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What is Visualization for Communication? Analyzing Four Years of VisComm Papers

2025/05/20 by Ab Mosca, Shah, Vedanshi Chetan, Mosca, Ab
Health Professions · #Digital Storytelling and Education #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.14339

openalex publication_date 2025/05/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

With the introduction of the Visualization for Communication workshop (VisComm) at IEEE VIS and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been renewed interest in studying visualization as a medium of communication. However the characteristics and definition of this line of study tend to vary from paper to paper and person to person. In this work, we examine the 37 papers accepted to VisComm from 2018 through 2022. Using grounded theory we identify nuances in how VisComm defines visualization, common themes in the work in this area, and a noticeable gap in DEI practices.

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