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Call for Workshop Papers (DIS 2017) Pedagogy & Physicalization: Designing Learning Activities around Physical Data Representations
by Samuel Huron 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

The deadline is soon ! :-) And the workshop will be awesome ! Come an join us ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Workshop Papers (DIS 2017) Pedagogy & Physicalization: Designing Learning Activities around Physical Data Representations Pedagogy & Physicalization: Designing Learning Activities around Physical Data Representations This workshop will be held as part of the DIS 2017 conference June 10-14, Edinburgh, UK http://dataphys.org/workshops/dis17/ Call for Participation In an age where data and their various representations proliferates many aspects of our professional and private lives, a new form of awareness and visual literacy is required that enables people to decipher, interpret, critically discuss and actively engage in activities around this public and/or personal data and its (visual) representations. Previous case studies have found Physicalization to be a productive way to introduce people of different ages, and with different backgrounds, to activities around data collection, processing, and representation. This full-day workshop will provide a rich hands-on introduction to and reflection on questions around the pedagogy of Physicalization. We will explore current research questions, as well as approaches to engaging people into designing physical data representations, while critically reflecting on the role these choices play in a learning environment. The aim of this workshop is to: (1) discuss different learning scenarios in which Physicalization activities can be beneficial, (2) explore different approaches on how to introduce Physicalization activities to different learning audiences, and (3) to build a community of researchers and practitioners interested in the pedagogical aspects of Physicalization. We invite designers, educators, researchers and practitioners from all backgrounds to participate in our workshop, which will explore Physicalization as an activity to encourage active learning. Participants are invited to submit a 2-4 page position paper in ACM CHI Extended Abstract Format to trevor.hogan(a)cit.ie by 27 April 2017. Toptics can include, but are not limited to, participants’ research or practical experience with applying Physicalization in educational and/or workshop scenarios from a teaching and/or methodological point of view. Submissions will be peer reviewed by an interdisciplinary review-committee. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop. Important Dates Paper Submission deadline: 27 April 2017 Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2017 Workshop date: 11 June 2017 Organizers Trevor Hogan (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland) Uta Hinrichs (The University of St Andrews, UK) Yvonne Jansen (Sorbonne Universités, France) Samuel Huron (Mines-Télécom ParisTech, France) Pauline Gourlet (University Paris 8 & EnsadLab, France) Eva Hornecker (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany) Bettina Nissen (University of Edinburgh, UK) More information available at: http://dataphys.org/workshops/dis17/ For any questions, please contact: trevor.hogan(a)cit.ie Best regards Samuel Huron

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Call for Participation: VIZBI 2017 (Sydney, Australia, 14-16 June)
by Julian Heinrich 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

VIZBI 2017 <https://vizbi.org/2017/>, the 8th international meeting on ‘Visualizing Biological Data’, will take place 14-16 June 2017 at the Charles Perkins Centre <http://sydney.edu.au/perkins> in Sydney, Australia, sponsored by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Destination New South Wales, and EMBL-Australia. VIZBI 2017 <https://vizbi.org/2017/> features keynotes from Daniel Keim <http://www.vis.uni-konstanz.de/en/members/keim>, Tamara Munzner <http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm>, and Drew Berry <http://www.wehi.edu.au/people/drew-berry>, and talks from 18 world-leading researchers <https://vizbi.org/2017/People/> showcasing visualizations transforming how life scientists view data, and driving key advances in molecular biology, systems biology, biomedical science, and ecology. The conference brings together a diverse community, including bioinformaticians, data scientists, computer scientists, and experimentalists, as well as medical illustrators, graphic designers, and graphic artists. VIZBI 2017 <https://vizbi.org/2017/> will be part of Vivid Sydney <https://www.vividsydney.com/> - a spectacular festival of light, music, and ideas - strong syngeries between these events give extra incentive to make the trip to Sydney. All participants have the opportunity to present a poster and a lightning talk <https://vizbi.org/2017/Posters/> describing their work. If you cannot join us in Sydney, you have the option of virtual registration, which allows participation via streaming video and chat. Tutorial proposals. Prior to the meeting (June 13), there will also be half-day tutorials on visualization tools & methods. If you are interested in running a tutorial, you are invited to submit a tutorial proposal <https://vizbi.org/2017/Tutorials/> (deadline: 20 March 2017). Sponsorship. If you are interested in promoting your organization or professional society, a range of sponsorship options <http://vizbi.org/2017/Sponsors> are also available. As with previous meetings, VIZBI 2017 <https://vizbi.org/2017/> promises to be an exciting event that will again help raise the standard of data visualization in the life sciences. We hope very much you can join us!

