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Submission Deadline Extended: Call for Participation for IEEE VIS 2018 Workshop on Machine Learning from User Interaction for Visualization and Analytics
by John Wenskovitch 27 Jun '18

27 Jun '18

Please note below that the paper submission deadline has been extended until July 15. *IEEE VIS 2018 Workshop:* *MACHINE LEARNING FROM USER INTERACTION FOR VISUALIZATION AND ANALYTICS* *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Date and Location*: October 21 or 22, 2018 in Berlin, Germany *Website*: https://learningfromusersworkshop.github.io/ The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from across the VIS community – SciVis, InfoVis, and VAST – to share their knowledge and build collaborations at the intersection of the Machine Learning and Visualization fields, with a focus on learning from user interaction. Our intention in this workshop is to pull expertise from across all fields of VIS in order to generate open discussion about how we currently learn from user interaction and where we can go with future research in this area. We hope to foster discussion regarding systems, interaction models, and interaction techniques across fields within the VIS community, rather than the current state of having these discussions independently contained within the SciVis/InfoVis/VAST fields. Further, we hope to collaboratively create a research agenda that explores the future of machine learning with user interaction based on the discussion during the workshop. *WORKSHOP TOPICS* The topic of the workshop will focus on issues and opportunities related to the use of machine learning to learn from user interaction in the course of data visualization and analysis. Specifically, we will focus on research questions including: - How are machine learning algorithms currently learning from user interaction, and what other possibilities exist? - What kinds of interactions can provide feedback to machine learning algorithms? - What can machine learning algorithms learn from interactions? - Which machine learning algorithms are most applicable in this domain? - How can machine learning algorithms be designed to enable user interaction and feedback? - How can visualizations and interactions be designed to exploit machine learning algorithms? - How can visualization system architectures be designed to support machine learning? - How should we manage conflicts between the user’s intent and the data or machine learning algorithm capabilities? - How can we evaluate systems that incorporate both machine learning algorithms and user interaction together? - How can machine learning and user interaction together make both computation and user cognition more efficient? - How can we support the sensemaking process by learning from user interaction? *SUBMISSIONS* We have two submission tracks: for papers and for posters. *Papers* We invite research and position papers between 5 and 10 pages in length (NOT including references). All submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> (i.e., NOT the journal style template that full papers use). Papers are to be submitted online through the Precision Conference System <https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc> *at the Machine Learning from User Interaction for Visualization and Analytics track*. All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published on IEEE Xplore and linked from the workshop website. All papers should contain full author names and affiliations. If applicable, a link to a short video (up to 5 min. in length) may also be submitted. The papers will be juried by the organizers and selected external reviewers and will be chosen according to relevance, quality, and likelihood that they will stimulate and contribute to the discussion. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the conference (even if only for the workshop). Registration information will be available on the IEEE VIS website <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome>. Important Dates - Submission deadline: June 30, 2018 July 15, 2018 - Author notification: July 31, 2018 August 6, 2018 - Camera-ready deadline: August 20, 2018 - Speaker Schedule Available: September 15, 2018 - Workshop: October 21 or 22, 2018 *Posters* We invite both late-breaking work and contributions in this area from other research domains to submit extended abstracts between 2 and 4 pages in length (NOT including references). All submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> (i.e., *NOT the journal style template that full papers use*). Extended abstracts are to be submitted online through the Precision Conference System (additional details TBA; do NOT use the PCS link above to submit extended abstracts for posters). All abstracts accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published on IEEE Xplore and linked from the workshop website. All abstracts should contain full author names and affiliations. If applicable, a link to a short video (up to 5 min. in length) may also be submitted. The abstracts will be juried by the organizers and selected external reviewers and will be chosen according to relevance, quality, and likelihood that they will stimulate and contribute to the discussion. At least one author of each accepted poster needs to register for the conference (even if only for the workshop). Registration information will be available on the IEEE VIS website <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome>. Important Dates - Submission deadline: August 15, 2018 - Author notification: September 1, 2018 - Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2018 - Workshop: October 21 or 22, 2018 *ORGANIZERS* - John Wenskovitch, Virginia Tech (jw87(a)vt.edu) - Michelle Dowling, Virginia Tech (dowlingm(a)vt.edu) - Chris North, Virginia Tech - Remco Chang, Tufts University - Alex Endert, Georgia Tech - David Rogers, Los Alamos National Lab

