Uncertainty Visualization: How to Make it Interpretable, Integrable, and Accessible?


Session chair:TBA

Room:Essex south

Time: - (US/Eastern)

Organizers:Timbwaoga A. J. Ouermi, Tushar M Athawale, Chris R. Johnson, Kristi Potter, Paul Rosen, David Pugmire, Antigoni Georgiadou, Tim Gerrits, Nadia Boukhelifa

Website:https://tusharathawale.github.io/uncertainty-vis-workshop-2026/

Description:

Uncertainty visualization has long been recognized as a research challenge essential to trustworthy scientific discovery and informed decision-making. Despite multiple advances in uncertainty visualization methods, their adoption in real-world workflows remains limited due to three key challenges: interpretability, integrability, and accessibility. This workshop seeks to deepen community understanding and define research priorities across these three areas.

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Papers

Distribution-Agnostic Isocontour Confidence Bounds for Robust Uncertainty Visualization of Scalar Field Data

Honorable Mention

Authors: Timbwaoga A. J. Ouermi, Nina M. Gottschling, Alex Gorczowski, Tushar M. Athawale

Field Guide: Making Lived Uncertainty Interpretable in Women’s Return-to-Play

Authors: Rhiannon Sian Owen, Jonathan C Roberts

Fraying Certainty: Material Degradation as an Uncertainty Channel in Woven Textile Visualization

Authors: Stephen Brooks

LoCoMapper: Local Structural Uncertainty Analysis of Mapper Graphs under Cover Perturbations

Honorable Mention

Authors: Xinyuan Yan, Jixian Li, Bei Wang

Practice improves performance with uncertainty visualization tasks.

Authors: Benjamin T Files, Laura Marusich, Mark S. Dennison

Prediction market visualizations, betting, and uncertainty: A study of Reddit Posts and Comments

Best paper award

Authors: Subham Sah, Alireza Karduni, Doug Markant, Wenwen Dou

Seeing Through Uncertainty: Optical Operations as a Design Vocabulary for Uncertainty Visualization

Authors: Stephen Brooks

Similar Ratings, Different Consensus: Visualizing Agreement Uncertainty in Survey Data

Best paper award

Authors: Vrushali Koli, Yi Meng, Eugene P. Deess, Aritra Dasgupta

Sounds Uncertain: Exploring the Affective Aspects of Sonification for Uncertainty Visualization

Authors: Marcel Dutt, Sita Vriend, Elias Elmquist, Daniel Weiskopf

Uncertainty-Aware Jacobi Sets

Authors: Daniel Klötzl, Daniel Weiskopf

Visualizing Uncertainty in Non-linear Projections with Ensembles

Authors: Kai Nylund, Michael Correll, Lace M. Padilla

Visualizing Uncertainty-to-Action Composition for Human Oversight

Authors: Chisom Anyabolu, Akshat Dubey, Georges Hattab