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Open PhD Position in Visual Analytics for Engineering Smarter Systems, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

==== PHD STUDENT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH SPECIALIZATION IN VISUAL ANALYTICS ==== placed at Linnaeus University, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Technology – Växjö Campus, Sweden Application Deadline: June 1, 2017 ****Description**** The focus of this advertised PhD position and the corresponding research project is on visual analytics for engineering smarter system. The research will be performed within the Linnaeus University Center on Data Intensive Sciences and Applications, DISA, funded by Linnaeus University for five years. Overall aim of this DISA subproject is to better understand and engineer complex cyber-physical systems. We will develop foundational visual analytics principles, techniques and tools for analyzing data and models in those systems. Thus, trust into the analysis results will be finally increased by making the analysis methods and resulting empirical models transparent for end users. In consequence, our users will be enabled to better predict the behavior of cyber-physical systems and to reconstruct the underlying models more efficiently when needed. Duties consist mainly of the following: • Graduate studies in the field of Visual Analytics, with a doctoral degree as the goal. The PhD thesis should be completed and defended within the official appointment duration of five years (4 years graduate studies, 1 year departmental tasks). • Research in the field Visual Analytics. The position is part of DISA and its subproject Visual Analytics for Engineering Smarter Systems. • Regularly present intermediate research results at international conferences and workshops, and publish them in conference proceedings and journals. • Close collaboration with the other project members in an interdisciplinary research environment as well as with domain experts. • At most 20% of the working time will be dedicated to teaching and other departmental tasks. Note that a PhD position in Sweden is a salaried employment with the right to social benefits and paid vacations. ****Qualifications**** Qualification requirements A person fulfils the general entry requirements. if he/she has comprised a completed undergraduate program of at least 240 credits, including 60 credits at advanced level, or the equivalent knowledge in Sweden or abroad. Specific requirements are • approved courses of a minimum of 90 credits in the subject Computer and Information Science or the equivalent, and • an individual study project of a minimum of 15 credits in the subject Computer and Information Science, or the equivalent. Others The specific prerequisites for admission to PhD studies within the above-mentioned specialization are • a successfully finished Master’s thesis in a field related to Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, or Data Sciences; and • high proficiency in written and spoken English. ****Assessment criteria**** Excellent knowledge in the focused research areas of information visualization and visual analytics is a strong advantage. Good programming skills (Java, JavaScript / HTML5, WebGL/OpenGL) and a solid training in mathematics, data mining, or machine learning are highly preferred. Documented expertise and working experience within at least one of the following research and educational areas is a great advantage: • Visual analytics of Big Data • Visual analytics of streaming data • Multidimensional visualization techniques in combination with machine learning and/or data mining techniques (such as dimensionality reduction) • Evaluation of visualizations • Experiences in specific application domains and their visualization needs related to the DISA subproject, such as in systems engineering Because of the interdisciplinary character of the project and DISA, the candidate should be an enthusiastic person who is interested in making sense of large and complex data sets of various types as well as capable of working both independently and within a group. Teamwork experiences should be documented in the application. Applicants will be selected through a qualitative overall assessment of the competences and skills, assessed most suitable to conduct research and to contribute to a successful development of the research environment. ****How to apply**** Interested candidates find detailed application information including contact details on the following web page https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/work-at-the-university/?rmpage=j… Online applications (reference number: 2017/2251-2.2.1) will be received until June 1, 2017. The application must include a cover letter (with a motivation why the candidate wants to pursue this PhD project in visual analytics), a resume and the contact information of two referees. In addition, a link to the candidate’s Master’s thesis should be provided. ****Further information**** The advertised position will be physically placed in the ISOVIS Research Group led by Professor Andreas Kerren who is a member and key researcher of DISA. The ISOVIS group mainly focuses on the explorative analysis and visualization of typically large and complex information spaces. Our vision is to attack the big data challenge by a combination of human-centered data analysis and interactive visualization for decision making. These research topics are highly relevant for academia and economy as both science and industry make increasing use of data-intensive technologies. Linnaeus University, Sweden, has the ambition to utilize the qualities that an even gender distribution and diversity brings to the organization. -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linnaeus University + Department of Computer Science + Vejdes Plats 7, Room B3019 + SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden + + Phone: +46 470 767502 + Fax: +46 470 84004 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)lnu.se + WWW: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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BioVis full paper deadline extended to April 20th
by Jillian Aurisano 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

