Papers

More detail about papers and their associated presentations will be released with the virtual website. What follows is a list of papers groups by session.

Tuesday, October 26
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Best Papers
Session Chair: Bongshin Lee, Silvia Miksch, Anders Ynnerman

Simultaneous Matrix Orderings for Graph Collections
Authors: Nathan van Beusekom, Wouter Meulemans, Bettina Speckmann

IRVINE: Using Interactive Clustering and Labeling to Analyze Correlation Patterns: A Design Study from the Manufacturing of Electrical Engines
Authors: Joscha Eirich, Jakob Bonart, Dominik Jäckle, Michael Sedlmair, Ute Schmid, Kai Fischbach, Tobias Schreck, Jürgen Bernard

Perception! Immersion! Empowerment! Superpowers as Inspiration for Visualization
Authors: Wesley Willett, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Sheelagh Carpendale, Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen, Lora Oehlberg, Petra Isenberg

Feature Curves and Surfaces of 3D Asymmetric Tensor Fields
Authors: Shih-Hsuan Hung, Yue Zhang, Harry Yeh, Eugene Zhang

Jurassic Mark: Inattentional Blindness for a Datasaurus Reveals that Visualizations are Explored, not Seen
Authors: Tal Boger, Steven Most, Steven Franconeri

Wednesday, October 27
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Explainable AI and Machine Learning
Session Chair: Hendrik Strobelt

AffectiveTDA: Using Topological Data Analysis for Improved Explainability in Affective Computing
Authors: Hamza Elhamdadi, Shaun Canavan, Paul Rosen

Human-in-the-loop Extraction of Interpretable Concepts in Deep Learning Models
Authors: Zhenge Zhao, Panpan Xu, Carlos Scheidegger, Liu Ren

Towards Visual Explainable Active Learning for Zero-Shot Classification
Authors: Shichao Jia, zeyu li, Nuo Chen, Jiawan Zhang

M^2Lens: Visualizing and Explaining Multimodal Models for Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Xingbo Wang, Jianben He, Zhihua Jin, Muqiao Yang, Yong Wang, Huamin Qu

NeuroCartography: Scalable Automatic Visual Summarization of Concepts in Deep Neural Networks
Authors: Haekyu Park, Nilaksh Das, Rahul Duggal, Austin Wright, Omar Shaikh, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng Chau

Visual Analytics for RNN-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Junpeng Wang, Wei Zhang, Hao Yang, Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, Liang Wang

Wednesday, October 27
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Interaction
Session Chair: Christian Tominski

Task-Based Effectiveness of Interactive Contiguous Area Cartograms
Authors: Ian K. Duncan, Shi Tingsheng, Simon T. Perrault, Michael T. Gastner

Nebula: A Coordinating Grammar of Graphics
Authors: Ran Chen, Xinhuan Shu, Jiahui Chen, Di Weng, Junxiu Tang, Siwei Fu, Yingcai Wu

Rotate or Wrap? Interactive Visualisations of Cyclical Data on Cylindrical or Toroidal Topologies
Authors: Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Benjamin Bach, Kim Marriott

DIEL: Interactive Visualization Beyond the Here and Now
Authors: Yifan Wu, Remco Chang, Joseph Hellerstein, Arvind Satyanarayan, Eugene Wu

VizSnippets: Compressing Visualization Bundles Into Representative Previews for Browsing Visualization Collections
Authors: Michael Oppermann, Tamara Munzner

Interactive Dimensionality Reduction for Comparative Analysis
Authors: Takanori Fujiwara, Xinhai Wei, Jian Zhao, Kwan-Liu Ma

Wednesday, October 27
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Surfaces and Volumes
Session Chair: Koji Koyamada

Real-Time Denoising of Volumetric Path Tracing for Direct Volume Rendering
Authors: Jose A. Iglesias-Guitian, Prajita Mane, Bochang Moon

Learning Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction for Volume Visualization
Authors: Sebastian Weiss, Mustafa Isik, Justus Thies, Rüdiger Westermann

STNet: An End-to-End Generative Framework for Synthesizing Spatiotemporal Super-Resolution Volumes
Authors: Jun Han, Hao Zheng, Danny Chen, Chaoli Wang

Interactive Exploration of Physically-Observable Objective Vortices in Unsteady 2D Flow
Authors: Xingdi Zhang, Markus Hadwiger, Thomas Theussl, Peter Rautek

3D Virtual Pancreatography
Authors: Shreeraj Jadhav, Konstantin Dmitriev, Joseph Marino, Matthew Barish, Arie E. Kaufman

Visual Analysis of Multi-Parameter Distributions across Ensembles of 3D Fields
Authors: Alexander Kumpf, Josef Stumpfegger, Patrick Fabian Härtl, Rüdiger Westermann

Wednesday, October 27
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Graphical Perception and Coloring
Session Chair: Danielle Albers Szafir

Context Matters: A Theory of Semantic Discriminability for Perceptual Encoding Systems
Authors: Kushin Mukherjee, Brian Yin, Brianne Sherman, Laurent Lessard, Karen Schloss

Conceptual Metaphor and Graphical Convention Influence the Interpretation of Line Graphs
Authors: Greg Woodin, Bodo Winter, Lace Padilla

Rethinking the Ranks of Visual Channels
Authors: Caitlyn McColeman, Fumeng Yang, Timothy F. Brady, Steven Franconeri

Affective Congruence in Visualization Design: Influences on Reading Categorical Maps
Authors: Cary L. Anderson, Anthony C. Robinson