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call for book chapters: THE SERIOUS STORYTELLING HANDBOOK - 30th June 2018 || data storytelling || storytelling outside entertainment || hci || health || eductation || games || eLearning || multimedia
by artur.lugmayr＠ambientmediaassociation.org 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

WE ARE URGENTLY SEACHING FOR BOOK CHAPTERS WITH THE THEMATIC AREA OF - Data Storytelling - Information Visualisation - Animation, Graphics, 3D/VR/AR I truly hope someone of this group is joining this exciting activity. There are only Expressions of Interests required at this stage (thus abstracts with up to 500 words).... But we still lack on solid contributions from this domain... Thank you very much for your consideration.... ============================================================================ ============================ ============================================================================ ============================ ============================================================================ ============================ Call for Book Chapters Proposals THE SERIOUS STORYTELLING HANDBOOK Storytelling outside the Entertainment Context to Engage, Enlighten, and Explain in Serious Games, Data Storytelling, User-Experience, AI, Health, eLearning, Science, Digital Media, and Business/Management The handbook is transdisciplinary and should address technology, human, storytelling, and business issues in the fields of entertainment computation, human-computer-interaction, media technology and design, information systems research, multimedia, data science, digital games, eLearning, eHealth, and digital media scholars. Artur Lugmayr, Helmut Hlavacs, and Calkin Suero Montero (Eds.) Published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Taylor&Francis Group The book will be the pilot book for the new Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation, published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Taylor&Francis Group. Upcoming Deadline: June 30th 2018: Expression of Interest and/or Final Chapters Contact: artur.lugmayr(a)artur-lugmayr.com Book Website: http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com Submission System: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2017Story/ Newsletter: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/phplist/?p=subscribe ============================================================================ ============================== ============================================================================ ============================== ============================================================================ ============================== "Storytelling outside the context of entertainment, where the narration progresses as a sequence of patterns impressive in quality, relates to a serious context, and is a matter of thoughtful process." Serious storytelling - a First Definition and Review A. Lugmayr, E. Sutinen, J. Suhonen, C. Sedano, H. Hlavacs, C. Montero Multimedia Tools and Applications 76(14),pp. 15707-15733, 2016 In human culture, storytelling has a long tradition. The reasons why stories have been told are manifold: to entertain, to transfer knowledge between generations, to keep cultural heritage, or to warn others of dangers. With the emergence of the digitalization of media many new possibilities to tell stories emerged in serious and non-entertainment contexts. A very simple example is the idea of serious gaming - thus digital games without primarily an entertainment purpose. Within this handbook, we generalize the approach of serious games, on other genres of digital storytelling, and call for handbook typical contributions which introduce "serious storytelling: storytelling with a purpose beyond entertainment" as new approach. We seek for handbook alike contributions, reviews of existing application areas, established theories and methods, fundamental concepts, ground breaking research results in a transdisciplinary approach. The handbook shall range across domains, and illustrate storytelling outside an entertainment context in e.g. data science, artificial intelligence, well-being and health, medicine, psychology, education, ethical problem solving, eLeadership, and business/management, robotics, storytelling in deep learning and big data, qualitative journalism, serious games, storytelling in simulations, HCI research and storytelling, VR/AR training, user-experience studies, and online communication. If you want to learn more about the idea of serious storytelling, please consult the journal article that has been introducing this new idea: A. Lugmayr, E. Sutinen, J. Suhonen, C. Sedano, H. Hlavacs, C. Montero, Serious storytelling - a First Definition and Review, Multimedia Tools and Applications 76(14),pp. 15707-15733, 2016. THEMES AND TOPICS The handbook is suited for people with interest in entertainment computation, human-computer-interaction, media technology and design, information systems research, multimedia, data science, digital games, eLearning, eHealth, new media scholars, and visualisation. . Storytelling in/for data science, AI, Big Data, and deep learning . Storytelling in HCI and User-Experience research . Human-Computer-Interaction supporting serious storytelling . Animation, graphics, 3D, VR, and AR storytelling . Serious storytelling in business, leadership, and law . Education and serious storytelling . Digital forensics and storytelling . Storytelling and social media . Anthropological perspectives of serious storytelling . Storytelling as part of the innovation process . Medicine, wellness, and therapy and storytelling . Storytelling in science, and scientific PR and publishing . Automated generation of stories . New computational paradigms (e.g. quantum computing) in storytelling . Narrative form, structure, and expression . Media technology, multimedia, and entertainment computation . Theories, methods, frameworks, and concepts . Your idea? CONTRIBUTIONS We seek for full research papers, literature surveys, technical solutions, surveys of the field, theory of storytelling, essays, state of the art descriptions, best practices in real life projects, and point of views and critique of the topic. As it's a handbook, contributions not essentially need to be new, we also seek for proofed concepts, methods, existing projects, and ideas that contribute to a handbook type of book. We would like to focus on shaping a NOVEL research direction, and define Digital Serious Storytelling as a new research pathway. Therefore, we are seeking for establishing theory. As we would like to have a tightly controlled editing process, we will mix authors of different contributions as well as we will step into the chapter authoring processes as it is required to get a red line through the book. We would not like to have an edited book consisting of a set of loosely connected chapters. We want to create a reference book, which will have impact, and act as teaching reference. SUBMISSION DEADLINES . June 30th 2018: Expression of Interest and Intend to Submit a Chapter (or Final Chapters) . July 30th 2018: Invitation of a Selected set of Expression of Interests as Final Full Chapter . Sept. 30th 2018: Final Full Chapters (also authors who did not submit an expression of interest can contribute) . Nov. 30th 2018: Review Results to Authors after (Double Blinded Review) . Jan., 15th 2019: Final Chapters Due SUBMISSION GUIDELINES . Please format your submission according the guidelines in: https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Inst ructions_Disk_Word_v1_1.pdf (Microsoft Word) or https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Inst ructions_Disk_Latex_v1_1.pdf (LaTeX) . Expressions of interests should contain title, author information, short one sentence pitch of the proposed chapter, perspective of the chapter (technical, business, computer science, HCI, new media, data science....), author short bios, author pictures, 1500 word description of the contribution, own research publication contributing the final book chapters, and list of references to be considered for the final contribution. . Authors are encouraging to submit final chapters as their expression of interest, and these efforts will be rewarded and help us to decide upon the final accepted chapters. However, we also fully consider thoroughly written expression of interests, which are contributing directly to the book, and will invite a selected set of high quality contributions to submit a final full chapter. Authors who did not submit an expression of interest, are encouraged to submit a final chapter at the final chapter due date. . We only accept submissions through the submission system. If you have multiple files (e.g. word document, pdf, and multiple figures) to submit, please upload ALL THE FILLES AS A .ZIP ARCHIEVE to the submission system. . The submission system can be found on: www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2017Story/ ABOUT THE SERIES The book will be published as part of a new series. The Chapman & Hall/CRC Emerging Media and User-Experience Computation Series presents cross-disciplinary research, case studies, and insights into media technology, media business, and media design. The series will cover many topics of interest, including, but not limited to: advancements in media technology, animation, media design, music, robotics, video, content production, information systems, content systems, interactive media, visual effects, asset management, design approaches, user-experience, quality of experience, simulation, serious games, digital games, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The series is cross-disciplinary, and seeks contributions from computer science, media design, human-computer-interaction, psychology, (mass)-communication, information systems, and business viewpoints. If you are considering a separate book proposal for the series, please do not hesitate to contact the series editor and consult the series website on http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com. The book will be the pilot book for the new Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation, published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Taylor&Francis Group. If you would like to contribute to the series with an own book chapter proposal, please consult the series website: http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com.

