News – Anne-Flore Cabouat

DIS PWiP 2026 acceptance “Bridging Educational Theories of Cognitive Load to Visualization Design and Evaluation”

May 2026May 2026 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

Our paper “Structural Interaction: Shifting the Focus of User Interface Design” was accepted to the DIS Provocation and Works-in-Progress track. Vincent Cavez will present this work at DIS ’26 in Singapore. Continue reading DIS PWiP 2026 acceptance “Bridging Educational Theories of Cognitive Load to Visualization Design and Evaluation”

CHI 2026 in Barcelona

May 2026April 2026 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I attended the CHI 2026 conference in Barcelona with the Aviz team.
I participated in the STAR workshop (Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading), where I presented our work on Readability as a multi-measure construct in data visualization. Continue reading CHI 2026 in Barcelona

Dagstuhl seminar Psychology × Visualization

January 2026December 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

Very grateful for the invitation to this Psychology × Visualization Dagstuhl seminar, which offered a wonderful chance to meet fascinating people and engage in inspiring conversations. Continue reading Dagstuhl seminar Psychology × Visualization

Joining the AFIHM board

January 2026November 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

Honored to join the board of the Francophone HCI Association (AFIHM), after a year and a half as co-organizer of their Young Researchers Working Group (GT JCJC). Continue reading Joining the AFIHM board

VIS 2025 in Vienna

January 2026November 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I attended the VIS 2025 conference in Vienna with the Aviz team.
I served as a student volunteer during the event.
I also presented our work on Bridging Educational Theories of Cognitive Load to Visualization Design and Evaluation at the 4th EduVis workshop. Continue reading VIS 2025 in Vienna

RJMI 2025

January 2026October 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I participated in the Rendez-vous des Jeunes Mathématiciennes et Informaticiennes (RJMI) as part of the Inria Saclay scientific communication team. I had the pleasure of creating and leading an activity that took young women from an unplugged Nim game to its algorithmic implementation, connecting hands-on play, coding, and outcome visualization. Continue reading RJMI 2025

Fête de la science 2025

January 2026October 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I participated in the Fête de la Science as part of the Inria scientific communication team. This year, I had an especially great time introducing statistical learning through an unplugged Nim game. This simple activity uses marbles to show how a machine can learn a winning strategy from simple repeated interactions. Continue reading Fête de la science 2025

EduVIS 2025 acceptance “Bridging Educational Theories of Cognitive Load to Visualization Design and Evaluation”

August 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

Our workshop paper “Bridging Educational Theories of Cognitive Load to Visualization Design and Evaluation” was accepted at the EduVIS 2025 workshop. I will present this work in Vienna during IEEE VIS week 2025. Continue reading EduVIS 2025 acceptance “Bridging Educational Theories of Cognitive Load to Visualization Design and Evaluation”

VIS 2025 acceptance: “An Autoethnography on Visualization Literacy: A Wicked Measurement Problem”

August 2025July 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

Our full paper “An Autoethnography on Visualization Literacy: A Wicked Measurement Problem” was accepted at IEEE VIS 2025. Lily Ge will present it at the VIS conference in Vienna. Continue reading VIS 2025 acceptance: “An Autoethnography on Visualization Literacy: A Wicked Measurement Problem”

LISN Ph.D. days 2025 presentation

May 2025May 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I presented my Ph.D. topic at the LISN Ph.D. day 2025 in Université Paris-Saclay in Orsay. Continue reading LISN Ph.D. days 2025 presentation

Doctoriales 2025 i3 presentation

May 2025May 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I presented my work for the i³ Doctoriales 2025 in École des Mines de Paris. Continue reading Doctoriales 2025 i3 presentation

EuroVA 2025 acceptance “We should change how we measure user experience in visual analytics systems”

May 2025April 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

Our short paper “We should change how we measure user experience in visual analytics systems” was accepted at EuroVA workshop 2025. Eliane Zambon Victorelli will present it at EuroVis 2025. Continue reading EuroVA 2025 acceptance “We should change how we measure user experience in visual analytics systems”

Visiting the VISUS Lab at University of Stuttgart

May 2025February 2025 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I visited the Visualization Research Center in Stuttgart with Petra Isenberg.
I presented our work on PREVis to the team there.

PREVis paper at VIS 2024 (online)

January 2026October 2024 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I presented our paper “PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations” at IEEE Visualization 2024 (online).

[icon name="trophy" prefix="fas"] This work received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.

I also served as a student volunteer during the event. Continue reading PREVis paper at VIS 2024 (online)

Starting my PhD

March 2025October 2024 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I started my PhD to explore readability in data visualization in the Aviz group, under the supervision of Petra Isenberg (Inria, LISN, Université Paris-Saclay) and Samuel Huron (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNRS i3). Continue reading Starting my PhD

Learning Science Master’s degree

March 2025July 2024 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I obtained my Master’s degree in Learning Sciences from Université Paris Cité. Continue reading Learning Science Master’s degree

Master’s thesis defense

May 2025June 2024 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I presented my Master’s thesis “A cognitive load approach to designing and evaluating data visualizations”. Continue reading Master’s thesis defense

Position paper at CHI Workshop on Visualization Literacy

May 2025May 2024 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I presented our position paper “A case to study the relationship between data visualization readability and visualization literacy” remotely at the Workshop: Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Visualization Literacy @CHI24 and in person at the para.CHI’24 Paris event. Continue reading Position paper at CHI Workshop on Visualization Literacy

Fête de la science 2023

January 2026October 2023 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

Starting my M2 internship

March 2025October 2023 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I started a follow-up 6 months internship at the Aviz group under the supervision of Tobias Isenberg (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LISN) to complete the development of a scale to assess perceived readability in data visualization. Continue reading Starting my M2 internship

“Pondering the reading of data visualizations” at Journée Visu 2023

March 2025June 2023 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I presented “Pondering the reading of data visualizations”, a working paper, at Journée visu 2023. Continue reading “Pondering the reading of data visualizations” at Journée Visu 2023

Starting M1 internship

March 2025March 2023 by Anne-Flore Cabouat

I started a 6 months internship at the Aviz group under the supervision of Tobias Isenberg (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LISN). Continue reading Starting M1 internship