Emily Wall

🚨Calling vis researchers for a user study! We are interested in how people use AI/LLMs in literature research. 🕐 Time: ~75 minutes 🗓️ When: Week of March 16-20 💸 Compensation: £10 to a charity If interested, fill out this survey: forms.gle/bRjUxLPgYENBSz… 🔄Please retweet!

@acm_chi Shiyao Li will present his paper Does a Picture Paint a Thousand Words? Using Visual and Textual Channels to Understand Attitudes and Beliefs

Three papers coming out at @acm_chi 2026 #proudadvisor (see thread). Pre-prints all on my website: emilywall.github.io/publications.h…

@acm_chi Ziwei Dong, Ph.D. will present his paper Evaluating Behavior Change Interventions for Responsible Data Science

@acm_chi Thomas Davidson will present his paper Spotify Warped: Reshaping Personal Informatics via Music Listening, Casual Users, Passive Data & Episodic Reflection

US based undergrads - check out this opportunity to do a summer research internship with @uwdub faculty members!

🚨New book🚨 My new book with Springer is part of the "Synthesis Lectures on Visualization" series -- introducing "Human Bias in Visual Data Analysis: A Synthesis of Research to Empower Decision Makers" -- available open access here: ⛓️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

📢 2026 Summer Internship Our group at Microsoft Research is now accepting applications for PhDs interested in multimodality, reasoning, and agents. If you or someone you know is looking for a research internship, please help spread the word! 🔗 Apply: aka.ms/rwe-intern 📩 Send your CV to zhang.sheng@microsoft.com. Thanks for helping great candidates find their next opportunity!

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @MSFTResearch in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

🚨Upcoming CSCW paper -- find out how we translate behavior change theories common in digital health into the domain of responsible data science. 4-minute read on Medium, which also links to the full paper 🔗: medium.com/acm-cscw/behav… Come say hi in Bergen for my first ever #CSCW!

Grad school season reminder: many CS departments run student-led pre-application mentorship programs for prospective PhD applicants (due Oct. You can get feedback from current PhD students! Eg - UW’s CSE PAMS: cs.washington.edu/academics/grad… - MIT EECS GAAP: eecs-gaap.mit.edu 🧵

🆕Paper alert: to be presented #Interact2025 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil next week! ✅Simple visual highlighting in recommendation letters can be used to exacerbate or mitigate the effects of gender bias. 📜Read it here: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/B…

📢 AI is changing the way we create, learn, & reason. But is it augmenting human cognition, or dulling it? Please submit your ideas to our #HCI Special Issue: Generative AI in Tools for Thought. Abstract Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 → tinyurl.com/t4tcfp

@yalong_yang @ICatGT @gtcomputing @NSF Huge congrats Yalong!

Our very own IVI.Lab @ICatGT @gtcomputing received the prestigious @NSF CAREER award to build the future of immersive analytics and spatial computing (VR/AR)! Super grateful & endless thanks to my students, mentors & collaborators! Interested in working together? Let's chat! 🥽

Thanks for joining us @EmoryUniversity today!

VIS-SEA (VIS - South EAst) is taking place @EmoryUniversity July 20-22. Please share -- all vis researchers, students welcome to attend! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…. Sign up for a project pitch and get feedback here: forms.gle/Cidbs3nR4rz7Lv….

Exciting news: the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a predoctoral fellow!!! 🎉 microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Meet Lauren Klein & Tanvi Sharma from Emory University. Lauren and Tanvi will deliver the opening Keynote at #Outlier2025: “The Line Graph and the Slave Ship: Rethinking the Origins of Modern Data Visualization” Explore the agenda: #agenda" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">accelevents.com/e/outlier-2025… #dataviz #datavisualization

🗓️ @ieeevis Doctoral Colloquium submission deadline is next Friday, May 23. Submit now on PCS!

Congratulations to the first PhD graduate from the Cognition and Visualization Lab, Dr. Ziwei Dong! Ziwei has joined Amazon as an applied scientist working on responsible AI. #proudadvisormoment