November 2008 - Infovis

Fellowships in data and visual analytics
by stasko＠cc.gatech.edu 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Data Analysis and Visual Analytics Ph.D. Fellowships The Southeast Regional Visual Analytics Center (http://srvac.uncc.edu) - a partnership between Georgia Tech and UNC Charlotte - is accepting applications for four Data Analysis and Visual Analytics PhD Fellowships, two at UNC Charlotte and two at Georgia Tech. Both universities have significant research programs in these areas, in which fellowship holders will be active participants. The Fellowships provide 2.5 academic years of support with a stipend of $2300 per month; payment of tuition and fees; and a $1500 per year for three years travel allowance to attend relevant conferences. After the fellowship period, students will be supported as Graduate Research Assistants while finishing their Ph.D. Fellowship holders will have two summer internships at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory or other laboratories conducting relevant research. They will have the opportunity to spend a semester at their partner school, either UNC Charlotte or Georgia Tech, to be able to take courses not available at their home shcool and to interact with the many faculty and graduate students at their partner school. The fellowships are provided by a grant from the US Department of Homeland Security, and are available to US Citizens. It is hoped, but not required, that upon graduation, fellowship holders will work at a national laboratory or company in the area of homeland security. Applicants must apply for admission to either Georgia Tech or UNC Charlotte *and* separately apply for the Fellowship. For general information on the UNC Charlotte Information Technology Ph.D. program, visit http://www.cci.uncc.edu/coit_new/phd/phd_overview.cfm. To apply for admission, visit http://www.uncc.edu/gradmiss/prospect.html. To be eligible for the Fellowship, applications for fall 2009 admission are due by January 15, 2009. For further information, you may contact Professor William Tolone, wjtolone(a)uncc.edu. For general information on the Georgia Tech Computer Science or Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. programs, visit http://www.cc.gatech.edu/education. To apply for admission, visit http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/apply/. To be eligible for the Fellowship, applications for fall 2009 admission are due by December 15, 2008. For further information, you may contact Professor John Stasko, stasko(a)cc.gatech.edu. If necessary, a short extension to this date is possible. To apply for the fellowship (this is separate from PhD program application and required), email the following information to foley(a)cc.gatech.edu with subject line "DHS Fellowship" by January 15, as a single pdf file named "DHS-yourlastname" * A cover letter, with complete contact information and citizenship status, stating to which university you have applied (you may apply to both). * A 3-4 page essay describing your motivation and preparation for pursuing a Ph.D. concerning data analysis and visual analytics. * Any term papers, project reports or other papers related to this research area.

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Extended deadline- IUI 2009 Workshop: Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)
by VinhTuan Thai 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Due to multiple requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended to 24th November, 2008 (11:59pm Hawaii time) CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009) In conjunction with IUI 2009 Sanibel Island, Florida 8th February 2009 http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/ Important Dates: * (Extended) Paper submission deadline: 24th November, 2008 (11:59pm Hawaii time) * Notification of acceptance: 7th December, 2008 * Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 14th December, 2008

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CFP: Workshop on Collaborative Information Visualization on InteractiveSurfaces - CIVIS'09
by Petra Isenberg 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Workshop on Collaborative Information Visualization on Interactive Surfaces - CIVIS'09 http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/civis09 February 8th, 2009, Sanibel Island, Florida In conjunction with Intelligent User Interfaces conference (IUI2009): http://www.iuiconf.org IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: November 14th, 2008 Notification of acceptance: December 7th, 2008 Final camera ready submissions: December 14th, 2008 Workshop: February 8th, 2009 SUBMISSIONS Prospective participants are invited to submit position papers of up to four pages in length which outline one or more potential topics/solutions to discuss during the workshop. Accepted Papers will be published in the technical report series of LMU Media Informatics. This means that they will receive an ISSN number. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM IUI format: http://www.iuiconf.org/cfp.html Submissions should be sent to: Dominikus Baur: dominikus.baur(at)ifi.lmu.de TOPICS The amount and complexity of data we collect has drastically increased in the last number of years. As a result, a whole team of analysts is often required to make informed decisions in information-rich environments. Teams often gather formally or informally to discuss and analyze data in face-to-face meetings in order to effectively evaluate and interpret information. As such, the design of collaborative interfaces for data analysis and visual analytics is an emerging area in intelligent user interfaces. Interactive tabletops and display walls lend themselves especially well to co-located collaboration. The design of collaborative systems that offer computational support for these types of analysis scenarios, however, poses new challenges for tool designers, including: * Design of information visualization or visual analytics interfaces and environments for co-located collaborative work, * Design of visual representations for co-located collaborative work, * The use of interactive tabletop and wall displays to visualize and interact with information, * Social components in collaborative visualization environments, * Aspects of cognition in multi-user information visualization environments, * Evaluation of collaborative information visualization and visual analytics systems, * Multiple and coordinated views for collaborative data analysis systems, * Design of multi-display environments, * Collaborative visualization applications, * Experience with traditional collaboration in information intensive fields. These are the key challenges we would like to discuss in this workshop, although we welcome submissions in other related areas as well. OBJECTIVES The main objective of the workshop is to bring people from academia and industry with relevant backgrounds (e.g. information visualization, visual analytics, CSCW, HCI) together to discuss ongoing research work in the field of multi-user collaborative visualization. This includes the analysis of problems encountered in the field, the presentation of specific solutions, and the discussion of special characteristics compared to the core research areas. The workshop is intended to be a platform to exchange information and experiences, to stimulate discussion, and to identify novel aspects and ideas to the topics above. During this workshop, we would like to identify a number of open problems that need further investigation and identify priorities to target research in this direction. We would like to put an emphasis on the following two (interrelated) questions: * What are the existing challenges inherent in designing interfaces for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing data in a collaborative fashion? * What unique challenges exist in building visualization systems for collaborative environments? ORGANIZERS Dominikus Baur, University of Munich (Primary Contact) Petra Isenberg, University of Calgary Michael Sedlmair, BMW Group - Research and Technology Andreas Butz, University of Munich PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stacey Scott, University of Waterloo Anastasia Bezerianos, National ICT Australia (NICTA) Nathalie Henry, Université Paris-Sud Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Johannes Schöning, University of Münster Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Raimund Dachselt, Otto-von-Guerike University CONTACT US If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at: dominikus.baur(at)ifi.lmu.de For more information, please see the workshop web site: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/civis09