Modeling Just Noticeable Differences in Charts
Authors: Min Lu, Joel Lanir, Chufeng Wang, Yucong Yao, Wen Zhang, Oliver Deussen, Hui Huang

Augmenting Parallel Coordinates Plots with Color-coded Stacked Histograms
Authors: Jinwook Bok, Bohyoung Kim, Jinwook Seo

Wednesday, October 27
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Short Papers: Social Sciences, Software Tools, Journalism, and Storytelling
Session Chair: Siming Chen

GeoSneakPique: Visual autocompletion for geospatial queries
Authors: Vidya Setlur, Sarah Battersby, Tracy Kam Hung Wong

Atlas: Grammar-based Procedural Generation of Data Visualizations
Authors: Zhicheng Liu, Chen Chen, Francisco Morales, Yishan Zhao

On The Potential of Zines as a Medium for Visualization
Authors: Andrew M McNutt

Narrative Sensemaking: Strategies for Narrative Maps Construction
Authors: Brian Felipe Keith Norambuena, Tanushree Mitra, Chris North

Text Visualization and Close Reading for Journalism with Storifier
Authors: Nicole Sultanum, Anastasia Bezerianos, Fanny Chevalier

Conceptualizing Visual Analytic Interventions for Content Moderation
Authors: Sahaj Vaidya, Jie Cai, Soumyadeep Basu, Azadeh Naderi, Donghee Yvette Wohn, Aritra Dasgupta

How Learners Sketch Data Stories
Authors: Rahul Bhargava, Dee Williams, Catherine D’Ignazio

Gemini²: Generating Keyframe-Oriented Animated Transitions Between Statistical Graphics
Authors: Younghoon Kim, Jeffrey Heer

Wednesday, October 27
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Perspectives and Reflections
Session Chair: Kwan-Liu Ma

Seek for Success: A Visualization Approach for Understanding the Dynamics of Academic Careers
Authors: Yifang Wang, Tai-Quan Peng, Huihua Lu, Haoren Wang, Xiao Xie, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu

VitaLITy: Promoting Serendipitous Discovery of Academic Literature with Transformers & Visual Analytics
Authors: Arpit Narechania, Alireza Karduni, Ryan Wesslen, Emily Wall

VIS30K: A Collection of Figures and Tables From IEEE Visualization Conference Publications
Authors: Jian Chen, Meng Ling, Rui Li, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Michael Sedlmair, Torsten Möller, Robert S. Laramee, Han-Wei Shen, Katharina Wüsche, Qiru Wang

Gender in 30 Years of IEEE Visualization
Authors: Natkamon Tovanich, Pierre Dragicevic, Petra Isenberg

E-ffective: A Visual Analytic System for Exploring the Emotion and Effectiveness of Inspirational Speeches
Authors: Kevin Maher, Zeyuan Huang, Jiancheng Song, Xiaoming Deng, Yu-Kun Lai, Cuixia Ma, Hao Wang, Yong-Jin Liu, Hongan Wang

Explanatory Journeys: Visualising to Understand and Explain Administrative Justice Paths of Redress
Authors: Jonathan Roberts, Peter Butcher, Ann Sherlock, Sarah Nason

Wednesday, October 27
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Decision Making
Session Chair: Daniel Archambault

The Unmet Data Visualization Needs of Decision Makers within Organizations
Authors: Evanthia Dimara, Harry Zhang, Melanie Tory, Steven Franconeri

Knowledge Rocks: Adding Knowledge Assistance to Visualization Systems
Authors: Anna-Pia Lohfink, Simon Duque Anton, Heike Leitte, Christoph Garth

A Critical Reflection on Visualization Research: Where Do Decision Making Tasks Hide?
Authors: Evanthia Dimara, John Stasko

From Jam Session to Concert Hall: Synchronous Communication and Collaboration Around Data in Organizations
Authors: Matthew Brehmer, Robert Kosara

Causal Support: Modeling Causal Inferences with Visualizations
Authors: Alex Kale, Yifan Wu, Jessica Hullman

Sibyl: Understanding and Addressing the Usability Challenges of Machine Learning In High-Stakes Decision Making
Authors: Alexandra Zytek, Dongyu Liu, Rhema Vaithianathan, Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Wednesday, October 27
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Multi-View and Visual Environments
Session Chair: Christophe Hurter

Semantic Snapping for Guided Multi-View Visualization Design
Authors: Yngve S. Kristiansen, Laura Garrison, Stefan Bruckner

SightBi: Exploring Cross-View Data Relationships with Biclusters
Authors: Maoyuan Sun, Abdul Rahman Shaikh, Hamed Alhoori, Jian Zhao

matExplorer: Visual Exploration on Predicting of Ionic Conductivity for Solid-State Electrolytes
Authors: Jiansu Pu, Hui Shao, Boyang Gao, Zhengguo Zhu, Yanlin Zhu, Yunbo Rao, Yong Xiang

TimeTubesX: A Query-Driven Visual Exploration of Observable, Photometric, and Polarimetric Behaviors of Blazars
Authors: Naoko Sawada, Makoto Uemura, Johanna Beyer, Hanspeter Pfister, Issei Fujishiro

Towards replacing physical testing of granular materials with a Topology-based Model
Authors: Aniketh Venkat, Attila Gyulassy, Graham Kosiba, Amitesh Maiti, Henry Reinstein, Richard Gee, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci

Tracking Internal Frames of Reference for Consistent Molecular Distribution Functions
Authors: Robin Skånberg, Martin Falk, Mathieu Linares, Anders Ynnerman, Ingrid Hotz

