November 2012 - Infovis

Post-doc position in Information Visualization at LIRMM, Montpellier, France
by Arnaud Sallaberry 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

[Apologies for receiving multiple copies] Dear colleagues, A Post-Doc position is offered in the framework of the Fresqueau project (http://engees-fresqueau.unistra.fr/presentation.php?lang=en) The work will be carried out at the LIRMM Lab. (Join Research Unit CNRS, University of Montpellier 2). The objective of the post-doc position is to develop and implement a new method for Complex Patterns (sequential, lattice...) Visualization (see http://www.lirmm.fr/~sallaberry/PostDoc/PostDoc.pdf for more details). We kindly ask you to disseminate this announcement to any potentially interested candidate. Best regards, Arnaud Sallaberry. Associate Professor, LIRMM, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France. http://www.lirmm.fr/~sallaberry/

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Theme Issue on Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces in the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
by Hans-Christian Jetter 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

======================================================== Second CFP: Theme Issue on Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces in the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing <http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis/puc-issue> http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis/puc-issue ======================================================== 'Interactive spaces' are physical environments or rooms for co-located collaborative work that are augmented with ubiquitous computing technology. Their purpose is to enable a computer-supported collaboration between multiple users based on a seamless use of different devices for natural post-'Windows-Icons-Menu-Pointer' interaction, e.g., multi-display environments, multi-touch walls, interactive tabletops, tablet PCs, tangible user interfaces, or digital pen & paper. These environments can serve to support or augment group activities such as presentation, discussion, brainstorming, sketching, drafting, or sensemaking. While the original vision of interactive spaces can be traced back to the 1990s and 2000s, recent advances in commercially available hardware and software (e.g., multi-touch tabletops, ubiquitous smartphones and tablets, or pico projectors & depth cameras for gestural and 'touch anywhere' interaction) now allow to realize and evaluate formerly impossible designs and visions. This new generation of interactive spaces with natural user interfaces is of particular relevance in knowledge-intensive and collaborative domains, among them e-Creativity, e-Science, and e-Learning. The goal of this theme issue is to report on the current state of research on interactive spaces for co-located collaboration. This includes the underlying design, concepts and technologies as well as promising fields of application. This special issue will accept original research papers from HCI, Information Visualization, CSCW, e-Science, and CSCL. This multi-disciplinary perspective is intended to provide an overview of the field beyond the typical boundaries of disciplines. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): . Understanding users' natural collaboration in rooms. . Conceptual frameworks for natural user collaboration, learning, and interaction. . Design frameworks and theories for blending digital and physical objects and spaces. . Novel designs of interaction techniques, visualizations, smart furniture, or devices for natural collaboration in interactive spaces. . Tangible and gestural interaction. . Enabling technologies for natural interaction in interactive spaces ranging from software frameworks to computer vision and new sensor technology. . New observation and evaluation approaches for interactive spaces (e.g. longitudinal evaluation). . Issues of ownership and privacy in interactive spaces. . Systems, best-practice examples, and lessons learned from real-world applications. The theme issue is linked to the DCIS 2012 workshop on Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces for e-Creativity, e-Science, and e-Learning held at AVI 2012 ( <http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis> http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis) Whereas extended versions of presented papers are welcome, the call is also open to high-quality, original articles. Important dates: ============== Full manuscript due: 14.12.2012 Acceptance notification: 01.02.2013 Final manuscript due: 01.03.2013 Publication date: summer 2013 (tentative) Submission guidelines: ================== Submissions should be prepared according to the author instructions available at the journal homepage, <http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779> http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779. Manuscripts must be submitted as a PDF to <mailto:submissions_puc@inf.uni-konstanz.de> submissions_puc(a)inf.uni-konstanz.de. Information about the manuscript (title, full list of authors, corresponding author's contact, abstract, and keywords) must be included in the submission email. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two international reviewers. Submissions should be no more than 8000 words in length. Guest editors: ============ - Hans-Christian Jetter, University of Konstanz (Germany) - Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz (Germany) - Raimund Dachselt, Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) Information about the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: ====================================================== - Editor-in-Chief: Peter Thomas - Journal web site: <http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779> http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779 - Facebook web site: <http://www.facebook.com/personalubicomp> http://www.facebook.com/personalubicomp -- Hans-Christian Jetter (M.Sc.) Human-Computer Interaction Group <http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/staff/Jetter> http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/staff/Jetter University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Box D 73, 78457 Konstanz, Germany Room A 615, Phone +49-7531-88-3534

