InfraVis - The Swedish Research Infrastructure for Visualization Support

Weinkauf, Tino; Romero, Mario; Besançon, Lonni; Ahlstedt, Jonas; Berendt, Filip; Billger, Monica; Danielsson, Karin; Davies, Melvyn B.; Filipsson, Helena; Gelfgren, Stefan; Kerren, Andreas; Larsson, Emanuel; Latino, Fabio; Liliequist, Evelina; Nyström, Ingela; Paulsson, Kajsa; Podkorytova, Maria; Pirzamanbein, Behnaz; Sjöström, Mårten; Sopasakis, Alexandros; Thuresson, Björn; Westin, Jonathan; Ynnerman, Anders

InfraVis - The Swedish Research Infrastructure for Visualization Support

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Date

2025

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Essentially all academic research of today relies on analysis of data from a wide range of sources. Several underpinning, and rapidly developing, technologies are supporting the analysis of this data. Visualization serves as an interface to this ecosystem of tools and methods and integrates them into environments supporting scientific workflows, effectively sharing cognitive load between computers and humans. There is, however, a gap between the state-of-the-art in visual data analysis and current wide-spread academic practice. Support for the introduction of new, improved and tailored, visual data analysis environments thus has the potential to address challenges involving large and complex data, creating competitive advantages for researchers. To fill the gap and capitalize on this opportunity, the InfraVis initiative has been created in Sweden with the mission to operate an infrastructure consisting of visualization experts, software solutions, and access to high-end visualization laboratories. Users of InfraVis are offered assistance through a national helpdesk with rapid response times as well as more in-depth projects addressing specific data and software challenges. InfraVis provides software solutions based on development within connected research groups, curation of international software and best practice, and user training in the form of courses, seminars and on-line documentation. To build an infrastructure with national coverage, we have pooled together nine visualization environments in Sweden interconnected in a nodal structure. The nodes are hosted in proximity to research environments in visualization, which enables direct access to the research front as well as to state-of-art facilities. The governance structure of InfraVis is based on the leading researchers in visualization in Sweden as well as an international advisory board.

CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing → Visualization

        @inproceedings{10.2312:visgap.20251157
,
booktitle = {VisGap - The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software
},
editor = {Gillmann, Christina and 
Krone, Michael and 
Reina, Guido and 
Wischgoll, Thomas
},
title = {{InfraVis - The Swedish Research Infrastructure for Visualization Support
}},
author = {Weinkauf, Tino and 
Romero, Mario and 
Kerren, Andreas and 
Larsson, Emanuel and 
Latino, Fabio and 
Liliequist, Evelina and 
Nyström, Ingela and 
Paulsson, Kajsa and 
Podkorytova, Maria and 
Pirzamanbein, Behnaz and 
Sjöström, Mårten and 
Sopasakis, Alexandros and 
Besançon, Lonni and 
Thuresson, Björn and 
Westin, Jonathan and 
Ynnerman, Anders and 
Ahlstedt, Jonas and 
Berendt, Filip and 
Billger, Monica and 
Danielsson, Karin and 
Davies, Melvyn B. and 
Filipsson, Helena and 
Gelfgren, Stefan
},
year = {2025
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-289-9
},
DOI = {10.2312/visgap.20251157
}
}

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https://doi.org/10.2312/visgap.20251157
https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/visgap20251157

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