Paper Sessions

Below we list all accepted VIS Full and Short papers, grouped by session. This list also includes TVCG papers presented in VIS sessions and CG&A Sessions. More details about papers and their associated presentations will be released with the virtual website. What follows is a list of papers groups by session, note that sessions and times are still preliminary and might change in the final program.


Tuesday, October 15
Best Papers

Entanglements for Visualization: Changing Research Outcomes through Feminist Theory
Authors: Derya Akbaba, Lauren Klein, Miriah Meyer

Aardvark: Composite Visualizations of Trees, Time-Series, and Images
Authors: Devin Lange, Robert Judson-Torres, Thomas Zangle, Alexander Lex

VisEval: A Benchmark for Data Visualization in the Era of Large Language Models
Authors: Nan Chen, Yuge Zhang, Jiahang Xu, Kan Ren, Yuqing Yang

VADIS: A Visual Analytics Pipeline for Dynamic Document Representation and Information Seeking
Authors: Rui Qiu, Yamei Tu, Po-Yin Yen, Han-Wei Shen

Rapid and Precise Topological Comparison with Merge Tree Neural Networks
Authors: Yu Qin, Brittany Terese Fasy, Carola Wenk, Brian Summa

Hypertrix: An indicatrix for high-dimensional visualizations
Authors: Shivam Raval, Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg

PyGWalker: On-the-fly Assistant for Exploratory Visual Data Analysis
Authors: Yue Yu, Leixian Shen, Fei Long, Huamin Qu, Hao Chen


Wednesday, October 16
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Short Papers: Graph, Hierarchy and Multidinmensional

On Combined Visual Cluster and Set Analysis
Authors: Nikolaus Piccolotto, Markus Wallinger, Silvia Miksch, Markus Bögl

An Overview + Detail Layout for Visualizing Compound Graphs
Authors: Chang Han, Justin Lieffers, Clayton Morrison, Katherine E. Isaacs

Improving Property Graph Layouts by Leveraging Attribute Similarity for Structurally Equivalent Nodes
Authors: Patrick Mackey, Jacob Miller, Liz Faultersack

Fields, Bridges, and Foundations: How Researchers Browse Citation Network Visualizations
Authors: Kiroong Choe, Eunhye Kim, Sangwon Park, Jinwook Seo

Feature Clock: High-Dimensional Effects in Two-Dimensional Plots
Authors: Olga Ovcharenko, Rita Sevastjanova, Valentina Boeva

Uniform Sample Distribution in Scatterplots via Sector-based Transformation
Authors: Hennes Rave, Vladimir Molchanov, Lars Linsen

GhostUMAP: Measuring Pointwise Instability in Dimensionality Reduction
Authors: Myeongwon Jung, Takanori Fujiwara, Jaemin Jo

Use-Coordination: Model, Grammar, and Library for Implementation of Coordinated Multiple Views
Authors: Mark S. Keller, Trevor Manz, Nils Gehlenborg


Wednesday, October 16
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Immersive Visualization and Visual Analytics

CompositingVis: Exploring Interaction for Creating Composite Visualizations in Immersive Environments
Authors: Qian Zhu, Tao Lu, Shunan Guo, Xiaojuan Ma, Yalong Yang

This is the Table I Want! Interactive Data Transformation on Desktop and in Virtual Reality
Authors: Sungwon In, Tica Lin, Chris North, Hanspeter Pfister, Yalong Yang

VoxAR: Adaptive Visualization of Volume Rendered Objects in Optical See-Through Augmented Reality
Authors: Saeed Boorboor, Matthew S. Castellana, Yoonsang Kim, Zhutian Chen, Johanna Beyer, Hanspeter Pfister, Arie E. Kaufman

Precise Embodied Data Selection in Room-scale Visualisations While Retaining View Context
Authors: Shaozhang Dai, Yi Li, Barrett Ens, Lonni Besançon, Tim Dwyer

Preliminary Guidelines For Combining Data Integration and Visual Data Analysis
Authors: Adam Coscia, Ashley Suh, Remco Chang, Alex Endert

Eliciting Model Steering Interactions from Users via Data and Visual Design Probes
Authors: Anamaria Crisan, Maddie Shang, Eric Brochu


Wednesday, October 16
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Virtual: VIS from Around the World

FPCS: Feature Preserving Compensated Sampling of Streaming Time Series Data
Authors: Hongyan Li, Bo Yang, Yansong Chua

Uncertainty-Aware Deep Neural Representations for Visual Analysis of Vector Field Data
Authors: Atul Kumar, Siddharth Garg, Soumya Dutta

Evaluating Force-based Haptics for Immersive Tangible Interactions with Surface Visualizations
Authors: Hamza Afzaal, Usman Alim

What Color Scheme is More Effective in Assisting Readers to Locate Information in a Color-Coded Article?
Authors: Ho Yin Ng, Zeyu He, Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang

From Graphs to Words: A Computer-Assisted Framework for the Production of Accessible Text Descriptions
Authors: Qiang Xu, Thomas Hurtut

Design of a Real-Time Visual Analytics Decision Support Interface to Manage Air Traffic Complexity
Authors: Elmira Zohrevandi, Katerina Vrotsou, Carl A. L. Westin, Jonas Lundberg, Anders Ynnerman

Building and Eroding: Exogenous and Endogenous Factors that Influence Subjective Trust in Visualization
Authors: R. Jordan Crouser, Syrine Matoussi, Lan Kung, Saugat Pandey, Oen G. McKinley, Alvitta Ottley


Wednesday, October 16
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Text, Annotation, and Metaphor

The Role of Text in Visualizations: How Annotations Shape Perceptions of Bias and Influence Predictions
Authors: Chase Stokes, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Marti Hearst

A Qualitative Analysis of Common Practices in Annotations: A Taxonomy and Design Space
Authors: Md Dilshadur Rahman, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Bhavana Doppalapudi, Danielle Albers Szafir, Paul Rosen

The Language of Infographics: Toward Understanding Conceptual Metaphor Use in Scientific Storytelling
Authors: Hana Pokojná, Tobias Isenberg, Stefan Bruckner, Barbora Kozlikova, Laura Garrison

From Instruction to Insight: Exploring the Semantic and Functional Roles of Text in Interactive Dashboards
Authors: Nicole Sultanum, Vidya Setlur

“I Came Across a Junk”: Understanding Design Flaws of Data Visualization from the Public’s Perspective
Authors: Xingyu Lan, Yu Liu

CataAnno: An Ancient Catalog Annotator for Annotation Cleaning by Recommendation
Authors: Hanning Shao, Xiaoru Yuan


Wednesday, October 16
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Machine Learning for Visualization

KD-INR: Time-Varying Volumetric Data Compression via Knowledge Distillation-based Implicit Neural Representation
Authors: Jun Han, Hao Zheng, Change Bi

