Making things visual in science and engineering

Guided Exploration of Iterative Schedule Modifications: A Design Study on Railway Traction Unit Scheduling
Andreas Zajic, Vera Hechtl, Cornelia Geischläger, Maximilian Kunovjanek-Bachler, Thomas Hulka, Anna-Lena Penk, Belma Turan, Nadine Schwab, Maximilian Viehauser, Helwig Hauser, Kresimir Matkovic · Boston

DebrisTracer: Reliable Tracking in Hypervelocity Impact Fast Imaging
Théophane Loloum, Fabien Vivodtzev, David Hebert, Baptiste Reynier, Michel Arrigoni, Julien Tierny · Boston

VQ-ANR: Attention Neural Representation with Vector Quantization for Time-Varying Ensemble Data Exploration
Huayuan Ye, Bolin Zhao, Chenhui Li, Jun Han · Boston

A Task-Driven Framework for Multiscale Ocean Flow Dynamics through Integrated Simulation and Visualization
James Kress, Jithendra Nadimpalli, Shehzad Afzal, Sohaib Ghani, Ibrahim Hoteit · Boston

Hairpin Vortices Extraction in Turbulent Boundary Layer Flows (TVCG)
Adeel Zafar, Zahra Poorshayegh, Lei Si, Di Yang, Guoning Chen · Boston

Let's figure out how things work behind the scenes

Reimagining Disassembly Interfaces with Visualization: Combining Instruction Tracing and Control Flow with DisViz (TVCG)
Shadmaan Hye, Matthew P. LeGendre, and Katherine E. Isaacs · Boston

Same Data, Different Audiences: Using Personas to Scope a Supercomputing Job Queue Visualization (TVCG)
Connor Scully-Allison, Kevin Menear, Kristin Potter, Andrew McNutt, Kate Isaacs, Dmitry Duplyakin · Boston

GNN101: Visual Learning of Graph Neural Networks in Your Web Browser (TVCG)
Yilin Lu, Chongwei Chen, Yuxin Chen, Kexin Huang, Marinka Zitnik, Qianwen Wang · Boston

BackdoorScope: Visual Analytics of Internal Behaviors in LLMs under Backdoor Attacks
Hanze Jia, Tan Tang, Yan Chen, Feiyuan Qu, Dazhen Deng, Yule Liu, Shouling Ji, Yingcai Wu · Boston

NeuroBreak: Unveil Internal Jailbreak Mechanisms in Large Language Models
Chuhan Zhang, Ye Zhang, Bowen Shi, Yuyou Gan, Tianyu Du, Shouling Ji, Dazhen Deng, Yingcai Wu · Boston

CUBE-ism: An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Real-Time Darknet Traffic Triage
Kanta Okugawa, Koei Suzuki, Masaki Kubo, Ryutaro Ushigome, Yukiko Endo, Takahiro Kasama · Boston

ChannelExplorer: Exploring Class Separability Through Activation Channel Visualization (TVCG)
Md Rahat-uz- Zaman, Bei Wang, Paul Rosen · Boston

Great, now you scattered the data everywhere!

Multiresolution Density-Equalizing Transformation for Scatterplots (TVCG)
Hennes Rave, Vladimir Molchanov, Yuki Tatsukawa, Quynh Quang Ngo, Steffen Frey, Takeo Igarashi, Lars Linsen · Boston

Measuring Distortion in the Empty Regions of Dimensionality Reduction Scatterplots with the Gap Stretch Coefficient
Jaume Ros, Alessio Arleo, Fernando Paulovich · Boston

Confirmation Bias Shapes Outlier Identification and Removal in Data Cleaning with Scatterplots
Shiyao Li, Akul Rana, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Emily Wall · Boston

CatPAL: Task-Aware Learning for Categorical Palette Recommendation
Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Yunqi Li, Danielle Szafir · Boston

How Scale Breaks "Normalized Stress" and KL Divergence: Rethinking Quality Metrics (TVCG)
Kiran Smelser, Kaviru Gunaratne, Jacob Miller, Stephen Kobourov · Boston

Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP for Visual Analytics
Hyeon Jeon, Jeongin Park, Sungbok Shin, Jinwook Seo · Boston

Generating Coherent Visualization Sequences for Multivariate Data by Causal Graph Traversal (TVCG)
Puripant Ruchikachorn, Darius Coelho, Jun Wang, Kristina Striegnitz, and Klaus Mueller · Boston

Turn up the volume(s)!

Super-Gaussian: Interactive Scene Editing for 3D Gaussian Splatting and NLI-Based Volume Visualization in Virtual Reality
Suemin Jeon, Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang, Won-Ki Jeong · Boston

ESVR: 3D Ellipsoid-based Sparse Volume Rendering via Structure-aware Primitive Learning and Per-primitive Ray Sampling
Suemin Jeon, Youjin Kim, Jungwoo Park, Kyungryun Lee, Won-Ki Jeong · Boston

A Query-Efficient Stochastic Volume Rendering Framework for Time-Varying Implicit Neural Volumes
Alper Sahistan, Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Peer-Timo Bremer, Joshua Levine, Valerio Pascucci · Boston

Make the Fastest Faster: Importance Mask Synthesis for Interactive Volume Visualization using Reconstruction Neural Networks (TVCG)
Jianxin Sun, David Lenz, Hongfeng Yu, and Tom Peterka · Boston

Visibility Optimization for Direct and Indirect Volume Rendering using Level Set Propagation (TVCG)
Paul Himmler, Tobias Günther · Boston

Materializing Inter-Channel Relationships with Multi-Density Woodcock Tracking (TVCG)
Alper Sahistan, Stefan Zellmann, Haichao Miao, Nate Morrical, Ingo Wald and Valerio Pascucci · Boston

MAGIC: Marching Cubes Isosurface Uncertainty Visualization for Gaussian Uncertain Data with Spatial Correlation (TVCG)
Tushar M. Athawale, Kenneth Moreland, David Pugmire, Chris R. Johnson, Paul Rosen, Matthew Norman, Antigoni Georgiadou, and Alireza Entezari · Boston

Data really is everywhere

ResonaVis: Visualizing Interactive Music Data to Support Reflective Music Composition for Therapeutic Contexts
Abhishek Karwankar, Elise Ruggiero, Daniel Stevens, Matthew Mauriello · Boston

PaintEcho: Bringing Paintings to Photos through Cross-domain Visual Exploration
Yihan Gao, Tan Tang, Jianing Yin, Haobo Zheng, Tianyi Chen, Lu Ying, Yanhong Wu, Yingcai Wu · Boston

Meandering Photo Lines: Fluid Multiscale Exploration of Photographic Archives
Mark-Jan Bludau, Christian Tominski, Marian Dörk · Boston

Diving Deep into Time: Temporal Arrangements for Embedded Visualization in Swimming Videos (TVCG)
Junxiu Tang, Lijie Yao, Lu Ying, Romain Vuillemot, and Petra Isenberg · Boston

Save It for the "Hot" Day: An LLM-Empowered Visual Analytics System for Heat Risk Management (TVCG)
Haobo Li, Wong Kam-Kwai, Yan Luo, Juntong Chen, Chengzhong Liu, Yaxuan Zhang, Alexis Kai Hon Lau, Huamin Qu, and Dongyu Liu · Boston

Who's That Player?: Externalizing Query Interpretation in Spoken XR Sports Interaction
Chunggi Lee, Tica Lin, Yalong Yang, Hanspeter Pfister · Boston