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ACM IUI 2019: Call for workshop proposals
by Axel Soto 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

**Reposting due to missing dates in the previous post** IUI CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019) Los Angeles, CA, USA March 17 - 20, 2019 http://iui.acm.org/ ================================================================================= IUI 2019 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the last day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics (or related). We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Project centric" workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large scale (e.g. NSF, EU, etc. funded) project. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. =============== PROPOSAL FORMAT =============== Note: One of the keys to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshop-iui2019(a)acm.org) and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI Paper Format, https://sigchi.org/templates/ . Please submit your proposal by e-mail to the workshop chairs at workshop-iui2019(a)acm.org The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2019 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. - Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in, or contribute a paper to, the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI: https://sigchi.org/templates/ . Additional guidelines: ---------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs. - Organizers: We strongly encourage all of the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. - Workshop summary: An extended abstract with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2019. - Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. - Cancellation: Workshops with few submissions by December 5, 2018 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. This will be done in consultation between the IUI 2019 workshop chairs and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own website with updated information about the workshop and the IUI 2019 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2019 workshop chairs. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP (workshops2019(a)iui.acm.org) Proposals due: August 14, 2018 Decisions Sent: September 14, 2018 ** TENTATIVE dates of the review cycle ** Submission deadline: December 3, 2018 Report submission status to IUI workshop chairs: December 5, 2018 Final go/no-go decision: December 7, 2018 Camera-ready of workshop summary: December 14, 2018 Notifications to authors: January 14, 2019 Camera-ready of accepted papers: February 15, 2019 Workshop date: March 20, 2019 ================== WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ================== Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, Norway Denis Parra, Pontifical Catholic University, Chile Nathalie Riche, Microsoft Research

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VisInPractice Mini-Symposium on Visualizing Uncertainty
by Oelke, Daniela 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The VisInPractice program at IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org/> is an opportunity for visualization practitioners and researchers to meet and share experiences, insights, and ideas in applying visualization and visual analytics to real-world use cases. VisInPractice seeks to acknowledge successful transfers of visualization research into applications as well as current visualization practices occurring in industry. Our primary goal is to supplement the successful program of IEEE VIS with content that is relevant to visualization practitioners. VisInPractice Mini-Symposium on Visualizing Uncertainty The VisInPractice 2018 Program<http://www.visinpractice.rwth-aachen.de/program.html> will include a fast-paced, single-session mini-symposium on the practical aspects of uncertainty visualization. Prefaced with a primer talk by Kristi Potter<https://www.nrel.gov/research/kristi-potter.html> from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the event will also include six 10-minute lightning talks. Submission Details We now encourage submissions for these lightning talks via the Precision Conference submission system<https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions>. We ask for a concise 250-word abstract, a 150-word paragraph on what a practitioner can expect to learn from the talk, and one descriptive image figure. Rather than focusing on the academic sophistication of your solution, you must clearly present the practical relevance of your approach. Successful submissions will communicate the general impact of their approach beyond the their specialized application area. Your 250-word abstract should answer the following questions: * What form does your data take and how does uncertainty manifest in it? * What task are you addressing? * How does your visualization solution address uncertainty in the data? * What were the results of applying your solution? We also ask for a 150-word statement that indicates what a practitioner can expect to learn from the talk, answering the following questions with regards to visualizing uncertainty: * What new insight will the audience gain? * What new ability can they apply in their own practice? Based on this input, the VisInPractice Chairs will select the topics that make up the session. We are looking forward to your submissions and to a lively discussion at VisInPractice 2018. Important Dates * June 30, 2018: Abstract submission deadline via Precision Conference<https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions> * July 31, 2018: Notification * August 14, 2018: Revised abstract deadline * September 7, 2018: IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org/> early registration deadline * October 22, 2018: VisInPractice 2018 at IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org/> in Berlin http://www.visinpractice.rwth-aachen.de/cfp.html

