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Inside IEEEVIS 2025: Key Themes, Best Papers, and the Future of Visualization
Season 12 · Episode 296

Inside IEEEVIS 2025: Key Themes, Best Papers, and the Future of Visualization

The PolicyViz Podcast

December 10, 202547m 20s

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Show Notes

In this episode, I sit down with Alvitta Ottley and Paul Parsons to recap everything that happened at the 2025 IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna. We talk about our experiences co-organizing the VisCom workshop, the surprising attendance, and the standout keynote from Moritz Stefaner. Alvitta shares insights on accessibility research and the surge of LLM-focused visualization papers, while Paul walks us through his award-winning work on design cognition and how practitioners develop ideas. We also reflect on the evolving identity of the visualization field, from methodological rigor to the role of practitioners, interdisciplinarity, and ethical tensions. It’s a wide-ranging, candid conversation about where visualization research is headed — and what we hope to see next year in Boston.

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