Best paper and honorable mention awards are selected by a dedicated committee of experienced community members. The awards recognize outstanding work from the pool of accepted papers. Best paper committees use a variety of criteria to select the best paper including potential impact to the community, the importance of any results obtained, and technical challenges overcome.
Full Papers
The Papers Chairs would like to thank the Best Papers Committee for their work and to congratulate the awardees!
Best Papers
“They Aren’t Built For Me”: An Exploratory Study of Strategies for Measurement of Graphical Primitives in Tactile Graphics
by Areen Khalaila, Lane Harrison, Nam Wook Kim, & Dylan Cashman
Session: Best Papers 1 [Tuesday, Nov 4, 2:00pm - 3:15pm (CET)]
ReVISit 2: A Full Experiment Life Cycle User Study Framework
by Zach Cutler, Jack Wilburn, Hilson Shrestha, Yiren Ding, Brian Bollen, Khandaker Abrar Nadib, Tingying He, Andrew McNutt, Lane Harrison, & Alexander Lex
Session: Best Papers 1 [Tuesday, Nov 4, 2:00pm - 3:15pm (CET)]
Beyond Problem Solving: Framing and Problem–Solution Co-Evolution in Data Visualization Design
by Paul Parsons & Prakash Chandra Shukla
Session: Best Papers 1 [Tuesday, Nov 4, 2:00pm - 3:15pm (CET)]
Causality-based Visual Analytics of Sentiment Contagion in Social Media Topics
by Renzhong Li, Yuchen Lin, Shuainan Ye, Buwei Zhou, Zhining Kang, Tai-Quan Peng, Wenhao Fu, Yingcai Wu, & Tan Tang
Session: Best Papers 2 [Tuesday, Nov 4, 3:45pm - 5:00pm (CET)]
NLI4VolVis: Natural Language Interaction for Volume Visualization via LLM Multi-Agents and Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting
by Kuangshi Ai, Kaiyuan Tang, & Chaoli Wang
Session: Best Papers 2 [Tuesday, Nov 4, 3:45pm - 5:00pm (CET)]
Best Papers Honorable Mentions
ConceptViz: A Visual Analytics Approach for Exploring Concepts in Large Language Models
by Haoxuan Li, Zhen Wen, Qiqi Jiang, Chenxiao Li, Yuwei Wu, Yuchen Yang, Yiyao Wang, Xiuqi Huang, Minfeng Zhu, & Wei Chen
Session: VA for AI [Wednesday, Nov 5, 9:30am - 10:45am (CET)]
Qualitative Study for LLM-assisted Design Study Process: Strategies, Challenges, and Roles
by Shaolun Ruan, Rui Sheng, Xiaolin Wen, Jiachen Wang, Tianyi Zhang, Yong Wang, Tim Dwyer, & Jiannan Li
Session: The VIS in GenAI [Wednesday, Nov 5, 2:00pm - 3:15pm (CET)]
CD-TVD:Contrastive Diffusion for 3D Super-Resolution with Scarce High-Resolution Time-Varying Data
by Chongke Bi, Xin Gao, Jiakang Deng, Guan Li, & Jun Han
Session: Flow and Topology [Wednesday, Nov 5, 3:45pm - 5:00pm (CET)]
Exploring 3D Unsteady Flow using 6D Observer Space Interactions
by Xingdi Zhang, Amani Ageeli, Thomas Theußl, Markus Hadwiger, & Peter Rautek
Session: Flow and Topology [Wednesday, Nov 5, 3:45pm - 5:00pm (CET)]
Affective color scales for colormap data visualizations
by Halle Braun, Kushin Mukherjee, Seth Gorelik, & Karen Schloss
Session: The Color and the Shape [Thursday, Nov 6, 9:30am - 10:45am (CET)]
Story Ribbons: Reimagining Storyline Visualizations with Large Language Models
by Catherine Yeh, Tara Menon, Robin Singh Arya, Helen He, Moira Weigel, Fernanda Viegas, & Martin Wattenberg
