Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

      The  IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)  is the premier forum for research in visualization and visual analytics. It brings together a global community of scholars, practitioners, and designers committed to advancing visual methods for exploring, analyzing, and communicating data. This year, the 35th IEEE  VIS Conference (VIS 2024)  was held in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, from October 13 to 18, 2024. In this blog post, I highlight my work “ Towards Enhancing Low Vision Usability of Data Charts on Smartphones ,” which addresses the accessibility challenges faced by low-vision users when interacting with data charts on mobile devices and introduces GraphLite, a mobile assistive technology that transforms static charts into customizable interactive visualizations. Motivation Data charts are a powerful way to communicate trends, comparisons, and summaries, and they are now commonly found across news articles, financial tools, health dashboards, an...