The paper deadline for the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) has been extended to *April 20th*. Details below. ========================= BioVis will be held as a Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2017 July 24, 2017 Prague, Czech Republic http://biovis.net/ https://twitter.com/biovis_net ========================= We invite submissions of contributions to the BioVis Symposium in various formats on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. For detailed information including submission instructions please refer to the full CfP at http://biovis.net/2017/cfp_ismb/ Full Papers ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a full paper to the BioVis Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in BMC Bioinformatics ( https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/, impact factor 2.4) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: April 20, 2017 Highlight Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts highlighting previously published work. Accepted highlight talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Posters ---------------------------- We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, or visualization challenges to be presented as a poster. A selection of these will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2017

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Workshop on Immersive Analytics @ IEEE VIS 2017
by benjamin bach 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Call for Papers: Workshop on Immersive Analytics: Exploring Future Interaction and Visualization Technologies for Data Analytics (#Immersive2017) We are inviting short paper submissions (2-4 pages, TVCG style) and/or posters for our workshop on immersive analytics, held jointly with the IEEE VIS conference, October 1st, in Phoenix (http://ieeevis.org <http://ieeevis.org/>). Accepted papers will made available in the IEEE Digital Library. http://immersiveanalytics.net Deadline: 21st July 2017 Due to the recent advances in immersive technologies (VR, AR, large displays, tangible surfaces, etc.), we see new opportunities to using these technologies to analyse and explore data. Visual analytics is concerned with analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. This definition is agnostic of the actual interface devices employed by visual analysis systems. Nevertheless, the affordances of the display and input devices used for analyzing data strongly affect the experience of the users of such systems, and so, their degree of engagement and productivity. However, a systematic approach to developing visual analytic tools that move beyond the desktop is yet lacking. In this call, we are looking for innovative research, design, and view-points, mature or work-in-progress, that fall into or are related to the following topics: Real-world VR/AR/MR, Collaboration, Hybrid 2D/3D,Affordances for Immersion, Changing Technologies, Application Areas, Platforms and Toolkits. We call this new research thrust ``Immersive Analytics", a topic that will explore the applicability and development of emerging user-interface technologies for creating more engaging experiences and seamless workflows for data analysis applications. More info here. Representative subtopics: Hybrid 2D/3D Changing Technologies and Scenarios Affordances for Immersion Collaboration Physical and Tangible Visualization Interaction Techniques for visualization Real-World VA and Applications Workshop Organizers: Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh, UK (main contact) Maxime Cordeil, Monash University, VIC Tim Dwyer, Monash University, VIC Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research Bahador Saket, Georgia Tech Alex Endert, Georgia Tech Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary

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Paper Submission Deadline Extended to April 28
by Yina Li 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

