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Best Paper Awards

VAST

Best Paper Award

Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow
Authors: Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Daniel Smilkov, James Wexler, Jimbo Wilson, Dandelion Mané, Doug Fritz, Dilip Krishnan, Fernanda B. Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Progressive Learning of Topic Modeling Parameters: A Visual Analytics Framework
Authors: Mennatallah El-Assady, Rita Sevastjanova, Fabian Sperrle, Daniel Keim, and Christopher Collins

Supporting Handoff in Asynchronous Collaborative Sensemaking Using Knowledge-Transfer Graphs
Authors: Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Petra Isenberg, Fanny Chevalier, and Azam Khan

InfoVis

Best Paper Award

Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design
Author: Danielle Albers Szafir

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Bridging From Goals to Tasks with Design Study Analysis Reports
Authors: Heidi Lam, Melanie Tory, and Tamara Munzner

Keeping Multiple Views Consistent: Constraints, Validations and Exceptions in Visualization Authoring
Authors: Zening Qu and Jessica Hullman

SciVis

Best Paper Award

Globe Browsing: Contextualized Spatio-Temporal Planetary Surface Visualization
Authors: Karl Bladin, Emil Axelsson, Erik Broberg, Carter Emmart, Patric Ljung, Alexander Bock, and Anders Ynnerman

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Instant Construction and Visualization of Crowded Biological Environments
Authors: Tobias Klein, Ludovic K. Autin, Barbora Kozlikova, David Goodsell, Arthur Olson, Eduard Gröller, and Ivan Viola

The Topology ToolKit
Authors: Julien Tierny, Guillaume Favelier, Joshua Levine, Charles Gueunet, and Michaël Michaux