February 2014 - Infovis

[VISSOFT] CFP: 2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization‏‏
by vis soft 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization Sep 29 - 30, 2014, Victoria, CA http://vissoft.iro.umontreal.ca/ Call for Papers - VISSOFT 2014 The second IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2014) builds upon the success of the first edition of VISSOFT in Eindhoven, which in turn followed after six editions of the IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT) and five editions of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS). In 2014, VISSOFT will again be co-located with ICSME in Victoria, BC, Canada. Software Visualization is a broad research area encompassing techniques that assist in a range of software engineering activities, such as, specification, design, programming, testing, maintenance, reverse engineering and reengineering. Covered methods contain the development and evaluation of approaches for visually analyzing software and software systems, including their structure, execution behavior, and evolution. In this conference, we focus on visualization techniques that target aspects of software maintenance and evolution, program comprehension, reverse engineering, and reengineering, i.e., how visualization helps programmers to understand, analyze, and evolve software. We aim to gather tool developers, users and researchers from software engineering, information visualization, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. We seek theoretical, as well as practical papers on applications, techniques, tools, case studies, and empirical studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Program visualization - Visual software analytics - Network visualizations in software engineering - Visualization of software documentations - Visualization of parallel programs - Visualization-based software in computer science and software engineering education - Visualization of workflow and business processes - Integration of software visualization tools and development environments - Visualization of web services - Visualization of software evolution - Visualization of database schemes - Protocol and log visualization (security, trust) - Graph algorithms for software visualization - Layout algorithms for software visualization - Visual debugging - Software visualization on the internet - Empirical evaluation of software visualization - Visualization to support program comprehension - Visualization to support software testing - Visualization of software repositories - Social media visualization Papers are solicited that present original, unpublished research results and will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to full papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a tool demo track related to the same list of topics suggested above. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. Hints for writing Software Visualization research papers are available online (http://www.st.uni-trier.de/~diehl/softvis/org/softvis06/hints.html) Submission Information Authors should prepare and electronically submit their papers or abstracts via the EasyChair submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2014) Take care that you provide all required information in EasyChair. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the work. The review process will be single-blind. All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines. Make sure that you use this MS Word template (http://www.conference-publishing.com/templates/MSW_USltr_format.doc) and this LaTeX class (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls updated January 3rd, 2013). Submissions must be in PDF format. Make sure that you are using the correct IEEE style file: the title should be typeset in 24pt font and the body of the paper should be typeset in 10pt font. Latex users: please use \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} (without option compsoc or compsocconf). Submission Types Technical papers (up to 10 pages): These contributions describe in-depth mature research results in the above-mentioned areas of interest. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit such video should provide a URL to the video at the end of the abstract input box in EasyChair (not in the submitted paper itself!). NIER papers (up to 5 pages): The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. Tool papers (up to 4 pages): Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. Challenge paper (up to 4 pages): In the software visualization challenge, authors are to demonstrate the usefulness of their visualization tools on the data provided. The paper should first provide an introduction to the problem, data used, methods and tools used, results and their implications, and conclusions. Important Dates Main track (technical papers) : Abstract Submission: May 9, 2014 Paper Submission: May 16, 2014 Author Notification: June 20, 2014 Camera-ready Copies: July 14, 2014 NIER, Tool Demo, and Tool Challenge tracks: Abstract Submission: June 24, 2014 Paper Submission: July 1, 2014 Author Notification: July 25, 2014 Camera-ready Copies: August 7, 2014 Organizing Committee General Chair: Houari Sahraoui (University of Montreal, CA) Program Co-Chairs: Bonita Sharif (Youngstown State University, US) and Andy Zaidman (Delft University of Technology, NL) NIER & Tool-Demo Track Co-Chairs: Fabian Beck (University of Stuttgart, DE) and Mircea Lungu (University of Bern, CH) Publicity & Web Chair: Daniel Limberger (Hasso Plattner Institute, DE)