PoseForge: Editable Pose Analytics for AI-Assisted Sports Coaching
Shuvam Dash, Arpit Narechania · Boston

Figuring out how to do good research

Not Always Top-Left: Untangling the Signals that Guide Dashboard Reading Order
Nicole Sultanum, Vidya Setlur · Boston

Fixation-Related Potentials as Implicit Markers of Task Relevance in Data Visualization
Kathrin Schnizer, Francesco Chiossi, Benedikt Werner, Sven Mayer · Boston

How Do Researchers Manage Visualization Experiment Stimuli?
Hyeok Kim, Jeffrey Heer · Boston

Should We Dangle a Carrot? The Effect of Performance-based Incentives in Visualization Experiments
Abhraneel Sarma, Matthew Kay, Sheng Long, Michael Correll, Alexander Lex · Boston

Beyond the Post Hoc User Study: Modeling Visual Decision-Making with Active Inference
Harrison Goldwyn, Graham Johnson, Christopher Ibarra, Lace Padilla, Kenny Gruchalla · Boston

SciVisAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Agents
Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Nathaniel Gorski, Jianxin Sun, Guoxi Liu, Helgi Ingolfsson, David Lenz, Hanqi Guo, Hongfeng Yu, Teja Leburu, Michael Molash, Bei Wang, Tom Peterka, Chaoli Wang, Shusen Liu · Boston

Beyond the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Colormap Assessment through Perceptual Tensor Fields
Xi Duan, Yiwei Lin, Shiqing Xin, Aoying Wang, Yucheng Wang, Changhe Tu, Qiong Zeng · Boston

How you show it makes a difference!

Designing Within the Lines: Practitioners’ Perspectives and Visualisation Tool Evaluation in the Arabic Context
Muna Alebri, Noëlle Rakotondravony, Yassine Bechqito, Georgia Panagiotidou, Salem Alkaabi, Hassan Aldhanhani, Lane Harrison · Boston

Multimodal Data Comprehension: Understanding How Visual-Textual Chains of Information Influence Data Interpretation
Arran Zeyu Wang, Fuling Sun, Danielle Szafir · Boston

A Survey on Annotations in Information Visualization: Empirical Studies, Applications, and Challenges (TVCG)
Md Dilshadur Rahman, Bhavana Doppalapudi, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen · Boston

Untangling Rhetoric, Pathos, and Aesthetics in Data Visualization (TVCG)
Verena Prantl, Torsten Möller, Laura Koesten · Boston

Compendia: Automated Visual Storytelling Generation from Online Article Collection (TVCG)
Manusha Karunathilaka, Litian Lei, Yiming Gao, Yong Wang, and Jiannan Li · Boston

Charting the Moral Universe: Capturing Virtues and Values of Data Visualization Practice
Chloe Hudson Prock, Enrico Bertini, Michael Correll · Boston

When Data Offers No Right Answer: Designing Failure in Serious Data Visualization Games
Yechun Peng, Qiushi He, Yiting Liu, Yang Shi · Boston

Talk to my agent

Cost-Benefit Modeling of Interactive Visual Machine Learning Systems
Yixuan Wang, Rolando Garcia, Alex Endert, Ross Maciejewski · Boston

HiLSVA: Design and Evaluation of a Human-in-the-Loop Agentic System for Scientific Visualization
Kuangshi Ai, Patrick Do, Chaoli Wang · Boston

Explainable Mapper: Charting LLM Embedding Spaces Using Perturbation-Based Exploration, Explanation, and Verification Agents
Xinyuan Yan, Rita Sevastjanova, Sinie van der Ben, Mennatallah El-Assady, Bei Wang · Boston

RuleScope: Semantic-aware Authoring of Data Validation Rules (TVCG)
Zhongsu Luo, Di Weng, Jiawen Zhu, Shuhan Liu, Xiwen Cai, Ran Chen, Kai Xiong, Jiajun Zhu, Xinhuan Shu, Yingcai Wu · Boston

DARE: An Explainable AI-visualization Framework for Ill-defined Decision Making (TVCG)
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Evanthia Dimara · Boston

Treadstone: A Communication Channel for Human-AI Collaborative Data Analysis
Hyunwook Lee, Sungbeom Cho, William Benjamin, Changhee Lee, Hyotaek Jeon, Daeun Jeong, Sungbok Shin, Sungahn Ko, Niklas Elmqvist · Boston

VisPuzzle: Task-Aware Composite Visualization Construction
Zheng Wang, Zhiyang Shen, Lingyun Yu, Shixia Liu · Boston

The more the merrier

Situatedness in Visualization Design: Making Unresolved Work Actionable
Paul Parsons, Prakash Chandra Shukla, Phuong Bui, Srishti Agrawal, Ali Baigelenov · Boston

DeepConnect: A Visual Analytics System for Bridging Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations
Yingchaojie Feng, Zekai Shao, Yiqun Sun, Yixuan Tang, Anthony K. H. Tung · Paris

Embedding Video into Collaborative Visualizations: Hybrid Gesture Interaction and Snapping Fisheye Support for Remote Sensemaking
Adrian Kristanto, Tim Dwyer, Maxime Cordeil, Jens Emil Grønbæk, Benjamin Tag, Christophe Hurter, Jesper Kjeldskov · Boston

Pointing at Data Together: Establishing Common Ground with Multi-Modal Data Representations in Blind/Sighted Collaboration
Jonathan Zong, Arvind Satyanarayan · Boston

DAVA: Decoding Art With Visual Analytics Through Feature Modeling and Multi-Agent Collaboration (TVCG)
Wei Zhang, Xiaoyan Gu, Hengru Liu, Peiyi Jiang, Xianfeng Peng, Zhenqian Xu, Yifang Wang, and Wei Chen · Boston

Visualize the Invisible: Exposing Causal Layers in GPU Performance Analysis through Milestone Abstractions
Yuanhuan Deng, Katherine Isaacs, Yifan Sun · Boston

DVD: Scaffolding Non-experts' Ideation of Data Videos through Co-creation with AI (TVCG)
Xiaozhu Hu, Yuchao Zhuo, Bingyuan Wang, Zeyu Wang, Mingming Fan, Tristan Braud, Xian Xu · Boston

I feel tangled in a net

ZipLine: Visual Analysis of Multivariate Graphs with Predicate Logic
Sjoerd Vink, Suyang Li, Brian Montambault, Michael Behrisch, Mingwei Li, Remco Chang · Boston

Visualizing High-Dimensional Graph Embeddings via Informed Multi-View Projections
Ya Ji, Xuefeng Li, Timo Brand, Jacob Miller, Peng Zhang, Stephen Kobourov, Yifan Hu · Boston

NEXO: Adaptive Visualization for Comparative Exploration of Knowledge Graphs with Natural Language Interaction
Reza Shahriari, Justin Whorton, Jonathan Bona, Kevin Sexton, Mathias Brochhausen, Jaime Ruiz, Eric Ragan · Boston

Visualization Tasks for Unlabeled Graphs (TVCG)
Matt I. B. Oddo, Ryan Smith, Stephen Kobourov, Tamara Munzner · Boston

LayoutAgent: LLM-Guided Multi-Objective Optimization for Graph Layout Generation
Yilei He, Jiansu Pu, Chengjin Shi, Miao Zheng, Jinyue Huang · Tianjin

GraphPolaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Graph Databases
Michael Behrisch, Sjoerd Vink, Leonardo Christino, Remco Chang · Boston

Proportional Aggregation in Hierarchical Data Visualization (TVCG)
Antonia Schlieder, Jan Rummel, Filip Sadlo · Boston

That's way too many dimensions for me

When One Point Is Not Enough: Addressing Ambiguous Instances in Dimensionality Reduction by Splitting
Diede van der Hoorn, Alessio Arleo, Fernando Paulovich · Boston

Homology-Preserving Dimensionality Reduction via Adaptive Mapper and Landmark Isomap (TVCG)
Shakiba Khourashahi, Ilia Jahanshahi, Bei Wang, Lin Yan · Boston

MAPLE: Self-supervised Learning-Enhanced Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction for Visual Analysis (TVCG)
Zeyang Huang, Takanori Fujiwara, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Wandrille Duchemin, Andreas Kerren · Boston

Towards More Explainable Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction: A Feature-Driven Interaction Approach (TVCG)
Aeri Cho; Hyeon Jeon; Kiroong Choe; Seokhyeon Park; Jinwook Seo · Boston

Topological Autoencoders++: Fast and Accurate Cycle-Aware Dimensionality Reduction (TVCG)
Mattéo Clémot, Julie Digne, Julien Tierny · Boston

UMATO: Bridging Local and Global Structures for Reliable Visual Analytics with Dimensionality Reduction (TVCG)
Hyeon Jeon, Kwon Ko, Soohyun Lee, Jake Hyun, Taehyun Yang, Gyehun Go, Jaemin Jo, Jinwook Seo · Boston

Into the Void: Mapping the Unseen Gaps in High Dimensional Data (TVCG)
Xinyu Zhang, Tyler Estro, Geoff Kuenning, Erez Zadok, Klaus Mueller · Boston

I'm not so certain

Topological Analysis of Kernel Density Estimates via Uncertainty-Aware Morse Complexes and Coresets
Weiran Lyu, Jeff Phillips, Bei Wang · Boston

Mixed Uncertainty in One View: Co-Visualizing Statistical Variability and Qualitative Confidence
Racquel Fygenson, Lace Padilla, Laura Matzen · Boston

A General Approach to Visualizing Uncertainty in Statistical Graphics (TVCG)
Bernarda Petek, David Nabergoj, Erik Štrumbelj · Boston

Visual Indicators to Increase the Detection of Linguistic Media Bias
Smi Hinterreiter, Anna Chelsea Bahß, Ann-Christin Gah, Timo Spinde, Isao Echizen, Marc Latoschik · Boston

Seeing Through the Forecast Clutter: Communicating Forecast Distributions with Weighted Multiple Forecast Visualizations
Ruishi Zou, Siyi Wu, Racquel Fygenson, Dakuo Wang, Michael Correll, Lace Padilla · Boston

Probabilistic Latent Space Modeling for Coherent Ensemble Visualization
Cenyang Wu, Runhao Lin, Qinhan Yu, Liang Zhou · Boston

Colour Blinded by the Noise
Harriet Mason, Rachel Rogers, Alison Kleffner, Di Cook · Pre-recorded talk

I don't trust you, explain yourself!

Conveying Causality through Visualization: A Survey of Visual Causal Inference
Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, David Gotz · Boston

Fact-check Your Information (FYI): A Design Probe to Understand How People Actually Fact-check Data-Driven Articles
Nguyen-Truong Thinh, Yuxuan DU, Phongsakon Konrad, Arpit Narechania · Boston

Spatial Visual Analytics for Multi-Document Summary Verification
Jiahao Xu, Wei Liu, Yang Liu, Eric Krokos, Kirsten Whitley, Xuan Wang, Rebecca Faust, Chris North · Boston

FOX: Visual Exploration of Data Fact Outliers
Yikai Li, Yong WANG · Boston

Do You "Trust" This Visualization? An Inventory to Measure Trust in Visualizations (TVCG)
Huichen Will Wang, Kylie Lin, Andrew Cohen, Ryan Kennedy, Zach Zwald, Carolina Nobre, and Cindy Xiong Bearfield · Boston

FADEx: Feature Attribution and Distortion-based Explanation of Dimensionality Reduction
Lucas Greff Meneses, Evandro S. Ortigossa, Claudio Silva, Luis Gustavo Nonato · Boston

Interactive Visual Exploration of Rule-Based Model Logic (TVCG)
Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, Bahavathy Kathirgamanathan · Boston

Modern talking—visually

CausalChat: Interactive Causal Model Development and Refinement Using Large Language Models (TVCG)
Yanming Zhang, Akshith Kota, Eric Papenhausen, Klaus Mueller · Boston

Beyond One Output: Visualizing and Comparing Distributions of Language Model Generations
Emily Reif, Claire Yang, Jared Hwang, Deniz Nazar, Noah Smith, Jeffrey Heer · Boston

ChartFI: Benchmarking Faithfulness and Insightfulness of Chart Descriptions from Multimodal Large Language Models
Fen Wang, Zekai Shao, Qiman Kang, Chunran Hu, Zhixuan Zhang, Lexu Xie, Chao Liu, Siming Chen · Boston

Automatic Transfer Function Design via MLLM-Assisted 2D Semantic Decomposition
Haejin Jeong, Won-Ki Jeong · Boston

Exploring MLLMs Perception of Network Visualization Principles (TVCG)
Jacob Miller, Markus Wallinger, Ludwig Felder, Timo Brand, Henry Förster, Johannes Zink, Chunyang Chen, Stephen Kobourov · Boston

VisCanvas: A Node-based Interface for Exploratory Visualization Authoring with LLM
Yuki Ueno, Bretho Danzy, Zhuojun Jiang, Chris Bryan · Boston

Flint: A Semantic-driven Data Visualization Intermediate Language
Yunhai Wang, Kecheng Lu, Junhao Chen, Alper Sarikaya, Chenglong Wang · Boston

From design spaces to visual design

How We Map Possibilities: Understanding Design Spaces for Visualization (TVCG)
Zichun Dai, Yechun Peng, Nan Cao, and Yang Shi · Boston

Representational Fidelity in Didactic Visualization: Toward a Multidimensional Design Space
Shehryar Saharan, Michele Oliver, Karen Gordon, Gaël McGill, Jodie Jenkinson · Boston

A Design Space for Quantum Circuit Visualizations
Hyeok Kim, Leilani Battle · Boston

Crossing the Chasm: Bridging Visual Augmentations and Designer Intent (TVCG)
Luke S. Snyder, Maureen C. Stone, Jeffrey Heer · Boston

Design Knowledge in Data Visualization: Mapping the Epistemic Landscape
Paul Parsons, Colin Gray, Ali Baigelenov · Boston

Predicting affective connotation of visualizations from their constituent colors
Karen Schloss, Halle Braun, Kushin Mukherjee, Anna Chinni, Seth Gorelik · Boston

Sheaves for Visual Encodings and Visual Fusion
Dhruv Meduri, Youjia Zhou, Bei Wang · Boston

Please don't just stare at the picture

More Like Vis, Less Like Vis: Comparing Interactions for Integrating User Preferences into Partial Specification Recommenders (TVCG)
Grace Guo, Subhajit Das, Jian Zhao, and Alex Endert · Boston

