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 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 (German/UK)
Prof. Dr. Natalia Andrienko, Frauhofer IAIS and City University London (German/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)
Ass. Prof. Dr. Alex Endert, Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
Prof. Dr. Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (Germany)
Ass. Prof. Dr. Stefan Larsson, Lund University (Sweden)
Ass. 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)
Ass. Prof. Dr. Emily Wall (US)

The list of speakers will be updated continuously.

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

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

Virginia Dignum

Professor at
Umeå University
(Sweden)

Jörn Kohlhammer

Professor at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (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 is to appoint the scientific committee, select speakers and visiting scholars, plan the focus period activities, and serve as hosts during the event.