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Niklas Elmqvist
@nelmqvist.bsky.social
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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]
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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! 🦄
Pete Butcher wearing a Quest 3 headset and holding two controllers to interact with data in DashSpace while his live view is shown on the slide in the background. The live view shows a stream graph, visualization components, and photos in 3D.
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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...
Marcel in a blue hoodie and Pete in a striped sweater getting ready to present DashSpace at IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna. Marcel in a blue hoodie at the podium presenting DashSpace: the slide shows the paper title: “DashSpace: A Live Collaborative Platform for Immersive and Ubiquitous Analytics”.
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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.
Johannes at the podium getting ready to give his talk with a title slide showing “Eye of the Beholder: Towards Measuring Visualization Complexity” and the authors: Johannes Ellemose and Niklas Elmqvist.
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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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
Sungbok Shin in a blue hoodie standing at the podium giving his talk at IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna, Austria. The slide in the background shows the title of his talk: “Visualizationary: Automating Design Feedback for Visualization Designers using LLMs”. Also lists co-authors Sanghyun Hong and Niklas Elmqvist.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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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!
Title slide showing Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator (T-800) holding his hand out to the audience and with a speech bubble saying “Immersive analytics, come with me if you want to live.” The slide also has a picture of Niklas Elmqvist.
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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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
Sungbok Shin wearing a blue hoodie at the speaker podium presenting his talk; the slide shows the name of his paper (“Drillboard
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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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
Dylan and Areen at the podium in front of a slide with a participant quote that reads “I've never seen a graph, I've never seen anything visually. I may be frank—graphics mean nothing to me. I have no context, so I would dismiss them out of hand if they aren't built for me... If they're built from a visual place, at least for me, they mean nothing, they have no resonance with me whatsoever."
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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
Dylan Cashman and Areen Khalaila at the speaker podium at IEEE VIS 2025 presenting their best paper on tactile representations. The slide says “Should a tactile representation replicate its visual counterpart to be effective?”
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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!)
Selfie of the three IEEE VIS 2025 overall papers chairs (from left: Niklas Elmqvist, Melanie Tory, and Holger Theisel) at the speaker podium with the entire ballroom audience in the background while opening the conference.
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Johanna Schmidt from VRVis and TU Wien opening #ieeevis 2025 in Vienna! More than 1,100 attendees on location.
Johanna Schmidt at the podium with a screen showing “Welcome to Vienna!” and 1,114 (the number of participants).
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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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
Leo Liu at the speaker podium presenting during the VISxGenAI workshop at IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
November 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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!
Anton at the speaker podium gesturing while presenting his multi-agent system. Slide showing the report generation approach of nested reports, stories, and visualizations as well as an example on visualizairon publication data.
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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@pwsbutcher.bsky.social and @ritsosp.bsky.social tag-teaming immersive data analysis at the DashSpace tutorial during the first day of #ieeevis 2025!
Pete Butcher (right) and Panos Ritsos (left) wearing Quest Pro and Quest 3 headsets while standing in front of a projected image showing both of their augmented reality views using DashSpace.
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Even in Vienna it seems nobody is willing to take credit for what the Danes call “wienerbrød”. Circular reference ftw. #ieeevis
Danish/Viennese pastries in Vienna with the sign “small Danish pastry”
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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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.
Clemens in a blue shirt gesturing proudly in front of an empty whiteboard and two large projections of a VS Code source code window showing a JavaScript implementation of drag and drop.
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Professor Corrie is on deck for the faculty meeting at @csaudk.bsky.social!
Small Australian Shepherd sitting under the table in a conference room with a big screen that reads “Faculty Meeting” in the background.
September 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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This bowling alley has just rickrolled its entire clientele. Gotta respect the hustle.
Empty bowling lanes with wall to wall screens showing Rick Astley from the 1987 music video “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
June 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Thrilled to have Dan Russell here at @csaudk.bsky.social giving his AUCS colloquium on “People, AI, and Online Research”!
Dan Russell at the lectern wearing a blue shirt and looking at the camera while giving his invited talk in the CS department at Aarhus University, Denmark.
February 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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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!
Large yellow house of many stories and red brick roof with a cloudy sky.
November 25, 2024 at 12:33 PM