Congratulations to Laura Lotteraner, Regina Schuster and Judith Staudner, whose paper just got presented at EuroVis 2025 in Luxemburg and published in the Education track of...

The subunit Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) and the Faculty of Computer Science warmly invite you to the CS Colloquium on May 30, 2025, at 3:00 PM.

In meinem Vortrag zu Hybrid Worlds zeigen wir, wie sich physische und digitale Räume zunehmend verbinden und damit die Zukunft des Arbeitens, Lernens und Planens gestalten.

Alle reden über Barrierefreiheit und den European Accessibility Act, aber worum geht es wirklich? Herzliche Einladung zum öffentlichen Vortrag mit einleitenden Worten von...

Laura Koesten erforscht, wie Menschen Daten am besten visuell begreifen können. Ihr Ziel ist es, komplexe Informationen so aufzubereiten, dass sie intuitiv verständlich...

We are happy to announce that the paper "Encountering Friction, Understanding Crisis" won an Honorable Mention Award at CHI'25!

We are happy and proud that there are three papers! Enjoy reading

We are happy to announce that Tatiana von Landesberger from the University of Cologne will be giving a talk on March 12th, 11:00.

Our paper examines the gap between how chart creators encode messages and how readers interpret them.

How do Digital Natives make sense of crisis maps? We explore their engagement with these crucial tools, identifying key activities and discussing comprehension challenges.

What makes a data visualization effective for different audiences? Our recent workshop in Vienna brought together experts to discuss engagement, trust and more.

Congratulations to Laura Koesten, Jude Yew and Kathleen Gregory, whose article was recently published in the ACM Interactions magazine.

We congratulate Laura for winning the Hedy Lamarr Price of the city of Vienna. We are very proud of her. Very well deserved!

We are very happy and proud to have Laura Koesten being nominated for the Hedy-Lamarr Price 2024!

Today a year ago, Torsten Möller was inducted into the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy​​​​​​​. 

A catalogue of lay people’s information needs about AI systems

Congratulations to Regina Schuster, Kathleen Gregory, Torsten Möller, and Laura Koesten, whose paper on climate visualization just got published in the IEEE Transactions on...

Congratulations to Kathleen Gregory, Laura Koesten, Regina Schuster, Torsten Möller, and Sarah Davies, whose paper was recently published by the Harvard Data Science Review.

On June 24th Nils Gehlenborg from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School will talk on how 3D Spatial and Single-Cell Data can be visualized.

We are happy to announce that Siming Chen from the School of Data Science at Fudan University will be giving a talk on May 15th, 10:15.

We are happy to share that Laura Koesten has been interviewed by Markus Hengstschläger about her work in the program "Spontan gefragt".

Our research group is currently looking for a PhD researcher with a background in computer science, information science, or a related field.

We are happy to announce that Kalina Borkiewicz from the University of Utah will give a talk on "Beauty in Numbers: Scientific Visualization meets Hollywood Flair" on...

We are excited to announce the upcoming CHI 2024 workshop on sensemaking (in all of its forms, including LLM-assisted sensemaking). Here's your chance to learn, discuss, and...

Péter co-authored and presented a short paper at the IEEE VIS conference in Melbourne titled "Draco 2: An Extensible Platform to Model Visualization Design" which was...

On June 15th, Laura Lotteraner, Regina Schuster, and Judith Staudner hosted a workshop on visualizing social media data at FMS im Zentrum, a public school in Vienna.

We cordially invite you to attend a talk by Jen Christiansen from Scientific American. The talk will focus on the topic "Special Considerations for Science Graphics (from a...

We cordially invite you to attend a talk by Jos Roerdink from the University of Groningen. The talk will focus on the topic "Data-Driven Visualization of Multichannel EEG...

We are happy to announce that Timothée Schmude's paper “On the Impact of Explanations on Understanding of Algorithmic Decision-Making” was accepted at this year’s ACM...

Hamid Younesy's paper "ModEx: a general purpose computer model exploration system" was published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics.

Katharina's tool provides recommendations for outlines, scripts, and real examples to create engaging publication summaries.

We are happy to share that Regina just presented her workshop paper “'The main message is that sustainability would help' – Reflections on takeaway messages of climate change...

We congratulate Kevin Sidak for his work on better understanding the training of deep neural networks under quantization that was presented at the SIAM International...

We are looking for a system admin and software developer from April 1st, 2023 on. We offer a pleasant work environment within a friendly, dynamic and international team.

On Wednesday, February 15th, 18:30, Laura Koesten will be giving a talk for Wikimedia Research on "Dataset reuse: Toward translating principles to practice".

Eiman Ahangarebrahimi, as part of his forthcoming Master Thesis, helped develop and user test a number of graphics that were just revealed as part of the new website of the...

Univie Blog features a new article on the first Talking Charts Team Workshop that was held on September 21st.

Bei der diesjährigen Kinderuni hatten die kleinen Studierenden in der Eröffnungswoche gleich vier Mal die Möglichkeit etwas über Informatik und einige spezielle...

On May 23rd Laura Koesten and Kathleen Gregory will be giving a talk at the Data Stories Conference 2022.

Liz Marai from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at University of Illinois is visiting our research group and will be giving a talk on "Grounding Data Vis Theory on...

We cordially invite you to the first CS Colloquium of the year with Prof. Shamir on "A New Theory of Adversarial Examples in Machine Learning." in HS1 of the faculty building...

Our group is looking for a organizational assistant. We offer a pleasant work environment within a friendly, international team.

Our research group is looking for a system admin and software developer from January 1st, 2022 on.

We offer a pleasant work environment within a friendly, dynamic, international and young team in Vienna, one of the cities with the highest quality of life worldwide.

At this years EuroVis Raphael Sahann gave a talk on "Selective Angular Brushing of Parallel Coordinate Plots", a paper he wrote together with Ivana Gajic, Torsten Moeller and...

Our research group is currently looking for a PhD researcher with a background in computer science, information science, or a related field.

The University of Vienna seeks to fill the position of a University Assistant (prae doc) at the Research Platform The Challenge of Urban Futures: governing the complexities...

The paper "CorpSum: Towards an Enabling Tool-Design for Language Researchers to Explore, Analyze and Visualize Corpora" by Asil Çetin, Thomas Torsney-Weir and Torsten Möller...

Torsten Möller and Katharina Wünsche published a paper together with an international team on the VIS30K collection of 29,689 images from the IEEE Visualization conference.

We are honored to be among the chosen projects by the WWTF for their digital humanism call. "Talking Charts" will research transparency in presenting complex issues clearly...

Torsten Möller and Christian Knoll presented the IVAN project at this year’s CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar.

Our PostDoc Laura Koesten and Elena Simperl from King's College London recently published an article on how to improve user experience when interacting with data.

We are happy to have Laura Koesten join our team as a new postdoc.

Congratulations to Aleksandar, who did his Master's thesis on "MultiConVis: A Visual Exploration Tool for Multi-label Classifier Evaluation and Comparison".

Our research group together with the research platform Data Science @ Uni Vienna is currently advertising 8 new positions. Apply now!

VRVis is hiring, and also offering internships or possibilities to write your master's thesis at their Biomedical Image Informatics research group.

Christian finished his Master in Computer Science with a thesis on "Evaluation of Design Variations in Creative Visualization-Opportunities Workshops". Congratulations,...

If you always wanted to get an introduction to data visualization with Tableau, you can do so with this video course by Christoph Kralj and Raphael Sahann on YouTube.