August 2013 - Infovis

IEEE vgTC Visualization Pioneers Group Gathering at IEEE VIS 2013
by Wong, Pak C 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (vgTC) has recently established the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG, http://www.vgtc.org/vpg.html) VPG will host its first member exclusive reception on Monday, Oct 14 at the SEAR Restaurant Atlanta (http://www.searatlanta.com/) located at the IEEE VIS 2013 conference hotel. To become a member of the VPG, one simply needs to have at least 20 years of contributions to some aspect of visualization and visual analytics. The membership fee is $US 50.00 per year and will be collected at the door of the reception. Additionally, there will be a VPG promotional table set up at the IEEE VIS conference lobby on Monday to accept membership applications. VPG will accept only U.S. bank checks or U.S. dollars for the membership dues. Walk-ins are welcome, but to help with head count, we ask that you send an email to vpg(a)vgtc.org in advance (by Oct 7, 2013). We look forward to meeting all the members at the VPG reception. Please mark it on your calendar: Time: 6pm Date: Monday, Oct 14, 2013 Location: SEAR Restaurant Atlanta, 265 Peachtree Center Ave., Atlanta, GA. Thank you, IEEE VPG Organizers

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Call for Papers - IEEE VR 2014 - Abstract Deadline - Sept 5
by Sabine Coquillart 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

[ Apologies for cross-postings / Please forward to interested colleagues and students ] IEEE VR 2014 Call for Papers Minneapolis - Mar 29 - Apr 2, 2014 http://ieeevr.org/2014/ Abstract Deadline - Sept 5 *********************************************************************************** IEEE VR 2014 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality, including augmented reality, mixed reality, and 3D user interfaces. Each paper should be classifiable as mainly covering research, applications, or systems, using the following guidelines for each: Research papers should describe results that contribute to advances in state-of-the-art software, hardware, algorithms, interaction, or human-factors. Application papers should explain how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an evaluation of the success of the use of VR/AR/MR in the given application domain. System papers should indicate how the implementers integrated known techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, along with any lessons learned in the process. Each paper should include an evaluation of the system, including benchmarking that was performed (e.g., latency or frame-rate). Topics include: Immersive gaming 3D interaction for VR/AR/MR Input devices for VR/AR/MR Haptics, audio, and other non-visual interfaces VR systems and toolkits Augmented and mixed reality Computer graphics techniques for VR/AR/MR Advanced display technology Immersive projection technology Multi-user and distributed VR/AR/MR Serious games Tracking and sensing Modeling and simulation User studies and evaluation Perception, presence, and cognition Navigation Applications of VR/AR/MR Teleoperation and telepresence This year, we will continue the process of having all accepted long papers published in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). To meet TVCG standards, long papers will undergo a two-stage review process (see subission deadlines below). Authors of long papers that are determined to be acceptable with minor revisions during a first review cycle will be invited to submit a revised version for a second review cycle. Only long papers that are accepted in this second review cycle will appear in the journal issue and be presented at the conference. Short papers can cover preliminary studies, prototype applications, or initial implementations. Short papers will be published separately in the standard conference proceedings. The primary difference between short and long papers is in the size of their contributions and NOT in the importance/impact of their contributions. To assure this, short and long papers will be treated as separate tracks and will be accepted or rejected according to the merit of their contributions. Rejected long papers will NOT be considered for acceptance as short papers, unless the reviewers unanimously feel this is the right decision, and rewriting is determined to be doable in the time available. Consequently, authors should carefully consider the category for each submitted paper. Note that an abstract must be uploaded prior to the paper. This facilitates assigning reviewers, as the review process is on a tight schedule. All paper submissions must be in English. Long papers must not exceed ten (10) pages in length, with the caveat that the standard is eight (8) pages. If the reviewers find a paper overly long for the size of its contribution, they may ask for it to be shortened it if it is accepted. Short papers must not exceed six (6) pages in length. Both long and short papers should be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format described at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Track/vr-menu.html . For index terms, please use the descriptors from the ACM Computing Classification System, located at http://www.acm.org/class . IEEE VR uses a double-blind review process, meaning both the authors and the reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (including citations and optional videos) should not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors, their institutions, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors should be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity. In order to fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and relevant previous work by the authors, authors may additionally upload previous papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of explanation; these materials will only been seen by the primary reviewer. All papers must be submitted electronically. Authors may also submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. Videos must be submitted according to the instructions at the conference website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as described in the "Call for Videos"). When submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of identifying information. If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version will be requested. Paper submissions must not have been published previously. A paper is considered to have been published previously if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A paper identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part) to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for another conference or journal during the entire VR review process (from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed to authors). Further information on the reviewing process can be found in the Reviewing Guidelines DEADLINES: Each deadline is at 23:59 GMT/UTC on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. Long & Short Paper abstracts due (REQUIRED): September 5, 2013 Long & Short Paper submissions due: September 12, 2013 Notification of results of first review cycle: November 4, 2013 Revised paper submission due for second review cycle (REQUIRED FOR LONG PAPERS): December 7, 2013 Final notification for second review cycle: December 21, 2013 Camera-ready material due (to be published in TVCG for long papers and in a standard conference proceedings for short papers): January 10, 2014. The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Paper abstracts and complete papers must be submitted through the online submission system. For more information, please contact the Program Chairs: programchairs [at] ieeevr.org Doug A. Bowman, Virginia Tech., USA Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan Edward Swan II, Mississippi State University

