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1st Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization, IEEE VIS 2024

In conjunction with: VIS 2024 LogoVIS 2024 Logo

The ubiquity of data visualization across various domains—from data science and machine learning to business intelligence, medical science, and education—demonstrates its critical role in conveying complex information. However, it is now well-known that visualizations may create inequitable access to information for people with different disabilities (e.g., vision, motor, or cognitive disabilities). In response, the accessibility and visualization fields have sought to increase the accessibility of data visualizations for different populations. Examples of research in this area include interviews and observational studies with users with disabilities to understand accessibility issues with visualization, proposing theoretical frameworks, and designing technical solutions such as generating alt text, sonification, or physical artifacts. Despite these efforts, many visualization interfaces and tools remain inaccessible to users with various forms of disabilities. Building on the growing interest and open challenges at this intersection, the in-person Accessible Data Visualization (AccessViz) workshop aims to gather researchers, practitioners, and representatives from disability community at a common platform where we can formulate a community, share innovative discoveries, and envision the future of accessible data visualization research.

Call for Papers

We welcome position papers (2-4 pages) that discuss topics relevant to accessible data visualizations. Papers can summarize previous work, propose future work or ideas, present tools and systems, or present a vision. Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the organizing team. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Understanding accessibility needs of different disability communities
  • Building and designing the accessibility support tools for interactive visualization
  • Empowering users with disability create data visualization and alternate data representations
  • Transformation between different information modalities (visualization, sonification, haptics)
  • Collaboration between users who may have diverse accessibility needs

All registered attendees of VIS will be able to access the workshop. For any questions or inquiries, please email us at accessiblevizworkshop@gmail.com.

Publication details (archival/non-archival): TBD

Organizers

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Naimul Hoque, UMD
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Pramod Chundury, UMD
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Frank Elavsky, CMU
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Lucas Nadolskis, UCSB
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Keke Wu, UNC Chapel Hill
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Laura South, NU
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Brianna Wimer, ND
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Dominik Moritz, CMU
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Danielle Albers Szafir, UNC Chapel Hill
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Jonathan Lazar, UMD
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Niklas Elmqvist, AU

Announcement

  • Apr 1, 2024: Website live!

Important Dates

  • Jun 15, 2024: Submission site open
  • Jul 15, 2024: Submission due
  • Aug 15, 2024: Reviews released to the authors