Improving Efficiency of Iso-Surface Extraction on Implicit Neural Representations Using Uncertainty Propagation
Authors: Haoyu Li, Han-Wei Shen

StyleRF-VolVis: Style Transfer of Neural Radiance Fields for Expressive Volume Visualization
Authors: Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang

ParamsDrag: Interactive Parameter Space Exploration via Image-Space Dragging
Authors: Guan Li, Yang Liu, Guihua Shan, Shiyu Cheng, Weiqun Cao, Junpeng Wang, Ko-Chih Wang

SurroFlow: A Flow-Based Surrogate Model for Parameter Space Exploration and Uncertainty Quantification
Authors: JINGYI SHEN, Yuhan Duan, Han-Wei Shen

Regularized Multi-Decoder Ensemble for an Error-Aware Scene Representation Network
Authors: Tianyu Xiong, Skylar Wurster, Hanqi Guo, Tom Peterka, Han-Wei Shen


Wednesday, October 16
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Urban Planning, Construction, and Disaster Management

Submerse: Visualizing Storm Surge Flooding Simulations in Immersive Display Ecologies
Authors: Saeed Boorboor, Yoonsang Kim, Ping Hu, Josef Moses, Brian Colle, Arie E. Kaufman

BEMTrace: Visualization-driven approach for deriving Building Energy Models from BIM
Authors: Andreas Walch, Attila Szabo, Harald Steinlechner, Thomas Ortner, Eduard Gröller, Johanna Schmidt

MARLens: Understanding Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Signal Control via Visual Analytics
Authors: Yutian Zhang, Guohong Zheng, Zhiyuan Liu, Quan Li, Haipeng Zeng

SenseMap: Urban Performance Visualization and Analytics via Semantic Textual Similarity
Authors: Juntong Chen, Qiaoyun Huang, Changbo Wang, Chenhui Li

CSLens: Towards Better Deploying Charging Stations via Visual Analytics —— A Coupled Networks Perspective
Authors: Yutian Zhang, Liwen Xu, Shaocong Tao, Quanxue Guan, Quan Li, Haipeng Zeng

SimpleSets: Capturing Categorical Point Patterns with Simple Shapes
Authors: Steven van den Broek, Wouter Meulemans, Bettina Speckmann


Wednesday, October 16
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Judgment and Decision-making

Decoupling Judgment and Decision Making: A Tale of Two Tails
Authors: Başak Oral, Pierre Dragicevic, Alexandru Telea, Evanthia Dimara

Unmasking Dunning-Kruger Effect in Visual Reasoning and Visual Data Analysis
Authors: Mengyu Chen, Yijun Liu

Trust Your Gut: Comparing Human and Machine Inference from Noisy Visualizations
Authors: Ratanond Koonchanok, Michael E. Papka, Khairi Reda

Causal Priors and Their Influence on Judgements of Causality in Visualized Data
Authors: Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, Tabitha Peck, Wenyuan Wang, David Gotz

KnowledgeVIS: Interpreting Language Models by Comparing Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts
Authors: Adam Coscia, Alex Endert

What Do We Mean When We Say “Insight”? A Formal Synthesis of Existing Theory
Authors: Leilani Battle, Alvitta Ottley


Wednesday, October 16
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Time and Sequences

Revealing Interaction Dynamics: Multi-Level Visual Exploration of User Strategies with an Interactive Digital Environment
Authors: Peilin Yu, Aida Nordman, Marta Koc-Januchta, Konrad Schönborn, Lonni Besançon, Katerina Vrotsou

Uncertainty-Aware Seasonal-Trend Decomposition Based on Loess
Authors: Tim Krake, Daniel Klötzl, David Hägele, Daniel Weiskopf

A Multi-Level Task Framework for Event Sequence Analysis
Authors: Kazi Tasnim Zinat, Saimadhav Naga Sakhamuri, Aaron Chen, Zhicheng Liu

Visual Analysis of Time-Stamped Event Sequences
Authors: Jürgen Bernard, Clara-Maria Barth, Eduard Cuba, Andrea Meier, Yasara Peiris, Ben Shneiderman

A Comparative Study on Fixed-order Event Sequence Visualizations: Gantt, Extended Gantt, and Stringline Charts
Authors: Junxiu Tang, Fumeng Yang, Jiang Wu, Yifang Wang, Jiayi Zhou, Xiwen Cai, Lingyun Yu, Yingcai Wu

Interactive Hierarchical Timeline for Collaborative Text Negotiation in Historical Records
Authors: Gabriel D. Cantareira, Yiwen Xing, Nicholas Cole, Rita Borgo, Alfie Abdul-Rahman


Wednesday, October 16
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Biological Data Visualization

DiffFit: Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to a Cryo-EM Map
Authors: Deng Luo, Zainab Alsuwaykit, Dawar Khan, Ondřej Strnad, Tobias Isenberg, Ivan Viola

“Nanomatrix: Scalable Construction of Crowded Biological Environments”
Authors: Ruwayda Alharbi, Ondˇrej Strnad, Tobias Klein, Ivan Viola

InVADo: Interactive Visual Analysis of Molecular Docking Data
Authors: Marco Schäfer, Nicolas Brich, Jan Byška, Sérgio M. Marques, David Bednář, Philipp Thiel, Barbora Kozlíková, Michael Krone

Visualization for diagnostic review of copy number variants in complex DNA sequencing data
Authors: Emilia Ståhlbom, Jesper Molin, Claes Lundström, Anders Ynnerman

Cell2Cell: Explorative Cell Interaction Analysis in Multi-Volumetric Tissue Data
Authors: Eric Mörth, Kevin Sidak, Zoltan Maliga, Torsten Möller, Nils Gehlenborg, Peter Sorger, Hanspeter Pfister, Johanna Beyer, Robert Krüger

Visual Support for the Loop Grafting Workflow on Proteins
Authors: Filip Opálený, Pavol Ulbrich, Joan Planas-Iglesias, Jan Byška, Jan Štourač, David Bednář, Katarína Furmanová, Barbora Kozlikova


Wednesday, October 16
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Dimensionality Reduction

UnDRground Tubes: Exploring Spatial Data With Multidimensional Projections and Set Visualization
Authors: Nikolaus Piccolotto, Markus Wallinger, Silvia Miksch, Markus Bögl

Interpreting High-Dimensional Projections With Capacity
Authors: Yang Zhang, Jisheng Liu, Chufan Lai, Yuan Zhou, Siming Chen

DimBridge: Interactive Explanation of Visual Patterns in Dimensionality Reductions with Predicate Logic
Authors: Brian Montambault, Gabriel Appleby, Jen Rogers, Camelia D. Brumar, Mingwei Li, Remco Chang

