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At this year's IEEE VIS Conference, several contributions of our visualization group were presented. Dr. Tim Gerrits chaired the 2024 SciVis Contest and presented two accepted papers: The short paper "DaVE - A Curated Database of Visualization Examples" by Jens Koenen, Marvin Petersen, Christoph Garth and Dr. Tim Gerrits as well as the contribution to the Workshop on Uncertainty Exploring Uncertainty Visualization for Degenerate Tensors in 3D Symmetric Second-Order Tensor Field Ensembles by Tadea Schmitz and Dr. Tim Gerrits, which was awarded the best paper award. Congratulations!

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One Best Paper Honorable Mention Award of the VRST 2024 was given to Sevinc Eroglu for her paper entitled “Choose Your Reference Frame Right: An Immersive Authoring Technique for Creating Reactive Behavior”.

ParaView, developed by Kitware is one of the most-used open-source visualization and analysis tools, widely used in research and industry. For the second edition of the ParaView user days, Dr. Tim Gerrits was invited to share his insights of developing and providing visualization within the academic communities.

This year's Eurographics Symposium on Visual Computing for Biologigy and Medicine VCBM in Magdeburg included a VCBM Fachgruppen Meeting with an invited presentation by Dr. Tim Gerrits on "Harnessing High Performance Infrastructure for Scientific Visualization of Medical Data".

Together with Willem-Paul Brinkmann from TU Delft University our colleague Dr. Andrea Bönsch presented her work on German and Dutch Translations of the Artificial-Social-Agent Questionnaire Instrument for Evaluating Human-Agent Interactions" at IVA 2024.

As part of the NHR4CES project, our Visualization group was invited to present current work at the 2024 NHR Conference in Darmstadt. Besides the valuable networking sessions, Dr. Tim Gerrits presented the work on DaVE in the "NHR for Users" session and the internal networking part.

Today, our colleague Andrea Bönsch successfully passed her Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for her thesis on "Social Wayfinding Strategies to Explore Immersive Virtual Environments". Congratulations!

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Together with Anne-Hélène Olivier, Julien Pettré, and Katja Zibrek from INRIA, Rennes our colleague Andrea Bönsch organized and hosted the 8th Workshop on Virtual Humans and Crowds in Immersive Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2024, while also presenting some work of our research group, including a gesture authentication approach with interactive virtual agents in collabration with Daniel Rupp and results of our investigation on audiovisual coherence, asking wether embodiment of background noise sources in populated environments is a necessity in collaboration with Jonathan Ehret. Jonathan also presented our work titled StudyFramework: Comfortably Setting up and Conducting Factorial-Design Studies Using the Unreal Engine at the Open Access Tools (OAT) and Libraries for Virtual Reality Workshop.