Research

Workshop Papers & Proceedings

Starting at IEEE VIS 2026, accepted papers of VISxVISION@VIS will be included in the proceedings from the IEEE Digital Library, including the assignment of DOIs to individual papers. Author-specified non-archival papers are not included.

VISxVISION@VIS2026

• How Title Framing Influences Pattern Identification in Line Charts?
• Are Average Estimates in Line Graphs Biased Toward Areas of Higher Variability?
• Evaluating Just Noticeable Differences in Layered Opacity Visualizations
• More Accurate, Less Human: Gestalt Grouping in Vision Models
• Ten Years Later: Replicating Two Color Discrimination Studies
• Visual Embellishments are Potential Distractions in Double-Column Reading
• Can a Neural Encoding Model Replicate an fMRI Visualization Study?

Relevant Publications

A collection of peer-reviewed work that exemplifies how visualization and vision science advance each other.

RECENT Work (2018-present)

• Unifying Effects of Direct and Relational Associations for Visual Communication
• Context matters: A theory of semantic discriminability for perceptual encoding systems
• Semantic discriminability for visual communication
• Color nameability predicts inference accuracy in spatial visualizations
• Three Perceptual Tools for Seeing and Understanding Visualized Data
• The good, the bad, and the ugly: A theoretical framework for the assessment of continuous colormaps.
• VisRecall: Quantifying Information Visualization Recallability via Question Answering

Past work

Ensembles and Scene Statistics

• The Nature of Correlation Perception in Scatterplots
• On the Prospects for a Science of Visualization
• The Perception of Correlation in Scatterplots
• Perception of Average Value in Multiclass Scatterplots
• Four Types of Ensemble Coding in Data Visualizations
• Ranking Visualizations of Correlation Using Weber’s Law
• The Connected Scatterplot for Presenting Paired Time Series
• Comparing Averages in Time Series Data

Peripheral Vision

• Capabilities and Limitations of Peripheral Vision

Memorability & Recall

• What Makes a Visualization Memorable?
• Beyond Memorability
• ISOTOPE Visualization – Working Memory, Performance, and Engagement with Pictographics

Color Perception

• Modeling Color Differences for Visualization Design

Affective Cognition

• Influencing Visual Judgement through Affective Priming

Grouping and Segmentation

• Redundant Encoding Strengthens Segmentation and Grouping in Visual Displays of Data
• Perceptual Biases in Font Size as a Data Encoding

Motion and Animation

• The Not-so-Staggering Effect of Staggered Animated Transitions on Visual Tracking
• Obscuring Length Changes During Animated Motion

Perception – Theories and Models

• Internal vs. External Information in Visual Perception
• The Management of Visual Attention in Graphic Displays
• The Modeling and Control of Visual Perception
• From Vision Science to Data Science: Applying Perception to Problems in Big Data

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