October 2014 - Infovis

IEEE VIS - Workshop on Envisioning Visualization Beyond Desktop Computing: Deadline approaching
by Yvonne Jansen 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Death of the Desktop – Workshop on Envisioning Visualization Beyond Desktop Computing The deadline for scenario submission is approaching: October 12. The submission system is now open: http://beyond.wallviz.dk/submit-your-future/ Co-Located with IEEE VIS'14 | Paris 9-14 Nov, 2014 http://beyond.wallviz.dk Workshop date: Sunday, November 9 (afternoon session) SUBMISSION EXTENSION: Oct 12, 2014 (see below details and other possibilities for participation) The one certain thing about the future - workshop submission deadlines will slip... PARTICIPATION: The workshop is open to all VIS 2014 attendees FOR INQUIRIES: Yvonne Jansen <yvja(a)di.ku.dk> The Desktop computer is dead. Monitors sit on desks, unplugged – hosting layers of Post-It notes or gathering dust as retro emergency low-light mirrors. Visualization is colorful, big, tangible, nosy, interactive, compelling and everywhere. It supports all sorts of creative activity and is key to problem solving in education, science, government and industry. But how? What is your ‘imagined future’ for visualization? We will be exploring possible visualization futures with short but rich scenarios in which designers, practitioners and researchers creatively explore opportunities for `beyond-the-desktop’ visualization. We will be discussing these and using them, and other means of engaging with the future, to develop the community’s perspective on the VIS of tomorrow and beyond. In particular, we want to discuss open questions such as: – how do we envision visualization systems in the next 5, 10, 25+ years? – is it possible that desktop systems will indeed die out and that visualizations will be primarily used through off-desktop technology? – what would be the consequences of a concerted community focus on non- desktop visualization? – which advances would make such a radical change possible? – how and where are the use of beyond-the-desktop displays most appropriate? What datasets are most amenable to different types of displays? Is beyond the desktop right for everyone (e.g., scientists, big data analysts, social networkers, artists, shopping mall users)? – what is the role and interplay of interaction and novel interaction displays in “beyond-the-desktop” settings? Can these two considerations be treated separately as research directions? – what kind of social settings are possible and best supported by “beyond-the-desktop” visualizations? What kind of collaborations are afforded and best supported? – is there a better name for this research theme than “beyond-the-desktop”? What are unifying features of these currently non-standard displays that could lead to a better descriptor for this research direction? can we develop a vision for visualization that helps to set goals for research to come? HOW TO PARTICIPATE We want to collect imaginative, creative, (even crazy) ideas and speculations on: – future designs and representations for beyond-the-desktop visualizations serving any of a variety of purposes – interaction techniques that take place in the physical world, or using paradigms outside the “mouse and keyboard” setting – technological solutions that could be utilized for beyond-desktop visualizations in the future – collaboration and social interaction around non-desktop visualizations – comparative experiences of visualizations on desktop and outside the desktop visualizations – authoring methods for beyond-desktop visualizations We encourage submissions in a variety of different formats: SCENARIOS - submission deadline: OCT 12 Share your imagined future in the form of scenarios illustrating future uses and forms of visualization whether desired, difficult, droll, dystopian - or all of these - we encourage an imaginative range of scenarios. 1+ pages in - upload directly through our webform at http://beyond.wallviz.dk [requirement to be considered for co-authorship of follow-up publications - see workshop outcomes] SHORT STATEMENTS & SKETCHES - submission phase: OCTOBER – NOVEMBER We invite everybody to engage in a pre-conference idea exchange on the workshop website through various means. We will enable a webform to allow submissions such as – imaginary titles and abstracts – short videos – graphical mockups, e.g., in the form of sketches or drawings. WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES The workshop will be split in 3 parts: – short presentations (up to 3min) similar to the fast-forward session to get a quick overview of the richness of ideas – discussion of future perspectives in the area of beyond-desktop visualization. The goal is to identify open problems requiring further investigations, and to converge on a research agenda or a vision for the future of visualization. – hands-on: creation of a wall-sized physical timeline of futures by workshop participants to visualize the outcomes of the discussions together with pre-conference submissions (see possible ways to participate) In conjunction with planned exhibits for the 25 year anniversary of VIS, we also plan to exhibit the created physical hypothetical timeline. After the workshop, this timeline will be publicly presented as a continuation next or near the exhibit for the past 25 years. All conference attendees are then invited to add their own thoughts and visions for the future of visualization. OUTCOMES Before the conference: from 1st October, everybody is invited to post ‘a future’ on this website be it a short scenario, a sketch, a video, or a paper title or abstract for a future article, or … Until 12th October scenarios can be submitted - authors can choose whether they want their contribution to be named or anonymous and whether they would like it to be available on the website or just at the workshop. During the conference: workshop participants work towards the creation of a physical timeline visualizing the variety of proposed futures. Posts from the website will be integrated there as well. After the conference: together with the outcome of the open discussions, the collection of visions will be published in a technical report or summarized in a more prestigious publication (e.g. a visualization viewpoint article) to make it more widely available. We will also explore the opportunity to write a STAR report on beyond-the-desktop visualizations together with interested workshop participants. ORGANIZERS Yvonne Jansen, Petra Isenberg, Jason Dykes, Sheelagh Carpendale, Sriram Subramanian, Dan Keefe

