How intrusive thoughts may be your best weapon

On settling too soon, and on a machine’s idea

A Guide for HCI Researchers

Don’t let a single “no” hold your whole research program hostage

On sharp knives, sledgehammers, and cheese shops

Voice as an epistemic tool for thinking

The dark beast that stalks all academics

Reflections on my twenty years of the CHI conference

What does coding assistants mean for computer science research?

Prototyping is now trivial — what does this mean for research?

The Validity Tradeoff in HCI Research

IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna has come to a close and we—Niklas Elmqvist, Holger Theisel, and Melanie Tory, the 2025 Overall Papers Chairs (OPCs)—have reached the ...

Memory Management for Your Mentor

When do you know that your paper has done enough?

But Your Ideas (Hopefully) Won’t Be

Rethinking how we should interact with Generative AI

As IEEE VIS Overall Papers Chairs, we’ve observed a troubling pattern that undermines the integrity of our peer review process: papers rejected from one venu...

On the perils of gatekeeping in peer review

This year, I served as papers co-chair for IEEE InfoVis for the second time (2016 and 2017), which was an excellent (if work-intensive at…

Autonomous agents powered by Large Language Models are transforming AI, creating an imperative for the visualization field to embrace agentic frameworks. However, our field's focus on a human in the s...