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[VPG] Best dissertation nomination deadline extended to June 30
by Dr. L. Miguel Encarnacao 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

### Please redistribute as appropriate EXTENDED DEADLINE: *June 30th 2019* The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (*VGTC <http://vgtc.org/>*) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (*VPG <http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group>*) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the *IEEE VIS <http://ieeevis.org/>* conference. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15 two years before the award and August 15 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between August 15, 2017 and August 15, 2019 are eligible for the 2019 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1. AWARD The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) <http://www.computer.org/cga>. Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. Thesis Advisor(s) of the winning entrant will chair the following year’s Dissertation Review Committee, with full support from the VPG OC to handle details such as publicity and administration. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student’s advisor should email the nomination package to *vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org <vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org>*. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student’s advisor, which includes: - the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, - the name and email address of the candidate, and - a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission. On behalf of the VPG operating committee, Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação Innovation Management Executive & Consultant Professor of Practice, Business Analytics & Computer Science Tippie College of Business & College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Iowa *"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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2 Full-Time Research Associate Posts in ESports Data Visualization and Intelligent Content Creation Tools at the University of York
by Jonathan Hook 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

2 Full-Time Research Associate Posts at University of York: Research Associate in Esports Data Visualisation (http://bit.ly/esportsvis <http://bit.ly/esportsvis>) Research Associate in Intelligent Content Creation Tools for Esports (http://bit.ly/esportstools <http://bit.ly/esportstools>) Salary range: £32,236 - £39,609 Apply by: 16/06/2019 (extended) “WEAVR: Pioneering Fully Integrated Cross-Reality Spectator Experiences in Esports and Beyond” is a £5.8 million R&D project aiming to radically transform audience experiences in esports (http://weavr.tv/) It is one of four UK flagship demonstrators, funded from the Industrial Strategy’s Audience of the Future programme, aiming to establish the UK as world leading in the emerging forms of interactive and immersive storytelling (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/audience-of-the-future-launch) It is led by ESL, the world’s largest esports company, and the University of York, which brings world‑class research in digital storytelling, games, AI and data analytics. The other Weavr partners are top UK companies in studio TV production (Dock10), VR content development (Rewind), HD and 360 video (Focal Point VR) and data analytics (Cybula), making up a large interdisciplinary team of researchers, software developers, 2D & 3D artists, TV producers, game developers, designers, and market analysts. Weavr’s research engine is based at The University of York in the Digital Creativity Labs (https://www.digitalcreativity.ac.uk/) a world centre of excellence for impact-driven research. We invite applications for two exciting roles on this high profile project: 1) Research Associate in Esports Data Visualisation We seek an outstanding data visualization researcher for a fixed-term position as a Research Associate on the Weavr project. As the successful candidate, you will conduct research for collaborative projects and develop interactive visualizations of esports player data. These visualizations will include: i) audience-facing visualizations of player behavior that can be included within live broadcasts and second-screen experiences; ii) visualizations that help commentators and pundits tell more nuanced and engaging stories during live broadcasts and post-game analysis; and iii) visualizations that assist other members of the research team in understanding complex data sources during the development of machine learning and game analytics algorithms. You will also write up research results and disseminate them through publications, seminar and conference presentations; contribute to the identification of possible new areas of research; and undertake appropriate administrative activities. You will have a PhD (or equivalent experience) and record of excellent research in data visualization, reflected in high quality publications. You will also have good programming skills (e.g. C, C++, C#, Python, Java, Unity) and knowledge of frameworks for creating data visualizations, accompanied by a passion to develop working research prototypes of visualizations that can be applied in real-world environments. More info: http://bit.ly/esportsvis Contact: jonathan.hook(a)york.ac.uk 2) Research Associate in Intelligent Content Creation Tools for Esports We are seeking an enthusiastic researcher to lead the development of tools and techniques to support interactive esports narrative experiences, in collaboration with a significant team of researchers, software developers, and esport producers. As the successful candidate, you will conduct research for collaborative projects and oversee the development of authoring tools that allow production teams to create new forms of immersive and data-driven esports narrative content. This will allow customisation of viewers’ experiences, either through their direct interaction (such as by selecting which character to follow in a battle, which depth of explanations to receive from commentators, or which aspects of the game to replay) or automatically (for example by taking into account their proficiencies, using their own game data). You will also write up research results and disseminate them through publications, seminar and conference presentations; contribute to the identification of possible new areas of research; and undertake appropriate administrative activities. You will have a PhD in a programming-related field of Computer Science or Electronic Engineering or related qualifications. You will also have expertise in one of the following two areas: authoring tools in multimedia, games, e-learning, sound/music or related areas; or knowledge representation and reasoning, for example for interactive narratives, personalisation, automated content generation, or related areas. You will have a record of excellent research, reflected in high quality publications, and will bring an appetite for innovation across discipline boundaries and application domains. Good programming skills (e.g. C, C++, C#, Python, Java, Unity) accompanied by passion to develop working research prototypes is another essential requirement. More info: http://bit.ly/esportstools Contact: marian.ursu(a)york.ac.uk We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Jonathan Hook Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media Department of Theatre, Film and Television University of York, Baird Lane, YO10 5GB +44 (0)1904 325238 www.jonhook.co.uk <http://www.jonhook.co.uk/>

