It’s About Time : User-centered Evaluation of Visual Representations for Temporal Data

Abstract

I promise to achieve the life dreams you couldn't because you were too busy ensuring we would survive. To my dearest parents, thank you both for all your sacrifices. I am also incredibly happy that I had a whovian as my primary supervisor. Thank you, Niklas Rönnberg, for saving me at the eleventh hour and for the invaluable advice, continues support, and patience during my Ph.D. journey. Furthermore, I would like to express gratitude to Anders, Camilla, Lonni, and many others for their support and advice. Additionally, I would like to thank Alex, Fereshteh, Jochen, Sathish, Yu. But also Pier, for all the help and almost running me over with your car, Sergej et al. for a remarkable road-trip to Grand Canyon singing "I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles", Bara Kozlikova for the personality, hospitality, trips, and collaboration, I miss you, and who can forget, Gun-Britt, for all the administrative help! Also, a super special thank to my good friend Sophie and American friend and mentor Cory. Thank you for the unwavering support and belief in me from the start. Now to my 63.7% Greek friend Tony from either Northern England or South Scotland...? Without you, man, the three-week bartending course in Brooklyn would have sucked. My brother and I miss you, hope to see you soon. Thank you Sajad, for trying to teach me not to give a damn, Admir for all the memorable days together, such as kayaking from Norrköping to Västervik but also for always talking about the stock market, and Marcus, Ludvig, Alan, and Nils for all the fun times and events we planned together.Finally, there are soooo many series and characters to thank. I could go on and on about how much time I have "wasted" getting lost in fictional stories. But who are we to say anything when time just is a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey ... stuff.