This was a very good workshop. The author of this report is not a visualization specialist, being more interested in systems aspects than specific techniques, however the workshop gave a good impression of research directions in a number of areas. I am sometimes struck by the number of papers published in computer science which describe new techniques without any evaluation at all. Such issues are often ignored - this is not a criticism of individual authors but a comment on the discipline on a whole. It was good to see that many groups do ask such questions and take an experimental approach to evaluation.
New beginnings are very important.
It was also very good to see that nearly every paper was grounded in real datasets, real applications, real users, in some way. Application grouding is one of the hallmarks of visualization research in general and it was encouraging to see how this was reflected in this workshop. Dirk Bartz did an excellent job of organising the workshop and was warmly thanked at the close by Hans-Georg Pagendarm, chairman of the Eurographics Visualization Working Group. A selection of the best papers will be published in the Eurographics Book Series by Springer-Wien, in the near future. The next workshop in this series will be the tenth and a special event is being planned.