Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ on Mythryl: “Even bigger announcement: Skeleton has won Best Paper (top 1%) at…”

Even bigger announcement: Skeleton has won Best Paper (top 1%) at IEEE VIS this year!! 🎉 VIS is my home community and I am deeply indebted to many of the people in it. I take a little time to pontificate on what "best paper" means to me (or rather, what I think it should really be about):

frank.computerSkeleton wins best paper at IEEE VIS 2026We’ve won a best paper award. I’ll use this as an excuse to soapbox about best papers for a second.

Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁@frank.computer

Big announcement: The final project of my thesis work, Skeleton: Visual Authoring of Non-visual Data Experiences, has now been accepted for publication at IEEE VIS! 🎉 🎉 🎉

frank.computerAnnouncing: Skeleton 🩻, the culminating project of my PhD!My final research project looked at the barriers that sighted practitioners face when authoring non-visual data experiences. We co-designed, built tooling, built a UI prototype, and ran a study.

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