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Research Scientist/Postdoctoral positions in Visualization for Healthcare at IBM Research
by Adam Perer 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

IBM Research in New York is currently hiring visualization researchers and post-docs interested in medical and healthcare data exploration. Information about the position and how to apply is available at: http://ibm.co/1tP8Nae Research Scientist and Post-doctoral Positions: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is looking for research scientists and post-docs with interest in the field of data visualization and visual analytics, to design next-generation user interfaces for making sense of big data, particularly in the healthcare domain. This position is based at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY. The Research Scientist and Post-doc will be working alongside visualization, machine learning, and medical researchers performing cutting-edge research in data-driven medicine. The ideal candidate should possess or be nearing completion of a doctorate in computer science, human-computer interaction, or medical informatics with demonstrated experience in the use of visualization and visual analytics. In addition to being technically abreast of the literature and progress within the visualization research community, the researcher is expected to generate highly novel ideas and be involved in their execution and implementation. S/he is expected to contribute significantly to the team in developing new visualizations, leveraging big data from longitudinal electronic medical records, patient-controlled devices, and genomic data. The researcher should also have strong system design and development skills and should be able to deploy software services individually and as part of an extended team. Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team across multiple geographies is also important. The researcher is also expected to disseminate, externally and internally, the results of such activities through publications and seminars, and represent IBM at conferences and universities. More information about the position is available at: http://ibm.co/1tP8Nae Feel free to reach out directly for any questions. Adam Perer Healthcare Analytics Research Group IBM TJ Watson Research Center http://perer.org <http://perer.org/>

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Dexis 2015: Workshop on Visualization meets Interactive Surfaces
by Petra Isenberg 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS DEXIS 2015 Workshop on Visual Data Exploration on Interactive Surfaces November 15, 2015 - Madeira, Portugal in conjunction with ITS 2015 http://aviz.fr/dexis2015 *** Submission Deadline: September 4, 2015 *** ************************************************************************ We invite you to join DEXIS 2015 - a workshop on Visual Data Exploration on Interactive Surfaces, held in conjunction with ITS 2015 on the wonderful island of Madeira in Portugal on November 15, 2015. Objectives ---------- DEXIS 2015 focuses on the use of interactive surfaces for visual data exploration. Interactive tabletops and surfaces provide are more and more commonly used for data visualization and analysis, and hence offer rich opportunities to researchers and practitioners. They provide benefits in various ways, e.g., * data can be accessed and analyzed anywhere, any time (e.g., on tablets or on public displays), * novel visualization designs and interaction experiences contribute to richer user experience, promoting the use of visualization systems even to non-experts, and * data analysis is increasingly turning into a collaborative process, and interactive surfaces offer promising possibilities for computer- supported collaborative analysis. Despite these benefits, much remains to be learned about the effects of providing a visual data exploration experience on interactive surfaces: Interactive surfaces often come in the forms of larger screens, smaller screens, more screens, higher pixel counts, and multiple simultaneous inputs, all of which create demanding challenges for designing visualization and interaction techniques. In addition, we need to learn more about designing surface-based visualization systems for richer user experience, find out about scenarios that are suited for such systems, and unveil the added value of surface-based visualization applications in realistic settings. As the second iteration of the first DEXIS workshop held at ITS 2011, we will discuss & reflect on research dedicated to visualization systems for interactive surfaces, define open research questions in the field, and refine research agendas aiming to shape future research in the field. Topics ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * design of information visualization, scientific visualization, or visual analytics interfaces and environments for interactive surfaces, * design of interactive visual representations for collaborative work on interactive surfaces, * design of multi-display environments for data analysis, * the use of interactive surfaces to visualize and interact with information and data, * guidelines and best practices for visualization and analysis environments on interactive surfaces, * visual analysis and exploration for a wider range of audiences using emerging display technology, * aspects of cognition in interactive visualization and visual analysis environments, * evaluation of interaction in single- or multi-user information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics systems, * collaborative visualization and visual analytics systems with interactive surfaces, * collaborative sensemaking & decision making and its connection to interactive surfaces, and * comparative experiences of visualization on desktop and visualization on interactive surfaces. Submission Instructions ----------------------- We accept position papers of up to 4 pages submitted in the SIGCHI Paper format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) through the CMT submission system (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DEXIS2015) They will be reviewed by the program committee, and accepted papers will be sent back to the authors for finalization. They will be published in the workshop web site prior to the event. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: Sep 4, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: Sep 25, 2015 Camera-ready deadline: Oct 9, 2015 Workshop date: Nov 15, 2015 Workshop Chairs --------------- Petra Isenberg - INRIA, France Bongshin Lee - Microsoft Research, USA Alark Joshi - University of San Francisco, USA Tobias Isenberg - INRIA, France Contact ------- For any questions regarding the workshop, contactdexisws2015(a)gmail.com +33 17 292 5916 | http://www.aviz.fr/~isenberg/ -- Petra Isenberg, PhD Research Scientist AVIZ group | INRIA Saclay Île-de-France phone: +33 17 292 5916 | http://www.aviz.fr/~isenberg/