============================================================ VINCI 2017 The 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction Bangkok, Thailand, 14-16 August 2017 Paper submission deadline 28 April 2017 vinci-conf.org ============================================================ Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, and visual languages. Visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and mobile devices. The Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI) (vinci-conf.org) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. The 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI'17) will be held during 14-16 August 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to submit revised versions of their works to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier, SCI indexed). In addition, revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press, AHCI indexed). ============================================================ 1. SCOPES AND TOPICS We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, or other media. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension Empirical studies of novel visual metaphor Visual interaction through multimodality Visual approaches for knowledge discovery Computational aesthetics Visual analytics Graph drawing and (multivariate) network visualization Information visualization Graphical user interface design Aesthetics in visual communication Influence of visual arts and design Visual modeling languages and UML Visual communication metaphors Visual programming languages Visualization on mobile devices Applications like SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, ... Sketching Human-computer interaction 2. PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions that address research and development, as well as experience reports and tool demonstrations on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. Each submitted symposium paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three International Program Committee members. All accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings of VINCI 2017 published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Moreover, authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to prepare revised versions of their work for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier; SCI indexed). In addition, it is planned that revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for the subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press; AHCI indexed). Research papers and experience reports of up to eight (8), short papers of up tofour (4), and tool demonstrations or posters of up to two (2) ACM double-column pages should be submitted through easychair.org. The review process will be single-blind. We appreciate the submission of videos or other supplemental material. Please provide a URL at the end of the submitted paper to enable the reviewers the download of your additional material. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found at the end of this page. 3. KEYNOTE SPEECH Keynote speech 1 Learning through Overcoming Inconsistencies, Prof. Du Zhang, (Macau University of Science and Technology) Du Zhang is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees, both in computer science, from the University of Illinois and Nanjing University, China, respectively. Previously he was a Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at California State University, Sacramento. He has research affiliations with numerous universities in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China, Czech Republic, and Mexico. Professor Zhang's current research interests include machine learning (inconsistency-induced perpetual learning), knowledge-based systems, big data analytics, and software engineering. He has over 200 publications in these and other areas. He has served in various roles on numerous international conferences, and is editor or editorial board member for several journals in the areas of artificial intelligence, software engineering and knowledge engineering, big data, and applied mathematics. Professor Zhang is a senior member of both the IEEE and ACM, a board member of the Society of Information Reuse and Integration, and a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Phi Beta Delta. Keynote speech 2 Michael CohenSpatial Media and Visualization, Prof. Michael Cohen (University of Aizu, Japan) Michael Cohen received an Sc.B. in EE from Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) in 1980, M.S. in CS from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1988, and Ph.D. in EECS from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) in 1991. He has worked at the Air Force Geophysics Lab (Hanscom Field, Massachusetts), Weizmann Institute (Rehovot; Israel), Teradyne (Boston, Massachusetts), BBN (Cambridge, Massachusetts and Stuttgart; Germany), Bellcore (Morristown and Red Bank, New Jersey), the Human Interface Technology Lab (Seattle, Washington), and the Audio Media Research Group at the NTT Human Interface Lab (Musashino and Yokosuka; Japan). He is currently a Professor in the Human Interface Lab at the University of Aizu (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan). He has research interests in user interfaces for telecommunications, groupware and CSCW (computer-supported collaborative work), stereotelephonics, digital typography and electronic publishing, hypermedia, ubicomp (ubiquitous computing) and virtual reality. Besides teaching various undergraduate courses including Information Theory, he co-teaches graduate-level courses in Acoustic Modeling, and Computer Music. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, 3D-Forum, TUG (TeX Users Group), and VRSJ (Virtual Reality Society of Japan). 4. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS VINCI'17 is also soliciting proposals for full-day or half-day workshops and tutorials on topics that address areas of interest to the community. Proposals should not be longer than a maximum of 2 pages. In particular, workshop proposals should include: The title and a brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address, the reasons why the workshop is of interest in these times, and the main research areas involved. Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the proposed topic(s) and previous experience in chairing scientific events. A tentative list of program committee members. Intended length (half or full day) and a draft of the Call for Papers. It is expected that the workshop organizers will setup an own workshop web page as soon as the workshop proposal has been accepted. Tutorials usually attract a broad range of audiences, including professionals, researchers, students, or practitioners, who wish to enhance their knowledge in the specific tutorial topic. Tutorials offer a unique opportunity to disseminate in-depth information on specific topics in visual information communication and interaction. Tutorial proposals should include short biographies of the proposers, a draft of the tutorial content, intended length, and evidence of the possibility of attracting audience to the tutorial. It is possible to extend the symposium by one day in case many workshops or tutorials are proposed and accepted. Detailed information on the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals can be found at the end of this page. 5. SPECIAL SESSIONS AND PANELS We also invite special session and panel proposals for VINCI'17. Proposals for special sessions and panels should include the title, aim and scope, the names and affiliations of the organizers together with a short biography. A list of potential contributors or panel members would be surely helpful too. The proposers are expected to have a good publication track record and excellent standing in the proposed area. Papers submitted to special sessions should be done through the VINCI'17 EasyChair submission system. The paper types are identical to those of regular submissions. It is the responsibility of the special session organizers to make sure that papers submitted to their special session clearly indicate the name of the special session the paper belongs to. All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the regular papers (however chaired by the special session organizers) and will appear in the VINCI'17 conference proceedings as well. The symposium chairs reserve the right to move accepted papers for a special session into a regular session in case the special session has finally less than four papers. In this case, the special session will be cancelled. 6. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel proposals due: still open Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel decision and notification: within one week after submission Paper submission deadline: April 28, 2017 (23:59 PST) Notification of decision: May 19, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: June 01, 2017 7. ORGANIZATION General Chair Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau, Macau Program Chairs Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu, Japan Jie Li, Tianjin University, China Local Chair Vithida Chongsuphajaisiddhi, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Finance Chair Vajirasak Vanijja, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Publicity Chair Yi-Na Li Texas A&M University, USA 8. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Benjamin Bach, Harvard University Rita Borgo, King's College London Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome Paul Bourke, University of New South Wales Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart Vetria Byrd, Purdue University Daniel Cernea, AGT International Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern Mai Elshehaly, Virginia Tech Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno Liang Gou, Visa Research Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech Jiquan Han, Huawei Technologies Jiangen He, Drexel University Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University Weidong Huang, University of Tasmania Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz Jun Kong, North Dakota State University Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University Yina Li, Nankai University Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University Zhipeng Liu, Huawei Technologies Aidong Lu, UNC Charlotte Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center John McGhee, UNSW Australia Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Chris Muelder, University of California at Davis Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Patrick Pang, The University of Melbourne Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology Francois Poulet, IRISA Martin R?hlig, University of Rostock Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Ioannis G. Tollis, University of Crete Cagatay Turkay, City University London Gualtiero Volpe, DIBRIS-University of Genova Sai-Keung Wong, The National Chiao Tung University Hsiang-Yun Wu, Keio University Jie Wu, Tongji University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, CSIRO Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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Reminder: BioVis full paper deadline April 13
by Julian Heinrich 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

