August 2007 - Infovis

ISEA 2008 - Call for Proposals - deadline Aug, 31 2007
by Image Science 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

please excuse cross-postings ISEA 2008 :: July 25 - August 3 Call for Papers, Panels and Artist Presentations We cordially invite submissions to the conference of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in Singapore between 25th - 30th July 2008. The conference is held alongside workshops, courses, exhibitions, performances and other in-conjunction events that will be held for the duration of ISEA2008 from 25th July to August 3rd 2008. The conference, as in previous ISEAs, is expected to bring together artists, theorists, historians, curators and researchers of media arts from around the world to jointly explore the most urgent and exciting questions in the field. The five themes of ISEA2008 are especially focused on eliciting a wide range of international scholars and artists. Conference Programme The conference programme will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed individual papers and panel presentations. This year we are also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader audience of their peers to submit artist presentations where they can speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and technological aspects of their works. The conference also promises to present a list of internationally renowned Keynote Speakers expounding on the major themes of the conference. There will also be a special lecture delivered by a Nobel Laureate. Call for Proposals We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions must address or be of relevance to at least one of the themes of ISEA2008 in order to be considered for inclusion in the conference. The conference will be of interest to those working in but not limited to the following areas: media art, contemporary art, design, art history and theory, film and media studies, gaming, toy design, human-computer interaction, cultural studies, literary studies, musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, science, technology and society studies, history of science and history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, political science, anthropology, sociology and geography. Submission requirements: We only require abstracts (not more than 300 words) of the proposed paper, panel presentations and artist presentations to be submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats via this site. Please do not submit full papers at this stage. While we encourage submissions to include relevant images, it would be useful if the formats in which such images are submitted is restricted to low resolution jpegs. In the case of submissions for artists presentations, artists are encouraged to provide links to their and/or relevant websites. The deadline for submissions will be 31st August 2007. Submissions sent after this date will not be considered. http://www.isea2008.org/cfp.html

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CFP: BELIV’08 - CHI 2008 Workshop - BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization
by Adam Perer 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

*** Preliminary Call for Papers *** ---------------------------- BELIV’08 - CHI 2008 Workshop ---------------------------- BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization A Workshop of the ACM CHI 2008 Conference April 5, 2008 - Florence, Italy WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~beliv08/ DESCRIPTION The purpose of information visualization is to provide users with accurate visual representations of data and natural interaction tools to support discovery and sense making. These activities are often exploratory in nature and can take place over days, weeks or months and rarely follow a predefined or linear workflow. While the overall use of information visualizations is accelerating, the growth of techniques for the evaluation of these systems has been slow. To understand these complex behaviors, evaluation efforts should be targeted at the component level, the system level, and the work environment level. The commonly used evaluation metrics such as task time completion and number of errors appear insufficient to quantify the quality of an information visualization system; thus the name of the workshop: “beyond time and errors …”. BELIV’08 aims at gathering researchers in the field to continue the exploration of novel evaluation methods, and to structure the knowledge on evaluation in information visualization around a schema, where researchers can easily identify unsolved problems and research gaps. DATES Deadline for submissions: October 3, 2007 Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2007 Camera ready papers due: TBA Workshop: April 5, 2008 HOW TO PARTICIPATE To participate to the workshop it is necessary to have a paper accepted and be registered both to the workshop and the main CHI conference. Paper Types We accept either research papers (4 to 8 pages) or position papers (1-2 pages) describing participant's relevant experiences and ideas that can contribute to the discussion. Papers will be peer-reviewed by a program committee and selected according to their quality and relevance. Accepted *research* papers will be refined after the workshop and be published in the ****ACM digital library****. Submission To submit a paper send an email to: beliv08(a)dis.uniroma1.it by October 3, 2008. Format All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from: http:// www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Submission should be either in PDF (preferred) or Word formats. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include, but are not limited to: • Evaluation in the visualization lifecycle • Utility characterization • Quality metrics • Insight characterization • Synthetic data set generation • Taxonomies of tasks • Benchmark development and repositories • Methodology of longitudinal case studies • Evaluation of early prototypes • Measuring adoption • Evaluation heuristics and guidelines ORGANIZERS Enrico Bertini Departement of Informatics University of Fribourg, Switzerland enrico.bertini at unifr.ch Adam Perer Human-Computer Interaction Lab Department of Computer Science University of Maryland adamp at cs.umd.edu Catherine Plaisant Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland plaisant at cs.umd.edu Giuseppe Santucci Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica University of Rome “La Sapienza” santucci at dis.uniroma1.it

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VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security
by John Goodall 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security http://vizsec.org/workshop2007/ The VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security will be held in conjunction with IEEE Vis 2007 and IEEE InfoVis 2007 in Sacramento, CA USA between October 28 and November 1, 2007. We are still waiting to hear the exact date of the event from conference organizers. This year's workshop will be an incubator for new ideas related to security visualization, a forum for garnering feedback from peers, and a place to identify and meet potential collaborators. We are currently in discussion with a publisher to release the proceedings from this year's workshop in book form. Please see the web site (http://vizsec.org/workshop2007/) for more information, and stay tuned for updates, author instructions, and submission instructions. Also, please note that there is a new web site for the VizSEC community, http://vizsec.org/. While the site is a work in progress, we hope it will help in gathering together resources and ideas related to cyber security visualization. We will also be adding a mailing list in the near future. We look forward to seeing you in Sacramento. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you, John Goodall Greg Conti Kwan-Liu Ma .... John Goodall, Ph.D. | JohnG(a)SecureDecisions.com <mailto:JohnG@SecureDecisions.com> | www.SecureDecisions.com <http://www.securedecisions.com/> Secure Decisions | 6 Bayview Avenue Northport NY 11768 | 631.754.4920

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