Libra+: Compositional Interaction for Data Visualization
Xu Luo, Yue Zhao, Bongshin Lee, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Yunhai Wang · Tianjin

KeySI: An Interaction Framework for Tuning Text Embeddings Based on Human Feedback
Yan Zhu, Yongbo Chen, Rebecca Faust · Boston

UnitoPia: Interactive Construction of Pictorial Unit Visualization using a Contain-and-Fill Model
Xinghui Fu, Zhida Sun, Yoojin Jeon, Guozheng Li, Yu Zhang, Bongshin Lee, Min Lu · Boston

Juicy Interactive Visualization: Evaluating How Excessive Feedback Design Shapes Visualization Engagement
Shano Liang, Max Chen, Lane Harrison · Boston

Distortion-aware brushing for reliable cluster analysis in multidimensional projections (TVCG)
Hyeon Jeon, Michaël Aupetit, Soohyun Lee, Kwon Ko, Youngtaek Kim, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, and Jinwook Seo · Boston

ProVega: A Grammar to Ease the Prototyping, Creation, and Reproducibility of Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization Solutions
Matteo Filosa, Graziano Blasilli, Emilio Martino, Marco Angelini · Boston

Places and spaces

Designing a Visualization Atlas: Lessons & Reflections from The UK Co-Benefits Atlas for Climate Mitigation
Jinrui Wang, Alexis Pister, Sian Phillips, Sarah Bissett, Ruaidhri Higgins-Lavery, Clare Wharmby, Andrew Sudmant, Uta Hinrichs, Benjamin Bach · Boston

UrbanTrace: LLM-Assisted Discovery and Semantics-Aware Integration of Spatial Data
Sonia Castelo Quispe, Eden Wu, João Rulff, Harish Doraiswamy, Juliana Freire, Claudio Silva · Boston

Structuring Line Ensembles with Path-Integrated Fidelity and Structural Inconsistency Fields
Yumeng Xue, Patrick Paetzold, Bin Chen, Yunhai Wang, Christophe Hurter, Oliver Deussen · Boston

A Neural Field-Based Approach for View Computation & Data Exploration in 3D Urban Environments (TVCG)
Stefan Cobeli, Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Rodrigo Valença, Nivan Ferreira, Fabio Miranda · Boston

CounterCrime - Using counterfactual explanations to explore crime reduction scenarios (TVCG)
Marcos M. Raimundo, Germain Garcia-Zanabria, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Jorge Poco · Boston

Region-Aware Wasserstein Distances of Persistence Diagrams and Merge Trees (TVCG)
Mathieu Pont, Christoph Garth · Boston

SIGMA: A Spatial Interaction Grammar for Multi-Display Visual Analytics
Yogesh Rai, Haeyong Chung · Boston

How can I do this myself?

Visualization Autocomplete: Visualization Authoring via Stepwise Design Recommendations
Hyeon Jeon, Sungbok Shin, Niklas Elmqvist · Boston

GeoAuthor: Linking Text and Visualization for Geographic Article Authoring (TVCG)
Zhenning Chen, Hanbei Zhan, Shifu Chen, Zikun Deng, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu · Boston

Skeleton: Visual Authoring of Non-visual Data Experiences
Frank Elavsky, Chieri Nnadozie, Lucas Nadolskis, Patrick Carrington, Dominik Moritz · Boston

TailVis: Expressive Visualization Refinement Preserving Data-Binding Integrity
Yumin Song, Seokhyeon Park, Soohyun Lee, Aeri Cho, Hyeon Jeon, John Chung, Jinwook Seo · Boston

DataMagic: Authoring Data Videos through Declarative Multi-Agent Orchestration
Yupeng Xie, ZhenYang Wang, Liangwei Wang, Jiayi ZHU, Zhouan Shen, Yuyu Luo · Boston

The CAPED Framework: Characterizing User Skills in Visualization Authoring through the Lens of Tasks and Tools
Bongshin Lee, Zhicheng Liu, John Thompson, Chenglong Wang · Boston

Chart2SVG: Editable SVG Generation from Raster Chart Images
Jinning Cui, Lu Chen, Haoyan Shi, Yue He, Chenglong Wang, Mengyu Zhou, Weidong Huang, Yunhai Wang · Tianjin

Let's dig into the data (from China)

DiffGraph: Controllable Graph Layout Generation with Diffusion Models
Guozheng Li, Xudong Zhou, Haotian Mi, Jinyuan Liang, Min Lu, Yi Chen, Takayuki Itoh, Chi Harold Liu · Pre-recorded talk

Walking Through Discussions: A Mobile Visual Analytics System for In-Situ Group Discussion Analysis
Yiping Sun, Ziyao Kang, Wei Zeng, Minli Wu, Jiazhi Xia · Tianjin

Beyond Quantification of Neighborhoods: Perception-Driven Quality Measures for Dimensionality Reduction
Jiazhi Xia, Chunxi Deng, Xiangyu Zhu · Tianjin

VA-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Visual Analytics Interface Construction
Yue Zhao, Hongxu Liu, Feiyu Wang, Xiaoyu Yang, Tong Ge, Zhen Yang, Chao Wang, Qiong Zeng · Tianjin

Probe-Driven Visual Analytics for Diagnosing and Enhancing Physical Knowledge in Air Quality Forecasting Models
Yiming Lin, Jinghan Bai, Huijie Zhang, Qiushi Xia, Jialu Dong · Tianjin

SNAP-tFDP: Massively Scalable Graph Layouts via Sparse Negative Sampling
Xin Chen, Shuowei Hou, Yifan Wang, Mingliang Xue, Zezheng Feng, Oliver Deussen, Weidong Huang, Yunhai Wang · Tianjin

EvoInsight: A Conversational Framework for End-to-End Generation of Topic-Oriented Videos from Large-Scale Texts
Zongchao Dai, Chenyi Liu, Jie Li · Tianjin

Let's dig into the data (from France)

PROVA-GT: PROvenance-centered Visual Analytics for Grounded Theory
Qifan Zhou, Qingqing Bi, Weihua Zhou, Duo Chen, Siwei Fu · Boston

Exposing the Unsaid: Visualizing Hidden LLM Bias through Stochastic Path Aggregation
Matteo Pelossi, Rita Sevastjanova, Thilo Spinner, Mennatallah El-Assady · Paris

ForestVis: Visualization of 3D Forestry Point Clouds
Benjamin Powley, Petra Horváth, Basam Dahy, Nivan Ferreira, Johan Fransson, Andreas Kerren, Claudio Linhares, Amilcar Soares · Paris

What's Your VATI? Understanding Attraction Profiles for Data Visualization on Social Media
Chuyi Zheng, Zikai Li, Zijian Yang, Shenghong Li, Lixing Chen, Yang Shi · Boston

An Algorithmic Perspective on Information Visualization
Wouter Meulemans · Paris

VACP: Visual Analytics Context Protocol
Tobias Stähle, Péter Gyarmati, Thilo Spinner, Rita Sevastjanova, Dominik Moritz, Mennatallah El-Assady · Paris

ProgressiVis: A Language and Environment for Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization
Jean-Daniel Fekete, Christian Poli · Paris

My followers need to know about this!