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Final CFP: 1st Int'l Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)
by VinhTuan Thai 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

[apologies if you've already seen this call elsewhere...] CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009) In conjunction with IUI 2009 Sanibel Island, Florida 8th February 2009 http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/ OBJECTIVES The advent of the Social Web (Web 2.0) and the Semantic Web has resulted in even more data created, published and consumed by users. This vast amount of data is available in various formats (text, image, video, etc.), can be presented on different platforms, and most importantly, contains linkages between different entities on the Web. The ability to easily integrate vast amounts of data from across the Social and Semantic Web raises significant and exciting research challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across heterogeneous data sources. However, the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and browsing (important as these are). As the Web continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a read-write medium, and the level of social interaction supported on the Web increases, there is also a pressing need to support end-users who engage in a wide range of online tasks, such as publishing and sharing their own data on the Web. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Semantic Web, and Personal Information Management, to discuss latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces supporting access, navigation and publishing of different types of contents on the Social and Semantic Web. In addition, the workshop also serves as an opportunity for researchers to gain feedback on their work as well as to identify potential collaborations with their peers. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Visual interfaces supporting exploration and/or navigation of unstructured or structured data on the Web * Visualizing and interacting with semi-structured/linked data on the Semantic Web or the Social Semantic Desktop * Ontology-based visualization of & interaction with collections of data * Novel paradigms to interact with textual data, photos, music, videos on mobile devices * Lightweight components for casual users to publish/share their own contents on the Web * Real-world use cases * Lessons learned from intelligent interfaces built to interact with Web-based contents SUBMISSIONS We welcome three types of submissions: * Full papers which should be between 6 and 10 pages. * Short papers and position papers which should be up to 5 pages. * Demo papers - 2 page description with a screenshot of the working prototype or preferably a link to an online demo. Submissions must be in PDF format and prepared according to the IUI format. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=vissw2009 IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission deadline: 14th November, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: 7th December, 2008 * Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 14th December, 2008 INVITED SPEAKER David Huynh from Metaweb Technologies has agreed to give an invited talk at the workshop. ORGANIZERS * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland * Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK * VinhTuan Thai, DERI Galway, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Anupriya Ankolekar, HP Lab, US * Lora Aroyo, VU Amsterdam, NL * Chris Bizer, FU Berlin, DE * Duane Degler, Design for Context, US * Alan Dix, University of Lancaster, UK * Martin Dzbor, The Open University, UK * Alain Giboin, INRIA, FR * Gus Gollings, RMIT, AU * Michael Hausenblas, Joanneum Research, AT * David Huynh, Metaweb, US * Anthony Jameson, FBK, IT * David Karger, MIT, US * Georgi Kobilarov, FU Berlin, DE * Nicholas J. Kings, BT, UK * Knud Möller, DERI Galway, IE * Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK * Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, NL * Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI, NL * Alexandre Passant, DERI Galway, IE * Lloyd Rutledge, Open Universiteit, NL * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, AT * Daniel Schwabe, PUC-Rio, BR * Nadeem Shabir, Talis, UK * Carlo Torniai, Simon Fraser University, CA * Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK CONTACT US If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the workshop organizers at: vissw2009 at easychair dot org

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