January 2019 - Infovis

ACM IUI 2019: Design student volunteers' t-shirts and receive a travel support grant
by Axel Soto 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

ACM IUI 2019 is the 24th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. http://iui.acm.org/2019/index.html -- Help us design IUI 2019! Design a t-shirt for our Student Volunteers (SV) to wear during their duty and receive a free SV spot yourself! If we select your design, you will receive a travel support grant and enjoy all the advantages of being an SV! No waitlist, no recommendation letter required! Find more details below. Deadline: January 24th, 2019 ______________________________________________________ We are looking for designs for the IUI SV t-shirts! Designs can include references to the theme of IUI ("Where HCI meets A.I."), the color of the logo, and the location (Los Angeles, USA). These references are nice to have, but not necessary as long as it is pretty and or fun. The t-shirts are supposed to make the SVs recognizable in a crowd of people and let them appear as friendly helpers to the community. The size and shape of your design should fit a standard t-shirt and you should submit it as either PDF, JPG, or PNG. We will require a high-resolution version of your design in case it gets selected (.eps, .ai format or similar) You can submit one or more designs, but please include your name in the file name of all designs. Send your submissions to sv-iui2019(a)acm.org and make sure to include “IUI SV T-shirt Design” in the subject of your e-mail. We are looking forward to your many creative submissions! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Helen Wauck & Christina Schneegass SV CO-Chairs, IUI 2019, Los Angeles

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Summer Internships at Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge
by Daniele Quercia 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Dear all, The Social Dynamics team at Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) is looking for summer interns to work on the following internship projects ( http://researchswinger.org/hiring.html) 1. Visual AI. Creating new beautiful and elegant techniques to display and visualize the results of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models. Experience with Web Design and Frontend Development (HTML5, Javascript, D3) 2. The Language of Love. Learn the typical markers of different types of social exchange from large corpora of text. Enrolled in PhD in NLP or related fields. Experience with Python, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Big Data Analysis. 3. Tracking Well Being with Mobile Sensing. Develop mobile sensing solutions to obtain physiological readings and build models to measure psychological well being. Enrolled in PhD in Computer Science, HCI or related fields. Experience with Python, Machine Learning, Mobile and Wearable Development. 4. The Social Life of Cities. Investigate how the urban space shapes our social relationships. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python, GIS tools, Network Analysis. 5. Healthy City and Human Behavior. Investigate how air and sound pollutions affect human behavior. Enrolled in PhD in any computational field. Experience with Python, GIS tools, and Geographic Studies. 6. Look from Above. Investigate the usefulness of satellite data for discovering intangible urban properties such as dwellers' happiness. Enrolled in PhD in Computer Science, Geography, or related. Experience with Python, Computer Vision (experience with Deep Learning Models is a plus), GIS tools, and Web Development. 7. Exploring Causality in Well-being Data. Study observational social media data reflecting emotional support online and explain causal relationships. Enrolled in PhD in Computer Science or related fields. Experience with Python, Machine Learning, Causality, and Web Development. To learn more about our research, please check our sites: researchswinger.org, lajello.com, goodcitylife.org, sanja7s.space, comarios.com, and sites.google.com/site/keadamzhou. If you would like to apply, please send me your application in pdf format with the subject line "Internship 2019" to daniele.quercia(a)nokia-bell-labs.com by *January 27th*, 2019. Your application will be used solely for the purpose of selecting internship candidates and will be deleted as soon as the selection is complete. Please feel free to forward this call to anybody who might be interested. I would be happy to answer any question. Thanks, - Daniele

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2nd CFP: Interactive Visualizations for Sustainability, for a special issue of MTI journal
by Masood Masoodian 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