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CFP: EuroVA workshop, Swansea, June 9-10
by margit pohl 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EuroVA 2014, Swansea, June 9-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EuroVA 2014 (www.eurova.org) is the fifth international Eurovis workshop on Visual Analytics held in Europe and aims at continuing the success of the previous editions, held in Bordeaux, France, in Bergen, Norway, Vienna, Austria and Leipzig, Germany. Also this year the goal of the workshop is to promote and advance the combination and integration of visualization and analytics methods for the purpose of problem solving in a variety of application domains including engineering, business, public policy, biology and medicine, security, etc. EuroVA will be held on June 9th-10th, 2014 in Swansea, as a workshop of the annual EuroVis 2014 Conference. The EuroVA 2014 program will include a keynote talk and short paper presentations. Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visual techniques, which requires interdisciplinary science integrating techniques from visualization and computer graphics, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning, cognitive and perceptual sciences, and more. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Visual analysis processes and workflows * Visual representations and interaction techniques * Data management and knowledge representation * Data analysis and machine learning * Cognitive and perceptual aspects * Infrastructure * Evaluation * Applications, as far as they are strictly related to visual analytics. Important Dates Short Paper submission deadline: March 9th, 2014 Review deadline: April 8th, 2014 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2014 Camera-ready papers due: April 25th, 2014 EuroVA workshop: June 9th-10th, 2014 Short papers submission guidelines Short papers, 4 pages in length + 1 extra page for references (maximum) must be prepared using the EuroVis formatting guidelines (size of fonts, illustrations,…). Authors of accepted short papers will give an oral presentation. The EuroVA 2014 Conference Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association. The formatting guidelines can be found at the homepage of the workshop (www.eurova.org) Workshop Chairs Pohl, Margit – Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jonathan Roberts – Bangor University, UK

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Reminder: CrowdUI 2014 - Abstract Submission Deadline on March 3rd
by Alessandro Bozzon 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** 1st C A L L F O R P A P E R S CrowdUI 2014 1st International Workshop on User Interfaces for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/crowdui2014/ **************************************************************************** *ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE* (not mandatory): March 3rd, 2014 *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: March 7th, 2014 Aims and Scope -------------- Crowdsourcing and Human Computation raises a variety of new challenges for user interfaces and user interaction designers. How to efficiently and effectively support implicit and/or explicit Crowdsourcing and Human Computation tasks is still an open research question. The goal of the CrowdUI workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners in the diverse fields related to the integration, interaction and visualization of data to explore the feasibility of using and combining different approaches to create effective user interfaces and usage experience for applications relying on, or producing crowdsourced data. Recent years witnessed an explosion in the number and variety of data crowdsourcing initiatives. From OpenStreetMap to Amazon Mechanical Turk, developers and practitioners have been striving to create user interfaces able to effectively and efficiently support the creation, exploration, and analysis of crowdsourced information. A representative example comes from the fields of Smart Cities and Human Mobility: there, new breeds of (mobile) human computation applications and games-with-a-purpose employ new interaction paradigms for the collection and retrieval of urban-related data. On the other hand, analysts and other urban stakeholders are provided with application that fused multiple datasources together in order to support sensemaking and knowledge-extraction processes for decision- making. The extensive usage of crowdsourcing techniques brings a major change of paradigm with respect to traditional user interface for data collection and exploration, as effectiveness, speed, and interaction quality concerns play a central role in supporting very demanding incentives, including monetary ones. At this purpose, cross fertilization between different disciplines is mandatory: existing approaches for visual interfaces design and implementation, data visualization and interaction methodologies, crowdsourced data management, and human computation task design should be merged with the purpose of identifying the best interaction and visualization paradigms for crowd-driven data collection, analysis, and exploration applications. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: * Interfaces for human computation tasks * Studies on quality, usability and effectiveness of human computation and crowdsourcing user interfaces * Innovative user interaction paradigms for task execution * Human computation interaction design tools * Game interfaces for crowdsourcing and human computation * Tools for human computation task design and deployment * Tools for visual analytics of crowdsourced data * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces for human computation tasks * Spam detection for crowdsourced data collection and analysis * Human factors in human computation task interface design * Work modelling for user interface adaptation * Performer /Task and Task/Performer recommendation Workshop Organizers ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) * Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) * Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano) EMAIL: crowduiworkshop(a)gmail.com Submission Procedure -------------------- *The 2 best submissions of the workshop will be included in the ACM proceedings of the AVI 2014 conference.* We welcome submissions describing ideas, experiments, and application visions originating from requirements for, and efforts aimed at, supporting crowdsourced and human computation tasks. We encourage the following submission types: * demos and posters not exceeding 2 pages * position and technical papers not exceeding 4 pages The CrowdUI workshop also aims at providing visibility and a discussion forum to universities, companies, and developers for presenting software tools related to the field of Web Engineering. We plan to provide you an exciting and highly interactive way of demonstrating your tool, systems, and research, and it is an excellent way of advertising the applicability of your results. Submissions about commercial tools, prototypes, open source software, and ongoing development are welcome. Submissions should describe the innovative aspects of the work they present, highlighting pros and cons with respect to related work. Demo proposals should describe clearly what will be demonstrated and how the contributions will be illustrated interactively. Optionally, proposals can include a URL that shows a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, videos, or a running system). Submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the CrowdUI Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. All submission must be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI format. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the CrowdUI 2014 web submission system. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main AVI conference to be found on their website (http://hoc12.elet.polimi.it/avi2014/)