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Handbook of Human Centric Visualization has just published!
by whua5569＠gmail.com 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi there I am not sure if it is ok to send this message. I thought this book might be of interest to the community. **** If not, please ignore this email!**** ** ** ===**** Handbook of Human Centric Visualization by Springer.**** ** ** Forward by Peter Eades**** ** ** International Advisory Board:**** Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA**** Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA**** Philip Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada**** Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA**** Joseph H. Goldberg, Oracle, USA**** John Howse, University of Brighton, UK**** Mao Lin Huang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia**** Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden**** Christof Körner, University of Graz, Austria**** David H. Laidlaw, Brown University, USA**** Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy**** Richard K. Lowe, Curtin University, Australia**** Katerina Mania, Technical University of Crete, Greece**** Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia**** Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK**** Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State University, USA**** Jack van Wijk, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands**** ** ** The book has twenty-nine chapters, which are grouped into the following six parts:**** **1. **Visual communication**** **2. **Theory and science**** **3. **Principles, guidelines and recommendations**** **4. **Methods**** **5. **Perception and cognition**** **6. **Dynamic visualization**** For more details, please go to the link below:**** ** ** http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-1-4614-7484-5**** ** ** Best regards**** Tony Huang **

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CFP: The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics at IEEE VIS 2013
by Eser Kandogan 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

TextVis 2013 : The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics at IEEE VIS 2013 http://www.textvis.org/ Important Dates ================= Papers Due: August 31, 2013 Notification: September 14, 2013 Final Version: October 1, 2013 Workshop: October 14, 2013 Description ================= Much research has been reported on visual text analytics for plain text documents viewed in traditional analytic settings. In this workshop, we would like to push the boundary of visual text analytics toward heterogeneous textual data (text associated with other data types) and ubiquitous text analytics. First, we would like to use the workshop to collect various use cases about heterogeneous data and ubiquitous text analytics. From the use cases, we hope to better understand the requirements of heterogeneous textual data analysis from a task-driven perspective. Although there is some work on visual analysis of heterogeneous textual data, there is not a clear understanding of the typical tasks that people would like to achieve in analyzing heterogeneous textual data. Moreover, how will different tasks influence the design and development of both text analytics and visualization technologies? We thus would like to leverage the power of the crowd at the workshop to examine a number of use cases and draft a taxonomy that characterizes the design dimensions of the space and can also be used to guide the future design and development. Second, based on the use cases, we would like to use this workshop to examine how to best leverage state-of-the-art text analytics and traditional data mining techniques in conjunction with novel interactive visual analytics to address the challenges manifested by the collected use cases. Call for Participation ================= We invite 2-4 page position paper submissions that address topics related to interactive visual analysis of heterogeneous textual data or visual analysis of text data on mobile devices or other ubiquitous scenarios, with a requirement that every submission must clearly state one or more concrete use cases, including the tasks to be achieved, the two or more types of data to be analyzed, and data analytic methods used. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Task taxonomy of analysis of heterogeneous textual data or ubiquitous text analytics - Visual metaphors for heterogeneous textual data or ubiquitous text analytics - Coordinated visualizations of textual and non-textual data - Perception and cognition in heterogeneous data visualization or ubiquitous text analytics - Mobile visual text analytics and mobile visual interaction - Systems, languages, and architectures for heterogeneous textual data analysis - Collaborative analysis of heterogeneous textual data - Real-time visualization of streaming heterogeneous textual data - Opinion summarization from heterogeneous textual data - Visual event identification and prediction from heterogeneous textual data - Uncertainty in interactive heterogeneous textual data analysis or ubiquitous text analytics - Industry-specific applications of visual analysis of heterogeneous textual data (e.g. Retail, Healthcare, Government, etc.) - Studies and evaluation of heterogeneous textual data visualization techniques, systems, metrics, and bench-marks - Datasets and tasks for visual text analysis of heterogeneous textual data -------------------------------------------- Eser Kandogan, Ph.D. User Systems and Experience Research, Computer Science IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 Ph: 408-927-1949

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ESANN 2014: call for papers
by Michel Verleysen 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