Session: From Data to Meaning [Thursday, Nov 6, 11:15am - 12:30pm (CET)]
F^2Stories: A Modular Framework for Multi-Objective Optimization of Storylines with a Focus on Fairness
by Tommaso Piselli, Giuseppe Liotta, Fabrizio Montecchiani, Martin Nöllenburg, & Sara Di Bartolomeo
Session: From Data to Meaning [Thursday, Nov 6, 11:15am - 12:30pm (CET)]
BondMatcher: H-Bond Stability Analysis in Molecular Systems
by Thomas Daniel, Malgorzata Olejniczak, & Julien Tierny
Session: Algorithms and Workflows [Thursday, Nov 6, 2:00pm - 3:15pm (CET)]
Characterizing Visualization Perception with Psychological Phenomena: Uncovering the Role of Subitizing in Data Visualization
by Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Mengyuan Zhu, Chin Tseng, & Danielle Szafir
Session: Perception [Thursday, Nov 6, 2:00pm - 3:15pm (CET)]
Here’s what you need to know about my data: Exploring Expert Knowledge’s Role in Data Analysis
by Haihan Lin, Maxim Lisnic, Derya Akbaba, Miriah Meyer, & Alexander Lex
Session: Analytics & Reasoning [Thursday, Nov 6, 3:45pm - 5:00pm (CET)]
Visualization Badges: Communicating Design and Provenance through Graphical Labels Alongside Visualizations
by Valentin Edelsbrunner, Jinrui Wang, Alexis Pister, Tomas Vancisin, Sian Phillips, Min Chen, & Benjamin Bach
Session: Interaction, Provenance, and Collaboration [Thursday, Nov 6, 3:45pm - 5:00pm (CET)]
Quantifying Visualization Vibes: Measuring Socio-Indexicality at Scale
by Amy Fox, Michelle Morgenstern, Graham Jones, & Arvind Satyanarayan
Session: Trust No One [Friday, Nov 7, 9:30am - 10:45am (CET)]
Short Papers
The Short Papers Chairs would like to thank the Best Papers Committee for their work and to congratulate the awardees!
Best Papers
Toward a Logic of Generalization about Visualization as a Decision Aid
by Alex Kale
Session: Best Short Papers [Tuesday, Nov 4, 11:15am - 12:30pm (CET)]
The Perils of Chart Deception: How Misleading Visualizations Affect Vision-Language Models
by Ridwan Mahbub, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, & Enamul Hoque
Session: Best Short Papers [Tuesday, Nov 4, 11:15am - 12:30pm (CET)]
Best Paper Honorable Mentions
Out of the Loop: Enhancing Documentation and Transparency in Causal Loop Diagrams to Capture Multiple Perspectives
by Jessica Bou Nassar, Yu Xuan Yio, Nethara Athukorala, Simran, Songhai Fan, Cynthia A. Huang, Lyn Bartram, Tim Dwyer, & Sarah Goodwin
Session: Charts, Diagrams & Plots [Wednesday, Nov 5, 11:15am - 12:30pm (CET)]
Chronotome: Real-Time Topic Modeling for Streaming Embedding Spaces
by Matte Lim, Catherine Yeh, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viegas, & Panagiotis Michalatos
Session: Explorations in Abstract and Physical Spaces [Wednesday, Nov 5, 2:00pm - 3:15pm (CET)]
Publish-Time Optimizations for Web-Based Visualizations
by Ron Pechuk & Jeffrey Heer
Session: Workflows & Infrastructure [Thursday, Nov 6, 9:30am - 10:45am (CET)]
Towards Understanding Decision Problems as a Goal of Visualization Design
by Lena Cibulski & Stefan Bruckner
Session: Visualization in-the-wild [Thursday, Nov 6, 9:30am - 10:45am (CET)]