PolarWeather: Visual Analysis of Multi-Platform Polarization Dynamics on Social Media
Jianing Yin, Tan Tang, Haobo Zheng, Buwei Zhou, Lu Ying, Songela Nurdawuliet, Yuan Tian, Tai-Quan Peng, Dazhen Deng, Yingcai Wu · Boston

SocialFiVis: A Visual Analytics Sandbox for LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Simulation in Social Finance
Yi-Fan Cao, Qing Shi, Liangwei Wang, Leo Yu-Ho Lo, Lin Chen, Yuzi Han, Yang Wang, Kani Chen · Boston

EMINDS: Understanding User Behavior Progression for Mental Health Exploration on Social Media (TVCG)
Rui Sheng, Yifang Wang, Xingbo Wang, Shun Dai, Qingyu Guo, Tai-Quan Peng, Huamin Qu, and Dongyu Liu · Boston

SOCAS: A Social Media Public Opinion Causal Analysis System Validated by the Funnel of Causality Theory
Chen Yi, Yihang Yang, Xingyu Lan, Siming Chen · Boston

SMG-Vis: Supporting Judgment in Multi-Target Social Media Analysis through Group Exploration and Stance Reasoning
Yihang Yang, Kengyi Wang, Chen Yi, Chunran Hu, Xingyu Lan, Siming Chen · Tianjin

Linking Heterogeneous Data with Coordinated Agent Flows for Social Media Analysis
Shifu Chen, Dazhen Deng, Zhihong Xu, Sijia Xu, Linyu Qin, Tai-Quan Peng, Yingcai Wu · Boston

It Seems Like Such a Simple Thing: Challenges and Opportunities for Giving Credit in Science Museums
Kate Blomgren, Derya Akbaba, Ryan Wyatt, Miriah Meyer · Boston

Story time

ProvTales: A Dataset for Key Narrative Extraction from Provenance Graphs
Qi Jiang, Zhentao Zheng, Ziyu Huang, Binyan Gao, Xueqian Zheng, Xuhui Ma, Ronghua Liang, Guodao Sun · Pre-recorded talk

GeoNarrative: Transforming geospatial textual data into narrative storytelling visualization
Ruixian Ma, Biru Cao, Winston Yap, Jiaxin Gao, Wenzhe Peng, Takehiko Nagakura, Fábio Duarte, Paolo Santi, Carlo Ratti · Tianjin

Counterbalance: A Declarative Tool for Privacy-Preserving Statistical Chart Authoring based on Differential Privacy
Xumeng Wang, Shuangcheng Jiao, Chris Bryan, Yining Wang · Tianjin

QueerTravel: Visualizing Social Safety Enriched with Community Experiences to Support Travel Decisions
Başak Oral, Alexandru Telea, Evanthia Dimara · Paris

Authoring Narrative Visualization in Motion: Visual Storytelling in Swimming Videos
Junhao Zhao, Romain Vuillemot, Petra Isenberg, Lijie Yao · Paris

Mind the Badge: How Visualization Badges Impact Reading Visualizations
Valentin Edelsbrunner, Jinrui Wang, Min Chen, Pierre Dragicevic, Benjamin Bach · Paris

Listening to the City, Seeing the Planet: Integrating Environmental Complaint Text and AlphaEarth for Multi-Scale Visual Analytics
Yunchao Wang, Jinghui Chu, Kaijun Yang, zhe chen, Gefei Zhang, Guodao Sun, Ronghua Liang · Pre-recorded talk

What does it mean to live, anyway?

Human-Guided Causal Knowledge Injection for Virtual Cells
Pengcheng Wang, Changjian Chen, Zhuo Tang, You Wu, Long Wang, Feng Yu, Kenli Li · Tianjin

Loom: Multi-Region Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics with Local Neighborhoods and Global Trajectories
Siyuan Zhao, Md Nafiul Nipu, Hossein Fathollahian, Hao Chen, Ameen Salahudeen, Olga Karginova, G. Elisabeta Marai · Boston

LatentFlow: Visual Analytics for Latent Space Analysis in Molecular Graph Neural Networks
Shiyi Liu, Jiaqing Chen, Nicholas Hadler, Rostyslav Hnatyshyn, Michael Mahoney, Talita Perciano, John F. Hartwig, Gunther Weber, Ross Maciejewski · Boston

LAMDA: Aiding Visual Exploration of Atomic Displacements in Molecular Dynamics Simulations (TVCG)
Rostyslav Hnatyshyn, Danny Perez, Gerik Scheuermann, Ross Maciejewski, Baldwin Nsonga · Boston

Geranium: Multimodal Retrieval of Genomics Data Visualizations (TVCG)
Huyen N. Nguyen, Sehi L'Yi, Thomas C. Smits, Shanghua Gao, Marinka Zitnik, and Nils Gehlenborg · Boston

CellPrism: A Visual Analytics System for Exploring AI-Driven Virtual Cells in Drug Discovery
Chuhan Shi, Zijian Guo, Zelin Zang, Chengbo Zheng, Ding Ding, Rui Sheng · Boston

Nanouniverse: Virtual Instancing of Structural Detail and Adaptive Shell Mapping (TVCG)
Ruwayda Alharbi, Ondřej Strnad, Markus Hadwiger and Ivan Viola · Boston

Can we have a (real) doctor, please?

VeriLLMed: Visual Debugging of Medical Large Language Models with Knowledge Graphs
Yurui Xiang, Xingyi Mao, Rui Sheng, Zixin Chen, Zelin Zang, Yuyang Wu, Haipeng Zeng, Huamin Qu, Yushi Sun, Yanna Lin · Boston

HealthTale: A Patient-Centric Health Story Visualization Tool
Ryan Smith, Kyle Chin, Tamara Munzner · Boston

VIGMA: An Open-Access Framework for Visual Gait and Motion Analytics (TVCG)
Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Shuaijie Wang, Ridhuparan Kungumaraju, Tanvi Bhatt, Fabio Miranda · Boston

VIVA: Virtual Healthcare Interactions Using Visual Analytics, With Controllability Through Configuration (TVCG)
Jürgen Bernard, Mara Solen, Helen Novak Lauscher, Kurtis Stewart, Kendall Ho, Tamara Munzner · Boston

Visualizing and Interpreting Temporal Care Team Dynamics for Cancer Survival Risk Analysis
Yuhua Huang, Hsiao-Ying Lu, Kwan-Liu Ma · Boston

Charting Public Health: A Taxonomic Study of Visualization Practices in the Public Health Field
Mia Hines, Alvitta Ottley · Boston

Emotional Engagement in Narrative Medical Visualization: An Electrodermal Activity and Eye-Tracking Study
Beatrice Budich, Laura Garrison, Marc Vaudel, Jone Trovik, Florian Heinrich, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke · Boston

This feels amazingly real!