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BELIV 2014 Workshop: CFP
by Heidi Lam 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

BELIV 2014, Nov. 10, Paris, France co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 http://beliv.cs.univie.ac.at/ CALL FOR PAPERS (RESEARCH & POSITION) We invite you to contribute to BELIV 2014, the international workshop on evaluation in visualization. Even though established scientific methods like controlled experiments and standard metrics like time and error continue to be the workhorse of evaluation in visualization, there is a growing need in the community to develop special approaches and metrics for evaluation at all stages of the development life cycle that address specific needs in visualization. The goal of the workshop is to continue the discussion and spread the word on alternative and novel evaluation methods and methodologies for visualization. Paper Types We accept two types of submissions--research papers and position papers. The workshop focuses on contributions from all areas of visualization, including visual analytics, information visualization, and scientific visualization. *Research papers* aim to make progress toward novel evaluation methods in visualization and to discuss their benefits and limitations compared to traditional methodologies. As in past editions of BELIV, we will not accept papers that merely report on the evaluation of a system or technique unless the focus of the contribution is on lessons learned about applying a novel evaluation method or methodology and new insights on the evaluation itself are presented. Research papers present new work and unpublished results on the topic areas of the workshop. Research papers will be selected according to their novelty, quality, and relevance. *Position papers* are problem discussions or statements describing the author's relevant experience and ideas in regards to evaluation methods and methodologies for visualization. Position papers will be selected according to their importance and relevance for the workshop topics and how well they will fit the planned discussions. Both types of papers can be up to eight pages long but the length of a submission needs to correspond to its contribution. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee as well as the organizers. We are currently working on making sure that we will be able to publish all accepted papers in the ACM digital library including the assignment of DOIs to the papers. We also plan to invite a selected subset of the papers to contribute to a special issue in a major visualization journal venue such as the Information Visualization Journal. Important Dates June 30, 2014: Paper submission due Aug 1, 2014: First notification Sept 1, 2014: Revisions due Sept 15, 2014: Final notification Nov 10, 2014: BELIV workshop (1-day) Submission To submit a paper create an account and submit the paper to the submission system at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BELIV2014/. Please clarify whether you are submitting a position or research paper. For additional questions, email the organizers at beliv.workshop(a)gmail.com Format All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The submission, however, must be made in PDF format. Topics of Interest Topics include, but are not limited to: Evaluation in the visualization development lifecycle, Utility characterization, Evaluation metrics, Insight characterization, Synthetic data sets and benchmarks, Taxonomy of tasks, Computational evaluation, Benchmark development and repositories, Methods for longitudinal studies and adoption, Evaluation of early prototypes, Evaluation heuristics and guidelines, and Reflections on evaluation practice in visualization in the past, present, and future. Topics of Non-Interest Evaluation results of a visualization system or technique Organizers: Heidi Lam, Google Petra Isenberg, INRIA Tobias Isenberg, INRIA Michael Sedlmair, University of Vienna Papers from previous BELIVs For past BELIV workshops and papers see these links: BELIV 2006: published in the ACM DL <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1168149> BELIV 2008: published in the ACM DL <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1377966> BELIV 2010: published in the ACM DL <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2110192> BELIV 2012: published in the ACM DL <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2442576>