This is a reminder of the upcoming paper deadline on April 13 for the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) ========================= BioVis will be held as a Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2017 July 24, 2017 Prague, Czech Republic http://biovis.net/ https://twitter.com/biovis_net ========================= We invite submissions of contributions to the BioVis Symposium in various formats on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. For detailed information including submission instructions please refer to the full CfP at http://biovis.net/2017/cfp_ismb/ Full Papers ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a full paper to the BioVis Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in BMC Bioinformatics ( https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/, impact factor 2.4) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: April 13, 2017 Highlight Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts highlighting previously published work. Accepted highlight talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Posters ---------------------------- We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, or visualization challenges to be presented as a poster. A selection of these will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2017

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VizSec 2017 Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

The 14th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) 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 Phoenix, AZ, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Monday, October 2nd, 2017. VizSec explores effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. Technical Papers Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that 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 - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Vulnerability management - 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 When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable. Submissions including tests and evaluations of existing tools and techniques are also considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VizSec Data Sets page. Short Papers Short papers describing practical applications of security visualization are solicited. We encourage the submission of papers discussing the introduction of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not limited to: - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting operational needs - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a positive impact - Lessons learned from operational engagements - Insights gained from the transition process Cyber security practitioners from industry, as well as the research community, are encouraged to submit case studies. 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 the VizSec website. Submissions The VizSec 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE "Conference Style" template that can be found at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submit papers and poster abstracts: Link coming soon. Papers ------ Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. 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. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. The VizSec proceedings will be published by IEEE. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Short Papers ------------ Short papers should be at most 4 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Short paper submissions will be reviewed by the Paper Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted short paper authors will have time to present their work at VizSec during the program. Posters Extended abstract should be at most 2 pages including the bibliography. Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the Poster Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted 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. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. Papers and Case Studies - August 8, 2017 Submission for Papers and Case Studies - September 5, 2017 Author Notification for Papers and Case Studies - October 3, 2017 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters - September 19, 2017 Abstract Submission for Posters - September 30, 2017 Author Notification for Posters