ManyFold: A Design Exploration of Data Visualization on Foldable Mobile Devices
Julian Baader, Ricardo Langner, Can Liu, Raimund Dachselt · Paris

Vibes on Demand: Adding Vibrotactile Encoding to Line Charts Shows Experiential Benefits Without Performance Costs
Anchit Mishra, Oliver Schneider, Matthew Brehmer · Paris

Touching or Chatting: The Utility of LLMs and Tactile Charts for Learning about Complex Chart Types by BLV Individuals
Tingying He, Maggie McCracken, Daniel Hajas, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Alexander Lex · Boston

Conversational Tactile Data Interfaces: Co-Designing Accessible Data Experiences with Blind Users Using Refreshable Tactile Displays and Conversational AI
Samuel Reinders, Munazza Zaib, Bongshin Lee, Ingrid Zukerman, Matthew Butler, Thien Autran, Sascha Cowley, Francois Jacobs, Lizhen Qu, Kim Marriott · Pre-recorded talk

HeedVision: Attention Awareness in Collaborative Immersive Analytics Environments
Arvind Srinivasan, Niklas Elmqvist · Boston

LiverPlan: A Stage-Adaptive Immersive Visual Analytics Framework for Anatomical Liver Surgical Planning
Qixuan Liu, Shi Qiu, Xiwen Wu, Yuqi Tong, Yinqiao Wang, Ruiyang Li, Jialun Pei, Shengdong Zhao, Chi-Wing Fu, Pheng Ann Heng · Boston

Charting the Immersive Self: A Scoping Review of Immersive Personal Visualisation
Thomas Davidson, Zihan Dai, Yalong Yang, Emily Wall, Keke Wu · Boston

Did you see that? Are you sure?

Visual Decoding Operators: Towards a Compositional Theory of Visualization Perception
Sheng Long, Remco Chang, eugene Wu, Alex Kale, Matthew Kay · Boston

Revisiting Channel Effectiveness: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation with Primitive Visual Stimuli
Soohyun Lee, Seokhyeon Park, Minsuk Chang, Jinwook Seo · Boston

What Draws Your Attention First? An Attention Prediction Model Based on Spatial Features in Virtual Reality (TVCG)
Matthew S. Castellana, Ping Hu, Doris Gutierrez, Arie E. Kaufman · Boston

Divided Attention Amplifies the Importance of Expectation-Aligned Visualization Design
Jiho Kim, Anna Chinni, Karen Schloss, Michael Gleicher · Boston

Cognitive Affordance in Visualization: Related Constructs, Design Factors, and Framework (TVCG)
Racquel Fygenson, Lace Padilla, and Enrico Bertini · Boston

Contextualization or Rationalization? The Effect of Causal Priors on Data Visualization Interpretation (TVCG)
Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, Estella Calcaterra, and David Gotz · Boston

Less Is More Reflective: Intervention Intensity and Metacognitive Disruption in Visual Analytics
Mengyu Chen, Yixin Bai, Zheyuan Lin, Emily Wall · Boston

Kids these days don't learn anything anymore, let's fix that!

Data Visualization for Teenage Teaching: A Review of Current Applications, Pedagogical Strategies, and Impact on Learning (TVCG)
Xingyu Lan, Xian Xu, Yifan Wang · Boston

What Do Visualization Instructors Want Students to Learn? Introducing a Concept Inventory for Visualization Design
Medina Lamkin, Heer Patel, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Leilani Battle · Boston

Read, Critique, or Sketch? Investigating Alternative Visualization Literacy Assessment Modalities
Zach Cutler, Lily Ge, Matthew Kay, Lane Harrison, Andrew McNutt, Alexander Lex · Boston

Baseline Exposure to Common Data Visualization Types Among the U.S. Adult Population
Kiegan Rice, Nola du Toit, Quentin Brummet, Heike Hofmann · Boston

VizPilot: Automated Onboarding for SVG-based Composite Visualizations using Multimodal LLMs
Nishaanthini Gnanavel, Yong WANG · Boston

Understanding the Research-Practice Gap in Visualization Design Guidelines (TVCG)
Nam Wook Kim, Grace Myers, Jinhan Choi, Yoonsuh Cho, Changhoon Oh, Yea-Seul Kim · Boston

Data Visualization Style Guides in Practice: Why They Emerge, How They Work, and When They Bend
Alvitta Ottley, Jon Schwabish · Boston

Let me through, I'm a scientist!

Gaussian Mixture Model-Based Splatting for Rapid Rendering and Time Series Analysis of Large-Scale Particle Data (TVCG)
Ruixiao Peng, Guan Li, Zhe Wang, Yu Dong, Tianchi Zhang, Xuyi Lu, Yifei Jia, Guihua Shan, Dong Tian · Boston

A Generic Lagrangian-Hamiltonian Framework for Optimal Reference Frames in Unsteady Flow
Xingdi Zhang, Amani Ageeli, Thomas Theußl, Peter Rautek, Markus Hadwiger · Boston

Rotation-Minimizing Space Deformations for the Analysis of Lagrangian Vortex Corelines
Julio Rey Ramirez, Xingdi Zhang, Markus Hadwiger, Peter Rautek · Boston

FA-INR: Adaptive Implicit Neural Representations for Interpretable Exploration of Simulation Ensembles
Ziwei Li, Yuhan Duan, Tianyu Xiong, Yi-Tang Chen, Wei-Lun Chao, Han-Wei Shen · Boston

A Study of Data Augmentation for Learning-Driven Scientific Visualization (TVCG)
Jun Han, Hao Zheng, and Jun Tao · Boston

Trustworthy Deep Learning-Assisted Visualization and Analysis for Distribution-Based Ensemble Scientific Data Summarization (TVCG)
Han Huang, Zheng-Han Huang, Nathania Josephine, Guan Li, Ko-Chih Wang · Boston

A Few-Shot Learning Framework for Time-Varying Scientific Data Generation via Conditional Diffusion Model (TVCG)
Jun Han · Boston

That's way too big!

FeatureZ : A Generalized Framework for User-Defined Feature-Preserving Scientific Data Compression
Nathaniel Gorski, Xin Liang, Hanqi Guo, Bei Wang · Boston

Preserving Discrete Morse‒Smale Complexes in Error-Bounded Lossy Compression (TVCG)
Yuxiao Li, Mingze Xia, Xin Liang, Bei Wang, and Hanqi Guo · Boston

ECoNGS: Efficient Compressive Neural Gaussian Splats for Volume Visualization
Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang · Boston

FZ-VIS: A Visual Analytics Framework for Quantities-of-Interest-Aware Scientific Lossy Compression
Guoxi Liu, Yuxiao Li, Congrong Ren, Robert Underwood, Xin Liang, Bei Wang, Sheng Di, Franck Cappello, Hanqi Guo · Boston

EXaCTz: Guaranteed Extremum Graph and Contour Tree Preservation for Distributed and GPU-Parallel Lossy Compression
Yuxiao Li, Mingze Xia, Xin Liang, Bei Wang, Hanqi Guo · Boston

EVOLVE: Efficient Learned Volume Compression with Variable-Rate Encoding on a Cross-Domain Database
Kaiyuan Tang, Maizhe Yang, Chaoli Wang · Boston

Robust Barycenters of Persistence Diagrams (TVCG)
Keanu Sisouk, Eloi Tanguy, Julie Delon, Julien Tierny · Boston

Time after time

What Makes a Gantt Chart? Reflections on Defining Chart Types Boundaries
Chang Han, Andrew McNutt, Katherine Isaacs · Boston

Visual Stenography: Feature Recreation and Preservation in Sketches of Noisy Line Charts (TVCG)
Rifat Ara Proma, Michael Correll, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen · Boston

SigTime: Learning and Visually Explaining Time Series Signatures (TVCG)
Yu-Chia Huang, Juntong Chen, Dongyu Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma · Boston

Detecting Stable Cross-Impact Patterns in Bivariate Time Series (TVCG)
Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Maram Akila, Bahavathy Kathirgamanathan, and Miguel Ponce-de-Leon · Boston

EnsembleNGP: Exploring Time-Varying Ensemble Data via Parameter and Spatial Space Decomposition
Jun Han · Boston

