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Niklas Elmqvist
@nelmqvist.bsky.social
Villum Investigator and Professor in HCI & visualization at Aarhus University in Denmark. Husband, dad, dog dad, runner, Kung Fu artist, gamer. He/him. Mastodon: @[email protected]
This picture was too good to not post. @pwsbutcher.bsky.social white-knuckled a live demo during the Q&A at the end of the talk. Legend! 🦄
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We’re very pleased to present DashSpace, a web-first live and collaborative platform for immersive analytics using WebXR: github.com/Webstrates/D...

Here is @maski89.bsky.social ready to give the talk at #ieeevis 2025 and @pwsbutcher.bsky.social on deck for a demo.

PDF: pure.au.dk/ws/portalfil...
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Here we have Johannes Ellemose giving his #ieeevis 2025 talk on “Eye of the Beholder 🧿: Towards Measuring Visualization Complexity”. Is there something intrinsic about a visualization that can be used to characterize its complexity? Johannes connected several studies to investigate this.
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Sungbok Shin is now presenting Visualizationary (needs some practice to say; think “revolutionary”) as an automated LLM feedback tool for visualization design. The tool gives feedback for novices to improve their visualizations over iterative design processes. #ieeevis PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2409.13109
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I just enlisted the help of Arnold from Austria 🇦🇹 to bring home my controversial message that immersive analytics has a Unity problem at the “DataVis in XR” panel. Our CG&A paper: pure.bangor.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Thx @pwsbutcher.bsky.social, @ritsosp.bsky.social, and @maski89.bsky.social for help!
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Wow—Sungbok Shin points out that our work on Drillboards was started in 2020 (deepest COVID). Drillboards is a dynamic dashboard with authoring and reader modes where you can create chart hierarchies for varying detail. #ieeevis
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2410.12744
Demo (laptop): drillboards.pages.dev
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
And the authors are reading my mind: one of the participants who was born blind did not see the need to base the tactile representation on a visualization. arxiv.org/abs/2508.14289
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Important question in accessible visualization. Our interviews (doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG...) tell us that basing an accessible representation on the visualization is good for (1) working with sighted people, and (2) for people not born BLV. Dylan Cashman and Areen Khalaila #ieeevis
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It was our great honor to serve as #ieeevis 2025 overall papers chairs. The conference is now open and we can’t wait for you all to enjoy the program. Thanks to Petra Specht for her tireless work as assistant to the OPCs! (And good luck to Melanie, Alex Endert, and @tisenberg.bsky.social for 2026!)
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Johanna Schmidt from VRVis and TU Wien opening #ieeevis 2025 in Vienna! More than 1,100 attendees on location.
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Here’s @zcliu.bsky.social presenting “contextual dynamic explanations” (CoDEx) at the #VISxGenAI workshop at #ieeevis 2025. Go @hcil-umd.bsky.social and UMD! visxgenai.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Brand new Ph.D. student Anton Wolter from my group at @csaudk.bsky.social presenting his team’s work on multi-agent data visualization and narrative generation at the #VISxGenAI workshop at #ieeevis; a runner-up in the VisAgent min-challenge at the workshop. Congratulations Anton and team!
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
@pwsbutcher.bsky.social and @ritsosp.bsky.social tag-teaming immersive data analysis at the DashSpace tutorial during the first day of #ieeevis 2025!
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Even in Vienna it seems nobody is willing to take credit for what the Danes call “wienerbrød”. Circular reference ftw. #ieeevis
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
In an act of true courage, @clemens.klokmose.net opens the JavaScript study lecture in our @csaudk.bsky.social HCI class by challenging the students to “ask me anything” about web development, and then proceeds to live code solutions to all contenders. Pictured after white-knuckling drag and drop.
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Professor Corrie is on deck for the faculty meeting at @csaudk.bsky.social!
September 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This bowling alley has just rickrolled its entire clientele. Gotta respect the hustle.
June 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Thrilled to have Dan Russell here at @csaudk.bsky.social giving his AUCS colloquium on “People, AI, and Online Research”!
February 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I’m spending the beginning of the week at Klitgaarden, a former Danish royal summer residence, as part of the Villum Investigator program. Beautiful and inspiring landscape—same thing with the discussions!
November 25, 2024 at 12:33 PM