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Fwd: Visualization Show Case – CARLA 2018
by Benjamín Hernández 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Visualization Show Case – CARLA 2018 Building on the great success of the previous nine editions, this year the Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing (CARLA 2018) will be held in the Guatiguará Technology Park, in Piedecuesta town at Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga City in Colombia, from September 26 to 28. The Visualization Showcase presents the convergence of novel methods, algorithms, technologies and creative processes to produce scientific imagery and its applications to enable scientific discovery. The visualization should show the science behind and highlight insights gained from analyzing the simulation results. Authors are invited to submit posters and visualization demos as short papers describing the scientific problem the simulation seeks to solve and methods, tools, techniques, etc. employed to enable discovery through visualization. Instructions for Authors Short papers must be written in English and not exceed 4 pages following the Springer LNCS/CCIS style. Proposals should be submitted in PDF file format using EasyChair under the topic “Visualization Show Case”. All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by three experts and returned to the author(s). The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presentation during the conference. Poster display format details will be send to authors of accepted proposals. For visualization demos, authors must submit an open access link to a supplemental video of at least 1 minute supporting their short paper. Accepted proposals will be presented in a special session during the regular program of the conference and short papers will be published in special proceedings. Important Dates (tentative): Deadline June 29th 2018 Notification July 15th 2018 Camera Ready: July 30 2018 Submission: Authors must select the topic “Visualization Show Case” before submission https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=carla2018 More info: http://www.ccarla.org/index.php/visualization-show-case-carla-2018/ Chairs Jose Tiberio Hernández, Universidad de los Andes Benjamín Hernández, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Call for Participation: VINCI 2018
by Andreas Kerren 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ====================== The 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2018) (vinci-conf.org) Växjö, Sweden, August 13-15, 2018 VINCI 2018 features high profile keynote speeches, state-of-the art technical sessions, and entertaining social programs, which will surely be interesting to our participants (the detailed symposium program can be found on vinci-conf.org) Information on how to register for VINCI 2018 can be found on: http://vinci-conf.org/registration.html Please note that the early registration period for VINCI 2018 lasts until July 1, 2018. Afterwards, the standard registration fees apply. 1. KEYNOTES =========== Keynote Speech 1: Is Visualization Underpinned by Communication Theory? Prof. Min Chen (University of Oxford, UK) Abstract: Seven decades ago, Claude Shannon's landmark article "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948) laid down the foundation of modern tele- and data communication, giving rise to information theory as an academic subject. In this talk, the speaker will describe the applications of information theory to visualization and demonstrate how information theory can explain numerous phenomena in visualization. In particular, the speaker will discuss an information-theoretic metric for analysing the cost-benefit of data intelligence workflows, elaborating the values of visualization in such workflows. The speaker will also outline conjectures that the metric may potentially have implications beyond data science. Short Bio: Min Chen developed his academic career in Wales between 1984 and 2011. He is currently the professor of scientific visualization at Oxford University and a fellow of Pembroke College. His research interests include visualization, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and aspects of computer vision. He has co-authored some 200 publications, including his recent contributions in areas such as theory of visualization, video visualization, visual analytics, and perception and cognition in visualization. He has worked on a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary research topics, ranging from the sciences to sports, and from digital humanities to cybersecurity. His services to the research community include papers co-chair of IEEE Visualization 2007 and 2008, Eurographics 2011, IEEE VAST 2014 and 2015; co-chair of Volume Graphics 1999 and 2006, EuroVis 2014; associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics; and co-director of Wales Research Institute of Visual Computing. He is currently an editor-in-chief of Computer Graphics Forum. He is a fellow of British Computer Society, European Computer Graphics Association, and Learned Society of Wales. See also: https://sites.google.com/site/drminchen/ Keynote Speech 2: Design after Nature Prof. Jon McCormack (Monash University, Australia) Abstract: Nature has driven us in what and how we create for millennia. Biomimetic approaches to human design are inspired by natural forms, shapes and processes. In computing, nature-inspired algorithms mimic