ETVIS

ETVIS 2025 will be held on May 26th, 9:30am - 5:30pm JST (UTC+9) as a hybrid event.
You can find more information about attendance and the schedule in our Workshop Program .

We are excited to announce that Takayuki Itoh will be the keynote speaker of ETVIS 2025!

ETVIS 2025: This year the ETVIS workshop will be organized as a hybrid event in conjunction with the 2025 ACM Symposium of Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) in Tokyo, Japan. The workshop will be held on May 26th, 9:30am - 5:30pm JST (UTC+9).

About: This workshop considers the intersection of eye tracking research with visualization, whether the contributions relate to eye tracking studies of visualizations, or vice versa, visualization techniques for eye tracking. Technological advances in computer vision algorithms and sensor hardware have greatly reduced the implementational and financial costs of eye tracking. Thus, it is unsurprising to witness a significant increase in its use as a research tool in fields beyond the traditional domains of biological vision, psychology, and neuroscience, in particular, in visualization and human-computer interaction research. One of the key challenges lies in the analysis, interaction, and visualization of complex spatio-temporal datasets of gaze behavior, which is further complicated by complementary datasets such as semantic labels, user interactions and/or accompanying physiological sensor recordings. Ultimately, the research objective is to allow eye tracking data to be effectively interpreted in terms of the observer’s decision-making and cognitive processes. To achieve this, it is necessary to draw upon our current understanding of gaze-behavior across various and related fields, from vision and cognition to visualization. All together eye tracking is an important field to be understood, be it in the sense of data analysis and visualization, interaction, or user-based evaluation of visualization.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

ETVIS will be held on May 26th, from 9:30am to 5:30pm (JST / Japan Standard Time).
You can convert the time of the event to your local time using the following link: Time Zone Converter.

ETVIS will be a hybrid event, with in-person attendance at the Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Room 6), in Tokyo, Japan, and online participation via Cisco Webex. The Webex link will be shared with all ETRA 2025 registered participants through ETRA's event management platform.


09:30 - 09:35	Introducing ETVIS 2025 (Michael Burch) Extended Papers Invited to a Special Issue of the Journal of Eye Movement Research on "Eye Tracking and Visualization". Deadline: November 1, 2025
09:35 - 10:30	Keynote by Takayuki Itoh (Ochanomizu University Tokyo, Japan) (45 min. talk + 10 min. questions) Title: Human tracking is fun: from pedestrian movement to eye tracking visualizations. For more information about the talk and the speaker, please check the keynote section.
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:55	Session 1 - Education and Sports (Session Chair: Maurice Koch) (each: 15 min. talk + 3 min. questions) (EDUEye) Mapping Democracy: An Eye-Tracking Analysis of Election Maps (Stanislav Popelka, Julie Dorusakova, Tomas Vanicek, Michaela Vojtechovska) (EDUEye) Decoding Cognitive Load: Eye-Tracking Insights into Working Memory, and Visual Attention (Xiaofu Jin, Yunpeng Bai, Lina Xu, Shuai Ma, Danqing Shi, Luwen Yu, Mingming Fan) (PLEY) Gaze Entropy as a Measure of Player Performance and Its Correlation with Focus and Attention (Saroj Kaashyap, Ashish Amresh, Jared Duval)
10:55 - 12:00	5-Minutes Break
12:00 - 13:00	Session 2 - Visualization Techniques (Session Chair: TBA) (each: 10 min. talk + 5 min. questions) To the Point: From Dynamic Heatmap Video to Gaze Points (Beryl Gnanaraj, Swetha Manivasagam, Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair) Uncertainty-Aware Scarf Plots (Nelusa Pathmanathan, Seyda Öney, Maurice Koch, Daniel Weiskopf, Kuno Kurzhals) Group Gaze-Sharing with Projection Displays (Maurice Koch, Tobias Rau, Vladimir Mikheev, Seyda Öney, Michael Becher, Xiangyu Wang, Nelusa Pathmanathan, Patrick Gralka, Daniel Weiskopf, Kuno Kurzhals) Quantification of Energy Reduction for Foveated Volume Visualization (Patrick Gralka, Christoph Müller, Sergej Geringer, Guido Reina, Daniel Weiskopf)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:10	Past ETVIS Workshops and Relevant Topics (Michael Burch)
14:10 - 14:15	5-Minutes Break
14:15 - 15:30	Session 3 - Eye Tracking Studies (Session Chair: TBA) (each: 10 min. talk + 5 min. questions) Eye Tracking Studies in Visualization: Phases, Guidelines, and Checklist (Michael Burch, Kuno Kurzhals, Daniel Weiskopf) An Eye Tracking Study on the Effects of Dark and Light Themes on User Performance and Workload (Tobias Ettling, Dominik Steinmann, Kenan Bektas, Amine Abbad-Andaloussi) Understanding Visitor Behavior in Geographic Exhibit with Eye-Tracking (Stanislav Popelka, Jiri Vyslouzil) Evaluating Foveated Frame Rate Reduction in Virtual Reality for Head-Mounted Displays (Christopher Daniel Flöter, Sergej Geringer, Guido Reina, Daniel Weiskopf, Timo Ropinski) A Comparative Study of Scanpath Models in Information Visualization (Angela Lopez-Cardona, Parvin Emami, Sebastian Idesis, Saravanakumar Duraisamy, Luis A. Leiva, Ioannis Arapakis)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:15	Session 4 - Data Analysis and Interaction (Session Chair: Kuno Kurzhals) (each: 10 min. talk + 5 min. questions) Gaze Tiling: A Gaze Analysis Tool Visualizing Eye-Tracking Data and Temporal Scene Changes (Shunya Kusunoki, Kentaro Fukuchi) ChartQC: Question Classification from Human Attention Data on Charts (Takumi Nishiyasu, Tobias Kostorz, Yao Wang, Yoichi Sato, Andreas Bulling) Digital Art Gallery in Metaverse: Eye Tracking Visitors’ Visual Attention, Engagement and User Journey when Interacting with Digital Art (Zofija Tupikovskaja-Omovie) Exploring Gaze Re-Inspection Dynamics with Running Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RRQA) (Michaela Vojtechovska, Markéta Muczková, Stanislav Popelka) Streamlining Eye-Tracking and Observational Data for Field Study Visual Analysis (Yidan Zhang, Nethara Athukorala, Ziying Liang, Yidan Qiao, Mrs Simran, Yu Xuan Yio, Lee Lawrence, Benjamin Tag, Mor Vered, Michael Wybrow, Sarah Goodwin)
17:15 - 17:20	5-Minutes Break
17:20 - 17:30	Closing Session and ETVIS 2026 (10th ETVIS)

