Visualization Needs More Visual Design

During the past decade, much work in the field of Visualization has resulted from the efforts of at least two groups of researchers. One group has focused on rendering techniques for visualization technologies (e. g. volume rendering), while another group has fo-cused on designing visual elements for the purpose of visualizing a certain application domain (e. g. stream-lines to visualize flow fields, as well as most applica-tions in Information Visualization). This panel session brings together researchers from both groups. To-gether we will argue that utilizing visual design is dif-ficult but important for visualization, and we need to work harder to tap into the many centuries of design knowledge that exists in fields such as art, music,