November 2014 - Infovis

IEEE VIS 2014: Claudio Silva (NYU Poly) receives Visualization Technical Achievement Award
by G.Elisabeta Marai 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Paris, France Nov 10th-15th 2014 The IEEE Visualization & Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) is pleased to award Claudio T. Silva the 2014 Visualization Technical Achievement Award. The 2014 Visualization Technical Achievement Award goes to Claudio T. Silva, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, in recognition of seminal advances in geometric computing for visualization and for contributions to the development of the VisTrails data exploration system. Claudio has made seminal contributions to many areas of visualization and graphics, including point-based modeling, surface reconstruction, isosurface generation, out-of-core and streaming visualization techniques, and unstructured volume rendering. Having participated in interdisciplinary projects, his contributions have had impact in multiple scientific domains. He has also developed widely-used visualization and analysis tools, including the open-source VisTrails system. The IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award was established in 2004. It is given every year to recognize an individual for a seminal technical achievement in visualization. VGTC members may nominate individuals for the Visualization Technical Achievement Award by contacting the awards chair, Larry Rosenblum, at vgtc-vis-awards@ vgtc.org. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6935102 -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science (adj) Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://visualizlab.org/people/marai Currently on sabbatical at: Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Three Meetups this Tue
by G.Elisabeta Marai 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Paris, France CFP: Tuesday Meetups @ VIS 2014 Tuesday, Nov 11th 2014 Please join us for the following three meetups (formerly known as "birds of a feather" meetings), scheduled for this Tue at VIS 2014: ******************************************* Representation of relational data 12:15 – 13:45, Studio A (Org: M. Rumpf) Visual Literacy for Techies 18:15 – 19:45, Studio H (Org: A. Cairo, N. Gershon) Vis lies 19:30-20:30, Studio F (Org. B. Rogowitz , G. Grinstein) ******************************************** -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science (adj) Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://visualizlab.org/people/marai Currently on sabbatical at: Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: BioVis Meetup @ VIS 2014
by G.Elisabeta Marai 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Paris, France CFP: BioVis Meetup @ VIS 2014 Monday, Nov 10th 2014 6:15pm - 7:45pm, Studio A Building the Biological Visualization Community This meetup is aimed at past and future participants in the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis, http://www.biovis.net) and everyone else interested in applications of visualization to biological data. BioVis brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. BioVis has been held both at the IEEE VIS conference (2011, 2012, 2013) and at the ISCB ISMB Conference (2014). We are keen to maintain a presence with at the VIS conference and this meetup will serve as a focus for researchers in BioVis to meet up at VIS to discuss ideas for further development of the Biological Visualization Community, both through in person meetings and a new web-based community resource (http://www.bivi.co) This event will allow us to discuss the new resource with the community, encourage people to contribute and look forward in planning its evolution. The meetup will also provide an opportunity to plan for future BioVis events including a planned return to IEEE VIS in future years. Organizers (on behalf of the BioVis Steering Committee): Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science (adj) Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://visualizlab.org/people/marai Currently on sabbatical at: Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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Call For Participation: VIS 2014 Workshop on Provenance for Sensemaking (details are now online)
by Kai Xu 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Call for Participation: VIS 2014 Workshop on Provenance for Sensemaking http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/prov4sense/ 10 November 2014, Paris, France === Update === The following information is now on the workshop webpage - Agenda - Keynote - Discussion - Accepted papers (full PDF version) Hope to see you next week, Regards, Kai === Introduction === During complex analysis tasks, it can be valuable to maintain a history of the data and reasoning involved - referred to as ‘provenance’ information. Provenance information can be a resource for "reﬂection-in-action" during analysis, supporting collaboration between analysts, and reporting to decision makers. It can also act as a resource after the event, supporting the interpretation of claims, audit, accountability and training. There has been considerable work on capturing and visualizing of ‘data provenance’, which focuses on data collection and computation, and ‘analytic provenance’, which captures the interactive data exploration and reasoning process. However, there is limited work of utilizing such provenance information to support sensemaking, in terms of improving efficacy and avoiding pitfalls such as issues of data quality and human bias. This workshop aims to bring together researchers involved in visual analytics and various aspects of sensemaking to consider emerging positions, questions, and ﬁndings related to the capture, processing, representation and use of provenance information to support complex sensemaking tasks. The emphasis is on discussion and collaboration, with a goal of collaboratively producing a paper describing the state-of-the-art of provenance for sensemaking following the workshop. Email prov4sense(a)easychair.org for any enquiry. === Workshop Format (Half Day) === We solicit extended abstracts (statements of position or current work). Accepted authors will be asked to be present these as posters at the workshop. The abstracts will be used to stimulate discussion topics. This will form the basis of parallel breakout groups intended to explore and develop the thinking. We aim to collaboratively produce a paper covering these topics following the workshop. === Example Topics === - Data/analytic/sensemaking provenance capture and visualization. - Inferring sensemaking provenance from interaction data - User studies related to provenance recording and use - Using provenance to support reasoning/argumentation/reporting - Narrative construction and story telling - Distributed sensemaking - Uncertain and data quality provenance during sensemaking - Cognitive bias and sensemaking - Application of sensemaking and provenance in application domains === Organizers === Kai Xu, Middlesex University, UK Simon Attfield, Middlesex University, UK T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University, USA

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