August 2014 - Infovis

IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Death of the Desktop Workshop
by G.Elisabeta Marai 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Death of the Desktop Workshop ***************************************************************************************** Death of the Desktop – Envisioning Visualization without Desktop Computing beyond.wallviz.dk ***************************************************************************************** Half-day Workshop, Co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 Paris, France, November 10th 2014 Organizers: Yvonne Jansen, Petra Isenberg, Jason Dykes, Sheelagh Carpendale, Sriram Subramanian, Daniel Keefe The Desktop computer is dead. Monitors sit on desks, unplugged - hosting layers of Post-It notes or gathering dust as a retro emergency low-light mirror. 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 scenarios 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 to develop the community’s perspective on the future of VIS. For the detailed workshop description, submission details, and program please visit the workshop website at: beyond.wallviz.dk In particular, we wish 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 (deadline: Aug 31) Send us your imagined future in the form of scenarios illustrating future uses and forms of visualization - whether desired, delivered, disappointing or dystopian we encourage an imaginative range of scenarios. - 1+ pages in any format (e.g. TVCG or any other) - requirement to be considered for co-authorship of follow-up publications (see workshop outcomes on website) - submission by email to Yvonne Jansen <yvja(a)di.ku.dk> ***Short Statements & Sketches (submission phase: September – November) We invite everybody to engage in a pre-conference idea exchange on this webpage through various means. We will enable a webform to allow submissions such as - an imaginary title and abstract - a short video - graphical mockups, e.g., in the form of sketches or drawings. ***Physical Timeline and STAR Contributions (during the Workshop and After) During the conference: workshop participants work towards the creation of a physical timeline visualizing the variety of proposed futures. Posts from this 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. For further details and contact, see: beyond.wallviz.dk Organizers: Yvonne Jansen, Petra Isenberg, Jason Dykes, Sheelagh Carpendale, Sriram Subramanian, Daniel Keefe -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University http://visualizlab.org/people/marai

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: BusinessVis Workshop
by G.Elisabeta Marai 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Call For Participation: BusinessVis Workshop ******************************************************************** Information Visualization and Visual Analytics in Business http://entsci.gatech.edu/businessvis14/ ******************************************************************** Half-day Workshop, Co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 Paris, France, November 10th 2014 Organizers: Rahul Basole, Steven Drucker, Jörn Kohlhammer, Jack Van Wijk Enterprises across all industries are inundated by an accelerating tsunami of business data. Converting these data and insights into better business outcomes is a pressing and strategic challenge for many managers, decision makers, and executives. While there is a growing interest in business analytics, advanced information visualization and visual analytic tools have lagged behind. This is in part explained by the plethora and complexity of design and implementation challenges presented by diverse business users, data, and contexts. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in in presenting, exploring, and understanding complex business issues through visualization and visual analytics. We welcome submissions on a variety of topics, including: * Real-world experiences with designing, building, deploying and evaluating new information visualization and visual analytic systems * Case studies describing success (and failure) of applying visualization to business contexts * Domain-specific enterprise applications of visualization and visual analytics (i.e. healthcare, manufacturing, energy, media, transportation, finance, etc.) * Review and evaluative papers discussing or comparing current tools and toolchains; integration with other enterprise support tools (i.e. modeling, simulation, etc.) We encourage submissions of short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and promising (preliminary) results. Submissions: September 15, 2014 Notifications: October 1, 2014 Workshop: November 2014 Contact businessvis14(a)gmail.com for any questions. Rahul Basole, Steven Drucker, Jörn Kohlhammer, Jack Van Wijk -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University http://visualizlab.org/people/marai

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CfP: Overcoming Cognitive Biases workshop
by Geoff Ellis 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