2D Embeddings of Multi-dimensional Partitionings
Authors: Marina Evers, Lars Linsen

Accelerating hyperbolic t-SNE
Authors: Martin Skrodzki, Hunter van Geffen, Nicolas F. Chaves-de-Plaza, Thomas Höllt, Elmar Eisemann, Klaus Hildebrandt

TopoMap++: A faster and more space efficient technique to compute projections with topological guarantees
Authors: Vitoria Guardieiro, Felipe Inagaki de Oliveira, Harish Doraiswamy, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Claudio Silva


Wednesday, October 16
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
Short Papers: Scientific and Immersive Visualization

Accelerating Transfer Function Update for Distance Map based Volume Rendering
Authors: Michael Rauter, Lukas Zimmermann, Markus Zeilinger

A Ridge-based Approach for Extraction and Visualization of 3D Atmospheric Fronts
Authors: Anne Gossing, Andreas Beckert, Christoph Fischer, Nicolas Klenert, Vijay Natarajan, George Pacey, Thorwin Vogt, Marc Rautenhaus, Daniel Baum

Investigating the Apple Vision Pro Spatial Computing Platform for GPU-Based Volume Visualization
Authors: Camilla Hrycak, David Lewakis, Jens Harald Krueger

A Comparative Study of Neural Surface Reconstruction for Scientific Visualization
Authors: Siyuan Yao, Weixi Song, Chaoli Wang

Visualization of 2D Scalar Field Ensembles Using Volume Visualization of the Empirical Distribution Function
Authors: Tomas Daetz, Michael Böttinger, Gerik Scheuermann, Christian Heine

Text-based transfer function design for semantic volume rendering
Authors: Sangwon Jeong, Jixian Li, Shusen Liu, Chris R. Johnson, Matthew Berger

Multi-User Mobile Augmented Reality for Cardiovascular Surgical Planning
Authors: Pratham Darrpan Mehta, Rahul Ozhur Narayanan, Harsha Karanth, Haoyang Yang, Timothy C. Slesnick, Fawwaz Shaw, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau

Active Appearance and Spatial Variation Can Improve Visibility in Area Labels for Augmented Reality
Authors: Hojung Kwon, Yuanbo Li, Xiaohan Ye, Praccho Muna-McQuay, Liuren Yin, James Tompkin


Wednesday, October 16
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
CG&A: Analytics and Applications

Supporting Visual Exploration of Iterative Job Scheduling
Authors: Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Jose Manuel Cordero Garcia, Dirk Hecker, George A. Vouros

News Globe: Visualization of Geolocalized News Articles
Authors: Nicholas Ingulfsen, Simone Schaub-Meyer, Markus Gross, Tobias Günther

DETOXER: A Visual Debugging Tool With Multiscope Explanations for Temporal Multilabel Classification
Authors: Mahsan Nourani, Chiradeep Roy, Donald R. Honeycutt, Eric D. Ragan, Vibhav Gogate

An Interactive Knowledge and Learning Environment in Smart Foodsheds
Authors: Yamei Tu, Xiaoqi Wang, Rui Qiu, Han-Wei Shen, Michelle Miller, Jinmeng Rao, Song Gao, Patrick R. Huber, Allan D. Hollander, Matthew Lange, Christian R. Garcia, Joe Stubbs

Visualizing Uncertainty in Sets
Authors: Christian Tominski, Michael Behrisch, Susanne Bleisch, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Eva Mayr, Silvia Miksch, Helen Purchase

Identifying Visualization Opportunities to Help Architects Manage the Complexity of Building Codes
Authors: Stan Nowak, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Lyn Bartram, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka


Wednesday, October 16
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
Perception and Cognition

The Impact of Vertical Scaling on Normal Probability Density Function Plots
Authors: Racquel Fygenson, Lace Padilla

The Effect of Visual Aids on Reading Numeric Data Tables
Authors: YongFeng Ji, Charles Perin, Miguel Nacenta

Quantifying Emotional Responses to Immutable Data Characteristics and Designer Choices in Data Visualizations
Authors: Carter Blair, Xiyao Wang, Charles Perin

Examining Limits of Small Multiples: Frame Quantity Impacts Judgments with Line Graphs
Authors: Helia Hosseinpour , Laura E. Matzen , Kristin M. Divis , Spencer C. Castro, Lace Padilla

Memory Recall for Data Visualizations in Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality, 3D, and 2D
Authors: Christophe Hurter, Bernice Rogowitz, Guillaume Truong, Tiffany Andry, Hugo Romat, Ludovic Gardy, Fereshteh Amini, Nathalie Henry Riche

Attention-Aware Visualization: Tracking and Responding to User Perception Over Time
Authors: Arvind Srinivasan, Johannes Ellemose, Peter Butcher, Panagiotis Ritsos, Niklas Elmqvist


Wednesday, October 16
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
Collaboration and Communication

StuGPTViz: A Visual Analytics Approach to Understand Student-ChatGPT Interactions
Authors: Zixin Chen, Jiachen Wang, Meng Xia, Kento Shigyo, Dingdong Liu, Rong Zhang, Huamin Qu

SLInterpreter: An Exploratory and Iterative Human-AI Collaborative System for GNN-based Synthetic Lethal Prediction
Authors: Haoran Jiang, Shaohan Shi, Shuhao Zhang, Jie Zheng, Quan Li

V-Mail: 3D-Enabled Correspondence about Spatial Data on (Almost) All Your Devices
Authors: Jung Who Nam, Tobias Isenberg, Daniel F. Keefe

A Deixis-Centered Approach for Documenting Remote Synchronous Communication around Data Visualizations
Authors: Chang Han, Katherine E. Isaacs

Eliciting Multimodal and Collaborative Interactions for Data Exploration on Large Vertical Displays
Authors: Gabriela Molina León, Petra Isenberg, Andreas Breiter

Talk to the Wall: The Role of Speech Interaction in Collaborative Visual Analytics
Authors: Gabriela Molina León, Anastasia Bezerianos, Olivier Gladin, Petra Isenberg


Wednesday, October 16
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
Natural Language and Multimodal Interaction

Learnable and Expressive Visualization Authoring Through Blended Interfaces
Authors: Sehi L’Yi, Astrid van den Brandt, Etowah Adams, Huyen N. Nguyen, Nils Gehlenborg

PhenoFlow: A Human-LLM Driven Visual Analytics System for Exploring Large and Complex Stroke Datasets
Authors: Jaeyoung Kim, Sihyeon Lee, Hyeon Jeon, Keon-Joo Lee, Bohyoung Kim, HEE JOON, Jinwook Seo

LEVA: Using Large Language Models to Enhance Visual Analytics
Authors: Yuheng Zhao, Yixing Zhang, Yu Zhang, Xinyi Zhao, Junjie Wang, Zekai Shao, Cagatay Turkay, Siming Chen

