Professor | School of Health and Sciences
Dr. Díaz holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Glasgow, in the United Kingdom. Her specialty focuses on machine learning; auditory salience; big data; human-computer interactions (HCI); data mining of extended data; research, inclusion, accessibility.
Peer-reviewed publications
E.Unterfrauner, C. Fabian, W. Diaz-Merced, J Casado, G de la Vega. Citizen Science for Alles? (accepted paper CHI International Washington DC 2021)
W. Diaz-Merced, M. Walker-Holmes, C. Hetlage, P. Green, J. Casado, B. Garcia. TO User
Centered Web Framework for Astronomy. Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 367, 2020.
JA Paice, P. Gandhi, PA Charles, VS Dhillon, TR Marsh, DAH Buckley, MM Kotze, A. Beri, D. Altamirano, MJ Middleton, RM Plotkin, JCA Miller-Jones, D. Russell, J. Tomsick, W. Díaz-Merced, and R. Misra. Quzzling blue dips in the black hole candidate Swift J1357.2-0933, from ULTRACAM, SALT, ATCA, Swift and NuSTAR. Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 488, Issue 1, September, 2019.
B. Garcia, W Diaz. Evolving from xSonify a new digital platform for sonification.The International Symposium on Education in Astronomy and Astrobiology (ISE2A 2017), Utrecht, the Netherlands, Edited by Deustua, S.; Eastwood, K.; ten Kate, IL; EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 200, id.01013
W. Díaz-Merced, M. Gastrow, T. Oppelt. Astronomy and inclusive development: Access to astronomy for people with disabilitiesillities. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Focus Meeting for Development. September, 2018.
J. Cooke, W. Díaz-Merced, G. Foran, J. Hannam, and B. García. data sonification to improve and accelerate Big Data analysis and to enable low signal to noise ratio and multi-dimensional analysis. Proceedings of Astronomy in the Time Domain Meeting, Stellenbosh Cape Town. November, 2017.
W. Diaz-Merced. We too may find new planets. AASTCS5 Radio Exploration of Planetary Habitability, Proceedings of the Conference May 7-12, 2017 in Palm Springs, CA. Published in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 49, No. 3, id. 202.01. May, 2017.
B. Garcia, W. Diaz-Merced, J. Casado, P. Lablanche, A. Cancio, Data exploration through the sonorization: An opportunity of multiple learning. ISE2A Symposium Utrecht. July, 2017.
W. Díaz-Merced, M. Schneps, K. Kolenberg, M. Richtarikova, and B. Roozen. Yointroducing sonification as a tool for astrophysical data analysis. Proceedings, Universal Design Symposium. Vol. 29, No. 1. 2017. https://prc.nao.ac.jp/fukyu/ud2016/index_E.html
W. Díaz-Merced, R. M Candey, JC Mannone, D. Fields, E. Rodríguez. Sonification for the analysis of plasma Bubblesat 21 MHz. Sun and Geosphere. Vol.3, No.1, p.42-45.
W. Díaz-Merced, M. Schneps, N. Brickhouse, M. Pomplun, S. Brewster, J. Mannone. Exploring sound to convey information. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #131.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011.
W. Díaz-Merced, RM Candey, N. Brickhouse, M. Schneps, JC Mannone, S. Brewster, K. Kolenberg. Sonification of astronomical data. New Horizons in Time- Domain Astronomy Proceedings of the IAU Symposium From 285, 2011.
W. Díaz-Merced, M. Schneps, S. Brewster, J. Mannone, RM Candey, M. Schneps. A study of the use of a sonification prototype by astrophysicists. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris France April, 2013.
W. Diaz-Merced, M. Schneps, N. Brickhouse, M., Pomplun, S. Brewster, J. Mannone. Sound increases sensitivity to signal detection in 2D plots of numerical data. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris France April, 2013.
C. Vargas, P. Hofner, S. Kurtz, W. Diaz-Merced. A methanol maser survey toward massive star forming regions. American Astronomical Society, 196th AAS Meeting, id.26.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.711, May 2000.