VRVis researchers variously featured at EuroVis 2023

The 25th edition of EuroVis, organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization, put Leipzig at the center of visualization research and practice in June 2023.

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Katja Bühler is giving her lecture in front of seated people, in the background a slide of her presentation is projected onto a screen

During her Capstone Talk, Katja Bühler, scientific director of VRVis, spoke about the experience at VRVis with developing and working on software frameworks that can prove themselves in practice.

View of poster exhibition from above, different people are standing in front of the posters, high glass windows in the background

A tour around the poster exhibition at EuroVis 2023 in Leipzig gave an impression of current trends in visualization research and practice.

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VRVis was an academic sponsor for the EuroVis conference 2023.

A group of seated people, seen from behind, listening to and watching a presentation at a conference, a slide is projected onto a screen

For a week, the participants of EuroVis 2023 presented and discussed the field of visualization in all its different dimensions in Leipzig. VRVis-researcher Johanna Schmidt was i.a. part of a panel debating the topic "The Future of Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization".

Connecting the science and practice of visualization, promoting collaboration, and attracting more researchers to this discipline in Europe: These are the main goals of the EuroVis conferences. From June 12 to 16, 2023, this year´s edition took place in Leipzig's Wissenschaftspark. All fields of visualization were represented there to show how rapidly and strongly the discipline is developing.

Capstone talk by Katja Bühler on the development of successful, application-oriented software frameworks

On the first day of the conference, the scientific director of VRVis, Katja Bühler, presented her capstone talk "From tiny brains through raging rivers to Mars - the winding path from research prototypes to mature and sustainable software frameworks" in the session of the VisGap Symposium. In her talk, she spoke about the challenges of developing software prototypes from research to mature software solutions or products. Katja Bühler reflected on some examples from VRVis that have grown from an idea into a prototype, and now exist as an actively used software base. This presentation was part of VisGap at EuroVis 2023, which mainly focused on the gap between visualization research and practical applicability. It emphasized different approaches to solve this problem in an exchange between the two domains.

Paper, Panel Participation and Chair in a Session on Visual Analytics (VA)

Johanna Schmidt, head of the research group on visual analytics at VRVis, participated in a panel on interactive data analytics on June 14, 2023. With the other participants, she discussed research trends and ongoing changes in the field. Together with researchers from Visplore GmbH, a spin-off of VRVis, Johanna Schmidt also presented a paper at the EuroVis conference: Entitled "Human-Based and Automatic Feature Ideation for Time Series Data: A Comparative Study," they addressed the requirements for human-generated features for VA applications and outline characteristics for a quality assessment of feature sets. Johanna Schmidt also chaired a session on visual analytics and perception.

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