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Niklas Elmqvist

Director · Villum Investigator · Aarhus University

Niklas Elmqvist is a Villum Investigator and Professor of Computer Science at Aarhus University, where he directs the Center for Anytime Anywhere Analytics. His work asks how data analysis can leave the desktop: how visual representations behave when they are carried, worn, projected, and shared. Before Aarhus he was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and at Purdue University.

Authored publications

“I Feel Like Iron Man”: Authoring, Exploring, and Presenting Data Visualizations in Immersive AR
Marcel Borowski·Peter W.S. Butcher·Shannon J. Jones·Panagiotis D. Ritsos·Clemens N. Klokmose·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG · 2026
Hybrid User Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future of Complementary Cross-Device Interaction in Mixed Reality
Sebastian Hubenschmid·Marc Satkowski·Johannes Zagermann·Julián Méndez·Niklas Elmqvist·Steven Feiner·Tiare Feuchtner·Jens Emil Grønbæk·Benjamin Lee·Dieter Schmalstieg·Raimund Dachselt·Harald Reiterer
IEEE TVCG · 2026
D-Tour: Semi-Automatic Generation of Interactive Guided Tours for Visualization Dashboard Onboarding
Vaishali Dhanoa·Andreas Hinterreiter·Vanessa Fediuk·Niklas Elmqvist·Eduard Gröller·Marc Streit
IEEE TVCG · 2025
DashSpace: A Live Collaborative Platform for Immersive and Ubiquitous Analytics
Marcel Borowski·Peter W.S. Butcher·Janus Bager Kristensen·Jonas Oxenbøll Petersen·Panagiotis D. Ritsos·Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG · 2025
DG Comics: Semi-Automatically Authoring Graph Comics for Dynamic Graphs
Joohee Kim·Hyunwook Lee·Duc M. Nguyen·Minjeong Shin·Bum Chul Kwon·Sungahn Ko·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG · 2025
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
arXiv · 2025
Revisiting Hybrid Input Devices for Immersive Analytics
Sebastian Hubenschmid·Johannes Zagermann·Niklas Elmqvist·Tiare Feuchtner·Jens Grubert·Markus Tatzgern·Dieter Schmalstieg·Harald Reiterer
IEEE HFIA · 2025
Editorial Guest Editors' Introduction
Niklas Elmqvist·Shixia Liu·Valerio Pascucci
IEEE TVCG · 2024
Is Native Naïve? Comparing Native Game Engines and WebXR as Immersive Analytics Development Platforms
Peter W.S. Butcher·Andrea Batch·David Saffo·Blair Macintyre·Niklas Elmqvist·Panagiotis D. Ritsos
IEEE CG&A · 2024
Lodestar: Supporting rapid prototyping of data science workflows through data-driven analysis recommendations
Deepthi Raghunandan·Zhe Cui·Kartik Krishnan·Segen Tirfe·Shenzhi Shi·Tejaswi Darshan Shrestha·Leilani Battle·Niklas Elmqvist
Information Visualization · 2024
Scientists and Code: Programming as a Tool
Caroline Berger·Matthew Christian Demuth Lutze·Niklas Elmqvist·Magnus Madsen·Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose
PLATEAU · 2024
The Reality of the Situation: A Survey of Situated Analytics
Sungbok Shin·Andrea Batch·Peter William Scott Butcher·Panagiotis D. Ritsos·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG · 2024
Towards Visualization Thumbnail Designs That Entice Reading Data-Driven Articles
Hwiyeon Kim·Joohee Kim·Yunha Han·Hwajung Hong·Oh Sang Kwon·Young Woo Park·Niklas Elmqvist·Sungahn Ko·Bum Chul Kwon
IEEE TVCG · 2024
Understanding the Visualization and Analytics Needs of Blind and Low-Vision Professionals
Pramod Chundury·Urja Thakkar·Yasmin Reyazuddin·J. Bern Jordan·Niklas Elmqvist·Jonathan Lazar
ACM ASSETS · 2024
Visualizing multilayer spatiotemporal epidemiological data with animated geocircles
Brian Ondov·Harsh B. Patel·Ai Te Kuo·John Kastner·Yunheng Han·Hong Wei·Niklas Elmqvist·Hanan Samet
JAMIA · 2024
Accessible Data Representation with Natural Sound
Md Naimul Hoque·Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque·Niklas Elmqvist·Syed Masum Billah
