Sunday, May 17, 2026, 12:45 – 2:15 pm, Banyan/Citrus

Organizers: Ouxun Jiang, Northwestern University; Ghulam Jilani Quadri, University of Oklahoma; Clementine Zimnicki, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kylie Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Songwen Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Interdisciplinary work across vision science and data visualization has provided a new lens to advance our understanding of the visual system’s capabilities and mechanisms while simultaneously improving how we visualize data. Vision scientists can better understand human perception by studying how people interact with visualized data. Vision science topics, including visual search, ensemble coding, multiple object tracking, color and shape perception, pattern recognition, and saliency, map directly to challenges encountered in visualization research.

VISxVISION (www.visxvision.com) is an initiative to encourage communication and collaboration between researchers from the vision science and data visualization research communities. Building on the growing interest in this topic and the discussions inspired by our recent VSS satellite in 2024 (featuring keynote speakers Drs. Jessica Witt and Keisuke Fukuda, with attendance over 50) IEEE VIS Workshop in 2023 (featuring keynote speakers Drs. Bart Anderson, Steve Most, and Kim Curby, with attendance of over 30), as well as IEEE VIS Workshops in 2021 (featuring keynote speakers Drs. Keisuke Fukuda, Jiaying Zhao, and Todd Horowitz; with attendance of over 70) and 2019 (featuring keynote speakers Drs. Jeremy Wolfe, Timothy Brady, and Darko Odic; with attendance of over 80), our 2020 and 2019 VSS satellite events (attendance over 70), and our 2018 VSS symposium (attendance over 200), this workshop provides a continuing platform to bring together vision science and visualization researchers to share cutting-edge research at this interdisciplinary intersection. We also encourage researchers to share vision science projects that can be applied to topics in data visualization.

Modeled on the last satellite event’s success, this year’s workshop will feature a series of invited keynote talks, a lightning talk session, and Q&A with the presenters. The workshop will conclude with a “meet & mingle” session intended to encourage more informal discussion among participants and to inspire interdisciplinary collaboration.

A call for abstracts on https://visxvision.com will solicit recent, relevant research at the intersection of vision science and visualization or collaborative/applied projects in either field (deadline: April 1). The top submissions will be selected for lightning talk presentations at the workshop (notification: April 15).

Call for abstracts: https://forms.gle/wYMnGr8XrkSULAng7

Please register at: https://forms.gle/uF4Zyv7vAaAhGEnY7