KEYNOTE

Takayuki Itoh

Full Professor at Ochanomizu University
Tokyo, Japan

Human tracking is fun: from pedestrian movement to eye tracking visualizations

Abstract: The speaker's laboratory has been working on information visualization for a long time. The visualization of pedestrian movement has been one of the most interesting research topics for the speaker. This talk will first introduce the visualization of measurement or simulations of pedestrian movement history. Then, the talk introduces how these studies were applied to the visualization of eye tracking results. This session will also discuss how the know-how of movement history visualization can be applied to further visualization techniques of eye tracking results.

Bio: Takayuki Itoh is a full professor of the department of humanity data engineering and the department of information sciences, and the director of the center for artificial intelligence and data science of Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. He is the general chair of Graph Drawing 2022, the general chair of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2018, a short paper co-chair of IEEE VIS 2023/2024, and a conference track co-chair of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2024/2025. He has received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Waseda University in 1990, 1992, and 1997, respectively. He has been a researcher at Tokyo Research Laboratory of IBM Japan during 1992 to 2005. He has been an associate professor in Ochanomizu University since 2005, and a full professor since 2011.

Topics

Manuscripts are solicited on the following topics with an emphasis on the relationship between eye tracking and visualization, including but not limited to the following:

- Visualization techniques for eye movement data (inc. spatio-temporal visualization, evolution of gaze patterns, visual analysis of individual behavior, 2D vs. 3D representations of eye movement data)
- Visual analytics of gaze behavior (inc. visual data mining, aggregation, clustering techniques, and metrics for eye movement data)
- Eye movement data provenance
- Standardized metrics for evaluating gaze interactions with visualization
- Cognitive models for gaze interactions with visualizations
- Novel methods for eye tracking in challenging visualization scenarios
- Uncertainty visualization of gaze data
- Interactive annotation of gaze and stimulus data
- Systems for the visual exploration of eye movement data
- Eye tracking studies that evaluate visualization or visual analytics
- Eye tracking in non-WIMP visualization environments, including mobile eye tracking, mobile devices, and large displays
- Visualization of eye tracking data in mixed and virtual reality (3df & 6df, 360°)
- Visualization applications that rely on eye tracking as an input parameter

Submission

Authors are invited to submit original work complying with the ETRA SHORT PAPER format (max. 8 pages, plus any number of additional pages for references, max. 150 words abstract). Also ensure that the Author Guidelines for SIG sponsored events [sigconf]) are met prior to submission.

ETVIS uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) through ETRA 2025 to handle the submission and reviewing process. To submit, log in to PCS and select Society=ETRA, Conference=ETRA 2025 and Track=ETRA 2025 ETVIS.

All accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of the ETRA Workshop Proceedings (in ACM DL).