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CFP: IEEE CG&A Special Issue on "Data Physicalization"
by Trevor Hogan 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

CFP: IEEE CG&A Special Issue on "Data Physicalization" We are delighted to announce an upcoming CG&A Special Issue on Data Physicalization https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/cg/call-for-papers-data-… Abstract submissions due: 31 October 2019 Final submissions due: 31 January 2020 Publication date: September/October 2020 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications plans a September/October 2020 special issue on data physicalization. Data physicalization is an emerging cross-disciplinary research area that examines how physical representations of data – data physicalizations – can support communication, learning, problem solving, and decision-making with data. In contrast to traditional graphical data visualizations, data physicalizations encode data in a material form using 3D geometry and material properties. Recently, a series of successful workshops on data physicalization has occurred in several venues, including a Dagstuhl Seminar, IEEE VIS, ACM CHI, ACM TEI, ACM DIS, and DRS (see http://dataphys.org/wiki/Workshops for details). There are many cross-disciplinary challenges in designing, realizing and studying physicalizations with research questions touching on diverse issues related to representing, interpreting, exploring, manipulating and interrogating datasets. We welcome contributions from a diversity of domains that contribute to the understanding of data physicalizations, including from information visualization, computer science, HCI, art, design, engineering, data communication, psychology, and pedagogy. Topics of interest to this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Perception and cognition of data physicalizations * The design space and design patterns of data physicalization * Interactive technologies, tool kits, and hardware platforms to support physicalizations * Data physicalization in practice * Evaluation methodologies and results * Data physicalization as a pedagogical tool * Research agendas in data physicalization * Grand challenges in data physicalization * Application areas of data physicalization * Reflections on data physicalization * Data physicalization processes and methods * Data physicalization design * Frontiers of data physicalization * Data physicalization history * Deployments of data physicalization * Methodological approaches to the of data physicalization This special issue welcomes general submissions on any of the above or closely related topics in the wider context of data physicalization. We require original submissions, i.e. those that have not been previously submitted and/or published (in any form) in other venues. Outstanding contributions that significantly extend existing work previously published in other venues will be considered, provided they contribute at least 50% new original work. Authors of such major added-value extensions will have to cite the original work and clearly identify the new content extending the original contribution. Submission guidelines The length of a peer-reviewed article submitted to IEEE CG&A depends on a number of factors. However, typically articles should not exceed 8,000 words (including main text, title, abstract, bibliography, biographies, captions, keywords, acknowledgements, and table text); about a quarter of its length should be taken up by images, photos, artwork, and tables, and the references should be well chosen, ideally not exceeding twenty (with exceptions to survey articles). In general, a regular article should not exceed 20 pages using the current template for authors: http://ems.computer.org/public/files/template.dotx We also welcome submissions in other formats such as pictorials (similar to those provided by the conference on Designing Interactive Systems – DIS; see a description here https://dis2019.com/pictorials/) Pictorials are research papers in which the visual elements (e.g. design sketches, annotated images, illustrations and diagrams, field notes, collages, photographs and annotated photographs) are the primary means of conveying information with at least, if not more, importance as the accompanying text. Pictorials work best when you need to show work that requires visual elements when reporting on design work or artistic practice. However, pictorials do not show design or artistic work only. It is important that whatever is reported in a pictorial must contribute knowledge rather than just documenting known concepts, methods, and processes. As the format of Pictorials can vary widely, we strongly encourage authors to liaise with the guest editors to discuss the intended layout of the pictorial prior to the final submission. Authors intending to submit should email a 500 word abstract by 31 October 2019 to dataphys.cga(a)gmail.com<mailto:dataphys.cga@gmail.com>. Following this, final submissions should be made using the manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. The deadline for submitting full articles is 31st January 2020. When uploading your paper, select the appropriate special issue title under the category “Manuscript Type.” Also, include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer review coordinator at cga-ma(a)computer.org<mailto:cga-ma@computer.org>. Questions? Please direct any pre-submission correspondence to dataphys.cga(a)gmail.com<mailto:dataphys.cga@gmail.com>. Guest editors - Trevor Hogan (trevor.hogan(a)cit.ie<mailto:trevor.hogan@cit.ie>), Cork Institute of Technology Uta Hinrichs (uh3(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:uh3@st-andrews.ac.uk>), The University of St Andrews Samuel Huron (samuel.huron(a)telecom-paristech.fr<mailto:samuel.huron@telecom-paristech.fr>), Télécom ParisTech Jason Alexander (j.alexander(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.alexander@lancaster.ac.uk>), Lancaster University Yvonne Jansen (yvonne.jansen(a)sorbonne-universite.fr<mailto:yvonne.jansen@sorbonne-universite.fr>), Sorbonne Université

