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Navigating the Maze of Guidelines to Unify Visualization Design Recommendations (Dagstuhl Seminar 25232)

Authors Miriah Meyer, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen and all authors of the abstracts in this report

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  • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in visualization
  • Human-centered computing → Visualization
  • Human-centered computing → Visualization design and evaluation methods
  • Human-centered computing → Visualization theory, concepts and paradigms
Keywords
  • design studies
  • qualitative evaluation
  • visualization design
  • visualization recommendations
  • visualization system and generative ai

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Abstract

The field of visualization suffers from a persistent problem: guidance for visualization design is abundant but fragmented, unevenly evidenced, difficult to generalize across contexts, and often hard to access or teach. Further, these guidelines come from diverse sources, including theoretical foundations, empirical studies, design studies, and practitioner expertise. However, turning this knowledge into actionable forms of best practice remains an open problem. The goal of this seminar was to examine how guidelines are produced, interpreted, and operationalized, especially under pressures from domain specificity, communication stakes (e.g., misinformation and decision support), and the emerging role of generative AI in visualization workflows. The seminar challenged assumptions about the validity, transferability, and values encoded in guidelines through working groups on AI and guidelines, characterizing guidelines, values and teaching, and the goals for effective guidance.

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Miriah Meyer, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, and Paul Rosen. Navigating the Maze of Guidelines to Unify Visualization Design Recommendations (Dagstuhl Seminar 25232). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 15, Issue 6, pp. 32-50, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026) https://doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.15.6.32

Author Details

Miriah Meyer
  • Linköping University, SE
Ghulam Jilani Quadri
  • University of Oklahoma - Norman, US
Paul Rosen
  • University of Utah - Salt Lake City, US
and all authors of the abstracts in this report
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