Staff Profile

Alma received a PhD in Information Visualisation from IMT Atlantique, Brest, France, in 2018. She was funded by Thales DMS France to investigate the use of immersive tools to analyse signal intelligence radar signals. After her PhD, she worked on Human Factors (2028-2019) to evaluate the perceptive advantage of shape-changing surfaces for touchscreen interaction in airliner cockpits at ISEA-Supaero and ENAC, Toulouse, France (engineering schools specialised in aeronautics and space). She then worked for Newcastle University (2019-2022) on the Mobilise-D project investigating visual solutions to explore mobility data.

Alma’s research interests are to improve the understanding of user perception to facilitate the acquisition of complex data. It includes investigating human perspectives processes in both on-screen or virtual environments (perception, motion parallax, ecologic design); improving the understanding of diverse user’s needs toward visualisation (patient involvement, participatory design); deepening the characterisation and representation of complex data (heterogeneous data, complex task); and evaluating the proposed outcomes (usability testing, quantitative evaluation).

Alma is teaching the following modules:

• Data Visualization (CSC8626)
• Data Visualization (CSC8642)
• Data Visualisation and Data Handling (DCS8001)

She also act as Chair of the Board of Examiners for the MSc Computer Science programme.

• Articles

  • Lumsdon J, Wilson C, Alcock L, Becker C, Benvenuti F, Bonci T, van den Brande K, Brittain G, Brown P, Buckley E, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Delgado-Ortiz L, Del Din S, Evers J, Gracia-Aymerich J, Gassner H, Arieh TG, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Kirk C, Maetzler W, Megaritis D, Rochester L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sutton N, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall A, Keogh A, Alma Cantu A. Cocreating the visualisation of digital mobility outcomes: a Delphi-process with patients. JMIR Formative Research 2025, 9, e68782.
  • Kirk C, Küderle A, Micó-Amigo ME, Bonci T, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Ullrich M, Soltani A, Gazit E, Salis F, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Brown P, Buckley E, Cantu A, Carsin A, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Chiari L, D'Ascanio I, Garcia-Aymerich J, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Keogh A, Kluge F, Koch S, Maetzler W, Megaritis D, Mueller A, Niessen M, Palmerini L, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sillén H, Singleton D, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall A, Rochester L, Mazzà C, Eskofier B, Del Din S, Mobilise‑D consortium. Mobilise-D insights to estimate real-world walking speed in multiple conditions with a wearable device. Scientific Reports 2024, 14, 1754.
  • Keogh A, Mc Ardle R, Diaconu MG, Ammour N, Arnera V, Blazani F, Brittain G, Buckley E, Buttery S, Cantu A, Corriol-Rohou S, Delgado-Ortiz L, Duysens J, Forman-Hardy T, Gur-Arieh T, Hamerlijnck D, Linnell J, Leocani L, McQuillan T, Neatrour I, Polhemus A, Remmele W, Saraiva I, Scott K, Sutton N, van de Brade K, Vereijken B, Wohlrab M, Rochester L. Mobilizing Patient and Public Involvement in the Development of Real-World Digital Technology Solutions: Tutorial. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023, 25, e44206.
  • Romijnders R, Salis F, Hansen C, Küderle K, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Cereatti A, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Bonci T, Brown P, Buckley E, Cantu A, Carsin A, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Chiari L, D'Ascanio I, Del Din S, Eskofier BM, Fernstad S, Fröhlich M, Garcia-Aymerich J, Gazit E, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Keogh A, Kirk C, Kluge F, Koch S, Mazza C, Megaritis D, Micó-Amigo E, Müller A, Palmerini L, Rochester L, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Singleton D, Soltani A, Ullrich M, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall A, Schmidt G, Maetzler W. Ecological validity of a deep learning algorithm to detect gait events from real-life walking bouts in mobility-limiting diseases. Frontiers in Neurology 2023, 14, 124753.
  • Micó-Amigo ME, Bonci T, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Ullrich M, Kirk C, Soltani A, Küderle A, Gazit E, Salis F, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Brown P, Buckley E, Cantu A, Carsin A, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Chiari L, D'Ascanio I, Eskofier B, Fernstad S, Froehlich M, Garcia-Aymerich J, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Keogh A, Kluge F, Koch S, Maetzler W, Megaritis D, Mueller A, Niessen M, Palmerini L, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sillén H, Singleton D, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall AJ, Rochester L, Mazzà C, Del Din S, Mobilise-D consortium. Assessing real-world gait with digital technology? Validation, insights and recommendations from the Mobilise-D consortium. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2023, 20, 78.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Bell, G, Cantu, A. Dichoptic Opacity: Managing Occlusion in Stereoscopic Displays via Dichoptic Presentation. 2025. In Preparation.
  • Cantu A, Micó-Amigo E, Del Din S, Fernstad SJ. Parallel Assemblies Plot, a visualization tool to explore categorical and quantitative data: application to digital mobility outcomes. In: IEEE 16th Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis). 2023, Seoul, Korea, Republic of: IEEE.
  • Gozzi Z, Peysakhovich V, Cantu A, Causse M. Behavioral and Physiological Assessment of a Virtual Reality Version of the MATB-II Task. In: International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP). 2022, Virtual: Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
  • Cantu A, Vinot JL, Letondal C, Pauchet P, Causse M. Human factors evaluation of tangible devices for airplane cockpit. In: International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems (ICCAS). 2021, Virtual: EAAP.
  • Cantu A, Vinot JL, Letondal C, Pauchet S, Causse M. Does folding improve the usability of interactive surfaces in future airliner cockpits? An evaluation under turbulent conditions and varying cognitive load. In: IHM '21: Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on l'Interaction Homme-Machine. 2021, Virtual Event France: ACM.
  • Cantu A, Duval T, Grisvard O, Coppin G. Expert evaluation of the usability of HeloVis: a 3D Immersive Helical Visualization for SIGINT Analysis. In: International Conference on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (EuroVR). 2019, Tallinn, Estonia: Springer.
  • Cantu A, Duval T, Grisvard O, Coppin G. HeloVis: A helical visualization for SIGINT analysis using 3D immersion. In: IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis). 2018, Kobe, Japan: IEEE.
  • Cantu A, Grisvard O, Duval T. Visual Analytics for Electronic Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities. In: 21st International Conference Information Visualisation (IV). 2017, London: IEEE.
  • Cantu A, Grisvard O, Duval T, Coppin G. Identifying the Relationships Between the Visualization Context and Representation Components to Enable Recommendations for Designing New Visualizations. In: 21st International Conference Information Visualisation (IV). 2017, London: IEEE.