ChartGPT: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Charts from Abstract Natural Language
Authors: Yuan Tian, Weiwei Cui, Dazhen Deng, Xinjing Yi, Yurun Yang, Haidong Zhang, Yingcai Wu

Towards Dataset-scale and Feature-oriented Evaluation of Text Summarization in Large Language Model Prompts
Authors: Sam Yu-Te Lee, Aryaman Bahukhandi, Dongyu Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma

PrompTHis: Visualizing the Process and Influence of Prompt Editing during Text-to-Image Creation
Authors: Yuhan Guo, Hanning Shao, Can Liu, Kai Xu, Xiaoru Yuan


Wednesday, October 16
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
*Short Papers: System design *

DaVE - A Curated Database of Visualization Examples
Authors: Jens Koenen, Marvin Petersen, Christoph Garth, Tim Gerrits

Counterpoint: Orchestrating Large-Scale Custom Animated Visualizations
Authors: Venkatesh Sivaraman, Frank Elavsky, Dominik Moritz, Adam Perer

Visualizing an Exascale Data Center Digital Twin: Considerations, Challenges and Opportunities
Authors: Matthias Maiterth, Wes Brewer, Dane De Wet, Scott Greenwood, Vineet Kumar, Jesse Hines, Sedrick L. Bouknight, Zhe Wang, Tim Dykes, Feiyi Wang

Guided Statistical Workflows with Interactive Explanations and Assumption Checking
Authors: Yuqi Zhang, Adam Perer, Will Epperson

FCNR: Fast Compressive Neural Representation of Visualization Images
Authors: Yunfei Lu, Pengfei Gu, Chaoli Wang

Groot: A System for Editing and Configuring Automated Data Insights
Authors: Sneha Gathani, Anamaria Crisan, Vidya Setlur, Arjun Srinivasan

Visualizations on Smart Watches while Running: It Actually Helps!
Authors: Sarina Kashanj, Xiyao Wang, Charles Perin

Micro Visualizations on a Smartwatch: Assessing Reading Performance While Walking
Authors: Fairouz Grioui, Tanja Blascheck, Lijie Yao, Petra Isenberg


Wednesday, October 16
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
Scripts, Notebooks, and Provenance

Charting EDA: How Visualizations and Interactions Shape Analysis in Computational Notebooks.
Authors: Dylan Wootton, Amy Fox, Evan Peck, Arvind Satyanarayan

Ferry: Toward Better Understanding of Input/Output Space for Data Wrangling Scripts
Authors: Zhongsu Luo, Kai Xiong, Jiajun Zhu, Ran Chen, Xinhuan Shu, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu

Loops: Leveraging Provenance and Visualization to Support Exploratory Data Analysis in Notebooks
Authors: Klaus Eckelt, Kiran Gadhave, Alexander Lex, Marc Streit

Design Concerns for Integrated Scripting and Interactive Visualization in Notebook Environments
Authors: Connor Scully-Allison, Ian Lumsden, Katy Williams, Jesse Bartels, Michela Taufer, Stephanie Brink, Abhinav Bhatele, Olga Pearce, Katherine E. Isaacs

Curio: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Collaborative Urban Visual Analytics
Authors: Gustavo Moreira, Maryam Hosseini, Carolina Veiga Ferreira de Souza, Lucas Alexandre, Nicola Colaninno, Daniel de Oliveira, Nivan Ferreira, Marcos Lage, Fabio Miranda

ProvenanceWidgets: A Library of UI Control Elements to Track and Dynamically Overlay Analytic Provenance
Authors: Arpit Narechania, Kaustubh Odak, Mennatallah El-Assady, Alex Endert


Wednesday, October 16
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
Designing Palettes and Encodings

GeoLinter: A Linting Framework for Choropleth Maps
Authors: Fan Lei, Arlen Fan, Alan M. MacEachren, Ross Maciejewski

Mixing Linters with GUIs: A Color Palette Design Probe
Authors: Andrew McNutt, Maureen Stone, Jeffrey Heer

Dynamic Color Assignment for Hierarchical Data
Authors: Jiashu Chen, Weikai Yang, Zelin Jia, Lanxi Xiao, Shixia Liu

An Empirically Grounded Approach for Designing Shape Palettes
Authors: Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Danielle Albers Szafir

Effectiveness of Area-to-Value Legends and Grid Lines in Contiguous Area Cartograms
Authors: Kelvin L. T. Fung, Simon T. Perrault, Michael T. Gastner

What Does the Chart Say? Grouping Cues Guide Viewer Comparisons and Conclusions in Bar Charts
Authors: Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Chase Stokes, Andrew Lovett, Steven Franconeri


Wednesday, October 16
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
Of Nodes and Networks

Improved Visual Saliency of Graph Clusters with Orderable Node-Link Layouts
Authors: Nora Al-Naami, Nicolas Medoc, Matteo Magnani, Mohammad Ghoniem

Quality Metrics and Reordering Strategies for Revealing Patterns in BioFabric Visualizations
Authors: Johannes Fuchs, Alexander Frings, Maria-Viktoria Heinle, Daniel Keim, Sara Di Bartolomeo

SpreadLine: Visualizing Egocentric Dynamic Influence
Authors: Yun-Hsin Kuo, Dongyu Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma

On Network Structural and Temporal Encodings: A Space and Time Odyssey
Authors: Velitchko Filipov, Alessio Arleo, Markus Bögl, Silvia Miksch

MoNetExplorer: A Visual Analytics System for Analyzing Dynamic Networks with Temporal Network Motifs
Authors: Seokweon Jung, DongHwa Shin, Hyeon Jeon, Kiroong Choe, Jinwook Seo

Evaluating and extending speedup techniques for optimal crossing minimization in layered graph drawings
Authors: Connor Wilson, Eduardo Puerta, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Cody Dunne


Thursday, October 17
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Short Papers: Perception and Representation

Dark Mode or Light Mode? Exploring the Impact of Contrast Polarity on Visualization Performance Between Age Groups
Authors: Zack While, Ali Sarvghad

Science in a Blink: Supporting Ensemble Perception in Scalar Fields
Authors: Victor A. Mateevitsi, Michael E. Papka, Khairi Reda

Towards a Quality Approach to Hierarchical Color Maps
Authors: Tobias Mertz, Jörn Kohlhammer

Assessing Graphical Perception of Image Embedding Models using Channel Effectiveness
Authors: Soohyun Lee, Minsuk Chang, Seokhyeon Park, Jinwook Seo

Connections Beyond Data: Exploring Homophily With Visualizations
Authors: Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Maurizio Porfiri, Oded Nov

A Literature-based Visualization Task Taxonomy for Gantt Charts
Authors: Sayef Azad Sakin, Katherine E. Isaacs

