Benjamin Bach, PhD, HDR
Research Scientist
Inria, France
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200 Av. de la vieille Tour
33400 Talence, France
benjamin.bach@inria.fr
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Publications
2025
What Can Visualization Research Do for Climate? A Workshop Report Eleni Kostis, Benjamin Bach, Fanny Chevalier, Mark SubbaRao, Yvonne Jansen, Robert Soden. Computer Graphics and Applications (2025) [PAPER]
A Typology of Data Concepts and Contexts in Clinician-Patient Communication Sarah Dunn, Areti Manataki, Tara Capel, Benjamin Bach. IEEE VIS 2025, short papers (2025) [PAPER]
Visualizing Peace Transitions: Interactive Visualizations to Support Innovation and Adaptive Management in Peace Processes Tomas Vancisin, Jinrui Wang, Niamh Henry, Sarah Schöttler, Lucy Havens, Tobias Kauer, Sarah Badanjak, Christine Bell, Benjamin Bach . IEEE VIS 2025, posters (2025) [PAPER]
The UK Co-Benefits Atlas: An Interactive Visualisation Atlas to Understand the Impacts of Achieving Climate Action Targets Sian Phillips, Jinrui Wang, Alexis Pister, Ruaidhri Higgins-Lavery, Sarah Bisset, Clare Wharmby, Sean Fields, Uta Hinrichs, Andrew Sudmant, Benjamin Bach. IEEE VIS 2025, posters (2025) [PAPER] [WEB]
Instructional Comics for Self-Paced Learning of Data Visualization Tools and Concepts Magdalena Boucher, Mashael AlKadi, Benjamin Bach, Wolfgang Aigner. IEEE/CGF Eurovis (2025) [PAPER]
Towards Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations Tobias Kauer, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach. Computer Graphics and Applications: Special Issue on Critical Data Visualization (2025) [PAPER]
Investigating the Capabilities and Limitations of Machine Learning for Identifying Bias in English Language Data Lucy Havens, Benjamin Bach, Melissa Terras, Beatrice Alex. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2025) [PAPER] Best paper honorable mention
2026
Visualization Badges: Communicating Design and Provenance through Graphical Labels Alongside Visualizations Valentin Edelsbrunner, Jinrui Wang, Alexis Pister, Tomas Vancisin, Min Chen, Benjamin Bach. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2025) (2026) [PAPER]
2024
Does This Have a Particular Meaning? Interactive Pattern Explanation for Network Visualizations Xinhuan Shu, Alexis Pister, Junxiu Tang, Fanny Chevalier, and Benjamin Bach. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VIS 2024) (2024) [PAPER]
Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations Tobias Kauer, Derya Akbaba, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2024) [PAPER]
2023
Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Education: A Call to Action Benjamin Bach, Mandy Keck, Fateme Rajabiyazdi, Tatiana Losev, Isabel Meirelles, Jason Dykes, Robert S Laramee, Mashael AlKadi, Christina Stoiber, Samuel Huron, Charles Perin, Luiz Morais, Wolfgang Aigner, Doris Kosminsky, Magdalena Boucher, Søren Knudsen, Areti Manataki, Jan Aerts, Uta Hinrichs, Jonathan C Roberts, Sheelagh Carpendale. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VIS, 2021) (2023) [PAPER]
Beyond the Node-Link Diagram: A Fast Forward about Network Visualization for Archaeology Benjamin Bach, Mareike van Garderen. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research (2023) [PAPER]
Show Me My Users: A Dashboard Visualizing User Interaction Logs Jinrui Wang, Mashael AlKadi, Benjamin Bach. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VIS, 2021) short paper (2023) [PAPER]
Educational Data Comics: What Can Comics Do for Education in Visualization? Magdalena Boucher, Benjamin Bach, Christina Stoiber, Zezhong Wang, Wolfgang Aigner. EduVis workshop, IEEE VIS (2023) [PAPER]
Using Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), Data and Design to Communicate about Frailty to the General Public Lara Johnson, A Anand, A Marshall, S Seth, Benjamin Bach. (2023) [PAPER]
Collaboration Across the Archival and Computational Sciences to Address Legacies of Gender Bias in Descriptive Metadata Lucy Havens, Beatrice Alex, Rachel Hosker, Benjamin Bach, Melissa Terras. Conference on Digital Humanities (2023) [PAPER]
NetworkNarratives: Data Tours for Visual Network Exploration and Analysis Wenchao Li, Sarah Schöttler, James Scott-Brown, Yun Wang, Siming Chen, Huamin Qu, Benjamin Bach. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2023) [PAPER]
Understanding Barriers to Network Exploration with Visualization: A Report from the Trenches Mashael AlKadi, James Scott-Brown, Vanessa Serrano, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Catherine Plaisant, Uta Hinrichs, Benjamin Bach. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VIS, 2021) (2023) [PAPER]
