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Ahmet and Niklas got the Best Presentation Award

Posted: Oct 2025

Ahmet and Niklas got the Best Presentation Award at 28th International Academic Mindtrek conference hosted at Tampere University in Tampere, Finland, for their presention of the pictorial “No Screens Allowed In Rheta: Using A Fictional World To Teach Physical Interaction Design”.

Derya successfully defends her thesis

Posted: Sep 2025

On Thursday, September 4, Derya successfully defended her thesis “Shifting Perspectives: Conducting Visualization Research with Entanglement Epistemology”. She gave a sharp, engaging, and deeply thoughtful defense. We are all so proud of you, Derya! Stort grattis!

Daniela joins the group!

Posted: Aug 2025

We are excited to welcome the newest member of the Vis and Interaction Design unit, Daniela Moyano! Daniela joins the group with a background in design and data visualization. She will be working with Miriah on a new project to make visualization research traceable and transparent. Välkommen Daniela! Read more...

Niklas got the Best Paper Award

Posted: Jul 2025

Niklas got the Best Paper Award at AM.ICAD 2025 (the join conference of Audio Mostly and International Conference on Auditory Display hosted at Colégio da Trindade (Trinity College) in Coimbra, Portugal) for his paper “Towards sonification for accessibility in public transport”.

Ahmet and Niklas got funding from Norrköping's fond for research and development

Posted: Jun 2025

Ahmet and Niklas received funding from the Norrköping Fund for Research and Development (Norrköpings kommun) for our project “Make your voice heard: Citizen Engagement for Safety and Inclusion through Immersive Storytelling in the Dome Theater”. It is an 18-month project that officially starts in January 2026 and aims to engage...

Derya presents at Visualizing Knowledge Conference

Posted: Jun 2025

Derya was gave a talk at the Visualizing Knowledge Conference hosted at Aalto University in Finland. Her talk title Care, Craft, & Complexity and spoke to the conference’s themes of resilience and complexity.

Seva joins the group!

Posted: May 2025

We are excited to welcome the newest member of the Vis and Interaction Design unit, Vsevolod (Seva) Suschevskiy! Seva joins the group with a recent MS in Technology and Social Behavior from Northwestern University, and a strong interest in designing new visual analysis tools for computational social scientists. He will...

Derya attends FemTech and Feminist Tech Workshop

Posted: May 2025

Derya was invited to join a 3-day workshop at KTH as part of the Digital Futures Focus Period on FemTech and Feminist Tech. She participated in the panel Critical feminist perspectives on AI.

Miriah gives keynote at EKSIG conf

Posted: May 2025

Miriah gave a keynote talk at the EKSIG 2025 conference in Budapest. This year’s theme of the conference was Data as Experiential Knowledge and Embodied Processes.

Elias successfully defended his thesis

Posted: Apr 2025

On Friday, April 25th, Elias successfully defended his thesis “Sensibly Sound: Human-Centered Integration of Sonification and Visualization”. Faculty opponent was Professor Paul Vickers from Northumbria University, and grade committee members were Professor Rikard Lindell from Dalarna University, Associate professor Sandra Pauletto from KTH Royal institute of technology, and Professor Stefan...

Data Aliens go to the Data Lab

Posted: Apr 2025

Derya and Miriah took the Data Aliens data crafting workshops to the Data Lab at LiU. We engaged our STS colleagues in activities of producing personal data, crafting aliens with their data, and discussing the potential for the workshop to engage people in critical discussions about data.

Elias "nailed" his thesis

Posted: Apr 2025

On Friday, April 4th, Elias officially “nailed” his thesis after delivering a short but engaging presentation of his work. The session was well attended, with around 30 participants ranging from first-year PhD students to full professors. During his talk, Elias also gave a sneak peek of his upcoming defense, which...

VID goes to Nordic PreCHI

Posted: Mar 2025

José, Kate, Derya, and Miriah headed to Copenhagen to attend the 2025 Nordic Pre-CHI event! The event provides an opportunity for researchers from the Nordics to present their accepted CHI 2025 papers and discuss them in a smaller circle. Find out more about the annual event here.

An anthology with insights from two research projects

Posted: Mar 2025

The anthology brings together research and experiences from the projects Disturbance free city (funded via Vinnova) and Disturbance free city 2.0 (funded via Formas), where new methods and digital tools have been developed to coordinate urban development, construction logistics, and traffic planning, and presenting these using visualization and sonification. It...

Grant for new courses in Extended Reality

Posted: Mar 2025

LiU is part of a consortium behind a successful proposal to EU Digital Europe, aiming to develop a Master’s program in Extended Reality. The idea is for students to study the first and second year in two different participating universities. Our contribution will be a curriculum for a second year...

Data & Me exhibit launch

Posted: Feb 2025

Derya and Miriah are launching a new exhibit at the Visualiseringscenter C! The exhibit - called Data & Me - is based on a series of data physicalization workshops we designed and ran as part of a collaborative project with Östergötlands Stadsmission to engage Norrköping youth in new and innovative...

Data Aliens at the Vis Center

Posted: Feb 2025

Derya and Miriah designed and launched a new data physicalization workshop for kids at the Visualiseringscenter C during the annual sportlov break. The workshop – designed in collaboration with pedagogues at the Vis Center – has kids creating a personal data set based on a scavenger hunt at the musuem,...

