Scientific Activities
- Editorial Boards and Steering Committees
- Editorial Board Member of Computer Graphics Forum, Wiley, 2019-2022
- Editorial Board Member of the new Book Series Language, Data Science and Digital Humanities, Bloomsbury Academic, since 2020
- Guest Editor of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) for a special issue on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis, 29(2), 2020
- Guest Editor of the Information Journal (Information Applications Section) for the special issue Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2019), 2019
- Guest Editor of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing for a special issue Revised Selected Papers from the 11th Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '18), 2019
- Guest Editor of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA) for the special issue Selected papers from the Twenty-sixth International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2018, 23(3), 2019
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Graph Drawing Conference, 2017-2019
- Guest Editor of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing for a special issue on VINCI 2016 Best Papers, 2017
- Editorial Board Member of the Information Visualization Journal, SAGE Publications, since 2012
- Member of the the advisory editorial board for the Handbook of Human Centric Visualization, Springer, 2013
- Guest Editor of the Information Visualization Journal for a special issue on
Information Visualization: State of the Field and New Research Directions, 10(4), 2011
- Guest Editor of the Information Visualization Journal for a special issue on
Human-centered Information Visualization, 8(3), 2009
- Organization
- State-of-the-Art (STAR) track co-chair of the 27th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization EuroVis 2025, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 2025
- State-of-the-Art (STAR) track co-chair of the 26th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization EuroVis 2024, Odense, Denmark, 2024
- Most Influential Paper Award co-chair of the 11th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization VISSOFT 2023, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023
- Short paper co-chair of the 23rd EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization EuroVis 2021, Zurich, Switzerland, 2021
- Short paper co-chair of the 22nd EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization EuroVis 2020, Norrköping, Sweden, 2020
- Program co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2020, Valletta, Malta, 2020
- Most Influential Paper Award co-chair of the 7th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization VISSOFT 2019, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2019
- Program co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, 2019
- Program co-chair of the 26th International Symposium on Graph Drawing & Network Visualization GD 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
- General chair of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction VINCI 2018, Växjö, Sweden, 2018
- Program co-chair of the 6th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization VISSOFT 2018, Madrid, Spain, 2018
- Co-organizer of the special session "Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis" (NLP4SMA-2018) at the 10th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN '18), Patras, Greece, 2018
- Program co-chair of the 9th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2018, Funchal, Portugal, 2018
- Co-organizer of the special session "Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis" at the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM '17), Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, 2017
- Program chair of the 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction VINCI 2016, Dallas, TX, USA, 2016
- Co-organizer of the ACM IUI 2016 Workshop on Emotion and Visualization EmoVis 2016, Sonoma, CA, USA, 2016
- Program co-chair of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2015, Berlin, Germany, 2015
- Program co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
- Program co-chair of the 1st IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization VISSOFT 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2013
- Program co-chair of the 4th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2013, Barcelona, Spain, 2013
- Co-organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on
Information Visualization - Towards Multivariate Network Visualization 2013
- Co-chair the annual conference of the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics
SIGRAD 2012, Växjö, Sweden, 2012
- Co-organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on
Information Visualization 2010
- Co-organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on
Information Visualization - Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation 2007
- Co-organizer of the GI-Dagstuhl Research Seminar on
Human-Centered Visualization
Environments 2006
- Co-organizer of the common Summer School of the Graduate Programs DFG GK 1042 and DFG GK 1131, Kleinwalsertal, Austria, 2005
- Co-organizer of the GI-Workshop on Software Visualization SV 2000, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2000
- Member of the program committees of
- IEEE Conference on Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS '24, VIS '23, VIS '22)
- IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis '20, InfoVis '15, InfoVis '14, InfoVis '13, InfoVis '11, InfoVis '10, InfoVis '09)
- IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST '20, VAST '19, VAST '18, VAST '16, VAST '15, VAST '14)
- IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '25, PacificVis '24, PacificVis '17, PacificVis '16, PacificVis '15)
- IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis '15, BioVis '14)
- International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD '23, GD '21, GD '15, GD '13)
- International PacificVAST Workshop (PacificVAST '19)
- International EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA '24, EuroVA '23, EuroVA '22, EuroVA '20, EuroVA '19, EuroVA '18, EuroVA '17, EuroVA '15, EuroVA '14, EuroVA '13)
- The Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '23, EuroVis '22, EuroVis '18, EuroVis '15, EuroVis '14, EuroVis '13)
- The Eurographics Conference on Visualization, education paper track (EuroVis '24)
- Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, education paper track (Eurographics '22)
- SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA '26, VDA '25, VDA '24, VDA '23, VDA '22, VDA '21, VDA '20, VDA '19, VDA '18, VDA '17, VDA '16, VDA '15, VDA '14, VDA '13)
- IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT '25, VISSOFT '24, VISSOFT '22, VISSOFT '19, VISSOFT '16, VISSOFT '14)
- International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV '14)
- International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Security (BDA4CS '16)
- International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM '19)
- ACM IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA '21, ESIDA '19)
- WSDM 2019 Workshop on Interactive Data Mining (WSDM-IDM '19)
- International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA '18, BDVA '17, BDVA '16, BDVA '15)
- International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP '16, IVAPP '14, IVAPP '13, IVAPP '12, IVAPP '11, IVAPP '10)
- International Workshop on Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences (IVMLS '13)
- IEEE/ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis '10, SoftVis '08, SoftVis '06, SoftVis '05)
- International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '23, VINCI '22, VINCI '21, VINCI '20, VINCI '19, VINCI '17, VINCI '15, VINCI '14, VINCI '13)
- International Symposium on Visual Computing, Special track on Interactive Visualization in Novel and Heterogeneous Display Environments (ISVC '11)
- IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT '11)
- SIGRAD Conference (SIGRAD '16, SIGRAD '15, SIGRAD '14, SIGRAD '13, SIGRAD '11)
- GI-Workshop on Software Visualization (SV '00)
- Forum Media Technology (FMT '17, FMT '16)
- Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications (LEVIA '23, LEVIA '22, LEVIA '20, LEVIA '19, LEVIA '18)
- International Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) (CD-MAKE '21, CD-MAKE '20, CD-MAKE '19, CD-MAKE '18, CD-MAKE '17)
- International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM '17)
- Eurographics (EG '10, short-paper track)
- IADIS International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP '13, CGVCVIP '12, CGVCVIP '11, CGVCVIP '10, CGVCVIP '09)
- IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM '10)
- IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE '10, CATE '09, CATE '08)
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME '09)
- IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP '09, VIIP '08, VIIP '07)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (Multimedia '08)
- IADIS International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV '08)
- IASTED International Conference on Graphics and Visualization in Engineering (GVE '07)
- International Conference on Enriching Health Data for Research and Practice (USAB '14)
- International Workshop on Collaboration Technologies and Systems in Healthcare and Biomedical Fields (CoHeB '12, CoHeB '11)
- International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF '15, HEALTHINF '14, HEALTHINF '13, HEALTHINF '12, HEALTHINF '11, HEALTHINF '10, HEALTHINF '09, HEALTHINF '08)
- IASTED International Symposia on Imaging and Signal Processing in Healthcare and Technology (ISPHT '11)
- GI-Workshop "Rechnerunterstütztes Selbstudium in der Informatik" (DeLFI 2007)
- Paper and book reviewer for
- IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis '13)
- IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '13)
- IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis '12, InfoVis '08, InfoVis '07, InfoVis '03)
- IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST '11, VAST '10, VAST '09, VAST '07)
- IEEE Conference on Visualization (Vis '11, Vis '10, Vis '09, Vis '08)
- Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis '10)
- ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis '03)
- ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14, CHI '13, CHI '12)
- ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '13)
- The Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '14, NordiCHI '12)
- ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '14, SIGCSE '13, SIGCSE '12, SIGCSE '11, SIGCSE '10, SIGCSE '09, SIGCSE '08, SIGCSE '07, SIGCSE '06)
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT '11, ICALT '10, ICALT '09)
- The Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '09, ITiCSE '07, ITiCSE '06)
- Journal reviewer for
- Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), IEEE
- Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), IEEE
- Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE
- Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE
- Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), ACM
- Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, ACM
- Information Visualization Journal (IVS), SAGE Publications
- Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Wiley
- Computer & Graphics (CG), Elsevier
- The Visual Computer (TVC), Springer
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Elsevier
- User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, Springer
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), Taylor & Francis
- Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, John Wiley & Sons
- Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms (JMMA), Springer
- SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS
- The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press
- Responsibilities
- Jointly responsible for the website softvis.org (00-02)
- Invited participant at other events
- Visual Analytics Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, 2005
- Memberships
- Senior Member of the ACM (since 04)
- Senior Member of the IEEE (since 07)
- Member of Eurographics (since 12)
- Member of the workgroup E-Learning of the Austrian Computer Society OCG (02-04)
- Member of the German Association of University Professors (DHV; since 09)
- Member of the Swedish Association of University Teachers (SULF; since 11)
- Member of the IFIP Working Group 13.7: HCI and Visualisation (since 09)
- Partner of the EU coordination action project VisMaster (09-10)
- Member of the European Network on Word Structure NetWordS (since 11)
- Member of the expert network HCAI (since 13)
- Member and group leader of the Information Engineering Center IEC at Linnaeus University (since 12)
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics SIGRAD (since 12; Vice-Chair 12-13)
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren