VINCI 2025 Conference Notes Day 3

Papers 8 – Art Track – Immersive Environments

Interactive Augmented Reality Experiences for Urban Art Spaces Using Markerless Tracking

Authors: Axel Bauer, Juergen Hagler and Martin Kocur

  • TODO: Read up on

Augmented Sketching as Interactive Markers: Generating Heightmaps in Mobile AR

Authors: Vinaya Tawde, Benjamín Kojda and Simone Kriglstein

  • Sketch to 3D heighmap based on greymap based on grids

Bridging Immersive Analytics and Affect: Audiovisual XR Sceneries of Financial Transactions

Authors: Jānis Garančs

  • Visualizer for Financial transaction to “bring back emotions”

Papers 9 – AI & More

FairAttrCNN: Enhancing CNN Debiasing through Interactive Visual Analytics of Multiple Sensitive Attributes

Authors: Shiqiang Hong, Yusong Cui and Yuxin Ma

  • VA Dashboard for mixing synthetic/natural image + fairness exploration

Learning by Playing: Student Strategies and Struggles in a Visualization Literacy Game

Authors: Magdaléna Kejstová and Simone Kriglstein

  • Students in visualization tasks
    • performance
    • behavioral patterns
    • increasing difficulty across 4 lvls.

Enhancing Emotional Exploration and Self-Expression Through AI-Generated Dynamic Visuals: A Study Inspired by the Rorschach Inkblot Test

Authors: Yuelu Li, Yuru Huang, Caiyi Chen, Xinyang Liu, Zeyu Yang and David Kei Man Yip

  • Creating AI-generated videos from inkblot
  • then doing psychological tests

AdmPredVis: Visual Exploration and Diagnosis of the Prediction Model for High School Entrance Exam Admission

Authors: Cong Chen, Shuai Chen, Kai Cui and Zhaoman Zhong

  • Little privacy concerns, only anonymization using ID removal

Papers 10 – Art Track- Co-Creation, Data, and Human–AI Collaboration

Generally: a lot of AI based-system use touchdesigner and/or ComfyUI, I think I saw it 5-10 times already!

HUMMUS: Blending Data Humanism with Sequential Music Recommender Systems to Foster Explainability and Scrutability

Authors: Ibrahim Al Hazwani, Matthias Mylaeus, Daniela Mormocea and Jürgen Bernard

  • Temporal recommender systems/order
  • Build on data humanism
    • small data, engaging, …
  • Flower metaphor, to build a “garden” of songs
  • Foster transparency in recommender system

From Code to Camera: The Making and Meaning of Prosomoíosi (Simulation), an AI Documentary Film

Authors: Shuai Liu and Mar Canet Sola

  • AI upscaling

Move the Stasis: Animating Classical Illustration

Authors: Hannes Rall, Alice Osinska and Aaron Zhi Qiang Lim

  • Ideas:
    • do not infringe on copyright by training AI on public domain data
    • Add motion by diffusion methods
  • Use sketches as input

Pick the Right Thing: GenAI-Supported Design and Production Workflows of Curators

Authors: Jingling Zhang, Yan Xiang, Yuanjin Zhao, Xiaofu Jin, Jia Sun, Mingming Fan, Tong Xin and Ray L

Papers 11 – Digital Craft and Contemporary Narratives

The Rhythms & Materialities of Contemporary Urban Nightlife in China: Approaching Everyday Culture Through Creative Media

Authors: Ziye Chen, Marcel Zaes Saegesser and Enza Migliore

  • Fieldwork in nightlife gestures
  • Gesture rules for drinking games in nightlife