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CFP: 1st Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis, at IEEE VIS 2015
by Carlos Scheidegger 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis (DSIA 2015) http://www.interactive-analysis.org/ Monday, October 26, Chicago. In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2015. *** Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 *** MOTIVATION AND BACKGROUND The goal of this workshop is to foster innovative research at the intersection of databases, machine learning, and interactive visualization. Database researchers have developed techniques for storing and querying massive amounts of data, including methods for distributed, streaming and approximate computation. Machine learning techniques provide ways to discover unexpected patterns and to automate and scale well-defined analysis procedures. Recent systems research has looked at how to develop novel database systems architectures to support the iterative, optimization-oriented workloads of machine learning algorithms. Of course, both the inputs and outputs of these systems are ultimately driven by people, in support of analysis tasks. The life-cycle of data involves an iterative, interactive process of determining which questions to ask, the data to analyze, appropriate features and models, and interpreting results. In order to achieve better analysis outcomes, data processing systems require improved interfaces that account for the strengths and limitations of human perception and cognition. Meanwhile, to keep up with the rising tide of data, interactive visualization tools need to integrate more techniques from databases and machine learning. In this workshop, we will explore the idea that the next generation of database, machine learning, and interactive visualization systems should not be designed in isolation. For example, machine learning techniques might recommend improved data transformation and visual encoding decisions. Or, database query optimizers might take advantage of perceptual constraints, while prefetching methods reduce latency by modeling likely interactions. This workshop seeks to jump start cross-pollination between these fields. The program will be split between invited talks from researchers in these communities, and speculative, ongoing work that straddles the areas. LIST OF TOPICS This workshop will focus on interactive systems: techniques, methods, architecture, systems that enable the user to interactively explore and analyze large amounts of data in the back end with little or no latency. We encourage late-breaking work, research in progress, and position papers in interactive analysis, broadly construed. For example, topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to): * design of database architectures for interactive analysis * novel database applications for interactive analysis * novel database techniques based on perceptual constraints and human-centered design * evaluation of database systems for interactive analysis * identify unique characteristics of database for supporting vis * communication protocols between front and back ends * techniques for data storage, retrieval, compression, transformation, sampling, and streaming * techniques for metadata generation * front-end architectures that exploit these novel back-end capabilities We are interested, more generally, in the questions that arise at the *intersection* of these systems. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2015 * Notification Date: August 15, 2015 * Final Version Due: August 30, 2015 * Workshop Date: Monday, October 26, 2015. 1-5pm WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Remco Chang, Tufts University * Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research * Carlos Scheidegger, University of Arizona * Jeffrey Heer, University of Washington CONTACT website: http://www.interactive-analysis.org email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org -------- Thank you very much, Carlos, on behalf of the DSIA organizers

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CRp - Deadline July 15 - 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015), 6-10, December 2015/San Diego, CA USA Call for Papers
by David S. Ebert 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015), 6-10, December 2015/San Diego, CA USA Call for Papers MOTIVATION AND SCOPE Beyond a platform for casual social interaction and for marketing research and broadcasting, social networks are also rapidly becoming a powerful tool for collaboration, innovation, coordination and problem solving. Social networks are now used to report crimes to law enforcement agencies, monitor health epidemics, issue community warnings and, lately, also to connect devices in a social network-based Internet of Things. We refer to the augmented use of social networks for collaboration between people, as well as between machines, as the Social Collaborative Internet. This international workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015) focuses on the crossroads between scientists, researchers, industry practitioners and students from diverse domains in social networking, communications and the Internet of Things. Its purpose is to attract novel contributions on the analysis, design, modeling, implementation and evaluation of technologies that can support the Social Collaborative Internet. The workshop will focus on the following (not limited) issues: - How to effectively utilize and evaluate social network and media data for public safety and emergency response? - Visualization and analytics techniques for social network and collaboration data. - How will the introduction of machine-to-machine communication in social networking affect security and privacy? - Performance, effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration through social networks. - Applications of social networks for supporting personalized information and improvement of quality of life (i.e. e-health, e-gov). - Extension of the social network concept, to include non-human participation (i.e. socially inspired paradigm for machine to machine communication). - Prototyping and standardization of interaction over social networks, (i.e. use of terminology, mapping to standards). - Convergence of Internet of things and Social networks towards a Social Internet of Things. TOPICS OF INTEREST Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, including, but not limited to: - Social network collaboration paradigms - Social network use by Law Enforcement Agencies - Social networks in the Health sector - Volunteerism in social media - Social network analysis and mining - Computational social networks - Security and privacy in social networks - Trust management in social networks - Next generation of social networks - Social Internet of things / Social network of intelligent objects - Machine to machine social networking IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: July 15, 2015 Acceptance/rejection notification: September 1, 2015 Final workshop papers due: October 1, 2015 Website: http://networklab.teipir.gr/sci-2015 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication. Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication, not submitted to any other conference/workshop at the same time. All final submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10 -point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge of USD100 if accepted). Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. Only timely submissions through EDAS will be accepted for review. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found at here: http://ieee.org/conferences_event You may also use one of the following templates for Microsoft Word: A4, US letter. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be done through EDAS. PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop at the FULL (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the workshop unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non- refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication- ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one FULL or LIMITED registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore(r). ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Charalampos Patrikakis (TEI of Piraeus) * George Loukas (University of Greenwich) * David S. Ebert (Purdue University) * Veronique Pevtschin (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.P.A.) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Pete Burnap (Cardiff University) * Bent Christensen (Cisco Systems, Inc) * Ed De Quincey (Keele University) * Paolo Falcarin (University of East London) * Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis (University of Greenwich) * Brian Fisher (Simon Fraser University) * Dimitris Kogias (TEI of Piraeus) * Ross Maciejewski (Arizona State University) * Sorin Adam Matei (Purdue University) * Dimitris Metafas (TEI of Piraeus) * Rasmus Nielsen (Cisco systems, Inc) * Neeli Prasad (Aalborg University) * William Ribarsky (UNC Charlotte) * Georgia Sakellari (Middlesex University) - Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 - - Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability - - Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence - - <http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org> http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org - - Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, <http://www.purvac.org> www.purvac.org - - <mailto:ebertd@purdue.edu> ebertd(a)purdue.edu <http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd> http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------

