Focus Period Linköping 2025

Focus Period Linköping University (Campus Norrköping) 2025

Visualization-Empowered Human-in-the-
Loop Artificial Intelligence

April 28 – May 30, 2025

In the past years, experts in visualization, human-computer interaction and related fields have substantially contributed to the topic, for instance, by the development of visualization approaches to open the typically closed black box design of popular machine learning methods. However, the rapid developments in AI/ML potentially trigger a fundamental change in our understanding of the capabilities and applicability of the models as they are now also able to “interact” with the general population. What are the implications in terms of trust into the analytical results and potential biases that may occur? How should visualization research react and adapt to increase trust and call our attention to critical biases to avoid them?

The purpose of the focus period was to discuss the aforementioned topic in depth and over a longer period of time. The focus period was held at Linköping University, Campus Norrköping between April 28 and May 30, 2025. A number of international scholars interested in these research challenges was invited to participate, and to interact with leading scientists as well as ELLIIT researchers.

In the third week of the focus period (May 13-15) we had a 3-day symposium in the city of Norrköping close to our beautiful Campus Norrköping with several invited top-level researchers. More information including the presentations from the symposium can be found here.

Reports from the focus period

Visualization-Empowered Human-in-the-Loop AI: Dennis Collaris on His ELLIIT Focus Period Experience

This spring, Linköping University hosted a five-week ELLIIT focus period dedicated to Visualization-Empowered Human-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence. Among the invited international researchers was Dennis Collaris, a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University...

Symposium Highlights the Role of Visualization in Human-Centric AI

The ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium brought together leading minds in visualization, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence to explore the theme: "Visualization-Empowered Human-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence." Held at the Elite Grand Hotel in...

Scientific committee

The scientific committee consist of internationally renowned researchers, active within the topic of the focus period. The committee members, in collaboration with the organizers, suggested speakers for the symposium, and visiting scholars for the focus periods. The majority of the members of the scientific committee also contributed to the event as speakers during the symposium.

Natalia Andrienko

Professor at Fraunhofer Institute IAIS (Germany) and at City University London (UK)

Virginia Dignum

Professor at
Umeå University
(Sweden)

Jörn Kohlhammer

Professor at Fraunhofer IGD (Germany)

Maria Riveiro

Professor at Jönköping University (Sweden)

Fabrice Rossi

Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine (France)

Hendrik Strobelt

Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research AI (US)

Alexandru Telea

Professor at Utrecht University (Netherlands)

Cagatay Turkay

Professor at the University of Warwick (UK)

Organizing committee

The organizing committee consists of researchers and administrators from the ELLIIT institutions. Their role was to appoint the scientific committee, select speakers and visiting scholars, plan the focus period activities, and serve as hosts during the event.