Zoomable Level-of-Detail ChartTables for Interpreting Probabilistic Model Outputs for Reactionary Train Delays
Authors: Aidan Slingsby, Jonathan Hyde

Gridlines Mitigate Sine Illusion in Line Charts
Authors: Clayton J. Knittel, Jane Awuah, Steven L. Franconeri, Cindy Xiong Bearfield


Thursday, October 17
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Embeddings and Document Spatialization

Visualizing Temporal Topic Embeddings with a Compass
Authors: Daniel Palamarchuk, Lemara Williams, Brian Mayer, Thomas Danielson, Rebecca Faust, Larry Deschaine, Chris North

A General Framework for Comparing Embedding Visualizations Across Class-Label Hierarchies
Authors: Trevor Manz, Fritz Lekschas, Evan Greene, Greg Finak, Nils Gehlenborg

ModalChorus: Visual Probing and Alignment of Multi-modal Embeddings via Modal Fusion Map
Authors: Yilin Ye, Shishi Xiao, Xingchen Zeng, Wei Zeng

A Large-Scale Sensitivity Analysis on Latent Embeddings and Dimensionality Reductions for Text Spatializations
Authors: Daniel Atzberger, Tim Cech, Willy Scheibel, Jürgen Döllner, Michael Behrisch, Tobias Schreck

PUREsuggest: Citation-based Literature Search and Visual Exploration with Keyword-controlled Rankings
Authors: Fabian Beck

De-cluttering Scatterplots with Integral Images
Authors: Hennes Rave, Vladimir Molchanov, Lars Linsen


Thursday, October 17
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Visualization Recommendation

AdaVis: Adaptive and Explainable Visualization Recommendation for Tabular Data’
Authors: Songheng Zhang, Yong Wang, Haotian Li, Huamin Qu

DracoGPT: Extracting Visualization Design Preferences from Large Language Models
Authors: Huichen Wang, Mitchell Gordon, Leilani Battle, Jeffrey Heer

Chart2Vec: A Universal Embedding of Context-Aware Visualizations
Authors: Qing Chen, Ying Chen, Ruishi Zou, Wei Shuai, Yi Guo, Jiazhe Wang, Nan Cao

Agnostic Visual Recommendation Systems: Open Challenges and Future Directions
Authors: Luca Podo, Bardh Prenkaj, Paola Velardi

D-Tour: Semi-Automatic Generation of Interactive Guided Tours for Visualization Dashboard Onboarding
Authors: Vaishali Dhanoa, Andreas Hinterreiter, Vanessa Fediuk, Niklas Elmqvist, Eduard Gröller, Marc Streit

Manipulable Semantic Components: a Computational Representation of Data Visualization Scenes
Authors: Zhicheng Liu, Chen Chen, John Hooker


Thursday, October 17
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Model-checking and Validation

Beyond Correlation: Incorporating Counterfactual Guidance to Better Support Exploratory Visual Analysis
Authors: Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, David Gotz

Beware of Validation by Eye: Visual Validation of Linear Trends in Scatterplots
Authors: Daniel Braun, Remco Chang, Michael Gleicher, Tatiana von Landesberger

VMC: A Grammar for Visualizing Statistical Model Checks
Authors: Ziyang Guo, Alex Kale, Matthew Kay, Jessica Hullman

Visualizing and Comparing Machine Learning Predictions to Improve Human-AI Teaming on the Example of Cell Lineage
Authors: Jiayi Hong, Ross Maciejewski, Alain Trubuil, Tobias Isenberg

Compress and Compare: Interactively Evaluating Efficiency and Behavior Across ML Model Compression Experiments
Authors: Angie Boggust, Venkatesh Sivaraman, Yannick Assogba, Donghao Ren, Dominik Moritz, Fred Hohman

ParetoTracker: Understanding Population Dynamics in Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms through Visual Analytics
Authors: Zherui Zhang, Fan Yang, Ran Cheng, Yuxin Ma


Thursday, October 17
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Short Papers: Text and Multimedia

Design Patterns in Right-to-Left Visualizations: The Case of Arabic Content
Authors: Muna Alebri, Noëlle Rakotondravony, Lane Harrison

DASH: A Bimodal Data Exploration Tool for Interactive Text and Visualizations
Authors: Dennis Bromley, Vidya Setlur

Evaluating the Semantic Profiling Abilities of LLMs for Natural Language Utterances in Data Visualization
Authors: Hannah K. Bako, Arshnoor Bhutani, Xinyi Liu, Kwesi Adu Cobbina, Zhicheng Liu

Representing Charts as Text for Language Models: An In-Depth Study of Question Answering for Bar Charts
Authors: Victor S. Bursztyn, Jane Hoffswell, Shunan Guo, Eunyee Koh

Confides: A Visual Analytics Solution for Automated Speech Recognition Analysis and Exploration
Authors: Sunwoo Ha, Chaehun Lim, R. Jordan Crouser, Alvitta Ottley

Integrating Annotations into the Design Process for Sonifications and Physicalizations
Authors: Rhys Sorenson-Graff, S. Sandra Bae, Jordan Wirfs-Brock

AEye: A Visualization Tool for Image Datasets
Authors: Florian Grötschla, Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Marco Calzavara, Roger Wattenhofer

Opening the Black Box of 3D Reconstruction Error Analysis with VECTOR
Authors: Racquel Fygenson, Kazi Jawad, Zongzhan Li, Francois Ayoub, Robert G. Deen, Scott Davidoff, Dominik Moritz, Mauricio Hess-Flores


Thursday, October 17
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Applications: Sports. Games, and Finance

Team-Scouter: Simulative Visual Analytics of Soccer Player Scouting
Authors: Anqi Cao, Xiao Xie, Runjin Zhang, Yuxin Tian, Mu Fan, Hui Zhang, Yingcai Wu

Sportify: Question Answering with Embedded Visualizations and Personified Narratives for Sports Video
Authors: Chunggi Lee, Tica Lin, Chen Zhu-Tian, Hanspeter Pfister

Smartboard: Visual Exploration of Team Tactics with LLM Agent
Authors: Ziao Liu, Xiao Xie, Moqi He, Wenshuo Zhao, Yihong Wu, Liqi Cheng, Hui Zhang, Yingcai Wu

FMLens: Towards Better Scaffolding the Process of Fund Manager Selection in Fund Investments
Authors: Longfei Chen, Chen Cheng, He Wang, Xiyuan Wang, Yun Tian, Xuanwu Yue, Wong Kam-Kwai, Haipeng Zhang, Suting Hong, Quan Li

Tracing NFT Impact Dynamics in Transaction-flow Substitutive Systems with Visual Analytics
Authors: Yifan Cao, Qing Shi, Lucas Shen, Kani Chen, Yang Wang, Wei Zeng, Huamin Qu

