November 2015 - Infovis

Session on Communication of Uncertain Information at EGU 2016
by Torsten Möller 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

European Geosciences Union annual assembly Vienna | Austria | 17–22 April 2016. Communication of uncertain information in earth sciences: data, models and visualization Information in the earth sciences is supplied to many end users, including regulators, policy makers and the general public. It is important that these end users understand the uncertainties in information so that they can make robust decisions. Much effort has been put into quantitative methods to describe the uncertainty in environmental information, but the outputs these generate (probabilities, confidence intervals etc.) are not always understood by the end user. Effective communication of uncertain information is an important challenge, and one which must be tackled collaboratively by earth scientists, statisticians, psychologists and others. In 2015 there was a successful session held at EGU to bring together scientists with a range of backgrounds to consider these issues. We believe that the area remains a lively and important one, and want to continue the discussion. We therefore invite you to consider submitting an abstract to the session. Abstracts by 13 Jan 2016, 13:00 CET at http://www.egu2016.eu/ see also http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20482

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EmoVis 2016
by Geoff Ellis 21 Nov '15

21 Nov '15

Call for Papers: ACM IUI 2016 Workshop on Emotion and Visualization --------------------------------------------------------------- Half day workshop at ACM IUI 2016 in Sonoma, CA, USA March 10, 2016 http://cs.lnu.se/emovis2016/ *** Paper submission deadline: December 18, 2015 *** Interaction plays a fundamental role in visualization and visual analytics. However, the emotional states of users are rarely taken into account when developing interaction techniques and/or the visual representations themselves. In many application scenarios, it would be beneficial if emotional measurements could be visualized in order to raise user awareness of their own and others' emotional states as well as how these emotions influence their reasoning and decision making. Additionally, with the help of emotional data, certain visualization systems should be able to adapt to the users’ mental models, cognitive processes and emotional states in terms of interaction and visual representation in order to support the analysis and exploration process. Our goal is to foster this novel area of visualization that takes user affective states into consideration. The EmoVis 2016 workshop is co-located with the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2016) and welcomes researchers, practitioners and experts from a variety of scientific domains, including visualization, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and multimedia. This workshop will act as a forum where people with diverse backgrounds can present design principles and introduce novel techniques for affect measurement and visualization. We invite submissions that explore user emotional states in context of interactive visualization. Topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following areas: * emotion measurement devices and technologies, such as BCIs or smart wristbands * emotion detection algorithms, e.g., based on user physiology, user language/intonation or written text like Twitter posts * emotion visualization for individuals, groups or crowds * emotion visualization for supporting social interaction * capturing or generating engagement at large-scale events * awareness of emotions in collaboration or analysis tasks * emotion-adaptive visualizations capable of determining and reacting to user emotional states * user studies and evaluation techniques for emotion visualization and emotion-adaptive visualizations Workshop papers accepted for EmoVis 2016 will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/) Submissions may be full research papers (maximal 8 pages) or shorter papers (maximal 4 pages) which may describe position statements, novel ideas, work-in-progresses, or recent results related to the topics of emotion and visualization. The authors should clearly indicate the submission type at the end of the abstract in order to help reviewers better understand their contributions. We select the papers according to novelty and quality on the one hand side, but also based on their potential to contribute to the workshop discussions. More information on how to submit a paper can be found at * http://cs.lnu.se/emovis2016/ EmoVis 2016 Co-Chairs --------------------- * Andreas Kerren (Linnaeus University, Sweden) * Daniel Cernea (AGT International, Germany) * Margit Pohl (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline: December 18, 2015 * Author notification: January 22, 2016 * Camera-ready paper deadline: February 5, 2016 If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organizers: emovis2016(a)easychair.org

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Floating points exhibition December London
by TOM CORBY 21 Nov '15