Niklas and Elias at Dagstuhl

Posted: Feb 2025

Niklas Rönnberg and Elias Elmquist took part in the Dagstuhl Seminar “What You Hear is What You See? Integrating Sonification and Visualization”, where Niklas was one of the co-organizers. The seminar included many discussion topics, such as a joint design theory and framework for audiovisual data representations, and what aspects...

Miriah gives talk at the Living Data Conference

Posted: Feb 2025

Miriah gave an invited talk at the Living Data Conference, organized by the Design Data and Society Group in the Department of Architecture at TU Delft. The focus of the conference was to interrogate how living data concepts are entwined with the design processes that visualize and shape spaces for...

Elias presented at VISUS

Posted: Feb 2025

Elias visited VISUS at the University of Stuttgart, where he presented his current work on integrating sonification and visualization. He also took part in several demos from members of Weiskopf’s and Sedlmair’s group, and explored future research collaborations.

José joins the group!

Posted: Jan 2025

We are thrilled to welcome the newest member of the Vis and Interaction Design unit, José Bener! José joins the group with a recent MS in Interaction Design from Chalmers University and a wealth of experience as a product designer for numerous companies. He will be working with Miriah on...

Miriah awarded visiting professorship at U of Stuttgart

Posted: Dec 2024

Miriah has been named the 2025 Argyris Visiting Professor at the University of Stuttgart, as part of the SimTech Cluster of Excellence. She will spend 4-6 weeks as part of the VISUS visualization research center to build new interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers at Stuttgart.

Derya presents at KTH

Posted: Dec 2024

Last Friday, 6 Dec, Derya presented her research to both the Interaction Design and Visualization groups at KTH. As part of the FFF Seminars - or Fancy Formal Friday Seminars - held specially at the Visualization Studio, she presented her work titled Exploring New Threads in Visualization Research. You can...

Collaborative Media Revisited

Posted: Dec 2024

In 2013, Jonas Löwgren and Bo Reimer wrote a book about our joint work at Malmö University, discussing the media forms where infrastructure design, media production and consumption become collaborative practices. We revisited it in a December 2024 seminar, discussing what had happened in the last decade (from social media...

Elias and Niklas Present at Audiovisual Symposium 2024

Posted: Dec 2024

Elias Elmquist and Niklas Rönnberg visited the Audiovisual Symposium 2024, hosted by Dalarna Audiovisual Academy (DAVA) (Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden). Elias presented his work on a Systematic Scene Analysis Framework for Audiovisual Data Representations, a framework aimed to support both the analysis of and the design of an audiovisual representation....

Miriah and Derya give guest lecture at KTH

Posted: Dec 2024

Miriah and Derya gave a guest lecture in the KTH course Data Feminism. They discussed their recent work on bringing feminist theories into the visualization research context. The course is organized by KTH computer science faculty member Amir Payberah.

Miriah presents at Tallinn University

Posted: Dec 2024

Miriah presented her research in a public lecture at Tallinn University hosted by the CUDAN Open Lab. Her talk – Troubling Visualization – lays out a vision for reshaping visualization research through a questioning of norms and assumptions.

Accepted papers to VIS 24

Posted: Aug 2024

The Vis.C has had two papers accepted to the VIS 24 conference. Florida, here we come! Derya Akbaba, Lauren Klein, Miriah Meyer: Entanglements for Visualization: Changing Research Outcomes through Feminist Theory. Tobias Kauer, Derya Akbaba, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach: Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations.

Acceptances to Info+

Posted: Sep 2023

We’ve had two presentations accepted to the Information+ 2024 conference. Edinburgh, here we come! Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou: The Butterfly at the End of the Universe Tobias Kauer and akbaba: I Was Here: Digital Traces as Design Material

Accepted papers to VIS 23

Posted: Jun 2023

The Vis.C has had two papers accepted to the IEEE VIS 23 conference. Melbourne, here we come! akbaba and meyer: “Two Heads are Better than One”: Pair-Interviews for Visualization. Conny Walchshofer, Vaishali Dhanoa, Marc Streit, and meyer: Transitioning to a Commercial Dashboarding System: Socio-technical Observations and Opportunities.

Vis.C heads to CHI in Hamburg

Posted: Apr 2023

Derya, Charles, and Miriah headed to Hamburg for the CHI 2023 conference (on overnight trains!). We had a wonderful and inspiring time catching up with lots of visualization researchers, hosting a visualization meet-up, and presenting new work. Derya presented her paper Troubling Collaboration: Matters of Care for Visualization Design Study....

Acceptance to Nordic STS

Posted: Mar 2023

Myrto has had a presentation accepted to the Nordic STS 2023 conference. She will present in the panel: Academic collaboration as an experiment.

Charles receives a CHI 2023 honorable mention

Posted: Mar 2023

Congratulations to Charles for receiving an honorable mention for his forthcoming CHI 23 paper Dirty Data in the Newsroom: Comparing Data Preparation in Journalism and Data Science. This work is in collaboration with Stephen Kasica and Tamara Munzner from the University of British Columbia. Congrats Charles!

Accepted papers to CHI 23

Posted: Jan 2023

The Vis.C has had two papers accepted to the CHI 23 conference. Hamburg, here we come! akbaba, Devin Lange, Michael Correll, Alex Lex, and meyer: Troubling Collaboration: Matters of Care for Visualization Design Study. Stephen Kasica, berret, and Tamara Munzner: Dirty Data in the Newsroom: Comparing Data Preparation in Journalism...