Spatio-Temporal Kernel Density Estimation for Streaming Time-Varying Data (TVCG)
Aritra Bhowmick, Yi-Jen Chiang, and Christopher Musco · Boston

From Scalars to Time Series: Rethinking Implicit Neural Representations for Time-Varying Volumetric Data
Weihan Zhang, Xuan Zhao, Yenwen Peng, Yuqi Chen, Jun Tao · Paris

Human-Centered Design, Accessibility & Interaction

Ambient Analytics: Calm Technology for Immersive Visualization and Sensemaking (CG&A)
Sebastian Hubenschmid, Arvind Srinivasan, Niklas Elmqvist, Dieter Schmalstieg, Michael Sedlmair

An Age-Based Study Into Interactive Narrative Visualization Engagement (CG&A)
Nina Errey, Yi Chen, Yu Dong, Quang Vinh Nguyen, Xiaoru Yuan, Tuck Wah Leong, Christy Jie Liang

Mastery Learning Improves Performance on Complex Tasks on PCP Literacy Test (CG&A)
Chandana Srinivas, Elif E. Firat, Robert S. Laramee, Alark P. Joshi

MuCHEx: A Multimodal Conversational Debugging Tool for Interactive Visual Exploration of Hierarchical Object Classification (CG&A)
Reza Shahriari, Yichi Yang, Danish Nisar Ahmed Tamboli, Michael Perez, Yuheng Zha, Jinyu Hou, Mingkai Deng, Eric D. Ragan, Jaime Ruiz, Daisy Zhe Wang, Zhiting Hu, Eric Xing

Automating the Path: An R&D Agenda for Human-Centered AI and Visualization (CG&A)
Niklas Elmqvist, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose

Toward Softerware: Enabling Personalization of Interactive Data Representations for Users With Disabilities (CG&A)
Frank Elavsky, Marita Vindedal, Ted Gies, Patrick Carrington, Dominik Moritz, ¯ystein Moseng

Applications, Domain Science & Data Representation

Quantum Computing and Visualization Research Challenges and Opportunities (CG&A)
E. Wes Bethel, Roel Van Beeumen, Talita Perciano

PLUTO: A Public Value Assessment Tool (CG&A)
Laura Koesten, PŽter Ferenc Gyarmati, Connor Hogan, Bernhard Jordan, Seliem El-Sayed, Magdalena Eitenberger, Marlene Auer, Torsten Mšller, Barbara Prainsack

From Prediction to Insight: Visual Analytics for Understanding Compound Potency Models (CG&A)
Bahavathy Kathirgamanathan, Tiago Janela, Elena Xerxa, Gennady Andrienko, JŸrgen Bajorath, Natalia Andrienko

The State of Single-Cell Atlas Data Visualization in the Biological Literature (CG&A)
Mark S. Keller, Eric Mšrth, Thomas C. Smits, Simon Warchol, Grace Guo, Qianwen Wang, Robert Krueger, Hanspeter Pfister, Nils Gehlenborg

What Data Do and Do Not Represent: Visualizing the Archive of Slavery (CG&A)
Shiyao Li, Margy Adams, Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, Lauren Klein

May (A)I Beautify Your Visualization? Expert Judgments of Acceptable Aesthetic Alterations
Kalina Borkiewicz, Jixian Li, Joshua A Levine, Katherine E. Isaacs

Visualizing in the Mind's Eye: Icon Design Shapes Mental Imagery of Fire Risks
Wen Xu, Anjana Arunkumar, Lace M. Padilla

Exploring LLM Agent Designs and Interaction Modalities for Scientific Visualization
Jackson Vonderhorst, Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Shusen Liu, Chaoli Wang

Vis4GS: A Visual Analytic Tool for 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction
Kai-Yuan Lin, Aryabima Mandala Putra, Jui-Chi Lee, Shih-Hsuan Hung

EvidenceLens: A Claim-Evidence Matrix for Auditing Financial Question Answering
Fengchen Gu, Xiaotian Ren, Zhengyong Jiang, Zhilu Zhang, Ángel F. García-Fernández, Angelos Stefanidis, Mian Zhou, Huakang Li, Jionglong Su

Lexara-RF: Reference-Free Metrics for Evaluating Conversational Visual Analytics Agents
Srishti Palani, Vidya Setlur

Attention Dynamics in Diffusion Models: A Visual Analytics Framework for Human–AI Collaboration
Yiran Xiao, George Legrady

What Do We Mean When We Talk About Infographics?
Xiaoyu Liu, Vishnu Sreekanth, Vraj Patel, Shalin Muzumdar, Diego Lopez, Fumeng Yang, Zhicheng Liu

dtour: a Steerable Tour de Vis Through High-Dimensional Data
Fritz Lekschas, Nezar Abdennur

Interaction Techniques for Virtual Dissectible Models
Tim McGraw, Jack Myers

A Data-Centric Perspective on Tree Visualizations
Manling Yang, Alexandra Scott, Chris Ahn, Daniel Jakab, Susie S.Y. Li, Mingwei S.G. Li, Remco Chang

lpviz: Interactive Linear Programming Visualization
Evan Grand, Michael Klamkin

Harnessing LLMs Without Surrendering Control: Delegation Boundaries in Visual Data Storytelling Authoring
Zhuojun Jiang, Yuki Ueno, Chris Bryan

Parts Measured, Persons Missed: A Profile-Centered Account of Visualization User Experience
Anjana Arunkumar, Lace M. Padilla

Investigating Status Quo Effects in Visualization-Aided Choice
Başak Oral, Wouter Ubbink, Evanthia Dimara, Angelos Chatzimparmpas

The Grand Challenge of AI, Visualization, and Healthcare: Insights from the VAHC Workshop 2025
Jürgen Bernard, David Gotz, Robert S. Laramee, Silvia Miksch, Gabriela Morgenshtern, Renata Georgia Raidou, Alessio Arleo

Visualizing Lagrangian Heat Transport Paths and Density Structures in Unsteady Heat Transfer
Besm Osman, Andrei Jalba, Michel Speetjens, Anna Vilanova

CATVis: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Workflow for Turbomachinery Simulation Data Visualization
Zhe Wang, Zehao Lou, Guanghui Zhao, Yu Dong, Guan Li, Pengyi Xu, GAORONG LIANG, Jun Liu, Guihua Shan

Drag, Infer, Reproject: Grounding LLMs through Spatial Interaction for Image Clustering
Yang Liu, Xuxin Tang, Jiahao Xu, Chris North

Swipytics: Leveraging Short-form Video Stream Metaphor in Exploratory Data Analysis
Jiwon Choi, Sehi L'Yi, Seojin Kim, Jaemin Jo

MLLM Perception of Color-Encoded Scalar Fields Reveals Model-Dependent Inversion of Chain-of-Thought
Minyi Liu, Yue Zhao, Xiaoyang Song, Shufan Qian, Yulong Bian, Qiong Zeng

Attention-Guided Saliency Maps for Interpreting Visualization Literacy in VLMs
Maeve Hutchinson, Abderrahmane Wassim Mehdaoui, Pranava Madhyastha

SpheriColor: Colormaps for Spherical Geospatial Input Topographies
Julius Rauscher, Johannes Fuchs, Daniel A Keim, Frederik L. Dennig

Comparing the Emotional Impact of Thematic Versus Episodic Framing in Visualization Text
Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Maurizio Porfiri, Oded Nov

