The CA³ team at the 2025 research retreat at Sandbjerg Gods
The team at our second research retreat, Sandbjerg Gods, October 2025.

Data just got situated.

We research ubiquitous and immersive analytics — how data analysis behaves once it leaves the desk and enters the contexts where decisions are actually made.

“The work we do is about how everywhere data collection can let people understand their world anywhere, and anytime.”
Niklas ElmqvistDirector · Villum Investigator
Aarhus UniversityVillum Fonden
About us

Augmenting human cognition

The Center for Anytime Anywhere Analytics researches ubiquitous and immersive analytics at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University.

We explore ways in which data analysis can be embedded into the contexts and devices people already use — leveraging ever-present mobile devices and immersive technologies to augment human cognition and drive faster, better-informed decisions in testbeds across science, manufacturing, and education.

Villum Investigator Grant No. 54492 · September 2023

A three-minute film on what the centre does, and why the desk is the wrong place for it.

Featured publications

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IEEE TVCG 2024

Wizualization: A 'Hard Magic' Visualization System for Immersive and Ubiquitous Analytics

What if magic could be used as an effective metaphor to perform data visualization while mobile and on-the-go?

Andrea Batch·Peter W.S. Butcher·Panagiotis D. Ritsos·Niklas Elmqvist
ACM CHI 2022

ReLive: Bridging In-Situ and Ex-Situ Visual Analytics for Analyzing Mixed Reality User Studies

Bridging immersive in-situ analysis with traditional desktop visual analytics for evaluating mixed reality.

Sebastian Hubenschmid·Jonathan Wieland·Daniel Immanuel Fink·Andrea Batch·Johannes Zagermann·Niklas Elmqvist·Harald Reiterer
ACM CHI 2023

Through Their Eyes and In Their Shoes: Providing Group Awareness During Collaboration Across Virtual Reality and Desktop Platforms

Maintaining group awareness when collaborators use radically different devices.

David Saffo·Andrea Batch·Cody Dunne·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG 2024

The Reality of the Situation: A Survey of Situated Analytics

Mapping the emerging field where AR-embedded visualizations meet the physical world.

Sungbok Shin·Andrea Batch·Peter William Scott Butcher·Panagiotis D. Ritsos·Niklas Elmqvist

From anywhere, together.

Researchers from around the world, working side by side in Aarhus.

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