pursue inquiries into the conceptual, political and societal aspects of interaction, space and media.
For this project, we closely collaborate with the Institute for Media Studies, or IMS for short, which aims for internationally high-quality research on media and communication through innovative and critical scientific research in domains such as journalism and news, strategic communication, digital media, human-computer interaction, and culture and policy. The IMS is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences of KU Leuven, which studies society to understand, strengthen, lead, and inspire it.
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The goal of the PhD project is to study how uncertainty can be visually expressed in data visualisations and how these representations influence public perception of data certainty, reliability, and trustworthiness in news data stories. The study will depart from narrative, affective and interactive visual design strategies as they are a promising ways to engage a large audience with complex data. The study deploys a research-through-design approach, which includes iterative design cycles and evaluations via co-design methods, semi- structured interviews and standardised surveys. Here, we will involve both journalists and information designers, as the public. The envisioned outcome includes a toolbox with templates, a guidebook, and visual design guidelines to support journalists and other communicators to express uncertainty while maintaining trustworthiness in their data visualisations.
For more information please contact Prof. dr. Sandy Claes, mail: sandy.claes@kuleuven.be or Prof. dr. Michaël Opgenhaffen, mail: michael.opgenhaffen@kuleuven.be.
KU Leuven strives for an inclusive, respectful and socially safe environment. We embrace diversity among individuals and groups as an asset. Open dialogue and differences in perspective are essential for an ambitious research and educational environment. In our commitment to equal opportunity, we recognize the consequences of historical inequalities. We do not accept any form of discrimination based on, but not limited to, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, ethnic or national background, skin colour, religious and philosophical diversity, neurodivergence, employment disability, health, or socioeconomic status. For questions about accessibility or support offered, we are happy to assist you at this email address.
KU Leuven is an autonomous university. It was founded in 1425. It was born of and has grown within the Catholic tradition.
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