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Pre-Call for Applications: European Excellence Master in MEDIA ARTS CULTURES
by Image Science 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Dear List members, Please share. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erasmus+ funded - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree International Masters in Media Arts Cultures CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - opens October 15, 2015 http://www.mediaartscultures.eu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are pleased to announce the upcoming call for applications for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master of Arts Degree in Media Arts Cultures, organized jointly by Danube University Krems (Austria), Aalborg University (Denmark), University of Lodz (Poland) and City University of Hong Kong (China). Associated partners: Ars Electronica, DAM, FACT, monochrom, Laboratory of Research in Art and Techno Science, transmediale, ZKM This is a new masters of arts program funded by the European Union and recognized as a European Master of Excellence. This distinction is based on offering high-quality learning opportunities for students in an emerging field and also signifies the importance of Media Arts for the cultural future of Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The objective of this Master Program is to provide education and training for future specialists in Media Arts Cultures and prepare them for emerging careers in the creative and cultural sectors, research and academia. Students from European or non-European countries will study as a group and in individually chosen modules on selected topics like Media Cultural Heritage, Archiving, Experience Design, Media Arts Theory, New Media Aesthetics, Curating & Arts Management, or Media Arts Futures. The language of instruction is English. As part of the program, students will complete an internship at one of the consortium's full or associated partners and complete a master's thesis supervised by lecturers from the partner universities. MediaAC faculty include: Ana PERAICA, Christiane PAUL, Erkki HUHTAMO, Falk HEINRICH, Harald KRAEMER, Irina ARISTARKHOVA, Jane PROPHET, Jeffrey SHAW, Lev MANOVICH, Maciej OZÓG, Margit ROSEN, Morten SONDERGAARD, Oliver GRAU, Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYZSKI, Sean CUBITT, Wendy COONES and many others.. www.mediaartscultures.eu Media Arts Cultures is a mobility program, enabling students to study across Europe and in Asia. During the two-year program, each student will spend three semesters at least three universities, and choose among the four in the final semester. After completing the program, students will receive a joint master degree in Media Arts Cultures from the universities they have attended. The program is 120 ECTS and allows graduates to further pursue a PhD within Europe or other international higher education regions. More than 13 of the best EU and non-EU candidates will be offered Erasmus+ fully-funded scholarships for the duration of the program. As an internationally recognized Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree, students accepted into the MediaAC program without Erasmus+ scholarships will have increased chances of securing funding from external-funding sources. www.mediaartscultures.eu/wp/scholarships/erasmus-scholarships/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For applicants requesting an Erasmus+ scholarship via the MediaAC Consortium the deadline for submitting applications is January 1, 2015. For self-funded / external-funded applicants the deadline for submitting applications is April 2015 for non-EU students and June 2015 for EU students. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For more information on the program, please visit: http://www.mediaartscultures.eu/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ sent from: Department for Image Science (coordinating Partner) Danube University, Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