collective behaviour or biological evolution to solve hard problems in search, optimisation and learning. In this talk I’ll show how I have developed a creative visual design practice informed by processes from biological development, the architecture of natural form, and evolutionary processes. My work began by devising advanced visual models of morphogenetic development in plants. Incorporating evolutionary processes allowed designs to emerge that would be difficult or impossible to discover independently, making them “beyond human design”. In later work, I have experimented with evolutionary ecosystems and processes such as niche construction to encourage diversity in the visual style of works generated by algorithmic processes. My most recent work looks at translating from the virtual back to the real, using digital fabrication technologies driven by generative computational processes. The goal is to build dynamic, responsive, intelligent physical systems that interact directly with living organisms, symbiotically affecting their growth and development. This leads to the creation of bio-machine hybrids – bringing the biomimetic concept full circle – and heralding a new form of co-design where human, machine and nature all contribute to the design process. Short Bio: Jon McCormack is an Australian-based artist and researcher in computing. He holds an Honours degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Monash University, a Graduate Diploma of Art (Film and Television) from Swinburne University and a PhD in Computer Science from Monash University. He is currently full Professor of Computer Science and director of sensiLab at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include generative art, design and music, evolutionary systems, computer creativity, visualisation, virtual reality, interaction design, physical computing, machine learning, L-systems and developmental models. Since the late 1980s McCormack has worked with computer code as a medium for creative expression. Inspired by the complexity and wonder of a diminishing natural world, his work is concerned with electronic “after natures” – alternate forms of artificial life that may one day replace the biological nature lost through human progress and development. See also: http://jonmccormack.info/ 2. ACCEPTED PAPERS AND POSTERS ============================== *** Full Papers *** Rohan Goel, Samiha Fadloun, Sarah Valentin, Arnaud Sallaberry, Mathieu Roche and Pascal Poncelet EpidNews: An Epidemiological News Explorer for Monitoring Animal Diseases Humphrey O. Obie, Caslon Chua, Iman Avazpour, Mohamed Abdelrazek, John Grundy and Tomasz Bednarz PedaViz: Visualising Hour-Level Pedestrian Activity Yaru Du, Changbo Wang and Chenhui Li BehaviorTracker: Visual Analytics of Customer Switching Behavior in O2O Market Liang Zhou and Daniel Weiskopf Contrast Enhancement based on Viewing Distance Michael Burch and Hansjoerg Schmauder Challenges and Perspectives of Interacting with Hierarchy Visualizations on Large-Scale Displays Xiao-Yu Wang, Yu-Feng Liu, Jie Li and Kang Zhang Generating Tractable Designs by Transforming Shape Grammars to Graph Grammars 3D Representations Daniel Limberger, Matthias Trapp and Jürgen Döllner Interactive, Height-based Filtering in 2.5D Treemaps Daniil Rodin and Gershon Elber Automatic View Placement in 3D toward Hierarchical Non-linear Presentations Mehmood Ghaffar, Niklas Biere, Daniel Jäger, Karsten Klein, Falk Schreiber, Olaf Kruse and Björn Sommer 3D Modelling and Visualisation of Heterogeneous Cell Membranes in Blender Network Visualization Michael Burch Property-Driven Dynamic Call Graph Exploration Luca Marzialetti, Massimo Candela and Giuseppe Di Battista Interdomain Landscape: a Multi-View Routing Visualization *** Short Papers *** Kostiantyn Kucher, Rafael M. Martins and Andreas Kerren Analysis of VINCI 2009–2017 Proceedings Michael Burch, Gerald Baulig, Uwe Kloos and Tobias Boley IMDb Explorer: Visual Exploration of a Movie Database Nico Reski and Aris Alissandrakis Using an Augmented Reality Cube-like Interface and 3D Gesture-based Interaction to Navigate and Manipulate Data *** Posters *** Kostiantyn Kucher, Maria Skeppstedt and Andreas Kerren Application of Interactive Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction to Opinionated Social Media Texts Alisa Lincke, Jenny Lundberg, Maria Thunander, Marcelo Milrad, Jonas Lundberg and Ilir Jusufi Diabetes Information in Social Media Daniel Toll and Anna Wingkvist Visualizing Programming Session Timelines Tomohiro Kawanabe, Jorji Nonaka and Kenji Ono ChOWDER: Dynamic Contents Sharing Through Remote Tiled Display System Tu Xing Data Modeling and Analysis on Fashion Evolution Anna-Sara Fagerholm and Mattias Andersson Information visualization and design 2018 Michael Burch Visual Notifier: A Timeline-Based Visualization for Notifications from Several Environments Riku Takano and Ken Wakita Fluidity in High-dimensional Interactive Visualization of Social Networks 4. ORGANIZATION =============== GENERAL CHAIR: Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden PROGRAM CHAIRS: Yina Li, University of Science and Technology of China, China Karsten Klein, Universität Konstanz, Germany PROCEEDINGS CHAIR: Kostiantyn Kucher, Linnaeus University, Sweden LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR: Rafael Messias Martins, Linnaeus University, Sweden PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See https://vinci-conf.org/committees.html

