Workshop on Visualization Play, Games, and Activities
This is the first EuroVis Workshop on Visualization Play, Games, and Activities that
is collocated with the
EuroVis conference taking place from June 2-6, 2025 in Luxembourg.
Check out the latest updates and additions to our program below.
Program
We are excited to be part of EuroVis 2025! Check out the program to find our workshop on the 2nd of June. For more details, visit the official program page:
EuroVis 2025 Program
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Our event will start at 14:20—Don't miss it!
14:20—14:45: Opening & Fast Forward Session
14:50—16:00: Hands-On Session #1
16:00—16:30: Coffee Break
16:30—17:55: Hands-On Session #2
18:00—18:20: Reflection & Closing
Vis-tastic Games Await!
In this workshop, you can expect to find topics where visualization and games collide, uncovering playful ways to tell stories, learn interactively, and make sense of complex data.
Below, are the papers accepted to the workshop and highlight the exciting topics and ideas you can expect to encounter during the event.
Our mission is to advance data visualization games and playful activities as dynamic tools for communication, co-creation, and collaborative problem-solving in interdisciplinary environments and contexts.
We consider a data visualization game as an interactive activity or game-based tool that incorporates elements of data visualization to engage people in a playful way.
This workshop will showcase innovative uses of data visualization games beyond education, emphasizing their potential to enrich dialogue, build shared understanding, and inspire creative solutions in real-world contexts.
The half-day workshop will feature an opening and fast-forward session, two hands-on World Café-style sessions for exploring submitted visualization games, and a reflection session for discussing experiences and concluding the workshop.
Demonstrate visualization games (e.g., card games, digital games, etc.) and engage with the audience by playing the games at the conference, in a World Café setting.
Extended Abstract
Submit an extended abstract in the VisGames template format.
We will publish the extended abstracts in the online blog
Nightingale, run by the Data Visualization Society, as well as in the EuroGraphics Digital Library.
Curated Repository
A collection of visualization games for diverse audiences (e.g., children/adult learning, data journalists/data scientists/computer scientists/designers) in different scenarios (e.g., onsite, online, hybrid).
Discussion Platform
Create a platform to disucss new game or activity ideas, exchange experiences, best practices, and challenges while developing visualization games.
Workshop Topics
The following topics fall within the scope of the workshop, but we encourage
broader contributions.
The workshop's extended abstract will be peer-reviewed by at least two PC members and one workshop organizer.
The maximum length for the extended abstract to the VisGames workshop is 2-6 pages including all images, acknowledgements, and references.
We accept both double-blind (anonymized) and single-blind (not anonymized) submissions.
Submissions must be made using the Computer Graphics Forum style, using the conference LaTeX template for workshops.
In the template you will find a proposed structure for the extended abstract.
Christina is a researcher and lecturer at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Her research interests include Information Visualization, HCI, Usability, Visualization Education and Literacy.
Magdalena a junior researcher and lecturer at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Her background is HCI and Game Animation and Illustration, and she has worked on multiple released games and children's apps.
Mandy is a professor in UX and Interaction Design at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Her research focuses on visual exploration of multivariate information spaces, data visualization literacy and education, and interaction design.
Lorenzo is a data scientist working in Buzzi's RTD team and an independent researcher in data visualization. His research interests are Visualization Education, Visual Storytelling, HCI, and Information Visualization.
Renata is an assistant professor in at TU Wien, Austria. Her research direction is on the interface between visual analytics, image processing, and machine learning, with a strong focus on biomedical applications.
Velitchko is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Visual Analytics research unit (CVAST), TU Wien. His research interests include information visualization and visual analytics of dynamic graphs and networks.
Victor is a lecturer and researcher at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. He is currently exploring situated data visualization, sonification, and quantitative user experience, among other topics.
Victor is a lecturer and researcher at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria. He has been involved with games and game research and published within game literature and developed indie games in the past.
Wolfgang is professor at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria and adjunct professor at TU Wien, Austria. His main research interests include visual analytics and information visualization with a focus on time-oriented data.