Exploring Interactions with Printed Data Visualizations in Augmented Reality Wai Tong, Zhutian Chen, Meng Xia, Leo Yu-Ho Lo, Linping Yuan, Benjamin Bach, Huamin Qu. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VIS, 2021) (2023) [PAPER] Best paper honorable mention
2022
Narrative medical visualization to communicate disease data Monique Meuschke, Laura A. Garrison, Noeska N.Smit, BenjaminBach, Sarah Mittenentzwei, Veronika Weiß, Stefan Bruckner, Kai Lawonn, Bernhard Preim. Computer & Graphics (2022) [PAPER]
RAMPVIS: Answering the Challenges of Building Visualisation Capabilities for Large-scale Emergency Responses Chen, M, A. Abdul-Rahman, D. Archambaultc. J. Dykes. P. D. Ritsose, A. Slingsby, T. Torsney-Weir. C. Turkay, B. Bach, et al.. Epidemics (2022) [PAPER]
Visualization for Epidemiological Modelling: Challenges, Solutions, Reflections & Recommendation Jason Dykes, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Daniel Archambault, Benjamin Bach, Rita Borgo, Min Chen, et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. (special issue on ‘Technical challenges of modelling real-life epidemics and examples of overcoming these’) (2022) [PAPER]
Adaptive traffic signal control for developing countries using fused parameters derived from crowd-source data Sumit Mishra, Vishal Singh, Ankit Gupta, Devanjan Bhattacharya & Abhisek Mudgal. Transportation Letters (2022) [PAPER]
Exploring Uncertainty in Digital Scheduling, and The Wider Implications of Unrepresented Temporalities in HCI Ryan Bowler, Benjamin Bach, Larissa Pschetz. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2022) [PAPER]
GAN’SDA Wrap: Geographic And Network Structured Data on surfaces that Wrap around Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Yalong Yang, Benjamin Bach, Kim Marriott. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2022) [PAPER]
Rotate or Wrap? Interactive Visualisations of Cyclical Data on Cylindrical or Toroidal Topologies Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Benjamin Bach, Kim Marriott. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VIS, 2021) (2022) [PAPER]
Ways of Seeing: Peace Process Data-Viz as Research Practice Christine Bell, Benjamin Bach, Tobias Kauer. Convergence (2022) [PAPER]
Visual Arrangements of Bar Charts Influence Comparisons in Viewer Takeaways Cindy Xiong, Vidya Setlur, Benjamin Bach, Kylie Lin, Eunyee Koh, and Steven Franconeri. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VIS, 2021) (2022) [PAPER]
Propagating Visual Designs to Numerous Plots and Dashboards Saiful Khan, Phong H. Nguyen, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Benjamin Bach, Min Chen, Euan Freeman, Cagatay Turkay. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VIS, 2021) (2022) [PAPER]
2021
Grand Challenges in Immersive Analytics Barrett Ens, Benjamin Bach, Maxime Cordeil, Ulrich Engelke, Marcos Serrano, Wesley Willett, Arnaud Prouzeau, Christoph Anthes, Wolfgang Büschel, Cody Dunne, Tim Dwyer, Jens Grubert, Jason H. Haga, Nurit Kirshenbaum, Dylan Kobayashi, Tica Lin, Monsurat Olaosebikan, Fabian Pointecker, David Saffo, Nazmus Saquib, Dieter Schmalstieg, Danielle Albers Szafir, Matthew Whitlock, Yalong Yang. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2021) [PAPER]
Sketchnote Components, Design Space Dimensions, and Strategies for Effective Visual Note Taking Rebecca Zheng, Marina Fernández Camporro, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Benjamin Bach, Fanny Chevalier, Ken Hinckley, Nicolai Marquardt. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2021) [PAPER] [VIDEO] BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION
It’s a Wrap: Toroidal Wrapping of Network Visualisations Supports Cluster Understanding Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Benjamin Bach, Kim Marriott. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2021) [PAPER]
The Public Life of Data: Investigating Reactions to Visualizations on Reddit Tobias Kauer, Arran Ridley, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2021) [PAPER]
What Makes a Data-GIF Understandable? Xinhuan Shu, Aoyu Wu, Junxiu Tang, Benjamin Bach, Yingcai Wu, and Huamin Qu. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2021 (IEEE VIS, 2020) (2021) [PAPER]
2020
Interactive Time-Series of Measures for Exploring Dynamic Networks Liwenhan Xie, James O'Donnel, Benjamin Bach, Jean-Daniel Fekete. International Confernce on Advances Interfaces (AVI) (2020) [PAPER] BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION
Visual Encodings for Networks with Multiple Edge Types Athanasios Vogogias, Daniel Archambault, Benjamin Bach, Jessie Kennedy. International Confernce on Advances Interfaces (AVI) (2020) [PAPER]
