Antonia Schlieder

My research lies at the intersection of visualization, HCI, and cognitive psychology. I study how people reason with visualizations and how visual design can help them adopt effective reasoning strategies. A central approach in my work is providing visual cues that guide users' attention without giving away solutions, thereby leaving the reasoning to the viewer.

I am particularly interested in metacognition, the awareness and control people have (or don't have) of their own strategies, and how visualization design can encourage metacognitive processes. I use eye tracking to study these processes and build visualizations that adapt to users in real time. Recently, I have been investigating these questions in the context of human–AI collaboration and mitigating cognitive offloading. I am pursuing a PhD in Computer Science in the Visual Computing group at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, advised by Filip Sadlo.