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CFP for ISS 2019 Workshops, Tutorials, and Student Volunteers
by Juho Kim 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

Call for Workshops and Tutorials participation at ISS 2019. The ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) is a premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging surface and space technologies. We invite researchers and practitioners working in those fields to submit workshop and tutorial proposals for ISS 2019 (Daejeon, South Korea). Tutorials provide a broad overview of particular topics in the area of interactive surfaces and spaces from recognized experts in the field, while workshops allow to discuss ideas, challenges and new work between interested researchers and practitioners. We welcome proposals from a large variety of topics and domains. Example topics include but are not limited to: • Architectural concepts and emerging trends • Immersive analytics and data physicalization • Museum and art installation trends • Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pen+touch, etc.) • New and emerging body and space sensing technologies • Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, and proxemics • Evaluation methods for surface applications • Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices • Feel, taste, smell and splash user interfaces on surfaces • ... and other exciting topics! Workshops and tutorials will all take place on November 10, 2019. Workshops will run for either half a day or the full day. Tutorials can run from 90 minutes to a full day (the length is up to the tutorial organizers). Workshop organizers will receive one complimentary conference registration and one or two complimentary workshop registrations (one for half-day, two for full-day workshops). Tutorial organizers will receive one complimentary conference registration, and one complimentary tutorial registration. Proposal submission deadlines: - Workshops: July 5 2019 - Tutorials: August 5 2019 Full details of the submission procedure and further information on the conference website: - Workshops: https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/workshops/ - Tutorials: https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/tutorials/ === ISS 2019 STUDENT VOLUNTEERS We are inviting students interested in the field of interactive surfaces and spaces to apply as student volunteers (SV). This is an ideal opportunity to attend the conference and to connect with other members of the community. SVs also receive free conference registration as compensation for their help. Important Dates - June 10, 2019: Application open on http://chisv.org/iss2019 - September 10, 2019: Application deadline - September 13, 2019: Results notification - Conference date: November 10 - 13, 2019 Benefits and Duties An academic conference can be great fun, but is all made possible by those behind the scenes who make sure everything runs smoothly. So if you apply and are selected to be a Student Volunteer you will be agreeing to: - Work for approximately 14 hours - Show up on time to tasks - Attend the orientation session, 9 am Sunday, Nov. 10 In return, you get... - Waived conference registration - A chance to participate in a conference for innovations on interactive surfaces & spaces, and network with researchers in the field - An awesome bright free t-shirt - A fun thank-you party! Student volunteers are vital to the success of a conference. They allow conferences to run smoothly and provide attendees a friendly go-to person for assistance. They are also the heroes/heroines that help resolve any unexpected situations. Their specific duties include: bag stuffing, registration desk, AV assistance, poster, and demo setup, badge checking, break monitoring, social media assistance and etc. SVs usually get to attend most of the sessions, even when volunteering. Further information can be found on the conference website: https://iss.acm.org/2019/organization/student_volunteers/

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Call for Workshops and Tutorials participation at ISS 2019
by benjamin bach 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

The ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) is a premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging surface and space technologies. We invite researchers and practitioners working in those fields to submit workshop and tutorial proposals for ISS 2019 (Daejeon, South Korea). Tutorials provide a broad overview of particular topics in the area of interactive surfaces and spaces from recognized experts in the field, while workshops allow to discuss ideas, challenges and new work between interested researchers and practitioners. We welcome proposals from a large variety of topics and domains. Example topics include but are not limited to: • Architectural concepts and emerging trends • Immersive analytics and data physicalization • Museum and art installation trends • Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pen+touch, etc.) • New and emerging body and space sensing technologies • Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, and proxemics • Evaluation methods for surface applications • Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices • Feel, taste, smell and splash user interfaces on surfaces • ... and other exciting topics! Workshops and tutorials will all take place on November 10, 2019. Workshops will run for either half a day or the full day. Tutorials can run from 90 minutes to a full day (the length is up to the tutorial organizers). Workshop organizers will receive one complimentary conference registration and one or two complimentary workshop registrations (one for half-day, two for full-day workshops). Tutorial organizers will receive one complimentary conference registration, and one complimentary tutorial registration. Proposal submission deadlines: - Workshops: July 5 2019 - Tutorials: August 5 2019 Full details of the submission procedure and further information on the conference website: - Workshops: https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/workshops/ <https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/workshops/> - Tutorials: https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/tutorials/ <https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/tutorials/> -------------- Thanks. Fabrice Matulic & Benjamin Bach Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs

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CFP: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC)
by Annie T. Chen 09 Jun '19

09 Jun '19

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2019, Oct 20th, Vancouver, BC, Canada) Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org *** Paper, Poster, and Demo Submissions due June 17th, 2019 *** *** New this year *** We are accepting posters for both original work, and for work previously accepted elsewhere -- or concurrently at VIS this year -- to foster increased discussion and dissemination of ideas from a wide variety of venues. CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------- The 2019 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2019) is the tenth 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 enable 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 nine years the Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) has been organized and hosted annually. The VAHC workshop has been hosted five times at the IEEE VIS conference (2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2017) and four times at the AMIA Annual Symposium (2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018). This year the VAHC 2019 workshop is held in conjunction with the IEEE VIS conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. 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<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 electronic medical records (EMRs) * Visualization of 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 with EHRs PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academia, healthcare organizations, and industry that address 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. We anticipate that accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. - Poster: Poster abstract submissions are limited to two pages.. - Demo: Demonstration abstract submissions are limited to two pages. Accepted papers, poster, and demonstration abstracts will be included in the VAHC proceedings and made available via the IEEE VIS USB stick or digital download. All material should be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS): https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc For all submissions, please use the VGTC conference style template: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Deadline for submission:June 17th, 2019 Notification of acceptance:August 5th, 2019 Camera-ready papers due: August 22th, 2019 VAHC 2019 workshop: October 20th, 2019 JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: ---------------------- Visit www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org to join our mailing list. NEWS: ----- Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2018) are now available at http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org/proceedings.html ORGANIZERS: ---------------- Theresia Gschwandtner - TU Wien (gschwandtner at cvast.tuwien.ac.at) Jürgen Bernard - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (juergen.bernard at gris.tu-darmstadt.de) David Borland - RENCI, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (borland at renci.org) David Gotz - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

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CHITALY 2019 - CFP Doctoral Consortium (Extended Deadline - June 20)
by Daniela Fogli 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

[Apologies for multiple postings] CHITALY 2019 - DESIGNING THE NEXT INTERACTION The Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter 23 September - 25 September 2019 Palazzo Bò, Giardino delle Biodiversità and Orto Botanico - Padova, Italy www.chitaly2019.org <http://www.chitaly2019.org/> Organized by the University of Padova and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI and SIGCHI Italy ======================================= Doctoral Consortium at CHITALY 2019 ======================================= The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting in which PhD students can present and receive feedback on their work. The Doctoral Consortium also aims to provide students with useful guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. The main goal of the consortium is to enables PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics. The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. ======================================= Important dates for Doctoral Consortium ======================================= June 20: Submission deadline (Extended) July 1: Notification to authors July 15: Submission deadline for the camera ready of accepted contributions July 30: Early Registration deadline Sept 23: Doctoral Consortium Sept 24-25: Main conference ======================================== Paper Format, Submission and Proceedings ======================================== Submissions must be single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. The language of the consortium is English. All submitted materials must be in English. DC papers must be 2-page word abstracts in the ACM template and pdf format. Submissions must: - identify a significant problem in the field of research - outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions - describe the contribution of the applicant’s work by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far Papers must be sent to chitaly2019(a)gmail.com <mailto:chitaly2019@gmail.com> with 'DC proposal' in the e-mail subject. Accepted papers will be included in the adjunct proceedings volume (not published by ACM). Each author of an accepted paper will present orally his/her research problem and contribution the first day of the conference (Sept 23, 2019). Participants will also be requested to attend the presentation of the other authors of a paper accepted at the DC. ======================================= Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs ======================================= Francesco Di Nocera, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Emmanuel Dubois, University of Toulouse, France Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy For any further information, please write an email to the co-chairs: dinocera(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:dinocera@uniroma1.it>, emmanuel.dubois(a)irit.fr <mailto:emmanuel.dubois@irit.fr>, daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it <mailto:daniela.fogli@unibs.it> ———————————————————— Daniela Fogli Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione Università degli Studi di Brescia Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia Tel. +39 030 3715666 Email: daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it <mailto:daniela.fogli@unibs.it> -- Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155 <http://www.unibs.it/node/8155>

