EduVis: 4th IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities


Session chair:TBA

Room:Essex north

Time:Monday, Nov 9 @ 08:00 - 11:30 (US/Eastern)

Organizers:Christina Stoiber,Fateme Rajabiyazdi,Mandy Keck,Magdalena Boucher,Jonathan C. Roberts,Lonni Besançon,Mathis Brossier,Yixuan Li

Website:https://ieee-eduvis.github.io/

This is the 4th workshop on visualization education, literacy, and activities. This half-day workshop takes place at the IEEE Vis 2026 conference in Boston, United States, with the option to join online. The EduVis workshop aims to become the primary forum to share and discuss advances, challenges, and methods at the intersection of visualization and education. It addresses an interdisciplinary audience from and beyond visualization, education, learning analytics, science communication, arts and design, psychology, and adjacent fields such as data science and HCI. Now in its 4th edition, the workshop’s annual spotlight topic is Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in education and data visualization. It includes presentations of research papers published in the IEEE Xplore library, educator reports published in the Nightingale Magazine, and poster-style discussions including vis activities.

Papers

1d5v (1 Dataset, 5 Visualizations): A Scalable Peer-Critique Model for Teaching Visualization Design

Authors: Wesley Willett, Karly J. Ross

A Collective Reflection on Surface and Substance in Visualization Teaching and Learning

Authors: Shehryar Saharan, Jenny Long, Ke Er Amy Zhang, Ibrahim Al-Hazwani, Alessia Musio, Narges Mahyar, Laura Garrison, Uta Hinrichs

Constructing Visualizations to Investigate Plate Tectonics: Lessons for Visualization Education from an Earthquake Activity

Authors: Cassia Fernandez

Do Visualization Literacy Assessment Tests Account for High-Level Visualization Comprehension?

Authors: Tapendra Pandey, Aaryani Chowdary Ambati, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri

Fading the Training Wheels: Chart Taxonomies as Instructional Scaffolding in Data Visualization Education

Authors: Hannah Yanhua Zong, Nabin Khanal, Yingjie Victor Chen

Inheriting the Count: How Visualization Literacy Got Its Measure

Authors: José Bener, Miriah Meyer

Inkling: Exploring How Students Design Visualizations with Integrated Sketching, Natural Language, and Code Editing

Authors: Sadie M Fisher, Austin P Wright, Ayaan M Kazerouni

Snailpocalypse: A Physical Escape Room Game for Students Fostering Data Visualisation Literacy

Authors: Christina Stoiber, Magdalena Boucher, Julia Böck, Kate Farrell, Jasmeen Kanwal, Wolfgang Aigner