Lonni Besançon

Assistant Professor

Publications

2026

Nana Owusu-Boaitey, Lucas Bottcher, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Jonathan Howard, David H. Gorski, Lonni Besançon, Anton Barchuk (2026)

Agreement between seroprevalence- and model-based estimates of COVID-19 burden Global Health Action, Vol. 19, Article 2683286 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2026.2683286

Lonni Besançon, Bobby Bodenheimer, Daisuke Iwai, Shohei Mori, Tabitha Peck, Richard Skarbez (2026)

IEEE VR 2026 Message from the Program Chairs and Guest Editors IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 32, p. xii-xiii (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2026.3673782

Lonni Besançon, Steve Claude, Nicolas Dauby, Thomas Kesteman, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Clémence Leyrat (2026)

Randomised clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines are not designed to study non-specific effects on rare mortality iScience (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.114513

Shaozhang Dai, Kadek Ananta Satriadi, Jim Smiley, Barrett Ens, Lonni Besançon, Tim Dwyer (2026)

MarioChart: Autonomous Tangibles as Active Proxy Interfaces for Embodied Casual Data Exploration CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 1184 (Conference paper)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791372

Vahid Pooryousef, Lonni Besançon, Maxime Cordeil, Chris Flight, Alastair M Ross, Richard Bassed, Tim Dwyer (2026)

Criminator: An Easy-to-Use XR "Crime Animator" for Rapid Reconstruction and Analysis of Dynamic Crime Scenes Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 609 (Conference paper)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791210

Research

Visual Learning and Communication

Our research concerns learning and teaching science through visualization, with a focus on STEM contexts and on both learning with visualizations and the design of visualization-based educational tools.

News

Person with glasses looks at a computerscreen.

The academic sleuth – facing death threats and ingratitude

Lonni Besançon devotes evenings and weekends to rarely appreciated sanitation work. By exposing shortcomings in scientific articles, he has made a lot of enemies. It has gone so far that death threats have become commonplace for him.

Hand infront of screen with digital autopsy.

Digital autopsies with 3D visualisation technology

It is already possible to perform part of the autopsy with the assistance of mixed reality, and fully digital autopsies might be achieved in the future. In the long term, this technology could render autopsies more efficient and legally certain.

Organisation

Inside Wadströms Exploranation Laboratory

Media and Information Technology

Develops edge competence in visual AI, visualization, graphics and human-centered tech with strong human-in-the-loop focus. Combines research excellence with national and international collaboration for societal impact.

Department of Science and Technology (ITN)

We research and teach in several technical and scientific disciplines in which our main areas are organic electronics, media, communications and logistics.