21 Nov '15

http://digital-realism.net/296-2/ FLOATING POINTSGavin Baily, Tom CorbyAmbika P3, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LSPrivate view: 6.00 pm Friday 18th DecemberExhibition Opening hours: Saturday 19th Dec – Monday 21 Dec, 12.00-6.00We are pleased to announce a new exhibition by Gavin Baily and Tom Corby consisting of 3 screen-based projects and an installation set within P3’s underground galleries.The Northern Polar Studies (2015) and Minima, Maxima (2015) are premiered, while The Southern Ocean Studies (in collaboration with Dr Jonathan Mackenzie 2010), and Cyclone (2005 – 2015) are uniquely shown together for the first time. All 4 works employ various forms of climate or meteorological data to visually and physically condense the aleatory, hidden and the systemic aspects of sites and landscapes as large-scale data animation or installation.Art has long found ways to make tangible the Earth’s exhalation of atmospheres and climates. This exhibition can be seen as part of this tradition, but breaks from it by bringing contemporary scientific technologies, data and institutions to bear to show how universal concepts of human relations with landscape are still pertinent in a contemporary context of accelerating climate change. Additionally, the complex entanglements of the social, material, atmospheric and geographic explored throughout these works, extend our feel for landscape and also our sense of how time functions in it. Landscape through its laminations, layering and morphologies, is conceived in this work as a recording device that tracks the Earth’s changing energy signatures. This movement of time and matter reimagines environmental terrains as extended temporal forms resultant from long-term changes; which we might propose of as ‘deep time landscapes’.This work has been made in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, and special thanks goes to Nathan Cunningham, Dr Clare Tancell, Professor David Walton, Dr Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Professor Mike Meredith, and Pete Bucktrout. Funding for this work has been by Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council, and the Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media at the University of Westminster.

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from Skala - Call for Papers - 24th Int.Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision WSCG 2016 - Please, resend
by Vaclav Skala 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Dear friends, shall I ask you to kindly resend the Call for Papers for the 24.th Int.Conference WSCG 2016 enclosed? Many thanks for your help. Vaclav Skala, WSCG 2016 Organiser, http://www.VaclavSkala.eu ------------------------------------- CUT HERE, please ------------------------------ ======================================================== Computer Graphics, Scientific and Medical visualization, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Virtual Reality and Haptic Systems, Rendering Techniques, Physically Based Modeling, Human Computer Interfaces and related Mathematics, ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers WSCG 2016 ------------------------------------- WSCG 2016 Conferences Announcement & Call for Workshops/Special Sessions ------------------------------------------ Call for Papers WSCG 2016 ------------------------------------ 24. WSCG Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2016 http://www.wscg.eu http://www.wscg.cz in cooperation with the Eurographics Association supported by IFIP TC5 WG5.10 ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH listed Associated events - GraVisMa - Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Computational Mathematics 2016 http://www.GraVisMa.eu - HCI-Europe - Human Computer Interfaces 2016 http://www.HCI-Europe.eu Conference Co-chairs Zhigeng Pan, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Important dates (regular papers) Workshop and special sessions - please, see the WEB pages Paper submission: February 20, 2016 Acceptance notification: April 10, 2016 Final version: April 30, 2016 Venue: May 30 - June 3, 2016, Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen [Plzen] (City of Beer) close to Prague, Czech Republic PUBLICATIONS All submitted papers will be peer anonymously reviewed. Title, authors and abstract will be available publicly after acceptance decision. Accepted and presented papers will be published in: - Journal of WSCG (the best selected papers only) ISSN 1213-6972 (print), ISSN 1213-6980 (CD-ROM) - Computer Science Research Notes series (conference proceedings) CSRN 26xx, ISSN 2464-4617 (print), ISSN 2464-4625 (CD-ROM) Journal of WSCG and CSRN proceedings will be sent for indexing to Scopus, IEE, ISI/Thomson Reuters, Elsevier's Engineering Information (EI) and other reputable indexing services. Journal of WSCG and WSCG proceedings published in Computer Science Research Notes series - both available via WEB with access free => FAST research results dissemination Recent publication (digital repository since 1992): http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm Workshops and Special Sessions Organization proposal / decision: December 10, 2015 / December 20, 2015 Workshop or special paper submissions/decision: January 25, 2016 / March 31, 2016 Conference fee payment for papers accepted for a workshop/session before: April 20, 2016 Expected workshop/sessions - we look for an organizer 1. Virtual, Augmented Reality and Haptic Systems (agreement pending) 2. Information Visualization 3. Human Centric and Augmented Visualization 4. Meshfree representation, interpolation and computation and its application (agreement pending) 5. Projective geometry, geometric algebra and conformal geometry and its application All special session/workshop papers will be reviewed by the workshop reviewing board members under workshop/session organizer's supervision and the decision to be approved by the conference organizer, resp. conference IPC board members. Number of papers: for a session to 5-10/session, 8-16/workshop [presentation approx. 15+5 mins.] IMPORTANT - VISA and Presentation in a Virtual Session (not applicable for workshops and other special sessions organized) In order to overcome difficulties with obtaining EU Schengen area VISA and exit VISA permission from an original country in specific cases a virtual session will be organized for authors. The first author has to be currently a PhD student or his PhD thesis with the topic presented has been defended in the last academic year. Presentation of a paper will be based on paper presentation with audio record played at the session and videoconferencing system will be used. Countries considered to be eligible for a virtual session (not exhaustive list) - majority countries of Africa (except of South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, EU territories) - China, Myanmar (Barma), Nepal, Mongolia, North Korea, Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia, - Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, Oman, - Cuba, Haiti, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Suriname, Guyana Application for a virtual session is to be approved by the conference organizer prof.Vaclav Skala via @mail subject: WSCG 2016 - Virtual session Feel free to contact me if you would have any question at: Prof.Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu --- Tato zpráva byla zkontrolována na viry programem Avast Antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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ESANN 2016 deadline extension
by Michel Verleysen 15 Nov '15