Wednesday, October 27
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
CG&A Papers: Data Physicalization
Session Chair: Trevor Hogan

What we talk about when we talk about data physicality
Authors: Dietmar Offenhuber

Data Badges: Making an Academic Profile through a DIY wearable physicalisation
Authors: Georgia Panagiotidou, Sinem Görücü, Andrew Vande Moere

Move&Find: The value of kinesthetic experience in a casual data representation
Authors: Jörn Hurtienne, Franzisca Maas, Astrid Carolus, Daniel Reinhardt, Cordula Baur, Carolin Wienrich

Slave Voyages:reflections on data sculptures
Authors: Doris Kosminsky, Douglas Thomaz de Oliveira

Narrative Physicalisation: Supporting Interactive Engagement with Personal Data
Authors: Maria Karyda, Danielle Wilde, Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard

Data Clothing and BigBarChart: designing physical data reports on indoor pollutants for individuals and communities
Authors: Laura J. Perovich, Phoebe Cai, Amber Guo, Kristin Zimmerman, Katherine Paseman, Dayanna Espinoza Silva, Julia G. Brody

Wednesday, October 27
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Short Papers: AI+VIS
Session Chair: Aritra Dasgupta

CloudFindr: A Deep Learning Cloud Artifact Masker for Satellite DEM Data
Authors: Kalina Borkiewicz, Viraj Shah, J.P. Naiman, Chuanyue Shen, Stuart Levy, Jeffrey D Carpenter

An Exploration And Validation of Visual Factors in Understanding Classification Rule Sets
Authors: Jun Yuan, Oded Nov, Enrico Bertini

Fast & Accurate Gaussian Kernel Density Estimation
Authors: Jeffrey Heer

“Why did my AI agent lose?”: Visual Analytics for Scaling Up AAR/AI
Authors: Delyar Tabatabai, Anita Ruangrotsakun, Jed Irvine, Jonathan Dodge, Zeyad Shureih, Kin-Ho Lam, Margaret Burnett, Alan Paul Fern, Minsuk Kahng

VAINE: Visualization and AI for Natural Experiments
Authors: Grace Guo, Maria Glenski, Zhuanyi Huang, Emily Saldanha, Alex Endert, Svitlana Volkova, Dustin L Arendt

Semantic Explanation of Interactive Dimensionality Reduction
Authors: Yali Bian, Chris North, Eric Krokos, Sarah Joseph

AdViCE: Aggregated Visual Counterfactual Explanations for Machine Learning Model Validation
Authors: Steffen Holter, Oscar Alejandro Gomez, Jun Yuan, Enrico Bertini

Contrastive Identification of Covariate Shift in Image Data
Authors: Matthew Olson, Thuy-Vy Nguyen, Gaurav Dixit, Neale Ratzlaff, Weng-Keen Wong, Minsuk Kahng

Wednesday, October 27
12:00-01:30PM CDT (UTC-5)
Recommendation and Automation
Session Chair: Torsten Möller

InfoColorizer: Interactive Recommendation of Color Palettes for Infographics
Authors: Lin-Ping Yuan, Ziqi Zhou, Jian Zhao, Yiqiu Guo, Fan Du, Huamin Qu

A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Reusing Infographic Charts
Authors: Weiwei Cui, Jinpeng Wang, He Huang, Yun Wang, Chin-Yew Lin, Haidong Zhang, Dongmei Zhang

Kori: Interactive Synthesis of Text and Charts in Data Documents
Authors: Shahid Latif, Zheng Zhou, Yoon Kim, Fabian Beck, Nam Wook Kim

Deconstructing Categorization in Visualization Recommendation: A Taxonomy and Comparative Study
Authors: Doris Jung-Lin Lee, Vidya Setlur, Melanie Tory, Karrie Karahalios, Aditya Parameswaran

KG4Vis: A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Visualization Recommendation
Authors: Haotian Li, Yong Wang, Songheng Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Huamin Qu

VizLinter: A Linter and Fixer Framework for Data Visualization
Authors: Qing Chen, Fuling Sun, Xinyue Xu, Zui Chen, Jiazhe Wang, Nan Cao

Wednesday, October 27
12:00-01:30PM CDT (UTC-5)
Immersive Environments, Personal Vis, and Dashboards
Session Chair: Yalong Yang

Propagating Visual Designs to Numerous Plots and Dashboards
Authors: Saiful Khan, Phong Nguyen, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Benjamin Bach, Min Chen, Euan Freeman, Cagatay Turkay

Exploring the Personal Informatics Analysis Gap: “There’s a Lot of Bacon”
Authors: Jimmy Moore, Pascal Goffin, Jason Wiese, Miriah Meyer

What’s the Situation with Situated Visualization? A Survey and Perspectives on Situatedness
Authors: Nathalie Bressa, Henrik Korsgaard, Aurélien Tabard, Steven Houben, Jo Vermeulen

TIVEE: Visual Exploration and Explanation of Badminton Tactics in Immersive Visualizations
Authors: Xiangtong Chu, Xiao Xie, Shuainan Ye, Haolin Lu, Hongguang Xiao, Zeqing Yuan, Zhutian Chen, Hui Zhang, Yingcai Wu

Touch and Beyond: Comparing Physical and Virtual Reality Visualizations
Authors: Kurtis Danyluk, Teoman Ulusoy, Wei Wei, Wesley Willett

An Automated Approach to Reasoning About Task-Oriented Visualization Insights in Responsive Visualization
Authors: Hyeok Kim, Ryan Rossi, Abhraneel Sarma, Dominik Moritz, Jessica Hullman