*CFP: Interactive Visualizations for Sustainability** **A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Journal** **Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2019** **https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/visualizations_sustainability* Open Access: Free publication for well-prepared manuscripts submitted before 1 July 2019 Rapidly increasing global consumption of natural resources demands for more efficient use, as well as for more sustainable management of energy, water, minerals, land and other natural resources. Human-centred technologies, tools and services can provide effective solutions to support sustainability in different domains. To create better awareness, and support human decision making, such technologies, tools and services should provide advanced interactive visualization capabilities to their users to allow them to monitor, manage, compare, or share and use data, with the aim of identifying patterns and supporting efficiency in the use of natural resources. This special issue will focus on interactive visualizations for sustainability-related applications, tools, games, and services in the private, public, and industrial sectors. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, design, deployment and evaluation of interactive visualizations for: - monitoring and managing generation and consumption of resources; - analysis of generation and consumption data; - identifying consumption patterns and behavior; - relating consumption data, patterns, and behavior to other information; - sharing and comparing consumption data with others; - creating awareness, influencing choices and stimulating sustainable behavior changes For more information, including submission details, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/visualizations_sustainabili… Guest Editors, Masood Masoodian and Thomas Rist -- Prof. Masood Masoodian Visual Communication Design Aalto University avcd.aalto.fi

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WSOM+2019: DEADLINE EXTENSION, 31st of January. 13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization, Barcelona, Spain
by Alfredo Vellido 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Apologies for cross posting. Please forward to colleagues and students who might be interested. *DEADLINE EXTENSION for paper submission to January 31*, 2019 ************ WSOM+ 2019 ************ 13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 June 2019 https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu SUBMISSION: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsom2019 Confirmed invited speakers: Paulo Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.) Tobias Schreck (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Aïda Valls (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) Alessandro Sperduti (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) === CFP === WSOM+ invites contributions related to the theoretical and methodological aspects of Unsupervised Learning, Self-Organizing Maps, Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering, Data Visualization and closely related topics. We also call for and encourage scientific and application-oriented papers that demonstrate the use of the aforementioned methods and models in fields of knowledge. For the full CFP and further details on dates, submission, registration, venue, committees, and the city at large, please visit https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu The WSOM+ 2019 proceedings will be published as a book in Springer’s Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC) series. Barcelona awaits your participation in the 13th WSOM+ conference! This is a welcoming and inclusive city, home to thriving Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence communities. Hosted by the Intelligent Data Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI) Research Center at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), WSOM+ 2019 aims to build on a successful string of editions that started more than two decades ago with WSOM’97 in Helsinki. The conference is meant to be an international reference for research in unsupervised learning, self-organizing systems, Learning Vector Quantization and data visualization. Submit your contributions to WSOM+2019 and meet us in the Barcelona summer! ************ WSOM+ 2019 ************ Organizing Committee Alfredo Vellido, Chair (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) Karina Gibert (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) Cecilio Angulo (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) José David Martín (Universitat de València) Steering Committee: Teuvo Kohonen (Honorary Chairman, Finland) Marie Cottrell (France) Pablo Estevez (Chile) Timo Honkela (Finland) Jean Charles Lamirel (France) Thomas Martinetz (Germany) Erzsebet Merenyi (USA) Madalina Olteanu (France) Michel Verleysen (Belgium) Thomas Villmann (Germany) Takeshi Yamakawa (Japan) Hujun Yin (UK)

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Smart Cities Postdoctoral Fellowships at New York University
by Claudio Silva 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

(Please see below. Feel free to contact me if you're interested in these positions and have questions and/or issues.) The NYU VIDA Center (https://vida.engineering.nyu.edu) has an opening for a "Smart Cities Postdoctoral Fellow". We are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in data management, analytics and visualization. Smart Cities Postdoctoral Fellows New York University's CUSP (http://cusp.nyu.edu) VIDA, WIRELESS, CCS, and C2SMART invite applications for the inaugural cohort of NYU's Smart Cities Postdoctoral Fellows. We seek outstanding applicants with a strong record of interdisciplinary work in developing and applying concepts and methods from science, technology, computing, engineering and applied mathematics in the service of urban communities across the globe. We envision hiring up to five fellows to start in Fall 2019. A doctoral degree in an applicable field is required. NYU values equity, diversity, and inclusion and especially encourages candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply. Apply for this opening at https://apply.interfolio.com/59006 Application deadline is February 15, 2019.