Who Let the Guards Out: Visual Support for Patrolling Games
Authors: Matěj Lang, Adam Štěpánek, Róbert Zvara, Vojtěch Řehák, Barbora Kozlikova


Thursday, October 17
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Visual Design: Sketching and Labeling

Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations
Authors: Tobias Kauer, Derya Akbaba, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach

Active Gaze Labeling: Visualization for Trust Building
Authors: Maurice Koch, Nan Cao, Daniel Weiskopf, Kuno Kurzhals

A Survey on Non-photorealistic Rendering Approaches for Point Cloud Visualization
Authors: Ole Wegen, Willy Scheibel, Matthias Trapp, Rico Richter, Jürgen Döllner

Interactive Reweighting for Mitigating Label Quality Issues
Authors: Weikai Yang, Yukai Guo, Jing Wu, Zheng Wang, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li, Shixia Liu

Graph Transformer for Label Placement
Authors: Jingwei Qu, Pingshun Zhang, Enyu Che, Yinan Chen, Haibin Ling

DataGarden: Formalizing Personal Sketches into Structured Visualization Templates
Authors: Anna Offenwanger, Theophanis Tsandilas, Fanny Chevalier


Thursday, October 17
10:15-11:30AM EDT (UTC-4)
Topological Data Analysis

MSz: An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Correcting Morse-Smale Segmentations in Error-Bounded Lossy Compressors
Authors: Yuxiao Li, Xin Liang, Bei Wang, Yongfeng Qiu, Lin Yan, Hanqi Guo

Fast Comparative Analysis of Merge Trees Using Locality-Sensitive Hashing
Authors: Weiran Lyu, Raghavendra Sridharamurthy, Jeff Phillips, Bei Wang

Distributed Augmentation, Hypersweeps, and Branch Decomposition of Contour Trees for Scientific Exploration
Authors: Mingzhe Li, Hamish Carr, Oliver Rübel, Bei Wang, Gunther Weber

Wasserstein Auto-Encoders of Merge Trees (and Persistence Diagrams)
Authors: Mathieu Pont, Julien Tierny

Wasserstein Dictionaries of Persistence Diagrams
Authors: Keanu Sisouk, Julie Delon, Julien Tierny

Topological Separation of Vortices
Authors: Adeel Zafar, Zahra Poorshayegh, Di Yang, Guoning Chen


Thursday, October 17
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
Short Papers: Analytics and Applications

FAVis: Visual Analytics of Factor Analysis for Psychological Research
Authors: Yikai Lu, Chaoli Wang

Data Guards: Challenges and Solutions for Fostering Trust in Data
Authors: Nicole Sultanum, Dennis Bromley, Michael Correll

AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization
Authors: Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Ather Sharif, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

“Must Be a Tuesday”: Affect, Attribution, and Geographic Variability in Equity-Oriented Visualizations of Population Health Disparities
Authors: Eli Holder, Lace M. Padilla

Demystifying Spatial Dependence: Interactive Visualizations for Interpreting Local Spatial Autocorrelation
Authors: Lee Mason, Blánaid Hicks, Jonas S. Almeida

Two-point Equidistant Projection and Degree-of-interest Filtering for Smooth Exploration of Geo-referenced Networks
Authors: Max Franke, Samuel Beck, Steffen Koch

Bringing Data into the Conversation: Adapting Content from Business Intelligence Dashboards for Threaded Collaboration Platforms
Authors: Hyeok Kim, Arjun Srinivasan, Matthew Brehmer

The Comic Construction Kit: An Activity for Students to Learn and Explain Data Visualizations
Authors: Magdalena Boucher, Christina Stoiber, Mandy Keck, Victor Adriel de Jesus Oliveira, Wolfgang Aigner


Thursday, October 17
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
CG&A: Systems, Theory, and Evaluations

DiffSeer: Difference-Based Dynamic Weighted Graph Visualization
Authors: Xiaolin Wen, Yong Wang, Meixuan Wu, Fengjie Wang, Xuanwu Yue, Qiaomu Shen, Yuxin Ma, Min Zhu

Rainbow Colormaps Are Not All Bad
Authors: Colin Ware, Maureen Stone, Danielle Albers Szafir

A Generic Interactive Membership Function for Categorization of Quantities
Authors: Liqun Liu, Romain Vuillemot

Numerical and Visual Representations of Uncertainty Lead to Different Patterns of Decision Making
Authors: Laura E. Matzen, Breannan C. Howell, Michael C. S. Trumbo, Kristin M. Divis

Using Counterfactuals to Improve Causal Inferences From Visualizations
Authors: David Borland, Arran Zeyu Wang, David Gotz

Generative AI for Visualization: Opportunities and Challenges
Authors: Rahul C. Basole, Timothy Major


Thursday, October 17
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
Once Upon a Visualization

DeLVE into Earth’s Past: A Visualization-Based Exhibit Deployed Across Multiple Museum Contexts
Authors: Mara Solen, Nigar Sultana, Laura Lukes, Tamara Munzner

Telling Data Stories with the Hero’s Journey: Design Guidance for Creating Data Videos
Authors: Zheng Wei, Huamin Qu, Xian Xu

VisTellAR: Embedding Data Visualization to Short-form Videos Using Mobile Augmented Reality
Authors: Wai Tong, Kento Shigyo, Lin-Ping Yuan, Mingming Fan, Ting-Chuen Pong, Huamin Qu, Meng Xia

WonderFlow: Narration-Centric Design of Animated Data Videos
Authors: Yun Wang, Leixian Shen, Zhengxin You, Xinhuan Shu, Bongshin Lee, John Thompson, Haidong Zhang, Dongmei Zhang

Reviving Static Charts into Live Charts
Authors: Lu Ying, Yun Wang, Haotian Li, Shuguang Dou, Haidong Zhang, Xinyang Jiang, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu

DG Comics: Semi-Automatically Authoring Graph Comics for Dynamic Graphs
Authors: Joohee Kim, Hyunwook Lee, Duc Nguyen, Minjeong Shin, Bum Chul Kwon, Sungahn Ko, Niklas Elmqvist


Thursday, October 17
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
Visualization Design Methods

“It’s a Good Idea to Put It Into Words”: Writing ‘Rudders’ in the Initial Stages of Visualization Design
Authors: Chase Stokes, Clara Hu, Marti Hearst

Unveiling How Examples Shape Data Visualization Design Outcomes
Authors: Hannah Bako, Xinyi Liu, Grace Ko, Hyemi Song, Leilani Battle, Zhicheng Liu

Practices and Strategies in Responsive Thematic Map Design: A Report from Design Workshops with Experts
Authors: Sarah Schöttler, Uta Hinrichs, Benjamin Bach

