VINCI 2025 Conference Notes
- 97 registrations, 16 countries
- 163 submissions,
- technical papers: 53 submissions, 16 (30%) accepted as full papers, 20 short, 5 posters
- cultural heritage track: 35 submissions, 6 (30%) accepted as full papers, 8 short, 1 poster
- art papers: 35 submissions, 5 (16%) accepted as full papers, 14 short
- art gallery: 26 submissions, 6 accepted
- media gallery: 10 submissions, 4 accepted Program
Opening Keynote: Making Sensing Meaning
Speaker: Christl Baur
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Ecosystem of Ars Electronic
- Prix Ars Electronica: 3k submissions, 60k prize money
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Sample Projects
- Google Maps hacks: 99 smartphones - vs google traffic data
- Pollinator Pathmaker
- VFRAME: dataset for illegal weapon search
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Session 1: Visualization Tools and Techniques I
ROGER: Visualizing Voice Records to Enhance Team Communication Trainings for High-Stress Situations (full)
Authors: Michael Oppermann, Jakob Carl Uhl, Georg Regal, Manfred Tscheligi and Markus Murtinger
- Team communication (voice) analysis of transcripts/overlapping speech
- Evaluation workshop as design process with expert (interviews), iterative design process, progressively adding more people
- Adapting to further use cases
- Training sessions: 2-7 members, 5-10 minutes
- Stress levels through HR variability - major influence on communications!
- Dashboard
- Streamgraph for activity indicator (analysis of overlap)
- Moving transcripts/interactive display: as either a cascade (each member a column) vs. full lug
- Added view of current situation
- Detail-on-demand, stress level aggregation
Collective Intelligence Outperforms Individual Talent: A Case Study in League of Legends (full)
Authors: Angelo Josey Caldeira, Sajan Maharjan, Srijoni Majumdar and Evangelos Pournaras
- “Groups of individuals acting in ways that seem intelligent” - More than their parts
- 2 ways to win: solo-carry vs. team-play!
- Using in-game data telemetry by Riot Games, accessible via API! - 30k games, 160k players!
- Sharing vs. Acquiring factors - analyzing importance of factors
- Sharing teams with good communications win more often, but still optimize towards aggregating resources into a singular player
- Visual Analytics Dataset: Zenodo
Visual Analysis of Document Editing Patterns (full)
Authors: Jena Satkunarajan, Josia Rieß, Max Franke and Steffen Koch
- Text viz of evolution of texts
- Tracked through git
VAILO: A Visual Analytics Dashboard for Identifying Tied-up Capital in Manufacturing (full)
Authors: Stefanie Größbacher, Christina Stoiber, Laura Kainzbauer, Florian Grassinger, Stefan Rotter, Thomas Felberbauer and Markus Wagner
- Dashboard for ERP data
Design of a Machine Activity Visualisation Dashboard for Shopfloor Management (full)
Authors: Annika Felbermayer, Christina Stoiber and Markus Wagner
- Card-based views of machine activity
- Each card with machine layout on floor, downtime management
Generation by Prediction: Latent Syntax, Predictive Culture
Authors: Ming Shan Tai
Papers 2 – Art Track – AI
Towards an AI-Assisted Speculative Narrative Design Workflow
Authors: Yiran Ma, Xianyue Zhu, Chelsea-Xi Chen and Aven-Le Zhou
- Prompt-based generation of sea-based society
- Generation of video frames, manual editing
- AI-generated movie… with a lot of artifacts etc.
Generation by Prediction: Latent Syntax, Predictive Culture
Authors: Ming Shan Tai
- Link prediction latent space / embeddings
- Delegates creative decisions to latent space / model
More Than Information: Data as Computational Structure
Authors: Angela Ferraiolo
- Speeches of Politics - affects
- Using cellular automata (Conway’s game of life) + sentiment analysis + emotion analysis
- Map to certain states/system of emotions, feedback of embeddings (?)
- Q: How? (exactly)
Visualizing AI operations for Human Oversight: The Ops Room
Authors: Joaquín Santuber and Kristina Tica
- Starting point: EU legislation for human oversight of AI; with ‘appropriate HCI’
- Agents Oversight tool of MS
- Kids made it crash by pressing too much - kind of intended ;)
Threshold Perception: Leveraging Generative AI and Multisensory Design to Communicate Sensory Overload in Neurodiverse Population
Authors: Haoxuan Wang and Xin Tong
- Intended for people with sensor overload / hypersensitivity
- Related work: Diffusion-based model with dynamic eye tracking
Split-Screen Folklore: Human-AI Co-Creation in Reimagining The Legend of the White Snake
Authors: Qi Xiang, Haoxuan Wang, Chengliang Ping, Luwen Yu and David Yip
- Split-Screen in Film: narrative, color, aesthetics - communicate space
- Human-AI co-creation pipeline with motion/color control
Ghost of Life
Authors: Ziwei Wu, Xinyu Ma and Kang Zhang
- Background: Industrialization of Pet Food, as leftovers from meat production
- Alternative narrative: claims that data is hidden…
Expanding Virtual Production Frontiers: AI-Driven Workflows for Enhanced Cinematic Creation
Authors: Junrong Song, Hongcheng Guo, Lujin Zhang, Zeyu Wang and David Yip (Virtual)
Papers 3 – AI and Generative Methods in Cultural Heritage
Quantifying “Qi Yun”: A Computational Analysis of Multi-Scale Spatial Structure in Chinese Calligraphy
Authors: Zhijun Ma
- Abstract concept of ‘Qi Yun’ - liveliness/vitality of chinese calligraphy!
- Traditional theory metaphorical/with specific measures
- To: Computational analysis of measures using variation; quadtrees, voronoi diagrams of the layout - whitespace of calligraphy
Generative Strokes: A Parametric Framework for 3D Calligraphic Expression
Authors: Troy Tianyu Lin, Boyan Zheng, Wen You, Haichuan Lin and Chen Liang
- Mesh generation from stroke input (using separation/…)
- Representation as B-splines
“Quantum est in Libris”: Navigating Archives with GenAI, Uncovering Tension Between Preservation and Innovation
Authors: Mar Canet Sola and Varvara Guljajeva
- Background: ERM: Tempelhof of Estonia + 500 years of 1st book printed
- Museum Archive - VA Dataset?
- Allow reading out-loud of page, use generative AI based on spoken text (RunwayML) - this is an interesting approach!
Papers 4 – Visualization Tools and Techniques II
EuroEnergyVis: Interactive Visualization of Power Plant Data for European Countries
Authors: Jinyi Wang, Kostiantyn Kucher, Richard Pates and Andreas Kerren
- Power grid viz for resilience and structure
- All power plants of europe, characteristics + filtering / search Link: EuroEnergyVis
Analyzing Water Quality Data of the Rhine River
Authors: Michael Burch, David Schober, Johanna Köhler and Janine Reichlin
- Analysis of metrics for correlation of water quality metrics
- Start with paper/PPT/Figma mockups
- Nice blueprint for Visual Analytics!
AnoScout – Visual Exploration of Anomalies and Anomaly Detection Algorithm Ensembles in Time Series Data
Authors: Julian Rakuschek, Michael Leitner, Jürgen Bernard, Selina Wriessnegger and Tobias Schreck
- Ingest Timeline data to detect anomalies
- Use existing algorithms to detect anomalies, allow user annotations
- Project timelines into embedding space to cluster and perform semi-supervised anomaly detection