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Panels
by G.Elisabeta Marai 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR PANELS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/panels IEEE VIS 2014 Panels should address important and/or controversial applications and issues in scientific and information visualization and visual analytics today. In particular, we invite topics in connection with interesting application fields. Panels including potential users of visualization technology (e.g. practitioners and industry professionals) or panels consisting of experts in fields that might teach us important concepts (e.g. perceptual psychology, visual design, color theory, user-interface design) would also be welcome. Panelists should be experts in their fields who can discuss the challenges of visualization, and engage the audience and fellow panel members in a stimulating, interactive debate. Panel proposals should describe the topic to be addressed and identify the prospective panelists. Each panelist should include a position statement on the topic and a short biography, the total of which should be limited to 500 words for each panelist, up to a maximum of four pages for the whole panel. Panels are scheduled for the duration of an entire paper session; panel proposals should thus target one hour and 40 minutes total duration, including question and discussion periods. We strongly recommend that in order to keep to time, the chair of the panel is not one of the panel speakers. Panel organizers should also submit a short description of the panel format and schedule (max. 1 page). This should be in a separate document from the proposal itself, and should describe the order of topics to be discussed, time to be spent on panelist presentations, and mechanisms for encouraging audience participation. Based on audience feedback, the duration of panelist presentations should allow ample time for intra-panel discussion and discussions between the panel and the audience. We also note that submitting similar topics to multiple venues (e.g. panels and workshops) is likely to result in at most one accepted proposal so that a broad range of topics can be presented at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline: Saturday, June 15, 2013 Submit via email to: panels(a)ieeevis.org For more information contact: Jo Wood, Jing Yang, and Daniel Keefe at panels(a)ieeevis.org. The IEEE VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Workshops
by G.Elisabeta Marai 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/workshops We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Workshops should: • emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium; or • bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees and ‘invitation only’ workshops will not be approved. Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference. Depending on interest and actual time schedule of each workshop, it may be possible to include workshop material on the USB drive for dissemination to venue attendees. If you wish to have your materials considered for archival electronic publication, please submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia. Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics. Proposals should include: • a title, • the contact details of the organizers, • a brief description of organizers' background, related publications, and research, • the goals, the technical scope, the mission, and the proposed focus, • the planned activities, • the length (full or half day), • a statement of the organization and the development of the list of participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures and timeline for finalizing workshop presenters), • the requested facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or in a panel format), and • the intended result & impact of the workshop results. The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please visit http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for formatting guidelines and submit via PCS http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria: • the potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research, • the ability to attract people and make them excited about it, • the appropriateness with respect to IEEE VIS topics, • the qualification of the organizers, • the feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.), and • the coherence of the proposed topic. If the proposed workshop is a follow-up on a previous workshop, please include a discussion of the results and the impact of the previous workshop. The aim of workshops is to include a variety of topics, thus repeat submissions will be judged in part by the success of the previous workshop. Workshop success will be measured subjectively, but popularity, research impact, visibility, and attendee feedback will all be taken into account. In addition, the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in order to support the diversity of topics within the IEEE VIS venue. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal Submission: May 2, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 16, 2014 CHAIRS Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond Tobias Isenberg, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz Zoė J. Wood, California Polytechnic For further information, please email workshops(a)ieeevis.org.