Debugging as Evidence-Driven Reasoning: Visualization Opportunities in Data-Intensive Programming
Yongbo Chen, Yan Zhu, Rebecca Faust

Uncertainty Visualization for Approximated Barycenter of Contour Trees Based on Partial Optimal Transport
Mingzhe Li, Fangfei Lan, Gunther H Weber, Bei Wang

Information Terra: A Narrative-Anchored Semantic-First Projection of Document Embeddings
Brian Keith Norambuena, Fausto German, Chris North

A Multimodal Reasoning Typology for Grounding Chart-Image Coherence in Science Communication
Avina Nakarmi, Sohom Sen, Xun Song, Sreyashi Samaddar, Aritra Dasgupta

Mitigating Confirmation Bias Through Hand-Drawing Videos
Chenyu Lin, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Icy(Yunyi) Zhang

TuneScape: Visualizing Multi-Tuner Parameter Optimization Logs
Donghee Hong, Minjong Kim, Sooyoung Cha, Jaemin Jo

Streami: An MPI Data-Parallel Library to Compute Field Lines on GPUs
Stefan Zellmann, Milan Jaroš, Andrea Paris, Ingo Wald, Tatiana von Landesberger

Lossless-INR: Lossless Volumetric Implicit Neural Representations
Kaiyuan Tang, Daniel Burke, Chaoli Wang

Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Scientific Visualization Literacy
Patrick Phuoc Do, Chau Ta, Chaoli Wang

VEIL: How Visual Encoding Hijacking Induces Bias In Vision Models
Suranjana Sooraj, Xuyang Chen, Madhumitha Venkatesan, Dongyu Liu

Made to Feel: How Designers Bring Emotions into Affective Visualization
Yixin Bai, Ziyi Wang, Keke Wu, Fumeng Yang

reVISit-XR: Bringing Extended Reality into Embeddable, Trackable, and Replayable Visualization Studies
Shano Liang, Max Chen, Lane Harrison

“Trust Junk” Leads to Unjustified Support for Highly Discriminatory Predictive Models
Michael Correll, Lucy Havens, Mahsan Nourani

Hindsight: Similarity-Based Analytics for Mars Rover Drive Retrieval
Luke Fiorante, Leslie Liu, Adam Zhengyuan Xu, Xianmei Lei, Darwin Chiu, Krys Blackwood, Maggie Hendrie, Scott Davidoff, Santiago V Lombeyda, Hillary Mushkin

What-If Demolition: Home-First Narrative Anchoring for Public-Facing Gentrification Analytics
Ibrahim Al-Hazwani, Yanick Bachmann, Mennatallah El-Assady

SIVA: A Conversational and Declarative Scientific Visualization Tool
Michael Ballantyne, Aayush Kaji Shrestha, Pascal Grosset, Thomas Gilray, Roxana Bujack

Evaluating a Visual Query Tracer and Builder for Learning Declarative Logic Programming
Julián Méndez, Lukas Gerlach, Tobias Wieland, Alex Ivliev, Markus Krötzsch, Raimund Dachselt

Scalable Semantic Steering of Embedding Projections
Wei Liu, Eric Krokos, Kirsten Whitley, Rebecca Faust, Chris North

“I Want More Nuance”: Investigating the use of Physicalizations to Facilitate Discussions
Emmanuel Courtoux, Nathalie Bressa, Samuel Huron

360° Rays: Familiar, Yet Different and Better!
Bipasha Garg, Kamalakar Karlapalem

BLIMMP-Explorer: A Visual Decomposition of Bayesian Evidence in Metabolic Module Inference
Neha Sontakke, Joshua A Levine, Travis Wheeler

Computing the Quality of Isosurface-Based Visualizations Using a Feed-Forward Model for Single-Image Reconstruction
Li-Ta Lo, Christian Heine, Roxana Bujack

Error Aware Distribution Prediction for Lightweight Implicit Neural Representations
Zhimin Li, Jake Dylan Balla, Joshua A Levine

Rethinking Utility in Differentially Private Visualization: A Channel-Centric Perspective
Jing Yang, Sarayu Pacca, Zhaocong Yang, Liyue Fan

mlx-vis: GPU-Native Dimensionality Reduction on Apple Silicon
Han Xiao

SalusChart: A Data Visualization Library for Mobile Health Apps
Sebin Hwang, Seongjae Bae, Jehu Ahn, Zekai Shao, Eun Kyoung Choe, Bongshin Lee

Beyond Initial Creation: Two Decades of Community-based Chart Revisions from Wikimedia Commons
Jasmine Y Shih, Chase Stokes, Melanie Tory, Marti Hearst

Visual Analytics of Neighborhood Attribute Profiles for Exploring Structural Equivalence
Kohei Arimoto, Masahiko Itoh

The Balance between Nuance and Clarity: Decluttering Tabular Sequential Graphs to Counter Money Laundering
Salomé Esteves, Rita Costa, Louise Fallon, Pedro Bizarro

GEMS - Guided Evolutionary Molecule Design for Sustainable Chemicals
Coelina Robinson, Franziska Weissbach, Kjell Jorner, Mennatallah El-Assady, Christina Humer

Visualization Color Repair: A Browser Extension for Colorblind Users
Ayan Nath, Alex Kale

High Fidelity Visualization: Parameter Mapping as an Analytical Tool for Assessing Structural Correspondence
Carmen Hull, Jagoda Walny

Interactive Hierarchical Visualization for Exploring the Neotoma Paleoecological Taxonomy
Yanbing Chen, Jonathan Nelson, Simon Goring, Qianheng Zhang, Jessica Blois, John Williams

A Task Taxonomy for Edge and Trail Bundling
Markus Wallinger, Stephen Kobourov

Topology-Preserving Meshing of Implicit Scalar Fields via Monotonicity Constraints
Tanner Finken, Jixian Li, Bei Wang, Hanqi Guo, Joshua A Levine

Exploring Text Classification Models with Sparse Autoencoders
Daniel Kerrigan, Brian Barr, Enrico Bertini

UNIPO: Unified Interactive Visual Explanation for RL Fine-Tuning Policy Optimization
Aeree Cho, Alexander D Greenhalgh, Jonathan Bodea, ShengYun Peng, Duen Horng Chau

AttentionRadViz: Token-Anchored Attention Profile Visualization for Transformer Head Analysis
Jared Wilber

Subdivision Matters: Partitioning Strategies for Task-Parallel Topological Visualization
Mithilesh Biradar, Guoxi Liu, Federico Iuricich

Verify-First: Visual Triage of Structurally Consequential Instability in LLM-Generated Analytical Explanations
Suhyun Park

GeneaLink: Reconstructing Marriages in Genealogies with Visual Analytics Coupling GNN Link Prediction and Multi-Agent Negotiation
Zhuoyang Bu, Junjie Xiong, Shenghan Gao, Haipeng Zhang, Quan Li

EventColumn: Integrating Event Sequences into Tabular Visualizations
Jakob Zethofer, Andreas Hinterreiter, Lukas Schiefermüller, Belgin Mutlu, Marc Streit

Adaptive Uncertainty Visualization With jk-Plots
Nikolaus Piccolotto, Daniel Pahr, Laura Lotteraner, Fatih Öztank, Markus Bögl

Adapting CCDF Plots for Visualizing Ordinal Regression Results
Abhraneel Sarma