Wednesday, October 27
12:00-01:30PM CDT (UTC-5)
Multi-Dimensional Data
Session Chair: Michael Sedlmair

Imma Sort by Two or More Attributes With Interpretable Monotonic Multi-Attribute Sorting
Authors: Yan Lyu, Fan Gao, I-Shuen Wu, Brian Y. Lim

Integrated Dual Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative High-Dimensional Data
Authors: Juliane Müller, Laura Garrison, Philipp Ulbrich, Stefanie Schreiber, Stefan Bruckner, Helwig Hauser, Steffen Oeltze-Jafra

Revisiting Dimensionality Reduction Approaches for Visual Cluster Analysis: An Empirical Study
Authors: Jiazhi Xia, Yuchen Zhang, Jie Song, Yang Chen, Yunhai Wang, Shixia Liu

DimLift: Interactive Hierarchical Data Exploration through Dimensional Bundling
Authors: Laura Garrison, Juliane Müller, Stefanie Schreiber, Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Helwig Hauser, Stefan Bruckner

Attribute-based Explanations of Non-Linear Embeddings of High-Dimensional Data
Authors: Jan-Tobias Sohns, Michaela Schmitt, Fabian Jirasek, Hans Hasse, Heike Leitte

Measuring and Explaining the Inter-Cluster Reliability of Multidimensional Projections
Authors: Hyeon Jeon, Hyung-Kwon Ko, Jaemin Jo, Youngtaek Kim, Jinwook Seo

Wednesday, October 27
12:00-01:30PM CDT (UTC-5)
CG&A Papers: Visualizing big issues: Culture, Climate Change, and Communities
Session Chair: Kai Xu

Dynamic 3D Visualization of Climate Model Development and Results
Authors: Jeremy Walton, Samantha Adams, Wolfgang Hayek, Piotr Florek, Harold Dyson

Exploring the Design Space of Sankey Diagrams for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Authors: Brandon Mathis, Yuxin Ma, Michelle Mancenido, Ross Maciejewski

QuteVis: Visually Studying Transportation Patterns Using Multi-Sketch Query of Joint Traffic Situations
Authors: Shamal AL-Dohuki, Ye Zhao, Farah Kamw, Jing Yang, Xinyue Ye, Wei Chen

Many Views Are Not Enough: Designing for Synoptic Insights in Cultural Collections
Authors: Florian Windhager, Saminu Salisu, Roger A. Leite, Velitchko Filipov, Silvia Miksch, Günther Schreder, Eva Mayr

CLEVis: A Semantic Driven Visual Analytics System for Community Level Events
Authors: Chao Ma, Ye Zhao, Andrew Curtis, Farah Kamw, Shamal AL-Dohuki, Jing Yang, Suphanut Jamonnak, Ismael Ali

Thursday, October 28
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Sports, Commerce, and Social Media
Session Chair: Romain Vuillemot

Augmenting Sports Videos with VisCommentator
Authors: Zhutian Chen, Shuainan Ye, Xiangtong Chu, Haijun Xia, Hui Zhang, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu

TacticFlow: Visual Analytics of Ever-Changing Tactics in Racket Sports
Authors: Jiang Wu, Dongyu Liu, Ziyang Guo, Qingyang Xu, Yingcai Wu

VideoModerator: A Risk-aware Framework for Multimodal Video Moderation in E-Commerce
Authors: Tan Tang, Yanhong Wu, Lingyun Yu, Yuhong Li, Yingcai Wu

A Visualization Approach for Monitoring Order Processing in E-Commerce Warehouse
Authors: Junxiu Tang, Yuhua Zhou, Tan Tang, Di Weng, Boyang Xie, Lingyun Yu, Huaqiang Zhang, Yingcai Wu

MiningVis: Visual Analytics of the Bitcoin Mining Economy
Authors: Natkamon Tovanich, Nicolas Soulié, Nicolas Heulot, Petra Isenberg

Real-Time Visual Analysis of High-Volume Social Media Posts
Authors: Johannes Knittel, Steffen Koch, Tan Tang, Wei Chen, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Thomas Ertl

Thursday, October 28
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Studies and Evaluation Methodology
Session Chair: Cindy Xiong

CoUX: Collaborative Visual Analysis of Think-Aloud Usability Test Videos for Digital Interfaces
Authors: Ehsan Jahangirzadeh Soure, Emily Kuang, Mingming Fan, Jian Zhao

Professional Differences: A Comparative Study of Visualization Task Performance and Spatial Ability Across Disciplines
Authors: Kyle Hall, Anthony Kouroupis, Anastasia Bezerianos, Danielle Albers Szafir, Christopher Collins

Rainbow Dash: Intuitiveness, Interpretability and Memorability of the Rainbow Color Scheme in Visualization
Authors: Izabela Golebiowska, Arzu Çöltekin

Understanding Data Visualization Design Practice
Authors: Paul Parsons

Learning Objectives, Insights, and Assessments: How Specification Formats Impact Design
Authors: Elsie Lee, Shiqing He, Eytan Adar

Untidy Data: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tables
Authors: Lyn Bartram, Michael Correll, Melanie Tory

Thursday, October 28
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Accessible Visualization and Natural Language
Session Chair: Melanie Tory

Accessible Visualization via Natural Language Descriptions: A Four-Level Model of Semantic Content
Authors: Alan Lundgard, Arvind Satyanarayan

Towards Understanding Sensory Substitution for Accessible Visualization: An Interview Study
Authors: Pramod Chundury, Biswaksen Patnaik, Yasmin Reyazuddin, Christine Tang, Jonathan Lazar, Niklas Elmqvist