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CFP XAI@AISB2019: Explainable Artificial Intelligence Symposium @ AISB 2019
by Maria Riveiro 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to join our symposium on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, at AISB (Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour), Falmouth, UK, April 16-18, 2019. Description AI systems are increasingly present in everyday society, from simple computer systems to agents such as autonomous vehicles or social robots. In this context, it is often noted that it is critical to understand how human users perceive such systems - in particular, the degree to which they understand how the system works, and what mental models they build of the underlying algorithms. "Explainable AI" thus refers to AI systems that behave or provide the necessary information so that their working becomes comprehensible to the human user. The overall term can, however, cover various sub-disciplines ranging from machine learning researchers seeking to understand the functionality of black-box networks over researchers in decision support systems working on system awareness to cognitive scientists seeking to understand how humans understand intentions and other mental states in other agents. List of Topics The purpose of the present symposium is to bring together researchers from all aspects of XAI, and to foster an exchange of the current state of the art while facilitating the development of connections between different subfields of XAI. This is therefore intentionally intended to be broad so as to facilitate a diverse symposium that can cover diverse facets of XAI. Example topics include (but are certainly not restricted to): - Human expectations of intelligent systems - Methods by which various types of intelligent systems can generate explanations that are in line with human expectations. - XAI systems’ design issues. - Evaluation of the effectiveness of such systems, methods and metrics. - Theoretical aspects of XAI. Definitions, challenges and future research. Location The symposium is part of AISB 2019 taking place in Falmouth, UK, April 16-19 2019 (link below). Submission Guidelines We will consider both extended abstracts (up to two pages) for poster presentation, and full papers (up to 8 pages) for oral or poster presentation. Please use the AISB template (link below) and submit a folder with the full source files (including images) if you use Latex, or both a Word and a PDF version if you prefer to use the Word template. Submissions are via EasyChair (link below). Submission deadline: 15 February 2019 Notification of acceptance: 8 March 2019 Camera-ready submission: 25 March 2019 Invited Speakers Tarek Besold, AI Lead & Senior Research Scientist "Trustworthy AI" @ Alpha Health AI Lab. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Organizing Committee Serge Thill, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Netherlands Maria Riveiro, University of Skövde and Jönköping University, Sweden Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organizers at s.thill(a)donders.ru.nl<mailto:s.thill@donders.ru.nl> or maria.riveiro(a)his.se<mailto:maria.riveiro@his.se> Websites AISB 2019: http://aisb2019.falmouthgamesacademy.com<http://aisb2019.falmouthgamesacademy.com/>/ http://aisb2019.falmouthgamesacademy.com/programme/symposia/explainable-ai/ Workshop information and paper submission: https://easychair.org/cfp/xai-aisb2019 AISB template: http://aisb2019.falmouthgamesacademy.com/programme/submissions/ Best regards, Maria Riveiro PhD in Computer Science, Associate Professor of Informatics School of Informatics, Portalen PA520R University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde, Sweden Telephone: +46 (0) 500 448843 Email: maria.riveiro(a)his.se<mailto:maria.riveiro@his.se>, URL: www.his.se/rivm<http://www.his.se/rivm>

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Nominations for VIS Unification Committee - DL Friday, January 18th
by Call for Papers - VGTC 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Dear VIS Community - The VEC is currently forming a committee to develop detailed recommendations for moving VIS to a unified area chairs model, along with a new governance structure to facilitate the model. This committee will have a significant impact in shaping the future of VIS. **We are seeking nominations of people to serve on this committee.** Members of the committee will be expected to participate in weekly meetings and to conduct follow-up homework between the meetings for the duration of approximately six months. Additionally, the committee will be tasked with working in an open and transparent way, including releasing progress reports on a regular basis to the community and soliciting feedback on ideas as they evolve. The committee will be kept small to facilitate agility and consensus. The formation of this committee is based on a priority recommendation from the VIS Restructuring Committee Report (see pg. 9 of the http://ieeevis.org/governance/1810-Restructuring-Recommendations.pdf) If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for consideration, please email Lisa Avila <vec_chair(a)ieeevis.org> with the name of the nominee and a brief description of the nominee’s most important qualifications for this committee. **Nominations must be received by Friday, January 18th.** Regards, Lisa Avila VEC Chair

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BioVis - CfP for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at ISMB/ECCB, Basel, Switzerland
by Fritz Lekschas 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