ACM CHI · 2023
Contextual in situ help for visual data interfaces
Pramod Chundury·Mehmet Adil Yalcin·Jonathan Crabtree·Anup Mahurkar·Lisa M. Shulman·Niklas Elmqvist
Information Visualization · 2023
DocDancer: Authoring Ultra-Responsive Documents with Layout Generation
Yuexi Chen·Zhicheng Liu·Christopher Tensmeyer·Niklas Elmqvist·Vlad I. Morariu
IEEE VL/HCC · 2023
Evaluating View Management for Situated Visualization in Web-based Handheld AR
Andrea Batch·Sungbok Shin·J. Liu·Peter W.S. Butcher·Panagiotis D. Ritsos·Niklas Elmqvist
Computer Graphics Forum · 2023
Roslingifier: Semi-Automated Storytelling for Animated Scatterplots
Minjeong Shin·Joohee Kim·Yunha Han·Lexing Xie·Mitchell Whitelaw·Bum Chul Kwon·Sungahn Ko·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG · 2023
TimberSleuth: Visual anomaly detection with human feedback for mitigating the illegal timber trade
Debanjan Datta·Nathan Self·John Simeone·Amelia Meadows·Willow Outhwaite·Linda Walker·Niklas Elmqvist·Naren Ramakrishnan
Information Visualization · 2023
ReLive: Bridging In-Situ and Ex-Situ Visual Analytics for Analyzing Mixed Reality User Studies
Sebastian Hubenschmid·Jonathan Wieland·Daniel Immanuel Fink·Andrea Batch·Johannes Zagermann·Niklas Elmqvist·Harald Reiterer
ACM CHI · 2022
StoryFacets: A design study on storytelling with visualizations for collaborative data analysis
Deok Gun Park·Mohamed Suhail·Minsheng Zheng·Cody Dunne·Eric Ragan·Niklas Elmqvist
Information Visualization · 2022
Workshop on Audio-Visual Analytics
Wolfgang Aigner·Kajetan Enge·Michael Iber·Alexander Rind·Niklas Elmqvist·Robert Höldrich·Niklas Rönnberg·Bruce N. Walker
ACM AVI · 2022
Once upon a time in visualization: Understanding the use of textual narratives for causality
Arjun Choudhry·Mandar Sharma·Pramod Chundury·Thomas Kapler·Derek W.S. Gray·Naren Ramakrishnan·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG · 2021
Revealing Perceptual Proxies with Adversarial Examples
Brian Ondov·Fumeng Yang·Matthew Kay·Niklas Elmqvist·Steven Franconeri
IEEE TVCG · 2021
Common Fate for Animated Transitions in Visualization
Amira Chalbi·Jacob Ritchie·Deok Gun Park·Jungu Choi·Nicolas Roussel·Niklas Elmqvist·Fanny Chevalier
IEEE TVCG · 2020
Proactive visual and statistical analysis of genomic data in Epiviz
Zhe Cui·Jayaram Kancherla·Kyle W. Chang·Niklas Elmqvist·Héctor Corrada Bravo
Bioinformatics · 2020
Route packing: Geospatially-accurate visualization of route networks
Jieqiong Zhao·Morteza Karimzadeh·Hanye Xu·Abish Malik·Shehzad Afzal·Guizhen Wang·Niklas Elmqvist·David S. Ebert
HICSS · 2020
The Perceptual Proxies of Visual Comparison
Nicole Jardine·Brian Ondov·Niklas Elmqvist·Steven Franconeri
IEEE TVCG · 2020
There Is No Spoon: Evaluating Performance, Space Use, and Presence with Expert Domain Users in Immersive Analytics
Andrea Batch·Andrew Cunningham·Maxime Cordeil·Niklas Elmqvist·Tim Dwyer·Bruce H. Thomas·Kim Marriott
IEEE TVCG · 2020
Face to face: Evaluating visual comparison
Brian Ondov·Nicole Jardine·Niklas Elmqvist·Steven Franconeri
IEEE TVCG · 2019
Shape structuralizer: Design, Fabrication, and User-driven Iterative Refinement of 3D Mesh Models
Subramanian Chidambaram·Yunbo Zhang·Venkatraghavan Sundararajan·Niklas Elmqvist·Karthik Ramani
ACM CHI · 2019
Atom: A Grammar for Unit Visualizations
Deok Gun Park·Steven M. Drucker·Roland Fernandez·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG · 2018
Clinical Concept Value Sets and Interoperability in Health Data Analytics
Sigfried Gold·Andrea Batch·Robert McClure·Guoqian Jiang·Hadi Kharrazi·Rishi Saripalle·Vojtech Huser·Chunhua Weng·Nancy Roderer·Ana Szarfman·Niklas Elmqvist·David Gotz
AMIA Annual Symposium · 2018
ConceptVector: Text Visual Analytics via Interactive Lexicon Building Using Word Embedding
