Below is a concise overview of the conference program. Please note that changes may still be made at short notice.
Doctoral Colloquium
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (CET)
Doctoral Colloquium (Invite-only event)
The Doctoral Colloquium will take place at TU Wien, Favoritenstraße 9-11, 1040 Wien.
Workshop Schedule (Sunday/Monday)
Sunday/Monday sessions will be 90 minutes. We will have two parallel tracks morning and two in the afternoon. Coffee breaks are planned between the first/second and third/fourth block.
- Morning coffee break: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM (CET)
- Lunch break: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (CET)
- Afternoon coffee break: 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM (CET)
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)
[Workshop] 8th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI)
[Workshop] 16th Annual Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare
[Workshop] Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis)
[Workshop] 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities: VIS4DH ↔ DH4VIS
[Workshop] alt.VIS 2025
[Tutorial] Developing Immersive Visualizations and Interactions for the Web with Anu.js
[Tutorial] User-centered Evaluation in Visualization
[Competition] Bio+MedVis Challenge
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CET)
[Workshop] 8th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI)
[Workshop] 16th Annual Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare
[Workshop] Seventh Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm)
[Workshop] Uncertainty Visualization: Unraveling Relationships of Uncertainty, AI, and Decision-Making
[Workshop] The 2nd MERCADO Workshop at IEEE VIS 2025: Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online
[Tutorial] Live Collaborative Immersive Analytics Development with DashSpace
[Tutorial] Running Online User Studies with the reVISit Framework
[Competition] SciVis Contest
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)
[Workshop] VISxGenAI: 1st Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS
[Workshop] Envisioning a Research Agenda for Input Visualization
[Workshop] Human Factors in Immersive Analytics
[Workshop] EduVis: 3rd IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities
[Workshop] LDAV 2025 - The 15th IEEE Workshop on Large Data Analysis & Visualization
[Tutorial] MLLM4Vis: Multimodal Large Language Models for Information Visualization
[Tutorial] Using Color Harmony and Gen AI Suggestion to Transform your Data Visualizations
[Tutorial] Hands-On TTK Tutorial: Solving Practical Problems in Small Groups
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CET)
[Workshop] VISxGenAI: 1st Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS
[Workshop] Envisioning a Research Agenda for Input Visualization
[Workshop] AccessViz: 2nd Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization
[Workshop] ECWIDNA: Engaging Critical Workforce In co-Design aNd Assessment
[Tutorial] Visualization for Explainable AI (XAI)
[Tutorial] Building Progressive Visual Analytics Systems with ProgressiVis
[Tutorial] Visualization Analysis and Design
[Competition] VAST Challenge
Conference Schedule (Tuesday - Friday)
Tuesday to Friday sessions will be 75 minutes. We will have two parallel tracks morning and two in the afternoon. Coffee breaks are planned between the first/second and third/fourth block.
- Morning coffee break: 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM (CET)
- Lunch break: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (CET)
- Afternoon coffee break: 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM (CET)
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Morning
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (CET)
- Welcome
- Welcome by the General Chairs
- VIS Opening
- Keynote
- Hans-Christian Hege
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)
- VGTC Awards
- VIS Introduction
- Paper and Short Paper Selection
- Poster Selection
- Best Short Papers
- Best Short Paper 1 & 2
Afternoon
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (CET)
- Best Poster Award
- Best Papers
- Best Papers 1 - 3
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM (CET)
- Best Papers
- Best Papers 4 & 5 (virtual presentation)
- Test-of-Time Awards
- SciVis Test-of-Time Awards
- InfoVis Test-of-Time Awards
- VAST Test-of-Time Awards
Evening
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (CET)
- Welcome Reception (Natural History Museum)
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Morning
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- VA for AI
- Multivariate and Time
- Dastardly Dashboards (+ 1 Short Paper)
- Maps & Spatial Vis
- Encoding and Comprehension (Virtual Session)
- Panel
- VisAble: Who do we exclude by current visualization practices and how do we change that?
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- Fields, Fields, Fields
- Of Trees and Treemaps (+ 1 Short Paper)
- Short Paper Sessions
- Visualization with/for/in AI
- Visualization for Science
- Charts, Diagrams & Plots
- Viz for AI & AI for Viz (Virtual Session)
- Panel
- TALK, TRY, TELL: Challenges and Opportunities for Theory-Grounded Data Visualization in Extended Reality
Afternoon
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- The VIS in GenAI
- Embeddings & Metrics
- Volume
- Ordering and Layout
- Short Paper Sessions
- Explorations in Abstract and Physical Spaces
- Vis In Practice
- Research <> Practice Engagement Session
- Panel
- From Cognition to Context: A Conversation about Technical Approaches, Social Values, and Tradeoffs in Visualization
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- Agentic Visualization and Intelligent Systems
- Dimensionality Reduction and Parameter Space Analysis
- Flow and Topology
- Authoring and Design
- Graphs and Networks
- Panel
- What Does Psychology Really Mean to Visualization Research? Towards PsychXVis and VisXPsych
Evening
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (CET)
- Poster Session (Austria Center Vienna)
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CET)
- Conference Dinner (Austria Center Vienna)
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Morning
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- Explanation, Exploration, and Model Configuration
- The Color and the Shape
- Short Paper Sessions
- Workflows & Infrastructure
- Visualization in-the-wild
- Multi-modal and Spatial (Virtual Session)
- Vis Arts Program
- VISAP Papers
- Panel
- IEEE VIS Reviewing - On a Path to Self-Destruction?
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- From Data to Meaning
- Games, Sports, and Music (+ 1 Short Paper)
- Vis & Language
- Volumes & 3D (Virtual Session)
- TVCG/CG&A Paper Sessions
- Visual Analytics Methods, Tools, and Infrastructure
- Vis Arts Program
- VISAP Pictoral
- Panel
- Industry Meets Research: Future Needs and Opportunities for Visual Analytics in Industrial Manufacturing
Afternoon
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- Analysts, Assemble!
- Algorithms and Workflows
- Transportation, Buildings, and Urban Vis
- Immersive & Ubiquitous Analytics
- Perception
- Rescheduled Papers (+ 1 Short Paper)
- Panel
- “Words Divide, Pictures Unite” - Revisiting Otto Neurath’s ISOTYPE at 100
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- Interaction, Provenance, and Collaboration
- Analytics & Reasoning
- Biomedical Visualization
- Short Paper Sessions
- Immersive Visualization and Extended Reality
- Perception & Semantics
- Vis In Practice
- Industry Meetup: How to make money with visualization?
Evening
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CET)
- VISAP Exhibition (University of Applied Arts (Atrium))
7:00 PM (CET)
- OC Dinner - invitation only (Melker Stiftskeller)
Friday, November 7, 2025
Morning
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (CET)
- Full Paper Sessions
- Trust No One
- Stories and the Journalists Who Tell Them
- Models, Methods, and Typologies
- Visualization Literacy
- TVCG/CG&A Paper Session
- Reflections and Looking Forward
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)
- Capstone
- Theo Deutinger
- Closing
- Conference closing
- Outlook
Program Co-Chairs
- Tushar Athawale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Michelle Dowling, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Michael Oppermann, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
- Alfie Abdul Rahman, King’s College London
- Gautam Chaudhary, Alcon
Email: program@ieeevis.org