========================= Call for Participation for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) ========================= BioVis will be held as a one-day Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB/ECCB 2019 July 22, 2019 Basel, Switzerland http://biovis.net/ <http://biovis.net/> https://twitter.com/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/2019/cfp_ismb 1. ISMB/ECCB Proceedings ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a paper to the ISMB/ECCB Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in the OUP Journal Bioinformatics (http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/, impact factor 7.3) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: January 28, 2019 2. Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit short abstracts highlighting previously published work, or long abstracts concerning unpublished work. Accepted talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: Early April, 2019 3. Posters and demos ---------------------------- We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, and visualization challenges, to be presented as a poster or interactive demo. A selection of these will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. Submission Deadline: Early April, 2019 Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2019

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3-year PostDoc position in Visualization and Data Analysis, Newcastle University
by Sara Fernstad 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues, We are currently advertising a 3-year position as post-doctoral research associate in visualization and data analysis, in the School of Computing at Newcastle University UK: https://vacancies.ncl.ac.uk/ViewVacancyV2.aspx?enc=mEgrBL4XQK0+ld8aNkwYmECH… The advertised position is part of a high profile international EU-H2020-JTI-IMI2 funded collaborative project (MOBILISE-D: Connecting digital mobility assessment to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement), involving 35 institutions in 11 countries (https://research.ncl.ac.uk/bam/theteam/bamresearchgroupvacancies/ ). The research associate will develop visualization and data analysis methods, as part of a data management platform that will be developed within the project, and will be located in the Scalable research group (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/research/groups/scalable ) in the School of Computing, working closely with the Brain and Movement research team in the Clinical Ageing Research Unit. The School of Computing, which was ranked 1st in the UK for research impact in the latest Research Excellence Framework, is a partner in the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s leading institute for research into data science and AI, and hosts the National Innovation Centre for Data. For further information of informal enquiries, please contact: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk> Best regards, Sara _____________________________________________ Sara Johansson Fernstad, PhD Lecturer in Visualization School of Computing Newcastle University Urban Sciences Building 1 Science Square Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE4 5TG Office: 4.042 E-mail: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk> URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/sarafernstad

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CHI Workshop on Interaction Design and Prototyping for Immersive Analytics, May 5, Glasgow
by benjamin bach 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues, We now invite submissions to our interactive CHI 2019 (http://chi2019.acm.org) workshop on Interaction Design and Prototyping for Immersive Analytics, held on May 5 in Glasgow, UK: http://immersiveanalytics.net <http://immersiveanalytics.net/> New immersive technologies present many opportunities for enhancing humans' experiences with data interaction, but also present many challenges, a subset of which are specific to the analytics domain. This interactive workshop is centered around a set of group prototyping sessions, aimed at identifying new approaches to existing design challenges. In addition to giving perspective on opportunities and difficulties faced by future designers, these exercises will also explore new prototyping methods and tools for the design of interactive data-centric interfaces. This part-day workshop aims to build new ties between the existing immersive analytics community with researchers across many disciplines of the CHI community. The workshop accepts a variety of submission types (concepts, demos, position papers, etc.) including but not limited to the following topics: Applications or approaches for collaboration for immersive analytics Interaction techniques, devices and modalities for immersive analytics Prototyping tools and techniques for AR/VR In-situ interface design and situated analytics Best practices for spatial interaction and prototyping Evaluation methods for immersive systems Social acceptability of interaction with immersive platforms Human factors including awareness, distraction and cognitive load Theories and frameworks Submissions are between 2-8 pages long and should be formatted in the CHI extended abstracts format <http://chi2019.acm.org/authors/chi-proceedings-format/#TOC-CHI-Extended-Abs…>. Accepted papers will be chosen by single-blind peer review by a program committee based on relevance to the workshop and the potential for contributing to discussions. Accepted papers will be distributed to workshop participants and a summary presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend end the workshop and all participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference. More information on the schedule, submissions, and call for papers visit http://immersiveanalytics.net <http://immersiveanalytics.net/>. Please feel free to forward this call. Best regards, and looking forward to see you at CHI 2019! Workshop organizers ---------------------------- Barrett Ens, Monash University, VIC Maxime Cordeil, Monash University, VIC Ulrich Engelke, CSIRO, Data61 Marcos Serrano, IRIT, University of Toulouse Wesley Willett, University of Calgary Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh

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