BELIV 2026 Schedule


Welcome and Remote Session 1 (8:00am - 9:30am Boston; 2:00pm - 3:30pm Paris)

8:00 - 8:15: Welcome

8:15 - 8:30: Paper— Ten Things We Hate About Current IEEE VIS Reviewing Practices
Petra Isenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale

8:30 - 8:45: Paper— More Than 63% of IEEE VIS Research Liable to be Retracted?! Ethics Approval Statements Protect Participants (and Researchers!)
Lonni Besançon, Tobias Isenberg

8:45 - 9:00: Paper— The Values of Visualization: Nurturing a Reflective Community of Practice with Critical Visualization Activities
Tatiana Losev, Fearn Bishop, Jason Dykes, Søren Knudsen, Doris Kosminsky, Isabel Meirelles, Jagoda Walny, Wesley Willett, Georgia Panagiotidou

9:00 - 9:15: Paper— Toward Visual Methods: Reflections on How Visuals Enrich Empirical Research
Zezhong Wang, Sheelagh Carpendale, Samuel Huron

9:15 - 9:30: Paper— Epistemic Tensions: Reframing A Visualization Co-Design through Entanglement Theory
Wei Wei, Foroozan Daneshzand, Zezhong Wang, Erica Mattson, Jenny Farkas, Sarah Storteboom, Charles Perin, Sheelagh Carpendale


BREAK 9:30 - 10:00 Boston / 3:30 - 4:00 Paris


Keynote (10:00am - 11:00am Boston; 4:00pm - 5:00pm Paris)

10:00 - 11:00: Keynote
Keynote Speaker: Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Remote Session 2 (11:00am - 11:30am Boston; 5:00pm - 5:30pm Paris)

11:00 - 11:15: Paper— Why Question Answering Modality Matters in Visualization Studies and Tests
Anne-Flore Cabouat, Lily W. Ge, Tobias Isenberg, Samuel Huron, Matthew Kay, Petra Isenberg

11:15 - 11:30: Paper— Model Literacy: An Extra Summative Evaluation Factor for Visual Analytics
Lei Xia, Siyu Wu, Ye Sun, haodian li, Liang Zhou, Lei Shi


LUNCH 11:30 - 1:00 Boston / 5:30 - 7:00 Paris


Boston In-person Session 1 (1:00pm - 1:45pm Boston; 7:00pm - 7:45pm Paris)

1:00 - 1:15: Paper— Are We All Archivists Now? Provenance Provocations for Information Visualization
Anamaria Crisan

1:15 - 1:30: Paper— Facilitating Reproducibility in Visualization Systems Research Through Containerization
Thomas Breimer, Pirm Dhararag, Kiya Gedamu, Paras Pandey, Marie Amandine Reyes, Tal Spector, Galileo Steinberg, Nathan Subrahmanian, Paul Weir, Peter Williams, Weichen Zhao, Dylan Cashman

1:30 - 1:45: Paper— Who Paid for It? Evaluating Reasoning Cost in AI-Mediated Visual Analytics
Aritra Dasgupta, Naga Datha Saikiran Battula

Breakout Session 1 (1:45pm - 2:30pm Boston; 7:45pm - 8:30pm Paris)

1:45 - 2:30: Reliability and Reproducibility; The Role of AI in VIS Research


BREAK 2:30 - 3:00 Boston / 8:30 - 9:00 Paris


Boston In-person Session 2 (3:00pm - 3:45pm Boston; 9:00pm - 9:45pm Paris)

3:00 - 3:15: Paper— Guidelines Are Not Rules: Characterizing Terminologies around Visualization Design Guidelines
Anna L Chinni, Md Dilshadur Rahman, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Petra Isenberg, Kushin Mukherjee, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen, Karen B. Schloss, Daniel Weiskopf

3:15 - 3:30: Paper— Considering Contribution Statements in Visualization and HCI Research
Mara Solen, Wesley Willett, Andrew McNutt

3:30 - 3:45: Paper— Marks, Channels, and Dead Ends: Stop Running Graphical Perception Studies and Start Modeling Visualizations as Images
Khairi Reda, Shambhawi Sharma, Luc Renambot, Fabio Miranda, Saeed Boorboor

Breakout Session 2 (3:45pm - 4:20pm Boston; 9:45pm - 10:20pm Paris)

3:45 - 4:20: Building Visualization Theory; Ethical Research Practices

4:20 - 4:30: Closing