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CFP: Visual Analytics in Healthcare Workshop at IEEE VIS 2017 (Upcoming Deadline: May 1, 2017)
by Visual Analytics Healthcare 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2017, Oct 1st or Oct 2nd, Phoenix, Arizona) Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org *** Paper Submissions due May 1st, 2017 *** CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------- The 2017 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2017) is the eighth annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art data visualization techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The primary objective of the annual workshop is to bring together medical experts, leading scientists, and visionaries to discuss visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data and discuss the areas of healthcare that need more attention from the visualization and visual data mining communities. The workshop will allow participants to showcase their ongoing work on visual analytics of healthcare-related data through podium, posters, or demo presentations as well as to learn more about emerging techniques, software applications, and datasets. In years past, demos of prototype and/or production visual analytics software have been particularly well received, and paper submitters should also consider submitting a companion demo proposal. During the last seven years the Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) has been organized and hosted annually. The VAHC workshop has been hosted four times at the IEEE VIS conference (2010, 2011, 2012, and 2015) and three times at the AMIA Annual Symposium (2013, 2014, and 2016). This year the VAHC 2017 workshop is held in conjunction with the IEEE VIS conference in Phoenix, Arizona. For information about all previous VAHC events and to access the open-access proceedings from each of the previous workshops, please see http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------ We will welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, and machine learning for healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of a variety of users, including clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, pharmaco-vigilance experts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, insurance claim analysts, and patients. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: * Visualization of Public Health Data * Visualization of patient-generated health data * Design principles of Dashboards for Public Health Surveillance programs * Visual analysis and exploration of longitudinal clinical data * Visual data mining of EMRs * Visualization of prescriptions drug-drug interactions * Improving hospital and operating room (OR) workflow with visual analytics * Outcome forecasting or prediction * Visual analytics for patient safety * Pandemic forecasting and tracking * Visual analytics in radiology * Visual analytics in the emergency department (ED) * Improving patient understanding and/or physician-patient communication with visual analytics * Visual Analytics as a means for knowledge discovery * Human Computer Interaction of EHRs PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academic, healthcare organizations, and industry that addresses any of the topics listed above. Submissions can be for (1) paper / podium presentations, (2) poster presentations, or (3) live & interactive demonstrations. - Paper: Papers are limited to eight pages. Accepted papers will be published on the IEEE Xplore digital library and the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. - Poster: Poster abstract submissions are limited to two pages. Accepted posters will be included in the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. - Demo: Demonstration abstract submissions are limited to two pages. Accepted demonstration abstracts will be included in the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. All material should be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS). Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Deadline for submission: May 1st, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Jun 19th, 2017 † Camera-ready papers due: July 6th, 2017 VAHC 2017 workshop: October 1st or Oct 2nd, 2017 (to be determined by VIS 2017) JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: ---------------------- Visit www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org to join our mailing list. NEWS: ----- Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2016) are now available at http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org/proceedings.html ORGANIZERS: ---------------- Jurgen Bernard - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (juergen.bernard at gris.tu-darmstadt.de) Jesus J Caban - NICoE, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Theresia Gschwandtner - Vienna University of Technology (gschwandtner at cvast.tuwien.ac.at) Jeremy Warner - Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN (USA)

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Fully-funded PhD Studentship opportunity at giCentre, City, University of London
by Aidan Slingsby 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Our school is offering a limited number of fully-funded PhD studentships. These provide an excellent opportunity to study for a PhD at the giCentre, starting in October. We are currently looking for candidates who are interested in topics related data visualisation. We have a list of suggested PhD topics (https://www.gicentre.net/phd-topics) but you may also propose your own if it fits within our areas of expertise. If you are interested, please email us on gicentre(a)city.ac.uk, either indicating which proposal interests you or giving us your own specific ideas. You'll need to contact us well in advance of the deadline of 19th May. More details are here: https://www.gicentre.net/ We look forward to following this up with some of you. Please email gicentre(a)city.ac.uk if you're interested in any of these opportunities.

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