Embodied Axes: Tangible, Actuated Interaction for 3D Augmented Reality Data Spaces Maxime Cordeil, Benjamin Bach, Andrew Cunningham, Bastian Montoya, Ross T. Smith, Bruce H. Thomas, Tim Dwyer. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2020) [PAPER]
DoughNets: Visualising Networks Using Torus Wrapping Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Benjamin Bach. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2020) [PAPER]
Augmenting Static Visualizations with PapARVis Designer Zhutian Chen, Wai Tong, Qianwen Wang, Benjamin Bach, Huamin Qu. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2020) [PAPER]
Pattern-Driven Navigation in 2D Multiscale Visualizations with Scalable Insets Fritz Lekschas, Michael Behrisch, Benjamin Bach, Peter Kerpedjiev, Nils Gehlenborg, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2020 (IEEE VIS, 2019)) (2020) [PAPER]
2019
Comparing Effectiveness and Engagement of Data Comics and Infographics Zezhong Wang, Shunming Wang, Matteo Farinella, Dave Murray-Rust, Nathalie Henry Riche. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2019) [PAPER]
DataToon: Drawing Data Comics About Dynamic Networks with Pen + Touch Interaction Nam Wook Kim, Nathalie Henry Riche, Benjamin Bach, Guanpeng Xu, Matthew Brehmer, Ken Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Haijun Xia, Michael J. McGuffin, Hanspeter Pfister. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2019) [PAPER]
Teaching Data Visualization and Storytelling with Data Comic Workshops Zezhong Wang, Harvey Dingwal, Benjamin Bach. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Extended Abstracts (2019) [PAPER]
DXR: A Toolkit for Building Immersive Data Visualizations Sicat, Ronell, Jiabao Li, JunYoung Choi, Maxime Cordeil, Won-Ki Jeong, Benjamin Bach, and Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics (2019) (IEEE VIS 2018) (2019) [PAPER]
2018
Multisensory immersive analytics McCormack, Jon, Jonathan C. Roberts, Benjamin Bach, Carla Dal Sasso Freitas, Takayuki Itoh, Christophe Hurter, and Kim Marriott. In Immersive Analytics, pp. 57-94. Springer, Cham (2018) [PAPER]
Information Visualization Evaluation Using Crowdsourcing Borgo, Rita, L. Micallef, B. Bach, F. McGee, and B. Lee. In Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 573-595 (2018) [PAPER]
VisGuides: A forum for discussing visualization guidelines Diehl, Alexandra, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Mennatallah El-Assady, Benjamin Bach, Daniel Keim, and Min Chen. IEEE/CGD EuroVis Shortpapers (2018) [PAPER]
Towards Open-World Scenarios: Teaching the Social Side of Data Science Corneli, Joseph, Dave Murray-Rust, and Benjamin Bach. In Proceedings of Cybernetic Serendipity Reimagined Symposium, Proc. Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) (2018) [PAPER]
Picturing Science: Design Patterns in Graphical Abstracts Hullman, Jessica, and Benjamin Bach. International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams. Springer, Cham (2018) [PAPER]
Animated Edge Textures in Node-Link Diagrams: a Design Space and Initial Evaluation Romat, Hugo, Caroline Appert, Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry-Riche, and Emmanuel Pietriga. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 187. ACM (2018) [PAPER]
Design patterns for data comics Bach, Benjamin, Zezhong Wang, Matteo Farinella, Dave Murray-Rust, and Nathalie Henry Riche. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 38. ACM (2018) [PAPER]
Visualizing Nonlinear Narratives with Story Curves Kim, Nam Wook, Benjamin Bach, Hyejin Im, Sasha Schriber, Markus Gross, and Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (2018) [PAPER]
The Hologram in My Hand: How Effective is Interactive Exploration of 3D Visualizations in Immersive Tangible Augmented Reality? Bach, Benjamin, Ronell Sicat, Johanna Beyer, Maxime Cordeil, and Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (2018) [PAPER]
HiPiler: visual exploration of large genome interaction matrices with interactive small multiples Lekschas, Fritz, Benjamin Bach, Peter Kerpedjiev, Nils Gehlenborg, and Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 24, no. 1 (2018): 522-531 (2018) [PAPER]
2017
Alignment Cubes: Towards Interactive Visual Exploration and Evaluation of Multiple Ontology Alignments Valentina Ivanova, Benjamin Bach, Emmanual Pietriga, Pierre Lambrix. International Semantic Web Conference, 400-417 (2017) [PAPER]
Understanding the Use of The Vistorian: Complementing Logs with Context Mini-Questionnaires Verena S. Molinero, Benjamin Bach, Catherine Plaisant, Nicole Dufournaud, Jean-Daniel Fekete. Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities IEEE VIS (2017) [PAPER]
