Boston · Nov 9–13, 2026

IVIA at IEEE VIS 2026

12 papers and posters and 4 sessions we organize, chair or join. Here is when and where to find us.

All times are Boston time (EST).

Monday Nov 9

Workshop organizers

vis4climate: Building a Climate Vis Community

08:00–11:30 America center

Christina HumerAHAFFCMSMenna El-AssadyLMGPBB

Christina Humer, Andreas Hinterreiter, Aymeric Ferron, Fanny Chevalier, Marc Streit, Menna El-Assady, Luiz A. Morais, Georgia Panagiotidou, Benjamin Bach

vis4climate

AgroScan: Soil Carbon Prediction for Farmers

08:05–08:45 America center

Paper session

vis4climate: Paper Session 2, Domain Experts

MBCBCBJRMennatallah El-AssadyYannick MetzChristina Humer

Margarete Breitenhuber, Clara Buller, Claudio Bussinger, Jerome Reiter, Mennatallah El-Assady, Yannick Metz, Christina Humer

vis4climate

GeoXplain: Visual Explanations for Weather Models

08:05–08:45 America center

Paper session

vis4climate: Paper Session 2, Domain Experts

CKLTBSMennatallah El-AssadyChristina Humer

Clemens Walter Koprolin, Leonardo Trentini, Benedikt Soja, Mennatallah El-Assady, Christina Humer

vis4climate

GNN-VIEW: Explaining GNN-based Weather Models

08:05–08:45 America center

Paper session

vis4climate: Paper Session 2, Domain Experts

ALFUKKLKJOChristina Humer

Alessandro Lucatelli, Ferdinand Unterhuber, Katharina Krenzer, Luca Kummer, Joel Oskarsson, Christina Humer

vis4climate

Klimadashboard: Tangible Climate Data

08:05–08:45 America center

Paper session

vis4climate: Paper Session 1, Communication & Education

Christina Humer

Christina Humer

VISxGenAI poster

marimo-lens: Grounded Agentic Analysis

09:20–10:00 America south

Poster session

VISxGenAI: Accepted Posters

Péter Ferenc GyarmatiTMDMMennatallah El-Assady

Péter Ferenc Gyarmati, Trevor Manz, Dominik Moritz, Mennatallah El-Assady

Workshop steering committee

VISxAI: Visualization for AI Explainability

13:00–16:30 America south

Mennatallah El-Assady

Mennatallah El-Assady

Tuesday Nov 10

VIS full paper

Explainable Mapper: Charting LLM Embedding Spaces

10:24–10:36 Essex center

Talk to my agent

XYRita SevastjanovaSinie van der BenMennatallah El-AssadyBW

Xinyuan Yan, Rita Sevastjanova, Sinie van der Ben, Mennatallah El-Assady, Bei Wang

VIS poster

Project AINA: Vis Research through Its Study Participants

18:30–20:30 Staffordshire

Poster session

Welcome Reception + Posters

NRJFYannick MetzKWLH

Noëlle Rakotondravony, Jiarong Feng, Yannick Metz, Katy P Williams, Lane Harrison

Wednesday Nov 11

VIS full paper

Exposing the Unsaid: Hidden LLM Bias

08:12–08:24 America north

Presented from Paris

Let's dig into the data (from France)

MPRita SevastjanovaThilo SpinnerMennatallah El-Assady

Matteo Pelossi, Rita Sevastjanova, Thilo Spinner, Mennatallah El-Assady

VIS full paper

VACP: Visual Analytics Context Protocol

09:00–09:12 America north

Presented from Paris

Let's dig into the data (from France)

Tobias StählePéter Ferenc GyarmatiThilo SpinnerRita SevastjanovaDMMennatallah El-Assady

Tobias Stähle, Péter Ferenc Gyarmati, Thilo Spinner, Rita Sevastjanova, Dominik Moritz, Mennatallah El-Assady

VIS short paper

What-If Demolition: Narrative Gentrification Analytics

11:03–11:12 America north

Data, Meet Human: Vis That Cares

Ibrahim Al-HazwaniYBMennatallah El-Assady

Ibrahim Al-Hazwani, Yanick Bachmann, Mennatallah El-Assady

Thursday Nov 12

CG&A paper

PLUTO: A Public Value Assessment Tool

08:12–08:24 Essex center

Applications, Domain Science & Data Representation

LKPéter Ferenc GyarmatiCHBJSSMEMATMBP

Laura Koesten, Péter Ferenc Gyarmati, Connor Hogan, Bernhard Jordan, Seliem El-Sayed, Magdalena Eitenberger, Marlene Auer, Torsten Möller, Barbara Prainsack

Panelist

Friction in Visualization: When Should We Slow People Down?

10:00–11:30 America south

Menna El-AssadyCNAPKSSSFW

Menna El-Assady, Carolina Nobre, Arnaud Prouzeau, Karen Schloss, Stacy Shaw, Florian Windhager

Friday Nov 13

VIS short paper

GEMS: Guided Evolutionary Molecule Design

09:03–09:12 America south

Big Data, Bigger Physics

CRFWKJMennatallah El-AssadyChristina Humer

Coelina Robinson, Franziska Weissbach, Kjell Jorner, Mennatallah El-Assady, Christina Humer