Image generation prompt and accessibility details
"Transform the uploaded portrait into a highly detailed Leonardo da Vinci notebook-style portrait study. Preserve the exact facial structure, eye shape, eyelids, gaze direction, wrinkles, crow's feet, glasses, skin texture, and subtle facial details of the original photograph. The eyes must remain the sharpest and most detailed part of the image. Use delicate sepia pen-and-ink linework, extremely fine Renaissance crosshatching, subtle tonal shading, and aged parchment texture. Maintain strong likeness and realistic proportions. Square composition, centered head-and-shoulders portrait only. No text, no diagrams, no inventions, no symbols, no Vitruvian Man, no decorative elements, no background objects, no additional subjects. Museum-quality Leonardo sketchbook portrait, emphasizing anatomical observation and facial detail rather than artistic stylization. Additional emphasis: Prioritize facial fidelity over artistic interpretation. Preserve micro-details around the eyes, eyebrows, eyelids, glasses, nose bridge, and mouth. Draw as if Leonardo were making a scientific observational study of the individual.
As we may think next: immersive sense making from the memex to the chatbot
Abstract
For thousands of years, humans have advanced civilization by externalizing thought through language, writing, diagrams, books, and digital technologies. These cognitive artifacts allowed knowledge to persist beyond individuals and accumulate across generations. Today, AI introduces a new possibility. Rather than merely creating more external representations, it allows people to engage with knowledge, ideas, and collaborators, both human and machine, as part of an increasingly continuous cognitive process of unprecedented scale.
Drawing on examples from immersive analytics, visualization, and human-centered AI, this keynote argues that the next frontier is not artificial intelligence but immersive cognition: the re-internalization of knowledge, collaborators, and cognitive artifacts into a continuous process of thinking.
For thousands of years, humanity advanced by externalizing thought. Perhaps the next step is to internalize it at scale.
Bio
Mario Romero is a Senior Associate Professor at Linköping University and National Technical Manager of InfraVis, Sweden’s national research infrastructure for data analysis and visualization. His group's research explores the convergence of AI, immersive visualization, XR, digital twins, and conversational interfaces. Through collaborations with industry and the public sector, they develop human-centered technologies that transform complex data into adaptive understanding and learning experiences.