Communicating Visualizations without Visuals: Investigation of Visualization Alternative Text for People with Visual Impairments
Authors: Crescentia Jung, Shubham Mehta, Atharva Kulkarni, Yuhang Zhao, Yea-Seul Kim

Natural Language to Visualization by Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Yuyu Luo, Nan Tang, Guoliang Li, Jiawei Tang, Chengliang Chai, Xuedi Qin

GenNI: Human-AI Collaboration for Data-Backed Text Generation
Authors: Hendrik Strobelt, Jambay Kinley, Robert Krüger, Johanna Beyer, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander Rush

Words of Estimative Correlation: Studying Verbalizations of Scatterplots
Authors: Rafael Henkin, Cagatay Turkay

Thursday, October 28
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Flow, Topology, and Fields
Session Chair: Gerik Scheuermann

FTK: A Simplicial Spacetime Meshing Framework for Robust and Scalable Feature Tracking
Authors: Hanqi Guo, David Lenz, Jiayi Xu, Xin Liang, Wenbin He, Iulian R. Grindeanu, Han-Wei Shen, Tom Peterka, Todd Munson, Ian Foster

A Progressive Approach to Scalar Field Topology
Authors: Jules Vidal, Pierre Guillou, Julien Tierny

Unordered Task-Parallel Augmented Merge Tree Construction
Authors: Kilian Werner, Christoph Garth

Wasserstein Distances, Geodesics and Barycenters of Merge Trees
Authors: Mathieu Pont, Jules Vidal, Julie Delon, Julien Tierny

Optimization and Augmentation for Data Parallel Contour Trees
Authors: Hamish A. Carr, Oliver Rübel, Gunther H. Weber, James P. Ahrens

A Domain-Oblivious Approach for Learning Concise Representations of Filtered Topological Spaces for Clustering
Authors: Yu Qin, Brittany Terese Fasy, Carola Wenk, Brian Summa

Thursday, October 28
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Grammar and Learning
Session Chair: Dominik Moritz

ChartSeer: Interactive Steering Exploratory Visual Analysis with Machine Intelligence
Authors: Jian Zhao, Mingming Fan, Mi Feng

Net2Vis - A Visual Grammar for Automatically Generating Publication-Tailored CNN Architecture Visualizations
Authors: Alex Bäuerle, Christian van Onzenoodt, Timo Ropinski

Gosling: A Grammar-based Toolkit for Scalable and Interactive Genomics Data Visualization
Authors: Sehi L’Yi, Qianwen Wang, Fritz Lekschas, Nils Gehlenborg

THALIS: Human-Machine Analysis of Longitudinal Symptoms in Cancer Therapy
Authors: Carla Floricel, Md Nafiul Nipu, Mikayla Biggs, Andrew Wentzel, Guadalupe Canahuate, Lisanne van Dijk, Abdallah Mohamed, Clifton David Fuller, G. Elisabeta Marai

MultiVision: Designing Analytical Dashboards with Deep Learning Based Recommendation
Authors: Aoyu Wu, Yun Wang, Mengyu Zhou, Xinyi He, Haidong Zhang, Huamin Qu, Dongmei Zhang

Interactive Graph Construction for Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning
Authors: Changjian Chen, Zhaowei Wang, Jing Wu, Xiting Wang, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li, Shixia Liu

Thursday, October 28
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Autonomous Driving, Urban, and Spatiotemporal Data
Session Chair: Cagatay Turkay

Geo-Context Aware Study of Vision-Based Autonomous Driving Models and Spatial Video Data
Authors: Suphanut Jamonnak, Ye Zhao, Xinyi Huang, Md Amiruzzaman

Visual Evaluation for Autonomous Driving
Authors: Yijie Hou, Chengshun Wang, Junhong Wang, Xiangyang Xue, Xiaolong Zhang, Jun Zhu, Dongliang Wang, Siming Chen

Where Can We Help? A Visual Analytics Approach to Diagnosing and Improving Semantic Segmentation of Movable Objects
Authors: Wenbin He, Lincan Zou, Shekar Arvind Kumar, Liang Gou, Liu Ren

Compass: Towards Better Causal Analysis of Urban Time Series
Authors: Zikun Deng, Di Weng, Xiao Xie, Jie Bao, Yu Zheng, Mingliang Xu, Wei Chen, Yingcai Wu

Visual Cascade Analytics of Large-scale Spatiotemporal Data
Authors: Zikun Deng, Di Weng, Yuxuan Liang, Jie Bao, Yu Zheng, Tobias Schreck, Mingliang Xu, Yingcai Wu

DDLVis: Real-time Visual Query of Spatiotemporal Data Distribution via Density Dictionary Learning
Authors: Chenhui Li, George Baciu, Yunzhe WANG, Junjie Chen, Changbo Wang

Thursday, October 28
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Scalability and Rendering
Session Chair: Hanqi Guo

Interactive Focus+Context Rendering for Hexahedral Mesh Inspection
Authors: Christoph Neuhauser, Junpeng Wang, Rüdiger Westermann

Differentiable Direct Volume Rendering
Authors: Sebastian Weiss, Rüdiger Westermann

Accelerating Unstructured Mesh Point Location with RT Cores
Authors: Nate Morrical, Ingo Wald, Will Usher, Valerio Pascucci

Probabilistic Occlusion Culling using Confidence Maps for High-Quality Rendering of Large Particle Data
Authors: Mohamed Ibrahim, Peter Rautek, Guido Reina, Marco Agus, Markus Hadwiger

