This year's EuroVis conference, which took place from May 25 to 29, 2020, and is the most important European conference in this field of research, stood under a special star, as the organizers' declared goal was to combine the two conferences EuroVis and Eurographics and hold them together in Norrköping, Sweden. This goal was achieved, however, due to the corona situation the conference was held online.
VRVis was well represented: Katja Bühler, head of our Biomedical Image Informatics research group, acted as Session Chair and took part in the virtual Women's Lunch, together with our researcher Katharina Krösl. Johanna Schmidt and Thomas Ortner presented in the video "Visualization in Notebook-Style Interfaces" at the VISGAP workshop their ideas on how visualizations could be better integrated into data science applications. The lecture video "Dual Radial Set" by Kresimir Matkovic, head of our Interactive Visualization research group, was presented at the EuroVA workshop. The video focused on how grouped data can be better visualized. The questions for both presentations were answered live via a video conferencing setting. Johanna Schmidt also acted as Session Chair, moderating and coordinating the video conference, discussion forums and the YouTube chat simultaneously.
Last but not least, also the big social event of the conference took place online, where participants from all countries could talk to each other in zoom meetings. The virtual tools even allowed lively discussions about future paper ideas.