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CFP: IJAIT Special Issue on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis
by Andreas Kerren 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email! Note that visualization of social media texts is a topic of interest for this special issue. ================================================================= Call for Papers International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools Special Issue on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis (NLP4SMA) https://www.worldscientific.com/page/ijait/callforpapers02 ================================================================= Guest Editors: Iosif Mporas, i.mporas(a)herts.ac.uk Vasiliki Simaki, v.simaki(a)lancaster.ac.uk Carita Paradis, carita.paradis(a)englund.lu.se Andreas Kerren, andreas.kerren(a)lnu.se Michael Paraskevas, mparask(a)cti.gr The world has witnessed the power of digitized information dissemination via different social media channels, facilitating the spread and organization of information. More and more people use social media on a daily basis in order to express opinions about various topics such as politics, music, lifestyle, environment, or personal matters. This activity produces a massive number of audio-visual data, and text data that need to be further analyzed according to different criteria set in each case. Text data from social media can provide important information about social media users, their identity and preferences, habits, topics discussed and the trends they follow. Deriving such information from social media text is an intriguing task in the fields of text mining, information visualization and natural language processing (NLP) with a wide range of applications in the social sciences and social media analytics. In this special issue, we invite research papers in the broader field of NLP techniques for social media text analysis. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Social media text processing for • Sentiment analysis • Stance detection • Trend analysis • Topic modelling • Gender, age, personality identification • Native/non-native language identification • Language variety identification • Mental health modelling • Dementia and frailty identification • Visualization of social media text • Knowledge discovery from social media text Paper Submission Deadline: January 18, 2019 First Decision Notification: March 31, 2019 Revised Paper Submission: May 30, 2019 Final Paper Submission: June 30, 2019 Final Decision Notification: July 30, 2019 Submissions will be made through IJAIT "Online Submission'" System at http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijait/login.asp. Please submit your paper under the NLP4SMA folder.

