As part of the Visual Computing research colloquium we invite you to a new talk!

  • Date: Friday, 22.05.2026, 13:15
  • Room: G29-335
  • Speaker: Raimund Dachselt, TU Dresden

From Immersive Analytics to Immersive Data Storytelling

Abstract:

Interactive data visualization plays an increasingly crucial role in empowering human beings to access, explore, analyze, and make sense of data. The past decade has seen a growing research interest and demonstrated benefits in visualization environments beyond traditional desktop computers. Among them are multi-device ensembles involving large visualization walls, mobile devices, and immersive environments that utilize mixed reality technologies. The talk will focus on the latter, in particular on Immersive Analytics (IA) as an approach to spatial data analysis in MR settings. This is a particularly interesting research direction that is attracting attention and enabling unprecedented ways to dive into the data. Based on a discussion of research examples of the Interactive Media Lab Dresden, comprising Augmented Displays, situated Analytics, and Immersive Data Storytelling, we will introduce natural ways of exploring data in such environments and outline important challenges associated with them.

Biography:

Raimund Dachselt is a full professor of Computer Science and head of the Interactive Media Lab at Technische Universität Dresden, one of Germany’s Universities of Excellence. His research interests encompass natural human computer interaction (HCI), interactive information visualization, and Mixed Reality interface. He worked extensively in the area of interactive surfaces from smartwatches over tablets and tabletops to wall-sized displays and combined interaction modalities (e.g., multi-touch and pen, tangible displays, gaze-supported interaction, body gestures). He and his team made pioneering contributions to the field of interactive data visualization beyond the desktop including solutions for mobile devices, ultra-large displays, multi-device environments, Augmented Reality, and other Immersive Analytics approaches. Contributions in the area of physical computing have recently extended the technology spectrum beyond commonly available devices.

Prof. Dachselt received his PhD in 2004 from TU Dresden and was professor for User Interface & Software Engineering at Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg from 2007 to 2012. At the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dresden he has been elected director of the Institute of Software and Multimedia Technology, and serves as vice-dean from 2021 on. He has published more than 280 peer-reviewed publications, co-authored two major German textbooks on HCI and received more than a dozen Best Paper, Honorable Mention, and further publication awards at leading international HCI and visualization conferences.

Dachselt is a member of several computer societies, has co-organized 18 international workshops at ACM and IEEE conferences, and was the steering committee chair of ACM ISS. He repeatedly served as a co-chair (general, program, doctoral symposium, demo, publicity, keynote chair) and PC member for top international HCI conferences and was guest editor of several special journal issues. Since 2019 he is the Dresden spokesperson of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center (SFB/TR 248) Center for Perspicuous Computing (CPEC), since 2025 its overall speaker.