2026

A Multiliteracy Model for Interactive Visualization Literacy: Definitions, Literacies, and Steps for Future Research. Gabriela Molina León, Benjamin Bach, Matheus Valentim, and Niklas Elmqvist. CHI 2026.

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Hey Dashboard!: Supporting Voice, Text, and Pointing Modalities in Dashboard Onboarding. Vaishali Dhanoa, Gabriela Molina León, Eve Hoggan, Eduard Gröller, Marc Streit, and Niklas Elmqvist. CHI 2026.

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Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization. Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Alark Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Gabriela Molina León, Harald Reiterer, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Jonathan Schwabish, Brian A. Smith, Yasuyuki Sumi, Ryo Suzuki, Anthony Tang, Yalong Yang, and Jian Zhao. CHI 2026.

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2025

Agentic Visualization: Extracting Agent-based Design Patterns from Visualization Systems. Vaishali Dhanoa, Anton Wolter, Gabriela Molina León, Hans-Jörg Schulz, and Niklas Elmqvist. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

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Participatory AI: A Scandinavian Approach to Human-Centered AI. Niklas Elmqvist, Eve Hoggan, Hans-Jörg Schulz, Marianne Graves Petersen, Peter Dalsgaard, Ira Assent, Olav W. Bertelsen, Akhil Arora, Kaj Grønbæk, Susanne Bødker, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Sebastian Hubenschmid, Christoph A. Johns, Gabriela Molina León, Anton Wolter, Johannes Ellemose, Vaishali Dhanoa, Simon Aagaard Enni, Mille Skovhus Lunding, Karl-Emil Kjær Bilstrup, Juan Sánchez Esquivel, Luke Connelly, Rafael Pablos Sarabia, Morten Birk, Joachim Nyborg, Stefanie Zollmann, Tobias Langlotz, Meredith Siang-Yun Chou, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Michael Wessely, Yijing Jiang, Caroline Berger, Duosi Dai, Michael Mose Biskjaer, Germán Leiva, Jonas Frich, Eva Eriksson, Kim Halskov, Thorbjørn Mikkelsen, Nearchos Potamitis, Michel Yildirim, Arvind Srinivasan, Jeanette Falk, Nanna Inie, Ole Sejer Iversen, and Hugo Andersson. Under review.

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The Plot Thickens: Quantitative Part-by-Part Exploration of MLLM Visualization Literacy. Matheus Valentim, Vaishali Dhanoa, Gabriela Molina León, and Niklas Elmqvist.

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2024

🏆 Honorable Mention Award

Talk to the Wall: The Role of Speech Interaction in Collaborative Visual Analytics. Gabriela Molina León, Anastasia Bezerianos, Olivier Gladin, and Petra Isenberg. IEEE VIS 2024.

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🏆 Best Short Paper Award

Design Frictions on Social Media: Balancing Reduced Mindless Scrolling and User Satisfaction. Nicolas Ruiz, Gabriela Molina León, and Hendrik Heuer. Mensch und Computer 2024.

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Governance bei der Co-Creation eines webbasierten Forschungsdatenmanagementsystems in den Sozialwissenschaften. Ivo Mossig, Gabriela Molina León, Nils Düpont, and Andreas Breiter. Bausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement, (1), 1–15.

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Multimodal and Collaborative Interaction for Visual Data Exploration. Gabriela Molina León. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Bremen.

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2023

Eliciting Multimodal and Collaborative Interactions for Data Exploration on Large Vertical Displays. Gabriela Molina León, Petra Isenberg, and Andreas Breiter. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Vol, 30, No. 2).

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Talking to Data Visualizations: Opportunities and Challenges. Gabriela Molina León, Petra Isenberg, and Andreas Breiter. MERCADO Workshop at IEEE VIS 2023.

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2022

Mobile and Multimodal? A Comparative Evaluation of Interactive Workplaces for Visual Data Exploration. Gabriela Molina León, Michael Lischka, Wei Luo, and Andreas Breiter. EuroVis 2022.

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Co-Creating a Research Data Infrastructure with Social Policy Researchers. Gabriela Molina León, Gabriella Skitalinskaya, Nils Düpont, Jonas Klaff, Anton Schlegel, Hendrik Heuer, and Andreas Breiter. ECSCW 2022.

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2021

Beyond Participation: A Review of Co-Creation in Computing. Juliane Jarke, Gabriela Molina León, Irina Zakharova, Hendrik Heuer, and Ulrike Gerhard. 2021. ZeMKI Working Paper No. 39. ZeMKI Communicative Figurations. University of Bremen.

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Citational Practices: Interrogating Hegemonic Knowledge Structures in Computing Research in Latin America. Citational Justice Collective, Débora de Castro Leal, Gabriela Molina León, Juan F. Maestre, Kristin Williams, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Sushil K. Oswal, Teresa Cerratto Pargman, and Vishal Sharma. Panel and Workshop at CLIHC 2021.

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Following the Trail of Citational Justice: Critically Examining Knowledge Production in HCI. Citational Justice Collective, Gabriela Molina León, Lynn Kirabo, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Naveena Karusala, Neha Kumar, Nicola Bidwell, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pranjal Protim Borah, Radhika Garg, Sushil K. Oswal, Tee Chuanromanee, and Vishal Sharma. Workshop at CSCW 2021.

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2020

Mapping the Global South: Equal-Area Projections for Choropleth Maps. Gabriela Molina León, Michael Lischka, and Andreas Breiter. IEEE VIS 2020.

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Co-creating Visualizations: A First Evaluation with Social Science Researchers. Gabriela Molina León and Andreas Breiter. EuroVis 2020.

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Short-Contact Touch-Manipulation of Scatterplot Matrices on Wall Displays. Patrick Riehmann, Gabriela Molina León, Joshua Reibert, Florian Echtler, and Bernd Froehlich. EuroVis 2020.

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2015

pART bench: A Hybrid Search Tool for Floor Plans in Architecture. Veronika Krauß, Ekaterina Fuchkina, Gabriela Molina León, Oana-Iuliana Popescu, Florian Echtler, and Sven Bertel. ITS 2015.

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