A Memory Efficient Encoding for Ray Tracing Large Unstructured Data
Authors: Ingo Wald, Nate Morrical, Stefan Zellmann

Pyramid-based Scatterplots Sampling for Progressive and Streaming Data Visualization
Authors: Xin Chen, Jian Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Yunhai Wang

Thursday, October 28
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Short Papers: Graphs, Charts, and Perception
Session Chair: Tanja Blascheck

TimeElide: Visual Analysis of Non-Contiguous Time Series Slices
Authors: Michael Oppermann, Luce Liu, Tamara Munzner

Semantic Resizing of Charts Through Generalization: A Case Study with Line Charts
Authors: Vidya Setlur, Haeyong Chung

Bayesian Modelling of Alluvial Diagram Complexity
Authors: Anjana Arunkumar, Shashank Ginjpalli, Chris Bryan

When Red Means Good, Bad, or Canada: Exploring People’s Reasoning for Choosing Color Palettes
Authors: Jarryullah Ahmad, Elaine Huynh, Fanny Chevalier

Does the Layout Really Matter? A Study on Visual Model Accuracy Estimation
Authors: Nicolas Grossmann, Jürgen Bernard, Michael Sedlmair, Manuela Waldner

Histogram binning revisited with a focus on human perception
Authors: Raphael Sahann, Torsten Möller, Johanna Schmidt

Fixation and Creativity in Data Visualization Design: Experiences and Perspectives of Practitioners
Authors: Paul Parsons, Prakash Chandra Shukla, Chorong Park

Towards a Survey on Static and Dynamic Hypergraph Visualizations
Authors: Maximilian T. Fischer, Alexander Frings, Daniel Keim, Daniel Seebacher

Thursday, October 28
12:00-01:30PM CDT (UTC-5)
Time Series and Events
Session Chair: Wolfgang Aigner

Interactive Visual Exploration of Longitudinal Historical Career Mobility Data
Authors: Yifang Wang, Hongye Liang, Xinhuan Shu, Jiachen Wang, Ke Xu, Zikun Deng, Cameron Campbell, Bijia Chen, Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu

KD-Box: Line-segment-based KD-tree for Interactive Exploration of Large-scale Time-Series Data
Authors: Yue Zhao, Jian Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu, Mingliang Xu, Dominik Moritz, Yunhai Wang

Sequen-C: A Multilevel Overview of Temporal Event Sequences
Authors: Jessica Magallanes, Tony Stone, Paul Morris, Suzanne Mason, Steven Wood, Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol

EVis: Visually Analyzing Environmentally Driven Events
Authors: Tinghao Feng, Jing Yang, Martha-Cary Eppes, Zhaocong Yang, Faye Moser

HisVA: a Visual Analytics System for Learning History
Authors: Dongyun Han, Gorakh Parsad, Hwiyeon Kim, Jaekyom Shim, Oh-Sang Kwon, Kyung Son, Jooyoung Lee, Isaac Cho, Sungahn Ko

SSR-TVD: Spatial Super-Resolution for Time-Varying Data Analysis and Visualization
Authors: Jun Han, Chaoli Wang

Thursday, October 28
12:00-01:30PM CDT (UTC-5)
Graphs and Trees
Session Chair: Jean-Daniel Fekete

Multi-level Area Balancing of Clustered Graphs
Authors: Hsiang-Yun Wu, Martin Nöllenburg, Ivan Viola

Understanding Missing Links in Bipartite Networks with MissBiN
Authors: Jian Zhao, Maoyuan Sun, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu

A State-of-the-Art Survey of Tasks for Tree Design and Evaluation with a Curated Task Dataset
Authors: Aditeya Pandey, Uzma Syeda, Chaitya Shah, John Alexis Guerra Gomez, Michelle A. Borkin

Edge-Path Bundling: A Less Ambiguous Edge Bundling Approach
Authors: Markus Wallinger, Daniel Archambault, David Auber, Martin Nöllenburg, Jaakko Peltonen

STRATISFIMAL LAYOUT: A Modular Optimization Model for Laying Out Layered Node-link Network Visualizations
Authors: Sara Di Bartolomeo, Mirek Riedewald, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Cody Dunne

Interactive Visual Pattern Search on Graph Data via Graph Representation Learning
Authors: Huan Song, Zeng Dai, Panpan Xu, Liu Ren

Thursday, October 28
12:00-01:30PM CDT (UTC-5)
Mitigating Bias
Session Chair: Evanthia Dimara

Left, Right, and Gender: Exploring Interaction Traces to Mitigate Human Biases
Authors: Emily Wall, Arpit Narechania, Adam Coscia, Jamal Paden, Alex Endert

VisQA: X-raying Vision and Language Reasoning in Transformers
Authors: Theo Jaunet, Corentin Kervadec, Romain Vuillemot, Grigory Antipov, Moez Baccouche, Christian Wolf

The Weighted Average Illusion: Biases in Perceived Mean Position in Scatterplots
Authors: Matt-Heun Hong, Jessica Witt, Danielle Albers Szafir

Impact of Cognitive Biases on Progressive Visualization
Authors: Marianne Procopio, Ab Mosca, Carlos Scheidegger, Eugene Wu, Remco Chang

Improving Visualization Interpretation Using Counterfactuals
Authors: Smiti Kaul, David Borland, Nan Cao, David Gotz

Lumos: Increasing Awareness of Analytic Behavior during Visual Data Analysis
Authors: Arpit Narechania, Adam Coscia, Emily Wall, Alex Endert