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Visualisation and Business Intelligence, Special session at IV'2013, London, 15, 16, 17 and 18 July 2013
by Gilles Venturini 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

iV2013 - VBI 1st International Symposium Visualisation and Business Intelligence 15, 16, 17 and 18 July 2013 SOAS - University of London ● London ● UK ● <http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/KV.htm> http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/VBI.htm <http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/> www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/ Visualizations play a key role in Business Intelligence (BI), a domain where data, knowledge and users are tightly related. Visualisations in BI must be intuitive and must support an interactive, collaborative and ubiquitous discovery process. These visualisations must deal both with data and knowledge exploration, and also with presentation of results to managers. Data in BI are stored in Data Warehouses and are generally large, heterogeneous, geo-localized and time-dependent. In addition, the discovery process involving visualisations in BI is necessarily interactive and highly user-centred. In this context, visualisations in BI must be dynamic and are not only concerned with the representation of data and knowledge, but also with the representation of operators acting on data. The results of an analysis in BI have to be presented to managers, which concerns not only the produced knowledge but also the facts that support this knowledge. Here visualisations can be used to report on the results and on the discovery process, a task where visualisations aesthetics and innovative technologies for data presentation come into play. BI thus creates important challenges in the visualisation domain. The aim of this symposium is precisely to make a state of the art and to contribute to these challenging objectives by covering all aspects of interactive visualisations in BI, from both a theoretical and practical point of view. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: § Visual OLAP, data cubes, dynamic cross tables, § Visualisations for dashboards, score cards, key performance indicators , reporting § Visualisations for big data, § Visualisations for mobile BI, § Visualisations and cloud computing, § Collaborative visualisations for BI, § Visualisation of time-dependent data, geo-localized data, maps, multidimensional data, hierarchies, § Visualisation of knowledge, visualisations for decision support in BI § Interactions, interactive knowledge discovery, visual operators on data and knowledge, graphical requests, § Visual analytics, integration of visualisations and data mining methods for BI § Innovative visual presentations and reporting of results, aesthetics in visualisations, use of advanced technologies for data/knowledge presentation, § Visualisations for CRM, market basket analysis, strategic watch, education, open data § User and case studies, reports on real cases and experiments Submission procedures: <http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/PAPERS.htm> www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/PAPERS.htm Further information: <http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/> www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Important Dates: 1 March 2013 - Submission of papers & Submission of tutorials: <https://www. conftool.net/IV2013/> https://www.conftool.net/IV2013/ <will be available shortly> 05 May 2013 - Submission of camera-ready & early registration closes Symposium Chair: Dr. Fatma Bouali, University of Lille 2, France <mailto:Fatma.bouali@univ-lille2.fr> Fatma.bouali(a)univ-lille2.fr Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria, Italy <mailto:cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it> cuzzocrea(a)si.deis.unical.it Prof. Gilles Venturini, University Francois Rabelais of Tours, France <mailto:venturini@univ-tours.fr> venturini(a)univ-tours.fr All other enquiries and submissions should be addressed to: Conference Co-ordinator P.O. BOX 29, HATFIELD, AL9 7ZL,United Kingdom. Tel: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 224 Fax: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 247 Email: <mailto:IV13@graphicslink.co.uk> IV13(a)graphicslink.co.uk URL: <http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/> http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/

