VisGames: Workshop on Visualization Play, Games, and Activities

This is the first EuroVis Workshop on Visualization Play, Games, and Activities that is collocated with the EuroVis 2025 conference.

Website: https://visgames2025.netlify.app/

Our mission is to advance data visualization games and playful activities as dynamic tools for communication, co-creation, and collaborative problem-solving in interdisciplinary environments and contexts. This workshop will showcase innovative uses of data visualization games beyond education, emphasizing their potential to enrich dialogue, build shared understanding, and inspire creative solutions in real-world contexts.

The half-day workshop will feature an opening and fast-forward session, two hands-on World Café-style sessions for exploring submitted visualization games, and a reflection session for discussing experiences and concluding the workshop.

Important Dates

All deadlines are at 11:59 pm (23:59) AoE Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

March 14, 2025: Extended Abstract

April 16, 2025: Author Notification (before early bird registration for EuroVis)

May 2, 2025: Camera Ready (4 weeks prior to conference)

Workshop Goals and Scope of Topics

With this workshop, we aim to:

Demonstrate visualization games (e.g., card games, digital games, etc.) and engage with the audience by playing the games at the conference, in a World Café setting.
Publish extended abstract (2--6 pages in the VisGames template format). Further, we intend to publish games on the online blog Nightingale, run by the Data Visualization Society.
Curate a repository for collecting and sharing visualization games for diverse audiences (e.g., children/adult learning, data journalists/data scientists/computer scientists/designers) in different scenarios (e.g., onsite, online, hybrid).
Create a discussion platform to create new game or activity ideas, exchange experiences, best practices, and challenges while developing visualization games.

Workshop Topics

The following topics fall within the scope of the workshop, but we encourage broader contributions.

Games supporting Storytelling, Idea Generation, decision-making, stakeholder engagement, visualization design evaluation, etc.
Visualization activities
Serious games
Digital games (e.g., mobile, web, video games, etc.)
Analog games (e.g., board games, card games, etc.)
Educational games
Gamification approaches

Submission Guidelines and Reviewing Process

The workshop’s extended abstract will be peer-reviewed by at least two PC members and one workshop organizer.

The maximum length for submitted extended abstract to the VisGames workshop is 2-6 pages (in Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) style, including all images and acknowledgements, excluding references).

Submissions must be made using the Computer Graphics Forum style, using the conference LaTeX template for workshops.

Please find more information on our workshop website: https://visgames2025.netlify.app/