IDI-148: Add Peter Coppin to People. pag

Description

Dr. Peter Coppin, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Design, is a
designer, visual artist, and cognitive scientist. His work seeks to
improve information access through a better understanding of how
individuals make use of their diverse perceptual-motor capabilities to
interact with interfaces and other designed artifacts (such as diagrams in
problem solving or sonic interfaces to financial charts and graphs).

Dr. Coppin¹s work is informed by his career journey, which cuts across
engineering, design, and the visual arts. Dr. Coppin has authored numerous
articles that focus on the perceptual-cognitive aspects of information
interfaces with applications in diverse areas such as diagrammatic
reasoning, research on dyslexia, learning technology, telescience,
human-robot interaction, and data analytics. His work with government
agencies and industry has included numerous projects related to the
visualization of complex Earth and planetary datasets for NASA. Recent
work tackles the challenge of accessible data analytics: Interfaces that
enable low vision or blind individuals to access charts and graphs without
visual perception.

Dr. Coppin¹s work has been funded by multiple NASA programs, the US
National Science Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, the R.K. Mellon
Foundation, the Buhl Foundation, the Laurel Foundation, the Center for
Innovation in Data-Driven Design, the Ontario Ministry of Training and
Colleges, MITACS, and NCE GRAND. Dr. Coppin¹s work in electronic media
art-design has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including
Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), the SIGGRAPH Touchware Exhibition
(Orlando, Florida, USA), MIR: Art & Space (Bolzono Italy), and the Adler
Museum (Chicago, Illinois, USA).