
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In this episode, I sit down with Alvitta Ottley and Paul Parsons to recap everything that happened at the 2025 IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna. We talk about our experiences co-organizing the VisCom workshop, the surprising attendance, and the standout keynote from Moritz Stefaner. Alvitta shares insights on accessibility research and the surge of LLM-focused visualization papers, while Paul walks us through his award-winning work on design cognition and how practitioners develop ideas. We also reflect on the evolving identity of the visualization field, from methodological rigor to the role of practitioners, interdisciplinarity, and ethical tensions. It’s a wide-ranging, candid conversation about where visualization research is headed — and what we hope to see next year in Boston.
Subscribe to the PolicyViz Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
Become a patron of the PolicyViz Podcast for as little as a buck a month
Check out the VIS website.
Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, Twitter, Website, YouTube
Email: [email protected]
By The PolicyViz Podcast4.8
5555 ratings
In this episode, I sit down with Alvitta Ottley and Paul Parsons to recap everything that happened at the 2025 IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna. We talk about our experiences co-organizing the VisCom workshop, the surprising attendance, and the standout keynote from Moritz Stefaner. Alvitta shares insights on accessibility research and the surge of LLM-focused visualization papers, while Paul walks us through his award-winning work on design cognition and how practitioners develop ideas. We also reflect on the evolving identity of the visualization field, from methodological rigor to the role of practitioners, interdisciplinarity, and ethical tensions. It’s a wide-ranging, candid conversation about where visualization research is headed — and what we hope to see next year in Boston.
Subscribe to the PolicyViz Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
Become a patron of the PolicyViz Podcast for as little as a buck a month
Check out the VIS website.
Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, Twitter, Website, YouTube
Email: [email protected]

78,827 Listeners

32,324 Listeners

27,186 Listeners

26,249 Listeners

890 Listeners

12,124 Listeners

87,700 Listeners

112 Listeners

83 Listeners

15 Listeners

5,556 Listeners

13,039 Listeners

15,850 Listeners

16,266 Listeners

782 Listeners