Best Presentations

Congratulations to all those that were shortlisted. Those that won the conference participant vote will receive £100 voucher to be used in the Springer shop. Many thanks to Springer for sponsoring the awards.

Best Full Paper Presentation

Session Chairs nominated the best full paper in the session they chaired (on the basis of the way it was presented) to produce a shortlist. Conference participants then voted for which they thought was best. The shortlist below is sorted in reverse order of the number of votes.

• Winner: LLM-Assisted Visual Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges (Maeve Hutchinson, Radu Jianu, Aidan Slingsby, Pranava Madhyastha)
• Real-time Data-Oriented Virtual Forestry Simulation for Games (Benjamin Williams, Tom Oliver, Davin Ward, Chris Headleand)
• Comparing distance metrics in space-time clustering to provide visual summaries of traffic congestion (Peter Baudains, and Nicolas Holliman)
• Does empirical evidence from healthy ageing studies predict a practical difference between visualizations for different age groups? (Shan Shao, Yiran Li, Andrew Meso, Nicolas Holliman)

Best Short Paper Presentation

Session Chairs nominated the best two short papers in the session they chaired (on the basis of the way it was presented) to produce a shortlist. Conference participants then voted for which they thought was best. The shortlist below is sorted in reverse order of the number of votes.

• Winner: Mapping Minority Women Bicycle Riding (Mirela Reljan-Delaney, Jo Wood, Alex Taylor)
• Authoring Visualisation of Routinely Collected Data Using LLMs (Amir Hosseini, Mai Elshehaly, Jo Wood)
• Semantic UV mapping to improve texture inpainting for indoor scenes (Jelle Vermandere, Maarten Bassier, Maarten Vergauwen)
• View-Consistent Virtual Try-on of Glasses using a Hybrid NeRF-Mesh Rendering Approach (Arne Rak, Tristan Wirth, Thomas Lindemeier, Volker Knauthe, Arjan Kuijper)

Best Poster

Rachel McDonnell and Tobias Isenberg selected a shortlist of the best three posters. The shortlist below is sorted in reverse order of the number of votes.

• Winner: Visualising the Impact of High-dimensional Configuration Parameters on the Performance of Data Distribution Service (Kaleem Peeroo, Vladimir Stankovic, Peter Popov, Tillman Weyde)
• Data Visualization Experiences of People with Language Disability, a Qualitative Study (Niamh Devane, Tracey Booth, Nicola Botting, Madeline Cruice, Abi Roper, Stephanie Wilson, Jo Wood)
• Developing 2D Animations to Facilitate Cross-Disciplinary Communication in Cancer Research (Caroline Walker, Staci Weiss, John Doorbar)