Media Arts Creative Industries and Technology
Ana Figueiras received her PhD in Digital Media from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UT Austin Program | Portugal). Her main research area is information visualization, focusing on visual forms of storytelling and on identifying the best techniques for incorporating narrative elements into visualization. She is also interested in new methodologies for performance and experience evaluation in visualization, the use of visualization in journalism, and visualization literacy.
Education
2016 - PhD, in Digital Media.
2010 - Masters in New Media and Web Practices.
2008 - Bachelors in Communication Sciences.