Deok Gun Park·Seungyeon Kim·Jurim Lee·Jaegul Choo·Nicholas Diakopoulos·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE TVCG · 2018
Metaviz: interactive statistical and visual analysis of metagenomic data
Justin Wagner·Florin Chelaru·Jayaram Kancherla·Joseph N. Paulson·Alexander Zhang·Victor Felix·Anup Mahurkar·Niklas Elmqvist·Héctor Corrada Bravo
Nucleic Acids Research · 2018
Observations and Reflections on Visualization Literacy in Elementary School
Fanny Chevalier·Nathalie H. Riche·Basak Alper·Catherine Plaisant·Jeremy Boy·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE CG&A · 2018
Situated analytics
Bruce H. Thomas·Gregory F. Welch·Pierre Dragicevic·Niklas Elmqvist·Pourang Irani·Yvonne Jansen·Dieter Schmalstieg·Aurélien Tabard·Neven A.M. ElSayed·Ross T. Smith·Wesley Willett
Springer LNCS · 2018
Preface
Gennady Andrienko·Shixia Liu·John Stasko·Niklas Elmqvist·Bongshin Lee·Kwan Liu Ma·James Ahrens·Robert M. Kirby·Jos Roerdink
IEEE TVCG · 2017
The human touch: How non-expert users perceive, interpret, and fix topic models
Tak Yeon Lee·Alison Smith·Kevin Seppi·Niklas Elmqvist·Jordan Boyd-Graber·Leah Findlater
IJHCS · 2017
Map navigation using a wearable mid-air display
Alexandru Dancu·Mickäel Fourgeaud·Mohammad Obaid·Morten Fjeld·Niklas Elmqvist
ACM MobileHCI · 2015
ThemeDelta: Dynamic segmentations over temporal topic models
Samah Gad·Waqas Javed·Sohaib Ghani·Niklas Elmqvist·Tom Ewing·Keith N. Hampton·Naren Ramakrishnan
IEEE TVCG · 2015
A mobile visual analytics approach for law enforcement situation awareness
Ahmad M.M. Razip·Abish Malik·Shehzad Afzal·Matthew Potrawski·Ross Maciejewski·Yun Jang·Niklas Elmqvist·David S. Ebert
IEEE PacificVis · 2014
DIA2: Web-based cyberinfrastructure for visual analysis of funding portfolios
Krishna Madhavan·Niklas Elmqvist·Mihaela Vorvoreanu·Xin Chen·Yuetling Wong·Hanjun Xian·Zhihua Dong·Aditya Johri
IEEE TVCG · 2014
Interaction in the visualization of multivariate networks
Michael Wybrow·Niklas Elmqvist·Jean-Daniel Fekete·Tatiana Von Landesberger·Jarke J. Van Wijk·Björn Zimmer
Dagstuhl Seminar · 2014
VASA: Interactive computational steering of large asynchronous simulation pipelines for societal infrastructure
Sungahn Ko·Jieqiong Zhao·Jing Xia·Shehzad Afzal·Xiaoyu Wang·Greg Abram·Niklas Elmqvist·Len Kne·David Van Riper·Kelly Gaither·Shaun Kennedy·William Tolone·William Ribarsky·David S. Ebert
IEEE TVCG · 2014
Visualization beyond the desktop-the next big thing
Jonathan C. Roberts·Panagiotis D. Ritsos·Sriram K. Badam·Dominique Brodbeck·Jessie Kennedy·Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE CG&A · 2014
Spatial text visualization using automatic typographic maps
Shehzad Afzal·Ross MacIejewski·Yun Jang·Niklas Elmqvist·David S. Ebert
IEEE TVCG · 2012
Collaborative visualization: Definition, challenges, and research agenda
Petra Isenberg·Niklas Elmqvist·Jean Scholtz·Daniel Cernea·Kwan Liu Ma·Hans Hagen
Information Visualization · 2011
Fluid interaction for information visualization
Niklas Elmqvist·Andrew Vande Moere·Hans Christian Jetter·Daniel Cernea·Harald Reiterer·T. J. Jankun-Kelly
Information Visualization · 2011
Mlange: Space folding for visual exploration
Niklas Elmqvist·Yann Riche·Nathalie Henry-Riche·Jean-Daniel Fekete
IEEE TVCG · 2010
DataMeadow: A visual canvas for analysis of large-scale multivariate data
Niklas Elmqvist·John Stasko·Philippas Tsigas
Information Visualization · 2008
Tour generation for exploration of 3D virtual environments
Niklas Elmqvist·M. Eduard Tudoreanu·Philippas Tsigas
ACM VRST · 2007
View-projection animation for 3D occlusion management
Niklas Elmqvist·Philippas Tsigas
Computers & Graphics · 2007
TrustNeighborhoods in a nutshell
Niklas Elmqvist·Philippas Tsigas
ACM SoftVis · 2006
Using 3D audio guidance to locate indoor static objects
Samuel Sandberg·Calle Håkansson·Niklas Elmqvist·Philippas Tsigas·Fang Chen
HFES · 2006