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Extended Deadline: 4th Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA): 17.-19.10.2018 Konstanz
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

====================================================================================== 4th International Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA 2018) 2nd Call for Papers Konstanz, Germany - October 17th to October 19th 2018 ====================================================================================== The BDVA 2018 Symposium is calling for contributions in the area of Visual Analytics and Immersive Analytics of Big Data. Submit your work and be part of a vibrant venue that will bring together an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and workshops: http://bdva.net Visual Analytics plays a major role in the analysis and decision-making processes for science, industry, and government organisations. It is one of the best ways we have for making sense of large and complex data sets. Reflecting its history of encouraging research into less-traditional approaches to visual analytics, this year BDVA has broadened scope to include the emerging field of Immersive Analytics. Immersive Analytics aims to support data understanding and decision making everywhere and by everyone, working individually or collaboratively. It aims to make embodied tools that are intuitive, engaging, and make the best possible use of all sensory channels. This may be achieved through the use of immersive virtual environment technologies, natural interfaces or responsive analytics, but is not tied to the use of any particular technology. Immersive Analytics brings promising opportunities to interact with Big Data coming from geo-science, biomedical applications, collective behaviour, text mining, crime analysis, among other application domains. Symposium topics include but are not limited to: - Theoretical Foundations of Immersive Analytics - Immersive Storytelling - Collaborative Visual and Immersive Analytics - Personalized Visual and Immersive Analytics - Use of Mixed Reality for Analytics including Situated Analytics - Visual, Audio, Haptic, and Multisensory Data Presentation including Data Physicalization - Human-Computer Interaction including Use of Natural Interfaces for Analytics - Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making of Big or Complex Data - Scalable Visual and Immersive Analytics including HPC for Visualisation - Responsive Analytic Algorithms for Interactive Data Exploration - Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation - Context-Semantics-driven Visual and Immersive Analytics - Processes & Tools for Building Visual and Immersive Analytics Applications - Applications and Case Studies Submission Info Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished regular papers of 4 to 9 pages (+ 2 pages for references) that report novel and mature work. Paper quality versus length will be assessed based on a contribution-per-page judgment. The symposium proceedings will be will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. It is a condition of publication that accepted papers are presented by one of the authors. All accepted papers will be presented during the symposium. Presenters must register before the camera-ready deadline to avoid withdrawal from the symposium proceedings and programme. Abstracts are due on *20 June 2018* and full papers deadline is on *1 July 2018*. Keynotes Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Nicolas Holliman, Newcastle University Paul Cairns, York University General Chair Falk Schreiber, University of Konstanz, Germany Program Chairs M. Eduard Gröller, TU Wien, Austria Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Program Committee (Partial) Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen Tomasz Bednarz, UNSW Art & Design, CSIRO Data61 Silvia Castro, Universidad Nacional del Sur Jian Chen, The Ohio State University Maxime Cordeil, Monash University Tim Dwyer, Monash University Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland Ulrich Engelke, CSIRO Martin Falk, Linköping University Carla Freitas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Issei Fujishiro, Keio University Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse Institute Berlin Nathalie Henry-Riche, Microsoft Marcel Hlawatsch, University of Stuttgart Tony Huang Swinburne, University of Technology Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University Jinman Kim, The University of Sydney Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz Steffen Koch, University of Ulm Nils Kriege, TU Dortmund Michael Krone, University of Tübingen Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis G.Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center Frank Maurer, University of Calgary Quang Vinh Nguyen, Western Sydney University Aruquia Peixoto, CEFET/RJ Jonathan Roberts, Bangor University Bahador Saket, Georgia Institute of Technology Dieter Schmalstieg, Graz University of Technology Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Bruce Thomas, University of South Australia Manuela Waldner, Vienna University of Technology Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas Organising Chairs Alexandra Diehl, University of Konstanz, Germany Björn Sommer, University of Konstanz, Germany Publicity Chair Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King’s College London, UK