15 Nov '15

====================================================== ESANN 2016 24th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges (Belgium) - April 27-28-29, 2016 http://www.esann.org/ *** Submission deadline extension *** ====================================================== Due to numerous requests, the deadline to submit papers to the ESANN 2016 conference has been extended to November 27, 2015. Please note that no further extension will be given. Looking forward to seeing you at ESANN 2016, The organizing committee. ======================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning 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 * 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 ========================================================

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CHALLENGES OF DIGITAL ART FOR OUR SOCIETIES – International Conference, MUMOK, Vienna, Dec 4th
by Image Science 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

CHALLENGES OF DIGITAL ART FOR OUR SOCIETIES – International Conference MUMOK - Museum moderner Kunst, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna, December 4th 2015, 1 – 7 pm "What kind of museums are necessary for contemporary (digital) art?" Digital art and technology fundamentally changes our perception and interaction with images. The international conference „Challenges of Digital Art" addresses the impact of this shift for the expressive potential of contemporary media art. 200 biennales and over 100 well-attended festivals dedicated to media art prove that media artists are addressing our ever-changing world view through a multitude of artworks focusing on themes that include climate change, image and media (r-)evolution, globalization, future of the body, surveillance society, and the virtualization of financial markets. Yet, while these outstanding artists engage the social and cultural questions of our time, media art continues to be insufficiently collected and inadequately documented in memory institutions due to problems in museum structures and media storage. Today, media artworks are gradually becoming lost because the museum sector is not able to fulfill its public duty to collect, research, and make accessible contemporary media art. The marginalization of media art and its themes in the public-financed museum sector leads to serious democratic issues – this development should be counteracted. The challenge for the humanities is to document and analyze digital artworks and, moreover, to provide solutions to this essential dilemma in contemporary cultural politics. This pressing agenda was previously addressed in the ‘Liverpool Declaration’, which so far over 500 scientists and museum directors from over 40 countries have signed (http://www.mediaarthistory.org/declaration) It is these questions that frame the conference. Bringing together internationally renowned scholars, the focus of the talks and discussions will be the strengthening of education and training of future curators and archivists in the cultural and arts sector as well as the formation of a sustainable research infrastructure. Towards these goals, the researches in the area of digital humanities will play a vital role. Internationally renowned experts of media art – Prof. Dr. Lev Manovich (New York CityU), Prof. Dr. Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths), Prof. Dr. Christiane Paul (Whitney New York) and Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Oliver Grau (DanubeU) – are discussing solutions and are suggesting strategies for improvement on 4th December at the MUMOK. Danube University, Centre for Image Science – www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw ADA – Archive of Digital Art – www.digitalartarchive.at PROGRAMM 1:00 Introduction 1:15-2:15 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christiane PAUL (New School NY, Whitney Museum NY): >From Archives to Collections: Digital Art in/out of Institutions 2:15-3:15 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lev MANOVICH (City University of New York, CUNY): Archiving and analyzing digital art the scale of big data 3:15-3:45 Break 3:45-4:45 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sean CUBITT (Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, London): Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Eudaimonism and Melancholia in the Archive 4:45-5:45 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver GRAU, MAE (Department für Bildwissenschaften, Danube University): Political Iconography of Digital Arts, it's Archive and a Museum Infrastructure for the 21 Century 5:45-6:30 Diskussion 6:30 Wine & Get together 　 Speakers: Lev Manovich is the author of seven books including Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which was described as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." Manovich is a Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Director of the Software Studies Initiative that works on the analysis and visualization of big visual cultural data. He was included in the list of "25 People Shaping the Future of Design" (2013) and also the list of "50 Most Interesting People Building the Future" (2014). Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London, fellow at the University of Melbourne and honorary professor at the University of Dundee. His publications includeVideography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Palgrave, 1993), Timeshift: On Video Culture (Routledge, 2003), Simulation and Social Theory (SAGE, 2001), The Cinema Effect (MIT Press, 2005), EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005), Digital Aesthetics (Sage, 2009) und The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technology from Prints to Pixels (MIT Press, 2014). He investigates the history and philosophy of visual technology, media art histories, and mediation. Furthermore, he is a well-established speaker, who addresses questions of the interconnectivity of digital archives. Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum, New School, NY) is one of the most influential curators of media art. Since the 1990s, she developed countless exhibitions. Recently she prepared INDAF Digital Art Festival (Inchon, South Korea, 2009), Eduardo Kac: Biotopes (Rio de Janeiro, 2010), Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (New York, 2011), The Public Private (Kellen Gallery, The New School, 2013) and Scalable Relations (California, 2009). Paul is professor at the New School, NY and leads the ‚Media Studies Graduate Program‘. Digital Art (Thames & Hudson 2003) and Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011) are already classics in the field. Oliver Grau is chair professor of image science at the Danube-University. His book Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (MIT Press, 2003) is the internationally most-quoted publication of contemporary art history. He is editor of Mediale Emotionen (Fischer, 2005), MediaArtHistories (MIT Press, 2007) and Imagery in the 21st Century (MIT Press 2011). Grau is member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), his publications were translated in 14 languages, and he was invited to over 300 lectures and key notes all over the world. His research focuses on the history and theory of media art, immersion and emotions as well as the history, idea, and culture of telepresence and artificial life. Moreover, he is developing the digital humanities (Archive of Digital Art, GSSG online etc.). He developed new international programmes such as, among others, the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree-Programm MediaArtsCultures MA, MediaArtHistories MA, Image Science MA.

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Two Academic Jobs - Lectureships at City University London (giCentre)
by Dykes, Jason 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

City University London is recruiting to two posts in Computer Science. We are looking for candidates who can make the most of the dynamic environment for research, teaching and enterprise in London - with its stimulating combination of arts, tech and commerce. The university is open to applications across the discipline, but research expertise must compliment the activities of one (or more) of the six research centres in Computer Science: http://j.mp/cityCSresearchCentres The giCentre is hoping to attract enthusiastic individuals with the energy to shape research and teaching in visualization, visual analytics and visual data science. We would be delighted to discuss our plans and the opportunities afforded by these posts to any candidates with interests in visualization and data analysis. Details: http://j.mp/cityCSlectureshipsNov15 Contact : gicentre(a)city.ac.uk Prof. Jo Wood Prof. Jason Dykes giCentre, City University London

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Women in VIS Mentoring Network
by Hua Guo 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Following the Meetup at VIS'15 in Chicago, which aimed to form a female mentoring network for minorities in VIS, we have created a dedicated mailing list for the group. To subscribe, visit: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/women-in-vis or send an email to: women-in-vis+subscribe(a)googlegroups.com The mailing list will strictly serve this mentoring network. In contrast, for those interested generally in issues related to women in VIS, we recommend: * https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-5-biases-pushing-women-out-of-stem “The 5 Biases Pushing Women out of STEM”, J.C. Williams * http://anitaborg.org/insights-tools/ Anita Borg Institute’s Insights & Tools (how to recruit, retain, advance women technologists) * http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/why-systers/ On the benefits of exclusively female fora If you have any question, please contact: Hua Guo, Brown University (huag(a)cs.brown.edu) Bei Wang, University of Utah (beiwang(a)sci.utah.edu) G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago (gmarai(a)uic.edu)

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