Crowdsourcing for Information Visualization: Promises and Pitfalls Rita Borgo, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin Bach, Sara Fabrikant, Radu Jianu, Andreas Kerren, Stephen Kobourov, Fintan McGee, Luana Micallef, Tatiana von Landesberger, Katrin Ballweg, Stephan Diehl, Paolo Simonetto, Michelle Zhou. Evaluation in the Crowd. Crowdsourcing and Human-Centered Experiments, 96-138 (2017) [PAPER]
Drawing into the AR-CANVAS: Designing Embedded Visualizations for Augmented Reality Benjamin Bach, Ronell Sicat, Hanspeter Pfister, Aaron Quigley. IEEE VIS, Workshop on Immersive Analytics (2017) [PAPER]
The Emerging Genre of Data Comics Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry Riche, Sheelagh Carpendale, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 38 (3), 6-13 (2017) [PAPER]
A Design Space for Spatio-Data Coordination: Tangible Interaction Devices for Immersive Information Visualisation Maxime Cordeil, Benjamin Bach, Yongchao Li, Elliott Willson, Tim Dwyer. Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (Pacific Vis) (2017)
Evaluating Perceptually Complementary Views for Network Exploration Tasks Chungli Chang, Benjamin Bach, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Information Systems (CHI) (2017) [PAPER]
Magnostics: Image-based Search of Interesting Matrix Views for Guided Network Exploration Michael Behrisch, Benjamin Bach, Michael Hund, Michael Delz, Laura von Rueden, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Tobias Scheck. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (2017) [PAPER]
Telling Stories about Dynamic Networks with Graph Comics Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Kerracher, Kyle W. Hall, Sheelagh Carpendale, Jessie Kennedy, Nathalie Henry Riche. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Information Systems (CHI) (2017) [PAPER]
A Descriptive Framework for Temporal Data Visualizations Based on Generalized Space‐Time Cubes Benjamin Bach, Pierre Dragicevic, Daniel Archambault, Christophe Hurter, Sheelagh Carpendale. Computer Graphics Forum (2017) [PAPER]
Unfolding Dynamic Networks for Visual Exploration Benjamin Bach. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 36 (2), 74-82 (2017)
2016
Timelines Revisited: A Design Space and Considerations for Expressive Storytelling Matthew Brehmer, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry Riche, Tamara Munzner. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, Proceedings of InfoVis 2015) (2016) [PAPER]
Matrix Reordering Methods for Table and Network Visualization Michael Behrisch, Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry Riche, Tobias Schreck, Jean-Daniel Fekete. EuroVis (State-of-the-Art) 35 (3) (2016) [PAPER]
Time Curves: Folding Time to Visualize Patterns of Temporal Evolution in Data Benjamin Bach, Conglei Shi, Nicholas Heulot, Tara Madhyastha, Thomas Grabowski, Pierre Dragicevic. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TCVG) (2016) [PAPER]
2015
NetworkCube: Bringing Dynamic Network Visualizations to Domain Scientists B Bach, NH Riche, R Fernandez, E Giannisakis, B Lee, JD Fekete. Proceedings of IEEE VIS Conference, posters (2015)
Visual and Audio Monitoring of Island Based Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms H Gilbert, W Cancino, B Bach, J Pallamidessi, P Parrend, P Collet. Journal of Grid Computing 3 (13), 309-327 (2015)
2014
A Review of Temporal Data Visualizations Based on Space-Time Cube Operations B Bach, P Dragicevic, D Archambault, C Hurter, S Carpendale. Eurographics Conference on Visualization (2014) [PAPER]
Visualizing Dynamic Networks with Matrix Cubes Benjamin Bach, Emmauel Pietriga, Jean-Daniel Fekete. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2014) [PAPER]
Gridvis: Visualisation of island-based parallel genetic algorithms Lutton, Evelyne, Hugo Gilbert, Waldo Cancino, Benjamin Bach, Pierre Parrend, and Pierre Collet. European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, pp. 702-713. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)
Visual and Audio Monitoring of Island Based Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms E Lutton, H Gilbert, W Cancino, B Bach, J Pallamidessi, P Parrend. Journal of Grid Computing, 1-19 (2014)
GraphDiaries: Animated Transitions and Temporal Navigation for Dynamic Networks B Bach, E Pietriga, JD Fekete. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 1-1 (2014) [PAPER]
2013
Weighted graph comparison techniques for brain connectivity analysis B Alper, B Bach, N Henry Riche, T Isenberg, JD Fekete. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2013) [PAPER]