------------------------------------------------------------------ CfP: Overcoming Cognitive Biases workshop http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ This one-day workshop will be held as part of i-KNOW 2014 (14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business),in Graz, Austria, 16-19 September 2014. http://i-know.tugraz.at IMPORTANT DATES - Submission by: 16 April, 2014 - Notifications of acceptance :16 May 2014 - Camera Ready Copy: 5 June 2014 - Workshop day: 16 or 17 September 2014 SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss how to reduce the impact of cognitive biases in the systems we build. Work to date has generally focussed on developing user training to mitigate the effect of a small number of cognitive biases with little effort on software solutions. The latter not only requires research to identify situations where help would assist in better decision making, but also in developing novel corrective actions ideally tailored to the user. In the visualisation domain, work has centred around improving hypothesis generation to avoid confirmation bias, where the user unconsciously seeks evidence to confirm what they already believe, rather than seeking disconfirming evidence. There is plenty of scope for investigating whether or not the cognition of visualisation or elements therein are subject to cognitive biases. We invite participants from a wide range of disciplines such as decision science, cognitive psychology, information visualisation, visual analytics, software engineering, business and intelligence to exchange ideas and establish a roadmap of the state of the art and promote future research potential. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - cognitive biases and information visualisation - new classification schemes for cognitive biases - integrating cognitive bias mitigation into existing software - measuring susceptibility to cognitive bias - cognitive biases in groups/collaborative situations - training/learning tools to overcome particular cognitive biases - business decision making - impact of big data on cognitive biases - evaluation techniques/methodologies The workshop will include invited talks, short individual presentations and group activities and will provide a forum for participants to exchange ideas and establish a roadmap of the state of the art and identify future research potential. We hope to grow this interdisciplinary community to promote future collaboration. SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit original work, as either 2-3 page position papers or 4-6 page research papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the supplementary proceedings of i-KNOW 2014 (either ACM or IEEE). Submissions should be in ACM SIG proceedings format (standard 2-column style) as a PDF file through the workshop website. CONTACT For further details please contact Geoffrey Ellis, ellis(a)dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de Twitter: @ocb_workshop website: http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/ ORGANISERS Geoffrey Ellis, University of Konstanz Gaëlle Lortal, THALES Research & Technology, Paris Michael Bedek, University of Graz ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Deadline Extended - VizSec 2014, Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

****************************************************************************** 11th Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) Call for Papers ### UPDATE : VizSec Deadline EXTENDED by 1 week! ### http://www.vizsec.org/ ****************************************************************************** The 11th Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held in Paris, France on November 10, 2014 in conjunction with IEEE VIS. Important research problems often lie at the intersection of disparate domains. Our focus is to explore effective, scalable visual interfaces for security domains, where visualization may provide a distinct benefit, including computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, preventing user assisted attacks, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing in addition to traditional network security. Human time and attention are precious resources. We are particularly interested in visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts so that further processing may be handled by machines, freeing analysts for other tasks. For example, a malware analyst might use a visualization system to analyze a new piece of malicious software that facilitates generating a signature for future machine processing. When appropriate, research that incorporates multiple data sources, such as network packet captures, firewall rule sets and logs, DNS logs, web server logs, and/or intrusion detection system logs, is particularly desirable. Technical Papers ================ Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, or experiments and evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigations - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics and education - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Posters ======= Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Data ==== If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST 2012 Challenge data. VAST 2013 and VAST 2011 also had cyber security data if you are looking for additional data. Submissions =========== Papers ------ Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. The VizSec proceedings will be published by ACM. The ACM SIG Proceedings Templates provides Word and LaTeX templates. (If you are using LaTeX, please use Option 2: LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style.) Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. ACM invites authors to submit an image representation of their article. The image must be selected from the article body and can be any of the following: art, graphic, table, figures, etc. (Image files are to be as square as possible, 100x100 ppi and in jpg format.) Authors must supply a caption with the image. The caption length should be no more than 512 characters. Posters ------- Interested authors should submit an extended abstract as PDF of at most 2 pages including figures and references. Accepted abstracts will be made available on this website. Authors must present a corresponding poster during the workshop. The poster authors can determine the layout by themselves, but the dimensions of the posters should not exceed the A0 space (841mm x 1189mm or 33.1" x 46.8"). Additionally, poster authors are requested to give a brief oral preview during a plenary "fast forward" session. Submission ---------- Submit papers and poster abstracts using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2014 Important Dates =============== All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST Papers ------ August 8, 2014 Submission for Papers September 12, 2014 Author Notification for Papers October 03, 2014 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters ------- September 19, 2014 Abstract Submission for Posters September 26, 2014 Author Notification for Poster

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