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giCentre - PhD Scholarships at City University London
by Dykes, Jason 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

We welcome applications to undertake PhD research in Visualization & Visual Analytics from those wanting to join our group at City University London. The Department of Computer Science, is offering three Doctoral Scholarships each valued at around £50,000 over three years. These will be awarded to the best proposals for research in priority areas: SoftwareSystems Engineering ; Human Centric Systems ; Information Analysis and Visualisation http://www.city.ac.uk/citygraduateschool/fees-and-funding/university-docto ral-studentships We encourage high calibre candidates to apply to undertake research in *Information Analysis and Visualization* through a research proposal that clearly identifies the area of research, articulating *the challenge*, *why this is a challenge* and *how this challenge will be tackled*. Application Closing Date: March 14 2014 Please contact us to discuss our research and your proposal before the end of February - gicentre(a)soi.city.ac.uk Details on giCentre research and information are at http://gicentre.org Criteria for assessment of applications are as follows : 50% Academic Qualifications - we expect a first class undergraduate degree (or 2.1 at high ranking institution), distinction at Masters level or equivalent academic qualifications 25% Proposal & References - we expect an outstanding proposal describing work likely to make a valuable contribution to the field & unequivocal support from referees 25% Academic record - we anticipate successful candidates having high quality publications or relevant professional roles and experience -- Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby, Cagatay Turkay, Jo Wood giCentre, City University London http://gicentre.org

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WSCG 2014 - Reminder Call for Papers - March 5, 2014 Graphics, Visualization, Vision - CfP
by Vaclav Skala 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Dear friends, Please, be so kind and distribute the Call for Papers according to your mailing list Many thanks Vaclav Skala sent to: infovis(a)infovis.org ---------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------- >>> REMINDER <<< >>> Call for Papers WSCG 2014 <<< >>> WSCG 2014 <<< >>> in Eurographics cooperation, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH listed <<< WSCG 2014 - 22nd International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2014 (http://www.wscg.eu - all WSCG events) http://www.wscg.cz will be held at Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (Plzen - the European City of Culture 2015) close to Prague, Czech Republic in June 2-5, 2014. Keynote speakers: -------------------- Manuel M. Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Tino Wienkauf, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany Important Dates: ------------------- Paper submission: March 5, 2014 Acceptance notification: April 14, 2014 Venue: June 2 - 5, 2014 Accepted and Presented papers will be published in WSCG proceedings with ISBN and submitted for indexing to Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS and others. The best papers will be selected for publication in the Journal of WSCG ISSN 1213-6972 (http://wscg.zcu.cz/JWSCG/) ALL WSCG proceedings and Journal of WSCG since 1992 are available at http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm, access free. The Pilsen City is close to Prague (Praha) - the Golden European city approx. 80km from the Plzen city (60 mins. by a coach). To reach the Pilsen city from the Prague airport is approx. 75 mins. by public transport - actually faster than to reach the Prague central parts. Main topics: -------------- Computer graphics, scientific and medical visualization, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, GPU graphics, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modelling, rendering and animation, virtual reality, haptic systems, medical imaging, graphical interaction, computational photography, data compression for graphics, image based rendering, mathematical methods for graphics and vision, physically based modelling, shape analysis & modelling & retrieval, surface and volume parameterization, parallel graphics, CAD, CAGD and GIS systems and related topics. Call for new reviewers: -------------------------- If you or colleague of yours would like to act as a reviewer for WSCG events, please, send: - First Name, Last Name, @mail, URL personal page by @mail to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subj. WSCG - Reviewing Feel free to contact me if you would have any question Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz - SUBJ.: WSCG 2014

