ETVIS

We are excited to announce that Barbara Tversky will be the keynote speaker of ETVIS 2026!

The ETVIS 2026 workshop program is now online!

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 June 1st (Monday), from 9:00am to 12:30pm. You can find the full ETRA program at: https://etra.acm.org/2026/schedule.html

ETVIS will be an on-site event held in room MAZAGAN at the Grand Mogador Menara Hotel located in Marrakech, Morocco.


09:00 - 09:15	Welcome (Kuno Kurzhals)
09:15 - 10:00	Session 1 (Session Chair: TBD) (each: 10 min. talk + 5 min. questions) The Challenges of Eye-Tracking Visualization in Multi-user Collaboration (Kuno Kurzhals, Maurice Koch, Nelusa Pathmanathan, Tobias Rau, Daniel Weiskopf) Analyzing Visual Attention Patterns During Band Rehearsal with Mobile Eye Tracking (Arvind Srinivasan, Tobias Rau, Michael Sedlmair) Toward Understanding Multimodal Gaze-Enabled Exploratory Data Analysis in Visual Analytics (Karim Elia, Alexander Hack, Timo Seyfarth, Steffen Koch, Franziska Becker)
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30	Keynote by Barbara Tversky (Stanford University and Columbia University) Thinking with the Eye, the Hand, and the Page. For more information about the talk and the speaker, please check the keynote section.
11:30 - 12:15	Session 2 (Session Chair: TBD) (each: 10 min. talk + 5 min. questions) User Study on the Influence of Prior Beliefs on Gaze Behavior in Scatterplots (Sita Vriend, Amel Krestic, Daniel Weiskopf) Social Interaction Graphs for Eye Tracking (Maurice Koch, Samuel Beck, Leon Gutknecht, Benjamin Hahn, Alexander Riedlinger, Ingo Schwendinger, Joel Waimer, Michael Burch, Steffen Koch, Daniel Weiskopf, Kuno Kurzhals) Visualization Lenses for Time-Binned AOI Occupancy in Eye-Tracking Analysis (Michaela Vojtechovska, Marketa Beitlova, Stanislav Popelka)
12:15 - 12:30	Closing

KEYNOTE

Barbara Tversky

Professor of Psychology
Stanford University and Columbia University

Bio: Barbara Tversky is a cognitive psychologist who has studied memory, categorization, many aspects of spatial perception, cognition, and language, event perception and cognition, visualization design and comprehension, story-telling, joint action, gesture, and creativity. She has enjoyed collaborations with psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists, computer scientists and domain scientists of many kinds, engineers, architects, designers, and artists. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served on the governing boards of many international organizations and on the editorial boards of many journals. She is the recipient of the Kampé de Fériet Award. She was president of the Association for Psychological Sciences and is a fellow of APS, the Cognitive Science Society, the Society for Experimental Psychology, the Russell Sage Foundation, and other organizations. She received her degrees in cognitive psychology at the University of Michigan and has taught at Hebrew University, University of Michigan, Mälardalen University in Sweden, and EHESS in Paris. She taught many years at Stanford University and several at Columbia Teachers College and is currently Professor of Psychology Emerita at both.

Thinking with the Eye, the Hand, and the Page

Abstract: As many have noted, thought does not happen just between the ears. We use the space around us and our actions in it to think, communicate, and create. Artists, architects, mathematicians, in fact, all of us, put thought on a page because the mind cannot hold all our thoughts. When artists and architects sketch, words get in the way. When they reexamine their sketches, they get new ideas, ideas they had not intended. Sketches are messy, meant to be ambiguous and stimulate new interpretations. Visualizations like maps and diagrams also use lines, to convey information unambiguously. Hands draw lines, the eye is biased to see lines, lines link ideas in the mind and neurons in the brain. The thinking is in the loop, the eye, the hand, and the mind, presenting challenges to GenAI.

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 and visual analytics techniques for eye movement data
- Eye movement data analysis, visual data mining, aggregation, clustering, and metrics for eye movement data
- Eye movement data provenance, big eye movement data
- Uncertainty visualization of gaze data
- Standardized metrics for evaluating interactions with visualization
- Novel methods for eye-tracking in challenging visualization scenarios
- Interactive annotation of gaze and stimulus data
- Systems for visual exploration of eye movement data
- Reports of eye tracking studies evaluating visualization or visual analytics
- Eye tracking in non-WIMP visualization environments, including mobile eye tracking, mobile devices, virtual environments, mixed reality, and large displays
- Eye tracking-based interaction techniques for visualization
- Interpreting eye movement scanpaths from the perspective of human cognitive architecture and perceptuo-motor expertise
- Perception in eye tracking studies
- Evaluation of cartographic and other spatial visualizations with eye tracking
- Inferences that can be drawn from gaze behavior
- Cognitive models for inferring user states from gaze behavior with visualizations
- Applications that rely on eye-tracking as an adaptive input parameter
- Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) with a focus on eye tracking
- NEW THIS YEAR: Position/road map papers for ETVIS related topics

Submission

Submission Process: 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). ETVIS uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) through ETRA 2026 to handle the submission and reviewing process.

NEW THIS YEAR: We include an additional category of paper submissions: position/road map papers about ETVIS related topics. In contrast to the regular research papers, this type should foster discussion and envision potential future directions for the research in our field.

Guidelines & Policies: Please read and follow the ACM Policy on Authorship regarding the use of Generative AI tools and technologies in ACM published Work. Also ensure that the Author Guidelines (for SIG sponsored events [sigconf]) are met prior to submission.

Publishing: All accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of the ETRA Workshop Proceedings (in ACM DL). Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 2,600 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 76%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the ACM Policy on APC Waivers for Financial Hardship . Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:

$250 APC for ACM/SIG members
$350 for non-members

This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.