Path-based Design Model for Constructing and Exploring Alternative Visualisations
Authors: James Jackson, Panagiotis Ritsos, Peter Butcher, Jonathan Roberts

Mind Drifts, Data Shifts: Utilizing Mind Wandering to Track the Evolution of User Experience with Data Visualizations
Authors: Anjana Arunkumar, Lace Padilla, Chris Bryan

Understanding Visualization Authoring Techniques for Genomics Data in the Context of Personas and Tasks
Authors: Astrid van den Brandt, Sehi L’Yi, Huyen N. Nguyen, Anna Vilanova, Nils Gehlenborg


Thursday, October 17
01:30-02:45PM EDT (UTC-4)
The Toolboxes of Visualization

KMTLabeler: An Interactive Knowledge-Assisted Labeling Tool for Medical Text Classification
Authors: He Wang, Yang Ouyang, Yuchen Wu, Chang Jiang, Lixia Jin, Yuanwu Cao, Quan Li

TTK is Getting MPI-Ready
Authors: E. Le Guillou, M. Will, P. Guillou, J. Lukasczyk, P. Fortin, Christoph Garth, Julien Tierny

HuBar: A Visual Analytics Tool to Explore Human Behaviour based on fNIRS in AR guidance systems
Authors: Sonia Castelo Quispe, João Rulff, Parikshit Solunke, Erin McGowan, Guande Wu, Iran Roman, Roque Lopez, Bea Steers, Qi Sun, Juan Pablo Bello, Bradley Feest, Michael Middleton, Ryan McKendrick, Claudio Silva

How Does Automation Shape the Process of Narrative Visualization: A Survey of Tools
Authors: Qing Chen, Shixiong Cao, Jiazhe Wang, Nan Cao

A Survey on Progressive Visualization
Authors: Alex Ulmer, Marco Angelini, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Jörn Kohlhammer, Thorsten May

Towards Reusable and Reactive Widgets for Information Visualization Research and Dissemination
Authors: John Alexis Guerra-Gomez


Thursday, October 17
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
Short Papers: AI and LLM

ImageSI: Semantic Interaction for Deep Learning Image Projections
Authors: Jiayue Lin, Rebecca Faust, Chris North

Diffusion Explainer: Visual Explanation for Text-to-image Stable Diffusion
Authors: Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, Hendrik Strobelt, Zijie J. Wang, ShengYun Peng, Austin P. Wright, Kevin Li, Haekyu Park, Haoyang Yang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau

A Two-Phase Visualization System for Continuous Human-AI Collaboration in Sequelae Analysis and Modeling
Authors: Yang Ouyang, Chenyang Zhang, He Wang, Tianle Ma, Chang Jiang, Yuheng Yan, Zuoqin Yan, Xiaojuan Ma, Chuhan Shi, Quan Li

Can GPT-4 Models Detect Misleading Visualizations?
Authors: Jason Huang Alexander, Priyal H. Nanda, Kai-Cheng Yang, Ali Sarvghad

Intuitive Design of Deep Learning Models through Visual Feedback
Authors: JunYoung Choi, Sohee Park, GaYeon Koh, Youngseo Kim, Won-Ki Jeong

LinkQ: An LLM-Assisted Visual Interface for Knowledge Graph Question-Answering
Authors: Harry Li, Gabriel Appleby, Ashley Suh

Bavisitter: Integrating Design Guidelines into Large Language Models for Visualization Authoring
Authors: Jiwon Choi, Jaeung Lee, Jaemin Jo

Exploring the Capability of LLMs in Performing Low-Level Visual Analytic Tasks on SVG Data Visualizations
Authors: Zhongzheng Xu


Thursday, October 17
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
Accessibility and Touch

Beyond Vision Impairments: Redefining the Scope of Accessible Data Representations
Authors: Brianna L. Wimer, Laura South, Keke Wu, Danielle Albers Szafir, Michelle A. Borkin, Ronald A. Metoyer

Towards Enhancing Low Vision Usability of Data Charts on Smartphones
Authors: Yash Prakash, Pathan Aseef Khan, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok

When Refreshable Tactile Displays Meet Conversational Agents: Investigating Accessible Data Presentation and Analysis with Touch and Speech
Authors: Samuel Reinders, Matthew Butler, Ingrid Zukerman, Bongshin Lee, Lizhen Qu, Kim Marriott

Touching the Ground: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Data Physicalizations for Spatial Data Analysis Tasks
Authors: Bridger Herman, Cullen Jackson, Daniel Keefe

SpatialTouch: Exploring Spatial Data Visualizations in Cross-reality
Authors: Lixiang Zhao, Tobias Isenberg, Fuqi Xie, Hai-Ning Liang, Lingyun Yu


Thursday, October 17
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
Applications: Industry, Computing, and Medicine

Visual Exploratory Analysis for Designing Large-Scale Network-on-Chip Architectures: A Domain Expert-Led Design Study
Authors: Shaoyu Wang, Hang Yan, Katherine E. Isaacs, Yifan Sun

QuantumEyes: Towards Better Interpretability of Quantum Circuits
Authors: Shaolun Ruan, Qiang Guan, Paul Griffin, Ying Mao, Yong Wang

Bimodal Visualization of Industrial X-ray and Neutron Computed Tomography Data
Authors: Xuan Huang, Haichao Miao, Hyojin Kim, Andrew Townsend, Kyle Champley, Joesph Tringe, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer

Interactive Design-of-Experiments: Optimizing a Cooling System
Authors: Rainer Splechtna, Majid Behravan, Mario Jelovic, Denis Gracanin, Helwig Hauser, Kresimir Matkovic

DaedalusData: Exploration, Knowledge Externalization and Labeling of Particles in Medical Manufacturing - A Design Study
Authors: Alexander Wyss, Gabriela Morgenshtern, Amanda Hirsch-Hüsler, Jürgen Bernard

DITTO: A Visual Digital Twin for Interventions and Temporal Treatment Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer
Authors: Andrew Wentzel, Serageldin Attia, Xinhua Zhang, Guadalupe Canahuate, Clifton David Fuller, G. Elisabeta Marai


Thursday, October 17
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
Journalism and Public Policy

More Than Data Stories: Broadening the Role of Visualization in Contemporary Journalism
Authors: Yu Fu, John Stasko

The Impact of Elicitation and Contrasting Narratives on Engagement, Recall and Attitude Change with News Articles Containing Data Visualization
Authors: Milad Rogha, Subham Sah, Alireza Karduni, Douglas Markant, Wenwen Dou

What Can Interactive Visualization do for Participatory Budgeting in Chicago?
Authors: Alex Kale, Danni Liu, Maria Gabriela Ayala, Harper Schwab, Andrew McNutt

The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations
Authors: Fumeng Yang, Mandi Cai, Chloe Mortenson, Hoda Fakhari, Ayse Lokmanoglu, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Erik Nisbet, Matthew Kay