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[VPG] Best dissertation nomination deadline approaching
by Dr. L. Miguel Encarnacao 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

### Please redistribute as appropriate DEADLINE: *June 14th 2019* The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (*VGTC <http://vgtc.org/>*) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (*VPG <http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group>*) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the *IEEE VIS <http://ieeevis.org/>* conference. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15 two years before the award and August 15 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between August 15, 2017 and August 15, 2019 are eligible for the 2019 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1. AWARD The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) <http://www.computer.org/cga>. Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. Thesis Advisor(s) of the winning entrant will chair the following year’s Dissertation Review Committee, with full support from the VPG OC to handle details such as publicity and administration. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student’s advisor should email the nomination package to *vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org <vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org>*. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student’s advisor, which includes: - the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, - the name and email address of the candidate, and - a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission. On behalf of the VPG operating committee, Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação Innovation Management Executive & Consultant Professor of Practice, Business Analytics & Computer Science Tippie College of Business & College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Iowa *"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming)"*

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VizSec 2019 Full and Short Papers Deadline Approaching
by Nicolas Prigent 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

*** This is a reminder that the deadline for full and short papers is on *** *** June 15 2019. Please visit https://vizsec.org/ for more information. *** The 16th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that 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 Vancouver, Canada in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. This year, VizSec will be more closely integrated with the IEEE VIS program. VizSec will take place during the main week of the conference, giving VizSec authors and attendees enhanced access to IEEE VIS, the premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The purpose of VizSec is to explore 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 promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding. - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response. - Computer forensics. - Machine learning and explainable AI for cybersecurity. - Visual analytics for cybersecurity. - Data protection & privacy. - Blockchain performance & security. - Cybersecurity in critical infrastructure. - 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. - Software security. - Mobile application security. - Social networking privacy and security. - Training & education. 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 the proposed 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 VAST Challenge data sets. Short Papers ------------ Short papers describing initial research results, concise research contributions or incremental work on the above topics, even including 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, potentially also through live demos, and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Awards ------ There will be an award for the best paper from the accepted program. This award will be given to the paper judged to have the highest overall quality as determined by the program committee. Key elements of the selection process include whether papers include evaluation, repeatable results, and open-source data or software. Authors of the best paper will be invited for submission to Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Both full and short papers are eligible. There will also be an award for Best Presentation and an award for Best Poster. Each award comes with a $50 USD Amazon gift card thanks to our sponsor, Two Six Labs. These awards will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly and concisely present their work to the audience. The awards will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference. Submissions ----------- The VizSec 2019 Proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE VGTC conference proceedings template that can be found at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Track/vis.html. VizSec full papers are limited to 9 pages of content plus an additional 2 pages of references. Papers may be shorter than this but must make a similar contribution to a longer paper. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Short papers should be at most 4 pages plus 1 page of references. Posters should be 2 page abstracts. 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. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. VizSec uses the the Precision Conference System (PCS) to handle their paper and poster submissions and reviewing processes. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. June 15 2019: Submissions due for Full and Short Papers. July 19 2019: Author notification for Full and Short Papers. August 10 2019: Fast forward deadline. August 15 2019: Camera ready submission and copyright forms. August 3 2019: Submissions due for Poster Abstracts. August 17 2019: Author notification for Posters. October 23 2019: VizSec 2019. 2019 Organizing Committee ------------------------- Robert Gove, General Co-Chair, Two Six Labs. Dustin Arendt, General Co-Chair, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Celeste Paul, Publication Chair, US Department of Defense. Jörn Kohlhammer, Program Co-Chair, Fraunhofer IGD. Marco Angelini, Program Co-Chair, University of Rome La Sapienza. Chris Bryan, Poster Co-Chair, Arizona State University. Sean McKenna, Poster Co-Chair, Lucid Software Inc. Nicolas Prigent, Publicity Chair, LSTI. Parnian Najafi, Sponsorship Chair, FireEye, Inc. Awalin Sopan, Web Chair, FireEye, Inc. Steering Committee ------------------ Greg Conti, IronNet Cybersecurity. Deborah Frincke, National Security Agency. John Gerth, Stanford University. John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Lane Harrison, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis. Kirsten Whitley, U.S. Department of Defense. Sophie Engle, University of San Francisco. Diane Staheli, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