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[IEEE_VPG] Website updates, best doctoral dissertation deadline extension and reception
by Dr. L. Miguel Encarnacao 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

*** Please distribute widely throughout your institutions as appropriate Dear friends and members of the IEEE VIsualization Pioneers Group (VPG): Updates to our website http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/ have been completed and include - an *extended deadline of June 30, 2018* for the Best Doctoral Dissertation nomination deadline http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/ - information on the *annual reception* during IEEE VIS http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/reception/, which also includes - an *updated link to pay your dues* in preparation of participating in this reception. We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin. On behalf of the VPG Operating Committee Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação Innovation Management Executive & Consultant *"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming)"* -- LME(a)computer.org <lme(a)computer.org> @mencarna http://www.linkedin.com/in/drmiguel

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VisInPractice Mini-Symposium on Visualizing Uncertainty
by Oelke, Daniela 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

The VisInPractice program at IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org/> is an opportunity for visualization practitioners and researchers to meet and share experiences, insights, and ideas in applying visualization and visual analytics to real-world use cases. VisInPractice seeks to acknowledge successful transfers of visualization research into applications as well as current visualization practices occurring in industry. Our primary goal is to supplement the successful program of IEEE VIS with content that is relevant to visualization practitioners. VisInPractice Mini-Symposium on Visualizing Uncertainty The VisInPractice 2018 Program<http://www.visinpractice.rwth-aachen.de/program.html> will include a fast-paced, single-session mini-symposium on the practical aspects of uncertainty visualization. Prefaced with a primer talk by Kristi Potter<https://www.nrel.gov/research/kristi-potter.html> from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the event will also include six 10-minute lightning talks. Submission Details We now encourage submissions for these lightning talks via the Precision Conference submission system<https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions>. We ask for a concise 250-word abstract, a 150-word paragraph on what a practitioner can expect to learn from the talk, and one descriptive image figure. Rather than focusing on the academic sophistication of your solution, you must clearly present the practical relevance of your approach. Successful submissions will communicate the general impact of their approach beyond the their specialized application area. Your 250-word abstract should answer the following questions: * What form does your data take and how does uncertainty manifest in it? * What task are you addressing? * How does your visualization solution address uncertainty in the data? * What were the results of applying your solution? We also ask for a 150-word statement that indicates what a practitioner can expect to learn from the talk, answering the following questions with regards to visualizing uncertainty: * What new insight will the audience gain? * What new ability can they apply in their own practice? Based on this input, the VisInPractice Chairs will select the topics that make up the session. We are looking forward to your submissions and to a lively discussion at VisInPractice 2018. Important Dates * June 30, 2018: Abstract submission deadline via Precision Conference<https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions> * July 31, 2018: Notification * August 14, 2018: Revised abstract deadline * September 7, 2018: IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org/> early registration deadline * October 22, 2018: VisInPractice 2018 at IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org/> in Berlin http://www.visinpractice.rwth-aachen.de/cfp.html

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