At an IEEE VIS 2025 panel organized by SFB-TRR 161 members, five experts shared their perspectives on inclusive visualization research.
VisAble: Who do we exclude by current visualization practices and how do we change that?



At an IEEE VIS 2025 panel organized by SFB-TRR 161 members, five experts shared their perspectives on inclusive visualization research.

This year’s fourth edition of our successful workshop-series about Women* in Computing took place on the 11th of July, 2025 in Ulm, hosted by Marc Ernst and his team.

On April 2 and April 3, 2025, Mikael Laaksoharju (Uppsala University) visited us in Stuttgart and gave a research seminar on research ethics and ethics of technology, sparking many enlightening discussions.

During my six-month research stay at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in Pittsburgh, USA, I had the opportunity to be part of Prof. Dr. David Lindlbauer’s Augmented Perception Lab. Working closely with David and his fantastic team was an incredibly rewarding experience that I truly would not want to have missed.

Read about the third edition of the workshop Women* in Computing that took place on July 4, 2024 in Munich.

From January 30 to February 1, 2024, a group of SFB-TRR 161 researchers gathered in Stuttgart for our first hackathon. Their aim: developing visualization tools for eye-tracking data analysis with a focus on dimensionality reduction techniques.

Wilhelm Kerle-Malcharek (D04) visited the ICAT-EGVE 2023, the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments from December 6th – 8th, 2023 in Dublin.

After a successful workshop the year before, Women* in Computing was ready for another round at the University of Konstanz in 2023.

Twenty-nine participants from eleven institutions shared their tips for women* pursuing a career in computing in a seven-hour workshop on October 25, 2022.

From June 30 to July 1, 2022, the SFB-TRR 161 doctoral retreat took place at Lake Constance. It was an excellent opportunity to bring together the PhD students from Konstanz and Stuttgart.