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

 

Invited speakers

In the third week (May 13-15) we will have a 3-day symposium in the city of Norrköping close to our beautiful Campus Norrköping with several invited top-level researchers. The following have accepted so far:

Prof. Dr. Gennady Andrienko, Frauhofer IAIS and City University London (Germany/UK)
Prof. Dr. Natalia Andrienko, Frauhofer IAIS and City University London (Germany/UK)
Prof. Dr. Przemysław Biecek, Warsaw Univeristy of Technology and University of Warsaw (Poland)
Dr. Anamaria Crisan, Tableau Research and University of Waterloo (US/Canada)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Mennatallah El-Assady, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
Prof. Dr. David Ebert, University of Oklaholma (US)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alex Endert, Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
Prof. Dr. Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (Germany)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stefan Larsson, Lund University (Sweden)
Prof. Dr. Bongshin Lee, Yonsei University (Korea)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alvitta Ottley, Washington University in St. Louis (US)
Prof. Dr. Maria Riveiro, Jönköping University (Sweden)
Dr. Magnus Sahlgren, AI Sweden (Sweden)
Dr. Hendrik Strobelt, IBM Research AI (US)
Prof. Dr. Alexandru Telea, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Cagatay Turkay, University of Warwick (UK)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Emily Wall, Emory University (US)

 

 

 

The list of speakers will be updated continuously.

Campus Norrköping

Scientific committee

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

Natalia Andrienko

Natalia Andrienko

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

Jörn Kohlhammer

Jörn Kohlhammer

Professor at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (Germany)

Organizing committee

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

Contact

Andreas Kerren

Main Organizer

Linköping University

andreas.kerren@liu.se

+4611363406

Denise Wahlström

Local Administrator

Linköping University

denise.wahlstrom@liu.se

+4611363464

Tove Kvarnström

Focus Period Coordinator

Linköping University

tove.kvarnstrom@liu.se

+4613281975