Thursday, October 28
12:00-01:30PM CDT (UTC-5)
Short Papers: Applications
Session Chair: Michael Krone

A Visual Analytics System for Water Distribution System Optimization
Authors: Yiran Li, Erin Musabandesu, Takanori Fujiwara, Frank J. Loge, Kwan-Liu Ma

CellProfiler Analyst Web (CPAW) - Exploration, analysis, and classification of biological images on the web
Authors: Bella Baidak, Yahiya Hussain, Emma Kelminson, Thouis Ray Jones, Loraine Franke, Daniel Haehn

Inspecting the Process of Bank Credit Rating via Visual Analytics
Authors: Qiangqiang Liu, Tangzhi Ye, Zhihua Zhu, Xiaojuan Ma, Quan Li

Where and Why is My Bot Failing? A Visual Analytics Approach for Investigating Failures in Chatbot Conversation Flows
Authors: Avi Yaeli, Sergey Zeltyn

AiR: An Augmented Reality Application for Visualizing Air Pollution
Authors: Noble Saji Mathews, Sridhar Chimalakonda, Suresh Jain

ConVIScope: Visual Analytics for Exploring Patient Conversations
Authors: Raymond Li, Enamul Hoque, Giuseppe Carenini, Richard Lester, Raymond Chau

Visually Connecting Historical Figures Through Event Knowledge Graphs
Authors: Shahid Latif, Shivam Agarwal, Simon Gottschalk, Carina Chrosch, Yanick Christian Tchenko, Felix Feit, Johannes Jahn, Tobias Braun, Elena Demidova, Fabian Beck

Understanding the Effects of Visualizing Missing Values on Visual Data Exploration
Authors: Hayeong Song, Yu Fu, Bahador Saket, John Stasko

Friday, October 29
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Data-Driven Communication and Storytelling
Session Chair: Zhicheng Liu

A Design Space for Applying the Freytag’s Pyramid Structure to Data Stories
Authors: Leni Yang, Xian XU, Xingyu Lan, Ziyan Liu, Shunan Guo, Yang Shi, Huamin Qu, Nan Cao

Kineticharts: Augmenting Affective Expressiveness of Charts in Data Stories with Animation Design
Authors: Xingyu Lan, Yang Shi, Yanqiu Wu, Xiaohan Jiao, Nan Cao

Interactive Data Comics
Authors: Zezhong Wang, Hugo Romat, Fanny Chevalier, Nathalie Henry Riche, Dave Murray-Rust, Benjamin Bach

Declutter and Focus: Empirically Evaluating Design Guidelines for Effective Data Communication
Authors: Kiran Ajani, Elsie Lee, Cindy Xiong, Cole Knaflic, William Kemper, Steven Franconeri

Showing Data about People: A Design Space of Anthropographics
Authors: Luiz Morais, Yvonne Jansen, Nazareno Andrade, Pierre Dragicevic

Visual Arrangements of Bar Charts Influence Comparisons in Viewer Takeaways
Authors: Cindy Xiong, Vidya Setlur, Benjamin Bach, Kylie Lin, Eunyee Koh, Steven Franconeri

Friday, October 29
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Glyphs and Sets
Session Chair: Johannes Fuchs

Generative Design Inspiration for Glyphs with Diatoms
Authors: Matthew Brehmer, Robert Kosara, Carmen Hull

GlyphCreator: Towards Automatic Generation of Example-based Circular Glyphs
Authors: Lu Ying, Tan Tang, Yuzhe Luo, Lvkesheng Shen, Xiao Xie, Lingyun Yu, Yingcai Wu

Shape-driven Coordinate Ordering for Star Glyph Sets via Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Ruizhen Hu, Bin Chen, Juzhan Xu, Oliver van Kaick, Oliver Deussen, Hui Huang

F2-Bubbles: Faithful Bubble Set Construction and Flexible Editing
Authors: Yunhai Wang, Da Cheng, Zhirui Wang, Jian Zhang, Liang Zhou, Gaoqi He, Oliver Deussen

spEuler: Semantics-preserving Euler Diagrams
Authors: Rebecca Kehlbeck, Jochen Görtler, Yunhai Wang, Oliver Deussen

Visualization of 3D Stress Tensor Fields Using Superquadric Glyphs on Displacement Streamlines
Authors: Mohak Patel, David H. Laidlaw

Friday, October 29
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Uncertainty
Session Chair: Matthew Kay

Visualizing Uncertainty in Probabilistic Graphs with Network Hypothetical Outcome Plots (NetHOPs)
Authors: Dongping Zhang, Eytan Adar, Jessica Hullman

Implicit Error, Uncertainty and Confidence in Visualization: an Archaeological Case Study
Authors: Georgia Panagiotidou, Ralf Vandam, Jeroen Poblome, Andrew Moere

Examining Effort in 1D Uncertainty Communication Using Individual Differences in Working Memory and NASA-TLX
Authors: Spencer Castro, Helia Hosseinpour, P. Samuel Quinan, Lace Padilla

Can Visualization Alleviate Dichotomous Thinking? Effects of Visual Representations on the Cliff Effect
Authors: Jouni Helske, Satu Helske, Matthew Cooper, Anders Ynnerman, Lonni Besançon

Effect of Uncertainty Visualizations on Myopic Loss Aversion and Equity Premium Puzzle in Retirement Investment Decisions
Authors: Ryan Wesslen, Alireza Karduni, Doug Markant, Wenwen Dou

Visualization Equilibrium
Authors: Paula Kayongo, Glenn Sun, Jason Hartline, Jessica Hullman