Visualization Atlases: Explaining and Exploring Complex Topics through Data, Visualization, and Narration
Authors: Jinrui Wang, Xinhuan Shu, Benjamin Bach, Uta Hinrichs

Defogger: A Visual Analysis Approach for Data Exploration of Sensitive Data Protected by Differential Privacy
Authors: Xumeng Wang, Shuangcheng Jiao, Chris Bryan


Thursday, October 17
03:15-04:30PM EDT (UTC-4)
Motion and Animated Notions

Motion-Based Visual Encoding Can Improve Performance on Perceptual Tasks with Dynamic Time Series
Authors: Songwen Hu, Ouxun Jiang, Jeffrey Riedmiller, Cindy Xiong Bearfield

Evaluating Graphical Perception of Visual Motion for Quantitative Data Encoding
Authors: Shaghayegh Esmaeili, Samia Kabir, Anthony M. Colas, Rhema P. Linder, Eric D. Ragan

User Experience of Visualizations in Motion: A Case Study and Design Considerations
Authors: Lijie Yao, Federica Bucchieri, Victoria McArthur, Anastasia Bezerianos, Petra Isenberg

Designing for Visualization in Motion: Embedding Visualizations in Swimming Videos
Authors: Lijie Yao, Romain Vuillemot, Anastasia Bezerianos, Petra Isenberg

Blowing Seeds Across Gardens: Visualizing Implicit Propagation of Cross-Platform Social Media Posts
Authors: Jianing Yin, Hanze Jia, Buwei Zhou, Tan Tang, Lu Ying, Shuainan Ye, Tai-Quan Peng, Yingcai Wu

Animating the Narrative: A Review of Animation Styles in Narrative Visualization
Authors: Vyri Junhan Yang, Mahmood Jasim


Friday, October 18
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Look, Learn, Language Models

AdversaFlow: Visual Red Teaming for Large Language Models with Multi-Level Adversarial Flow
Authors: Dazhen Deng, Chuhan Zhang, Huawei Zheng, Yuwen Pu, Shouling Ji, Yingcai Wu

LLM Comparator: Interactive Analysis of Side-by-Side Evaluation of Large Language Models
Authors: Minsuk Kahng, Ian Tenney, Mahima Pushkarna, Michael Xieyang Liu, James Wexler, Emily Reif, Krystal Kallarackal, Minsuk Chang, Michael Terry, Lucas Dixon

Fine-Tuned Large Language Model for Visualization System: A Study on Self-Regulated Learning in Education
Authors: Lin Gao, Jing Lu, Zekai Shao, Ziyue Lin, Shengbin Yue, Chiokit Ieong, Yi Sun, Rory Zauner, Zhongyu Wei, Siming Chen

Advancing Multimodal Large Language Models in Chart Question Answering with Visualization-Referenced Instruction Tuning
Authors: Xingchen Zeng, Haichuan Lin, Yilin Ye, Wei Zeng

How Aligned are Human Chart Takeaways and LLM Predictions? A Case Study on Bar Charts with Varying Layouts
Authors: Huichen Wang, Jane Hoffswell, Sao Myat Thazin Thane, Victor S. Bursztyn, Cindy Xiong Bearfield

Guided Health-related Information Seeking from LLMs via Knowledge Graph Integration
Authors: Youfu Yan, Yu Hou, Yongkang Xiao, Rui Zhang, Qianwen Wang


Friday, October 18
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Flow, Topology, and Uncertainty

Objective Lagrangian Vortex Cores and their Visual Representations
Authors: Tobias Günther, Holger Theisel

Localized Evaluation for Constructing Discrete Vector Fields
Authors: Tanner Finken, Julien Tierny, Joshua Levine

A Practical Solver for Scalar Data Topological Simplification
Authors: Mohamed KISSI, Mathieu Pont, Joshua Levine, Julien Tierny

Uncertainty Visualization of Critical Points of 2D Scalar Fields for Parametric and Nonparametric Probabilistic Models
Authors: Tushar Athawale, Zhe Wang, David Pugmire, Kenneth Moreland, Qian Gong, Scott Klasky, Chris R. Johnson, Paul Rosen

Inclusion Depth for Contour Ensembles
Authors: Nicolas F. Chaves-de-Plaza, Prerak Mody, Marius Staring, René van Egmond, Anna Vilanova, Klaus Hildebrandt

Curve Segment Neighborhood-based Vector Field Exploration
Authors: Nguyen K Phan, Guoning Chen


Friday, October 18
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Where the Networks Are

Visual Analysis of Multi-outcome Causal Graphs
Authors: Mengjie Fan, Jinlu Yu, Daniel Weiskopf, Nan Cao, Huaiyu Wang, Liang Zhou

Structure-Aware Simplification for Hypergraph Visualization
Authors: Peter Oliver, Eugene Zhang, Yue Zhang

Does This Have a Particular Meaning?: Interactive Pattern Explanation for Network Visualizations
Authors: Xinhuan Shu, Alexis Pister, Junxiu Tang, Fanny Chevalier, Benjamin Bach

SmartGD: A GAN-Based Graph Drawing Framework for Diverse Aesthetic Goals
Authors: Xiaoqi Wang, Kevin Yen, Yifan Hu, Han-Wei Shen

AdaMotif: Graph Simplification via Adaptive Motif Design
Authors: Hong Zhou, Peifeng Lai, Yong WANG, Zhida Sun, Xiangyuan Chen, Yang Chen, Huisi Wu

HiRegEx: Interactive Visual Query and Exploration of Multivariate Hierarchical Data
Authors: Guozheng Li, Haotian Mi, Chi Harold Liu, Takayuki Itoh, Guoren Wang


Friday, October 18
08:30-09:45AM EDT (UTC-4)
Human and Machine Visualization Literacy

Enhancing Data Literacy On-demand: LLMs as Guides for Novices in Chart Interpretation
Authors: Kiroong Choe, Chaerin Lee, Soohyun Lee, Jiwon Song, Aeri Cho, Nam Wook Kim, Jinwook Seo

What University Students Learn In Visualization Classes
Authors: Maryam Hedayati, Matthew Kay

PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations
Authors: Anne-Flore Cabouat, Tingying He, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg

Promises and Pitfalls: Using Large Language Models to Generate Visualization Items
Authors: Yuan Cui, Lily Ge, Yiren Ding, Lane Harrison, Fumeng Yang, Matthew Kay

An Empirical Evaluation of the GPT-4 Multimodal Language Model on Visualization Literacy Tasks
Authors: Alexander Bendeck, John Stasko

How Good (Or Bad) Are LLMs in Detecting Misleading Visualizations
Authors: Leo Yu-Ho Lo, Huamin Qu