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IEEE VIS 2015: Student volunteer applications | Digital Compass | Other upcoming deadlines
by Jian Chen 04 Jul '15

04 Jul '15

*IEEE VIS 2015*: http://ieeevis.org: October 25-30 2015, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet… *The student volunteer applications* opened July 1st and will be open until August 1. http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/volunteer/student-volunteers *Digital Compass* (please sign up to meet & chat with colleagues in an informal setting) http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/digital-compass *Other upcoming VIS 2015 deadlines: * VISSec: http://vizsec.org/: paper due: 8/1/2015 Exploring graphs at scale: http://vacommunity.org/egas2015/index.html: paper due: 8/3/2015 Workshop: Visualization for decision making under uncertainty: http://vda.univie.ac.at/uncertainty2015/: paper due: 8/3/2015 Workshop: Data systems for interactive data analysis: http://www.interactive-analysis.org/: paper due: 7/31/2015 For other workshop deadlines, check out: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops. Best regards, -- Jian ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen/index.html

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CFP: IEEE VIS 2015: Seven Workshops
by Jian Chen 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Workshops at IEEE VIS 2015 <http://ieeevis.org/> provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization , involve experts in the field, diseeminate work in progres and promote new ideas. This year, IEEE VIS will host 7 workshops. Dates of the workshops: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/conference-glance <http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/conference-glance> *VAHC: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare:* http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org/ - Deadline for submission: July 17, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: August 28, 2015 - Camera-ready papers due: September 18, 2015 *1st Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS):* http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/etvis/ - Deadline for submission: July 26, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2015 *Exploring Graphs At Scale (EGAS)*: http://vacommunity.org/egas2015/index.html - Deadline for submission: August 3, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2015 *business|vis|15 -- From Data to Actionable Business Insights:* http://entsci.gatech.edu/businessvis15/ - Deadline for submission: August 15, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2015 - Camera-ready papers due: September 15, 2015 *Personal Visualization: Exploring Data in Everyday Life:* http://www.vis4me.com/personalvis15 - Deadline for submission: August 31, 2015 - Notifications of acceptance: TBA *Visualization for Decision Making Under Uncertainty* Submission Information: TBA *The 1st Workshop on Novel Backends for Interactive Visualization Systems* Submission information: TBA Best regards, - Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen/index.html

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Re: [Infovis] Revised Call for Nominations - IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award
by Wong, Pak C 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

IEEE VGTC VPG doctoral dissertation award CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award DEADLINE: July 31, 2015 http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-vpg-doctoral-dissertation-award IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)<http://vgtc.org/> sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG)<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group> under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VIS Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-vpg-doctoral-dissertation-award> is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS conference<http://ieeevis.org/>. Past recipients of the award are listed here<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-vpg-doctoral-dissertation-award-recipients>. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between July 31 two years before the award and July 31 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between July 31, 2013 and July 31, 2015 are eligible for the 2015 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SUBMISSION DEADLINE Nomination packets must be received by 5pm PDT on July 31, 2015. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1, 2015. AWARD The winner of the IEEE VGTC VIS Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A). Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student's advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student's advisor, which includes: * the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, * the name and email address of the candidate, and * a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission. For questions, contact vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>.

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