Friday, October 29
08:00-09:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Short Papers: Mathematics, Topology, and Rendering
Session Chair: Bei Wang

Time-Varying Fuzzy Contour Trees
Authors: Anna-Pia Lohfink, Frederike Gartzky, Florian Wetzels, Luisa Vollmer, Christoph Garth

Ray-traced Shell Traversal of Tetrahedral Meshes for Direct Volume Visualization
Authors: Alper Şahıstan, Serkan Demirci, Nate Morrical, Stefan Zellmann, Aytek Aman, Ingo Wald, Ugur Gudukbay

Segmentation driven Peeling for Visual Analysis of Electronic Transitions
Authors: Mohit Sharma, Talha Bin Masood, Signe Sidwall Thygesen, Mathieu Linares, Ingrid Hotz, Vijay Natarajan

Exact Analytical Parallel Vectors
Authors: Hanqi Guo, Tom Peterka

Uncertainty Visualization of the Marching Squares and Marching Cubes Topology Cases
Authors: Tushar M. Athawale, Sudhanshu Sane, Chris R. Johnson

Intercept Graph: An Interactive Radial Visualization for Comparison of State Changes
Authors: Shaolun Ruan, Yong Wang, Qiang Guan

Automatic Y-axis Rescaling in Dynamic Visualizations
Authors: Jacob Fisher, Remco Chang, Eugene Wu

A Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics Approach for Qualitative Causal Modeling
Authors: Fahd Husain, Pascale Proulx, Meng-Wei Chang, Rosa Romero-Gómez, Holland Marie Vasquez

Friday, October 29
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Model Evaluation
Session Chair: Adam Perer

Inspecting the Running Process of Horizontal Federated Learning via Visual Analytics
Authors: Quan Li, Xiguang Wei, Huanbin Lin, Yang Liu, Tianjian Chen, Xiaojuan Ma

An Evaluation-Focused Framework for Visualization Recommendation Algorithms
Authors: Zehua Zeng, Phoebe Moh, Fan Du, Jane Hoffswell, Tak Yeon Lee, Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh, Leilani Battle

Visual Analysis of Hyperproperties for Understanding Model Checking Results
Authors: Tom Horak, Norine Coenen, Niklas Metzger, Christopher Hahn, Tamara Flemisch, Julián Méndez, Dennis Dimov, Bernd Finkbeiner, Raimund Dachselt

FairRankVis: A Visual Analytics Framework for Exploring Algorithmic Fairness in Graph Mining Models
Authors: Tiankai Xie, Yuxin Ma, Jian Kang, Hanghang Tong, Ross Maciejewski

embComp: Visual Interactive Comparison of Vector Embeddings
Authors: Florian Heimerl, Christoph Kralj, Torsten Möller, Michael Gleicher

VBridge: Connecting the Dots Between Features and Data to Explain Healthcare Models
Authors: Furui Cheng, Dongyu Liu, Fan Du, Yanna Lin, Alexandra Zytek, Haomin Li, Huamin Qu, Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Friday, October 29
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Biological and Medical Visualization
Session Chair: Barbora Kozlikova

COVID-view: Diagnosis of COVID-19 using Chest CT
Authors: Shreeraj Jadhav, Gaofeng Deng, Marlene Zawin, Arie E. Kaufman

ThreadStates: State-based Visual Analysis of Disease Progression
Authors: Qianwen Wang, Tali Mazor, Theresa Harbig, Ethan Cerami, Nils Gehlenborg

Loon: Using Exemplars to Visualize Large Scale Microscopy Data
Authors: Devin Lange, Eddie Polanco, Robert Judson-Torres, Thomas Zangle, Alexander Lex

Scope2Screen: Focus+Context Techniques for Pathology Tumor Assessment in Multivariate Image Data
Authors: Jared Jessup, Robert Krüger, Simon Warchol, John Hoffer, Jeremy Muhlich, Cecily C. Ritch, Giorgio Gaglia, Shannon Coy, Yu-An Chen, Jia-Ren Lin, Sandro Santagata, Peter Sorger, Hanspeter Pfister

Multiscale Unfolding: Illustratively Visualizing the Whole Genome at a Glance
Authors: Sarkis Halladjian, David Kouril, Haichao Miao, Eduard Gröller, Ivan Viola, Tobias Isenberg

Friday, October 29
10:00-11:30AM CDT (UTC-5)
Efficient Representation and Layout
Session Chair: Markus Hadwiger

Rapid Labels: Point-Feature Labeling on GPU
Authors: Václav Pavlovec, Ladislav Čmolík

Scalable Scalable Vector Graphics: Automatic Translation of Interactive SVGs to a Multithread VDOM for Fast Rendering
Authors: Michail Schwab, David Saffo, Nicholas Bond, Shash Sinha, Cody Dunne, Jeff Huang, James Tompkin, Michelle A. Borkin

Probabilistic Data-Driven Sampling via Multi-Criteria Importance Analysis
Authors: Ayan Biswas, Soumya Dutta, Earl Lawrence, John Patchett, Jon C. Calhoun, James P. Ahrens

An Efficient Dual-Hierarchy tSNE Minimization
Authors: Mark van de Ruit, Markus Billeter, Elmar Eisemann

Joint t-SNE for Comparable Projections of Multiple High-Dimensional Datasets
Authors: Yinqiao Wang, Lu Chen, Jaemin Jo, Yunhai Wang

Automatic Polygon Layout for Primal-Dual Visualization of Hypergraphs
Authors: Botong Qu, Eugene Zhang, Yue Zhang