Information Visualization:
State of the Field and New Research Directions
A Special Issue of Information Visualization
Guest Editors: Andreas Kerren, Catherine Plaisant, and John Stasko
We invite the community to submit new articles examining the
challenges and successes when applying information visualization to
real world problems. Articles that specifically explore the state of
research in a sub-area of information visualization are particularly
welcome. Papers may focus on existing technical areas (e.g., text
analysis or support for the analysis process) or propose new
directions of research (e.g., the challenges of dealing with dirty
data before and during analysis). Papers that report on a particular
new technique or its evaluation are not a main focus. Specific topics
particularly of interest are
• The influence of display technologies on information visualization
• The importance of interaction and/or multimodality
• Collaboration within information visualization
• Visualization of text and documents
• Comparison in information visualization: models and challenges
• Data wrangling: transformation of data to enable analysis
• Analysis process
• Visual design and aesthetics
• Prior knowledge of users
• Information visualization for the masses
This special issue is based on discussions that took place at the
second Dagstuhl Seminar on Information Visualization held in June
2010. One goal of this symposium was to bring together theoreticians
and practitioners with a special focus on the intersection of
information visualization and human-computer interaction. To support
discussions that related to the visualization of real world data,
researchers from selected application areas, such as Bioinformatics or
Software Engineering, also attended and contributed. During the
seminar, working groups on different topics (display technologies,
interaction, collaboration, text/document visualization, comparison,
data wrangling, aesthetics, and analysis process) were formed. Working
groups have been invited to submit an article building on their
discussions. All articles submitted to the special issue will go
through the same rigorous peer-review process of the journal.
• Submissions due: 15 November 2010
• Initial reviews: 15 February 2011 (with one month for revisions)
• Final acceptance: 1 May 2011
• Final versions due: 1 June 2011
• Publication: October 2011
Inquiries can be made to any of the guest editors. Please inform the
guest editors of your intent to submit. Submissions of manuscripts
should be made online at:
http://ivs.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex. Papers should not exceed 10
pages (use http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/quickguide.html to
estimate the paper length).
