This year we are trying to establish a new event, the Discovery
Exhibition <http://www.discoveryexhibition.org/>, at IEEE VisWeek
<http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009/>. It is intended to stimulate
forward thinking about the way in which visualization can play a role in
work, research, entertainment, and many other areas. The exhibition,
therefore, encourages the submission of impact reports of visualization
(or visual analytics) use with a real user group and real data (possibly
long after the first paper was published).
We are looking forward to your submissions and comments. Your support is
greatly appreciated.
Bongshin Lee, Jing Yang, Petra Isenberg
Call for Participation -- Discovery Exhibition
VisWeek 2009 will for the first time host a Discovery Exhibition. It is
intended to be a venue for everyone in the visualization community to
share stories about the results of applied research and to publish
reports on the impact that visualization research or simply
visualization use has had on the work and life of people. Sharing these
stories with the community will help us all improve our understanding
about the role of visualization in work, research, entertainment, and
many other areas, after it has moved out of the research realm. To
encourage publishing reports about the application of visualization
systems to real world problems, we specifically allow submissions that
report the impact of previously published work on its user community.
Contents:
The content of the submissions can be insights, discoveries, or general
stories of visualization use in any domain or data. The description
should show a real user community. For example, an entry could talk
about insights made by a group of environmental scientists trying to
find a cause of global warming using a specific visualization. The entry
should provide information on the impact that insights (or findings)
have had. It is ok to use existing tools. If necessary, the dataset can
be anonymized.
Submissions could, for example, include information on:
* What discoveries have users made? What have they learned about
their data that they did not know before? What insights have they
gained?
* What impact did the findings, insights, or discoveries have on
their community?
* What surprising uses of visualization tools were seen? Were tools
re-appropriated to answer very different questions than they were
designed for?
* What was necessary to integrate a system or tool into everyday
work practices? What were the obstacles to introducing new
visualization technologies (if any)?
Submissions:
Please use the following link to submit your entry:
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/infovis09d
Submissions consist of:
* A 2-page write-up following the VisWeek poster template. These
should focus on: the domain and data,
insights/discoveries/findings and process in which they were
acquired, impact of visualization use, and representations,
interactions, and tools used if any. ยท Optional video
submissions that explain your contribution.
* Please check the Discovery Exhibition website
(http://www.discoveryexhibition.org) frequently for updated
information on submission templates, dates, FAQ, and examples.
Review and Rewards:
The contest co-chairs will judge entries based on whether they meet the
submission criteria. We will give out awards for various categories
based on the quality of the submissions (e.g. quality of the write-up,
of the insight, etc.). The exact award categories will depend on the
received entries.
All accepted entries will be archived and published on the Discovery
Exhibition website. At the conference all accepted submissions will
also receive some time to present their stories. Presentations will
consist of a poster and a short presentation during a conference
session. Please check the website for more detailed information closer
to the conference.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: July 17th, 2009
Contact:
Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research
Jing Yang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Petra Isenberg, University of Calgary
discovery_exhibition(a)vgtc.org
>>> Visual Analytics Challenge <<<
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge09
A submission category of the IEEE VAST 2009 Symposium
FINAL CALL: Submission Deadline June 20
Do you think you can analyze JUST ONE of these data sets?
- Social network
- Internet and badge traffic
- Video
We have DATA and REPRESENTATIVE TASKS for YOU... You can submit a
Mini-Challenge entry for any of these tasks.
If you can pull all that data together and analyze the overall situation
then you can submit to the Grand Challenge.
Entries will be judged on the ACCURACY of the answers (compared to our
ground truth scenario) and the RATINGS given by Visual Analytics peer
reviewers AND by professional analysts.
DATES
- Submission: June 20
- Results: ~ August 1
- Challenge Workshop and VAST 2009 Symposium: October 10 - 16
WHAT DO YOU GET?
- The most deserving entries receive awards, have their two-page
summary PUBLISHED in the PROCEEDINGS of the VAST 2009 Symposium and may
participate in a panel at the Conference.
- ALL submitted entries have their two-page summary, answers and
descriptive materials PUBLISHED on an archival website.
- Teams submitting an entry are invited to a Challenge WORKSHOP to
discuss the results of the Challenge, compare their experiences, and
influence next year's Challenge.
- Student participants may apply for travel support
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge09
VAST Challenge Chairs
- Georges Grinstein, U. of Massachusetts, Lowell
- Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland
- Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Lab
- Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Catherine Plaisant, PhD
Associate Director of Research
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
University of Maryland, College Park
(301) 405-2768
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/