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evaluation of the visual approach to detect connections in a dataset?
by Clement Levallois 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Dear list members, I am looking for papers discussing if / how visualization helps detecting connections in a dataset. For instance, a discussion of how fast / accurately the most connected actor is detected in a dataset of relations in a social network, when this dataset is presented as a visual network as compared to just showing the raw, numerical source (this is just an example, I'd be interested in papers discussing similar situations as well). Thanks, Clement -------------------------------------------- Clement Levallois, PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands pro website<http://www.erim.eur.nl/ERIM/People/Person_Details?p_aff_id=4321> / personal website <http://www.clementlevallois.net/> twitter and skype: @seinecle Discover the NESSHI project: http://www.nesshi.eu

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Visualization - Opening 2 Permanent Positions - Research Centre Luxembourg
by Benoît Otjacques 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Dear all, The Public Research Centre - Gabriel Lippmann (Luxembourg) has opened two new permanent positions in the Visualization domain. The recently refocused mission of the ISC (Informatics, Systems and Collaboration) department is to use computer science to ease the understanding of complex big data coming from multiple and heterogeneous sources by primarily using visual representations accessed via any type of devices in various contexts of use. Four complementary domains have been identified as highly strategic for the years to come: Information Visualization Approaches and Techniques, Visual Analytics, Data Provisioning Issues for Visualization Purposes and Model-Driven Visualization Software. This offer is a unique opportunity to join a fast growing and ambitious team in the visualization domain. Various interdisciplinary collaborations are foreseen with our colleagues in environmental or material sciences as well as with external public or private organizations (e.g. in finance, manufacturing, public administration, energy, retail industry...). The candidates should submit their application on our web site: www.lippmann.lu (Section Job Opportunities) Feel free to distribute this call. Best regards, Benoît Otjacques (See attached file: ISC-20121019-CHREVISU2.pdf)(See attached file: ISC-20121023-PLEVISU.pdf) PS: Apologies for multiple postings for people included in several mailing lists. ********************************************************************************* Dr Ir Benoît Otjacques Deputy scientific Director Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann Department ISC - Informatics, Systems and Collaboration 41, Rue du Brill L-4422 Belvaux Luxembourg http://www.lippmann.lu *********************************************************************************

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Call for Students - Doctoral College Environmental Informatics
by Silvia Miksch (asgaard) 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

10 Open PhD Positions for Environmental Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology In the framework of the doctoral college "Environmental Informatics", expected to start in March 2013 for a period of 3 years, the Vienna University of Technology has 10 open PhD student positions of which 5 positions are dedicated to female students. An accepted PhD student will be paid a salary of 949.50 EUR per month, 14 times per year for 15 hours/week working basis (salary scale 2012). Additional payments are possible based on availability of external funding sources (up to 35.448 EUR per year for 40 working hours/week in the salary scale 2012). The doctoral college "Environmental Informatics" as an interdisciplinary approach aims to establish research collaboration amongst Architecture & Planning, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Informatics and Mathematics and Geoinformation. Five research areas are covered: A) Information semantics, management and integration, B) Visual analytics, C) Algorithmic modeling, simulation, optimization, D) Large-scale data and compute-intensive systems, E) Governance and decision support. PhD students will be supervised by Profs Schahram Dustdar, Andrew Frank, Wolfgang Gawlik, Wolfgang Kastner, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Silvia Miksch, Nebojsa Nakicenovic , Günther Raidl, A Min Tjoa, and Jesper Larsson Träff . Possible PhD research topics include: - Platform-as-a-Service for Environmental Informatics - Ontologies to Model the Construction and the Use Processes in the Built Environment - Adaptive Micro Grid Control and Protection - Information Modeling and Ontologies - Coupled Multi-level Models for Performance Assessment of Built Environments - Exploring and Analyzing Environmental Data with Visual Analytics Methods - Decarbonization and Efficiency Revolution - Optimization Issues in Public Bike Sharing Systems - Exploiting Linked Open Data in Environmental Informatics - Parallel Computing for Energy Efficiency Applicants should have completed a master degree in computer science, informatics, business informatics, mathematics or equivalent area. Submissions will be considered in different rounds, until all positions filled. The deadline for the next submission consideration is 15. November 2012. Further information about topics and submission procedure are available at:http://ei.infosys.tuwien.ac.at.

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