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CFP: IEEE VIS 2019 Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Visual Machine Learning Systems (EVIVA-ML)
by Nadia Boukhelifa 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

IEEE VIS 2019 Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Visual Machine Learning Systems (EVIVA-ML) Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Website: https://eviva-ml.github.io/ --- Recent advances in machine learning saw the rise of powerful automatic methods to build robust predictive models from data. To enhance understanding and improve performance, human-centred approaches have been pursued. In interactive visual machine learning (IVML) systems such as [1,2,3,4,5], a human operator and machine collaborate to achieve a task, mediated by an interactive visual interface. Typically, an IVML system comprises an automated service, a user interface, and a learning component. In IVML, the role of the human operator may be not only to interpret and understand the underlying models or decisions, but to also actively act on, and react to these models. This brings forth first the known problems of intelligibility, trust, and usability issues, but also many open questions with respect to the evaluation of the various facets of the IVML system, both as separate components, and as a holistic entity that includes both human and machine intelligence. Identifying the best evaluation methods to follow for validating machine learning (ML) and interactive visual machine learning (IVML) models remain a challenging topic. The goal of the EVIVA-ML workshop is to bring together visualization researchers and practitioners to discuss experiences and viewpoints on how to effectively evaluate interactive visual machine learning systems. Ultimately, the workshop aims to form a plan to develop a research agenda for IVML evaluation. [1] S. Amershi, J. Fogarty, D. Weld. Regroup: Interactive machine learning for on-demand group creation in social networks. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2012. [2] E. T. Brown, J. Liu, C. E. Brodley, R. Chang. Dis-function: Learning distance functions interactively. Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). IEEE, 2012. [3] W. Cancino, N. Boukhelifa, E. Lutton. Evographdice: Interactive evolution for visual analytics. Evolutionary Computation (CEC). IEEE, 2012. [4] M. El-Assady, R. Sevastjanova, F. Sperrle, D. Keim, C. Collins. Progressive learning of topic modeling parameters: a visual analytics framework. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 2018. [5] H. Kim, J. Choo, H. Park, A. Endert. Interaxis: Steering scatterplot axes via observation-level interaction. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 2016. Topics --- The workshop aims to foster discussion on topics related to the evaluation of interactive visual machine learning systems, including but not limited to: • User studies of existing or novel IVML systems • Computational and automatic evaluation of IVML systems • Comparative studies of variants of IVML systems • Case studies to evaluate the usability of IVML systems • Surveys on evaluation methods for IVML • Novel evaluation methods for IVML • Applications of existing evaluation methods for IVML • Heuristic and other low-cost approaches for evaluating IVML • Evaluation metrics for IVML (e.g., integrating model and user metrics) • Taxonomies of tasks for IVML • Lessons learnt and reflections on evaluation methods for IVML Submissions --- We invite short paper submissions (research or position papers) varying between two to four pages (excluding references). Submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected external reviewers, and will be chosen according to relevance, quality, and likelihood that they will stimulate and contribute to the discussion. Submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. Papers are to be submitted online through the Precision Conference System at the VIS 2019 Workshop on EVIVA-ML track (https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/vis19q) Accepted contributions will be made available electronically as a collection of preprints. Authors will retain copyright. Important Dates --- • Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 • Author notification: August 5, 2019 • Camera-ready deadline: August 20, 2019 • Workshop: October 20 or 21, 2019 Organizing Committee --- • Nadia Boukhelifa (INRA, FR) • Anastasia Bezerianos (Uni. Paris-Sud, INRIA, FR) • Enrico Bertini (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA) • Christopher Collins (Ontario Tech University, CA) • Steven Drucker (Microsoft Research, USA) • Alex Endert (Georgia Tech, USA) • Jessica Hullman (Northwestern University, USA) • Michael Sedlmair (University of Stuttgart, DE) Advisory Committee --- • Remco Chang (Tufts University, USA) • Chris North (Virginia Tech, USA) Contact --- For all inquiries, contact eviva-ml(a)inra.fr

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