ESANN 2014: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium, 23-24-25 April 2014 http://www.esann.org Call for special sessions ------------------------------- ESANN 2014 builds upon a successful series of conferences organized each year since 1993. ESANN has become a major scientific event in the machine learning, computational intelligence and artificial neural networks fields over the years. Each year, 5-6 special sessions on selected hot topics in the field are organized at ESANN. We are currently looking for proposals to organize special sessions. Candidate organizers are invited to read the call for special sessions at https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=cfss (warning: this page is not linked nor referenced from the main ESANN web page). Candidates for the organization of special sessions should send an e-mail to esann(a)uclouvain.be <mailto:esann@uclouvain.be> as soon as possible and at the latest on September 6, 2013. Details on the information to be sent is available from https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=cfss. The conference will be organized in Bruges, one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Designated as the "Venice of the North", the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum. We remain of course at your disposal for any information about ESANN 2014 and the organization of special sessions. Sincerely yours, Michel Verleysen ======================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning <http://www.esann.org/> http://www.esann.org/ * For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations: Michel Verleysen Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group 3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 <mailto:esann@uclouvain.be> mailto:esann@uclouvain.be * Conference secretariat d-side conference services 24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 <mailto:esann@uclouvain.be> mailto:esann@uclouvain.be ========================================================

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CFP: VIS 13 workshop -- Public Health's Wicked Problems: Can InfoVis Save Lives?
by John Stasko 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Announcing a Call for Submissions for a workshop on Public Health's Wicked Problems: Can InfoVis Save Lives? In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2013 October 13-18, 2013 Atlanta, GA, USA http://www.cdc.gov/oid/public-health-workshop-1013.html --Introduction-- Public health is charged with assessing current and emerging health threats and issues, developing effective population-based policies and interventions to address these problems, and monitoring delivery and outcomes of public health actions. Many public health problems, such as the obesity epidemic, HIV/STI transmission, and environmental hazards are called “wicked” due to their complexity and multi-layered causal factors at individual, group, and social levels. Such problems must be tackled with a mix of interventions that can include changes in health care delivery systems, community and neighborhood planning, social and educational institutions, and social and individual behavior change programs. Other public health actions require rapid response and public engagement using the best data possible as it emerges in real-time, such as emerging infectious diseases, outbreaks, and emergency operations to protect public safety. To make decisions about when and where to deploy resources that produce the greatest net benefits in complex or rapidly evolving situations, public health practitioners need new tools to integrate multiple sources of data from formal disease surveillance systems, secondary sources of geographic and demographic data, and new data streams such as real-time social media content. The field of information visualization, in which datasets are explored, analyzed, and presented through a range of graphical means, could offer entirely new ways of representing, seeing, and solving population-based health problems. --Call for Participation-- The goal of the workshop is to bring together world-class public health and information visualization experts and curious learners to discuss how the fields can come together to generate new tools for emerging and longstanding public health problems. All registered attendees of IEEE VIS are encouraged to attend the workshop, with a special invitation to public health professionals who are interested in data visualization techniques to attend the conference in Atlanta. We are soliciting full papers and extended abstracts/presentations across the range of focus areas of visualization, from issues in data collection for maximizing visualization opportunities, to analysis techniques, traditional and novel presentation formats, and data storytelling. Submissions should focus on the use of visualization to identify, analyze, and solve public health and related health system challenges. --Scope and Topics-- We invite original research, case studies/practice reports, systematic reviews, evaluation studies, methodology innovations, or commentary on the following topics of specific interest, while welcoming work on all aspects of public health and information visualization. --Challenges and opportunities in public health/health data collection for public health visualization applications --Data visualization tools and techniques for public health analysis and action --Collaboration between public health domain and data visualization experts --Approaches to analyzing effects of structural and social determinants of health (SDH) --Evaluation studies of the use of visualization in public health applications --Uses of information visualization to communicate public health priorities and potential interventions --Submission Guidelines-- Submissions for papers can be 4-8 pages long, with the length of submission appropriate to the contribution; extended abstracts for presentation should be 2 pages long. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop organizers. ***Please email your submissions to publichealthinfoviz(a)gmail.com.*** All submissions should be formatted in the IEEE VIS format style. Use instructions found on this page: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html. Submissions must be made in PDF. --Key Dates-- Deadline for submissions: September 6, 2013 Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2013 Workshop: October 13 or 14, 2013 (pending) --Organizers-- Susan J. Robinson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, SJRobinson(a)cdc.gov Marty Cetron, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MCetron(a)cdc.gov Hazel Dean, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HDean(a)cdc.gov David S. Ebert, Purdue University, ebertd(a)ecn.purdue.edu Bradford Hesse, National Cancer Institute, NIH, hesseb(a)mail.nih.gov Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben(a)cs.umd.edu John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology. stasko(a)cc.gatech.edu Workshop Contact Email Please contact Susan Robinson, SJRobinson(a)cdc.gov.

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