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CFP: VISTech2: Second Workshop on Visualization, Infrastructure & Systems Technology
by Kelly Gaither 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

We are soliciting papers for the second annual VISTech workshop on Visualization, Infrastructure & Systems Technology held in conjunction with SC 14. Accepted papers will be archived. Please see submission details below. We look forward to receiving your submissions by October 7. Thanks, Kelly, Jason, Falko, Eric and Aditi VISTech2: Second Workshop on Visualization, Infrastructure & Systems Technology November 17, 2014 8:30 am – 5 pm New Orleans Convention Center New Orleans, LA https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/sc14/workshops/vistech Important Dates: Paper submission Deadline: October 7, 2014 Paper Notification Date: October 18, 2014 Final Manuscripts: October 22, 2014 Human perception is centered on the ability to process information contained in visible light, and our visual interface is a tremendously powerful data processor. Every day we are inundated with staggering amounts of digital data. In research for some computational sciences, visualization techniques are the only viable means of extracting information and developing a deep and clear understanding from data at scale. Thus, integrating our visual capacity with technological capabilities has tremendous potential for providing a transformational ability to understanding this data. In this workshop, we will explore the intersection between human perception and large-scale visual analysis through the study of visualization interfaces and interactive displays. This rich intersection includes virtual reality systems, visualization through augmented reality, large-scale visualization systems, novel visualization interfaces, high-resolution interfaces, mobile displays, and visualization display middleware. The VISTech (Visualization Infrastructure & Systems Technology) workshop will provide a forum in which experts in the large-scale visualization technology field and users can come together to discuss state-of-the art technologies for visualization infrastructures and systems. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: ● High-resolution displays and interfaces ● Interaction technologies ● Mobile displays ● Virtual reality systems ● Augmented reality ● Ubiquitous displays ● Visualization display middleware ● Large scale visualization systems Papers submitted to this workshop should be in the IEEE format and no longer than 4 pages plus 1 additional page for images. We encourage authors to submit YouTube video up to 3 minutes long and animations of their work.The papers should be original and not previously published. Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop topics. Papers presented at the workshop will be archived. This workshop is held in conjunction with SC14: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Submission URL: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vistech14 Paper Format Requirements: 4 pages (maximum) plus one additional page for images in the IEEE format. http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Contact e-mail:v<mailto:VDTworkshop@tacc.utexas.edu>istech14(a)easychair.org<mailto:istech14@easychair.org> Workshop Organizers: Kelly Gaither, TACC, The University of Texas at Austin Jason Leigh, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, The University of Illinois at Chicago Falko Kuester, CalIT2, University of California, San Diego Eric A. Wernert, Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University Aditi Majumder, University of California, Irvine

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[IEEE VIS 2014] Attending IEEE VIS this year? Sign up for the Digital Compass Events
by Alex Endert 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

IEEE VIS 2014 is proud to offer our attendees activities to socialize and meet fellow VIS researchers through the Compass program. One of our goals in organizing the Compass activities at the main IEEE VIS conference is to support the next generation of visualization researchers by helping connect beginning and advanced researchers from the scientific visualization, information visualization and visual analytics communities. The Compass activities are open to all registered IEEE VIS participants. The activities are organized by the IEEE VIS Compass Chairs. CONTACT For more information contact IEEE VIS 2014 Compass Chairs: Alex Endert, Georgia Tech Daniel Best, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Mohammad Ghoniem, Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann Email: compass(a)ieeevis.org

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