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Workshops
by G.Elisabeta Marai 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/workshops<http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/tutorials> We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Workshops should: • emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium; or • bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees and ‘invitation only’ workshops will not be approved. Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference. Depending on interest and actual time schedule of each workshop, it may be possible to include workshop material on the USB drive for dissemination to venue attendees. If you wish to have your materials considered for archival electronic publication, please submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia. Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics. Proposals should include: • a title, • the contact details of the organizers, • a brief description of organizers' background, related publications, and research, • the goals, the technical scope, the mission, and the proposed focus, • the planned activities, • the length (full or half day), • a statement of the organization and the development of the list of participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures and timeline for finalizing workshop presenters), • the requested facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or in a panel format), and • the intended result & impact of the workshop results. The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please visit http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for formatting guidelines and submit via PCS http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria: • the potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research, • the ability to attract people and make them excited about it, • the appropriateness with respect to IEEE VIS topics, • the qualification of the organizers, • the feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.), and • the coherence of the proposed topic. If the proposed workshop is a follow-up on a previous workshop, please include a discussion of the results and the impact of the previous workshop. The aim of workshops is to include a variety of topics, thus repeat submissions will be judged in part by the success of the previous workshop. Workshop success will be measured subjectively, but popularity, research impact, visibility, and attendee feedback will all be taken into account. In addition, the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in order to support the diversity of topics within the IEEE VIS venue. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal Submission: May 2, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 16, 2014 CHAIRS Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond Tobias Isenberg, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz Zoė J. Wood, California Polytechnic For further information, please email workshops(a)ieeevis.org. The IEEE VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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Funded PhD student opportunity
by Sheelagh Carpendale 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

The Innovations in Visualization research group (innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/) in the Interactions Lab (ilab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/) at the University of Calgary is offering a PhD position starting either September 2014 or January 2015 for an exceptional student. This is a fully funded position (comfortably covering living expenses and health insurance) for at least 4 years. In particular, I am looking for an outstanding PhD student who has information visualization, visual analytics, and/or human computer interaction background, and who is interested in creating new visualizations and interfaces to help empower people with their own health-related information. Traditionally visualization and visual analytics have been applied to data arising from science and industry. In fact, previously data was not often thought about as being part of people's personal lives. However, in the last few years, this has been rapidly changing. Much of the often discussed "big data" is generated by individuals and their activities on social networks, as consumers, etc. Additionally, people are becoming more aware of data in their lives and are actively starting to collect it.This type of activity, perhaps typified by the Quantified Self movement, has triggered an industry response and now all kinds of self-monitoring devices are proliferating. However, while methods of gathering personal data are becoming ubiquitous, little has yet been done to make this data understandable and usable. One significant area in this regard is health. People are often collecting their own health data, to empower themselves, and to gain better control of their health.Sometimes they are collecting data because of their doctors instructions, sometimes they feel that if they monitored their activities they could better understand what factors trigger chronic conditions such as migraines and seizures. I would like to conduct research to discover how to help people work with this data, to find ways of presenting this data so that people can understand it and can make decisions and take actions based on it. The University of Calgary iLab is one of the leading information visualization and human computer interaction research labs. It is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is known for cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. It is composed of four faculty members (Drs. Carpendale, Greenberg, Sharlin, Tang) and approximately 30 to 40 graduate students and Post Doctoral Fellows. You will be supervised by Sheelagh Carpendale in collaboration with doctors, researchers and medical personal at Ward of the 21^st Century (www.w21c.org/) at the Foothills Hospital. Please send your application, including CV, academic record and references, to sheelagh(a)ucalgary.ca. Please include a one-page statement of your research motivation and interests. The for best consideration, send your application by March 10, 2014. ------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale Innovation in Visualization (InnoVis), Interactions Lab (iLab) Department of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada Telephone : +1 403 220 6055 E-Mail: sheelagh(a)ucalgary.ca Web: http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

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