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Lectureships in CS - City, University of London - giCentre
by Dykes, Jason 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

We're looking for creative and inspiring candidates for our permanent (tenured) Academic positions in Computer Science at City - Lecturer (Assistant Prof). http://bit.ly/cityJob60023128 Researchers in *visualization* are encouraged to apply to join the giCentre team in London. http://gicentre.net Application deadline - 28th August Please get in touch with Jo Wood or Jason Dykes to discuss - gicentre(a)city.ac.uk @giCentre @city_cs

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VizSec poster deadline approaching
by Nicolas Prigent 24 Jul '19

24 Jul '19

*** This is a reminder that the deadline for poster abstracts is on *** *** August 3rd 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. 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. 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. There will be an award for Best Poster. It comes with a $50 USD Amazon gift card thanks to our sponsor,Two Six Labs. The award will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of 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. August 3 2019: Submissions due for Poster Abstracts. August 17 2019: Author notification for Posters. October 23 2019: VizSec 2019.

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Multiple postdoctoral fellowships in Biomedical Data Visualization
by Gehlenborg, Nils 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

My lab designs and implements data visualization, analysis, and management tools for a wide range of biomedical data types, including but not limited to genomic structural variants, dynamics of the 3D genome, cancer subtypes in patient cohorts, electronic health records, sensor data from mobile devices and wearables, (spatial) single-cell data, and large-scale epigenomics studies. Currently, we are hiring postdoctoral fellows specifically for the following projects: Visualization of genome interaction data (sequencing and imaging data) NIH 4D Nucleome Project (collaborator: Peter J Park, Harvard Medical School) Visualization of epigenomic data Cistrome Project (collaborator: X Shirley Liu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Visualization of spatial single-cell data (sequencing and imaging data) NIH HuBMAP Project (collaborator: Peter Kharchenko, Harvard Medical School) Details are on the lab website: http://gehlenborglab.org/team/open-positions. Please contact me directly if you have any questions. Best, Nils -- Nils Gehlenborg, PhD nils(a)hms.harvard.edu | +1 617-432-1535 Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics http://gehlenborglab.org

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Postdocs and technical positions focussing on immersive technologies
by Alexander Klippel 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting and please do feel free to share with potential candidates/groups. Thank you, alex Post-doctoral researchers in immersive technologies The Center for Immersive Experiences at The Pennsylvania State University (immersive.psu.edu) in collaboration with other units at Penn State (such as ChoroPhronesis, sites.psu.edu/chorophronesis, and Teaching and Learning with Technology), is hiring up to three Post-Doctoral Researchers focusing on areas such as immersive analytics, immersive learning, immersive decision-making, or serious games. The postdocs will be working in vibrant multidisciplinary teams that are addressing a range of topics that see transformative changes due to the paradigm shifting nature of immersive technologies. Example topics may include empirically validating immersive technologies across the academic spectrum; designing Immersive technologies for environmental decision making; exploring scientific foundations of immersive technologies. The Postdocs will be coordinated through The Center for Immersive Experiences at Penn State (Director: Dr. Alexander Klippel) but will work across projects at The Pennsylvania State University. Ongoing projects include: The Science of Being There – Immersive Virtual Field Trips for Geospatial Sciences; Visualizing Forest Futures – VIFF; Visualization and Access to Informal Settlements through Immersive Experiences; Transforming Education through Immersive Technologies; Immersive Storytelling for General Education Across the Academic Spectrum; Digital Innovation through Immersive Technologies: Establishing New Paradigms for Environmental Decision Support. Postdocs can have a range of qualifications and can come from several different backgrounds such as computer science, engineering, GIScience, landscape architecture/architecture, education, or psychology. Any subset of the list below is possible, but a strong focus is placed on technical skills as well as skill related to the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of immersive technologies. The ideal candidate must be adaptable, capable of thriving in a rapidly changing environment, where new approaches and technologies may change quickly. Qualifications include: 3D modeling and visualization skills (modeling for real time rendering a plus); programming skills (in particular C#); experience in the development of software for commercial or open source applications; code management system such as git; application development with game engines such as Unity3D and Unreal Engine; experience in learning assessment; experience in the design of experimental evaluations of (immersive) learning; communication skills for interacting with academics, instructional designers and others across the academic spectrum. The initial appointment is intended for 12 months but excellent options for an annual renewal exist depending on performance. The start date is envisioned for the fall 2019 and can be as early as September 1, 2019. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The positions are full-time, benefits-eligible academic professional on a 12-month service basis. Eligibility for benefits are contingent on your citizenship or work authorization. The following documents are required for the application: Cover letter (no more than 2 pages), CV/Resume, link to a portfolio of projects/experiences (if applicable), up to three scientific publications, three academic references (letter writers). For questions about the positions please contact Dr. Klippel at klippel(a)psu.edu<mailto:klippel@psu.edu>. Application materials should be uploaded through psu.jobs. To apply, use this link: https://psu.jobs/job/88810 Programmer / Analyst / Developer The Center for Immersive Experiences (CIE) is seeking an experienced software developer to complement our team to create the next generation of cutting edge immersive experiences (xR) for academic applications. Day-to-day, the successful candidate will be expected to rapidly prototype and test new ideas, interfaces and interaction mechanics, as well as create fully realized production quality applications for deployment in academic environments. This job will be filled as a level 2 or level 3, depending upon the successful candidate's competencies, education, and experience. Typically requires an Associate's degree or higher plus two years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience for a level 2. Additional experience and/or education and competencies are required for higher level jobs. Strong preference will be given to candidates who have experience crafting media assets to support their unity development efforts. A familiarity with and excitement for the latest generation of consumer virtual reality technology (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, HoloLens 2, etc.) is highly desirable. Applicants should have experience developing custom content in the Unity or Unreal game engines, as well as familiarity with used platforms such a Blender. The successful candidate will need to be a versatile performer, capable of independent problem solving and creative thinking, while being equally comfortable working as a part of a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a rapidly evolving environment where tools and technologies may change quickly and problems rarely have clearly defined solutions. All candidates for this position should be prepared to submit a portfolio of relevant work along with their application materials. This is a fixed-term appointment funded for one year from date of hire with excellent possibility of re-funding. To apply, use this link: https://psu.jobs/job/87979 -- ******** Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Klippel, Professor Gosnell Senior Faculty Scholar Department of Geography & Affiliate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Director: Center for Immersive Experiences klippel(a)psu.edu<mailto:klippel@psu.edu> chorophronesis.psu.edu

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Deadline Extended for DSIA 2019
by Leilani Battle 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

***DEADLINE EXTENDED*** Consider submitting your work on interactive analysis systems to the DSIA 2019 Workshop, co-located with IEEE VIS 2019! The deadline of the DSIA 2019 Workshop has been extended to *Saturday, July 20*. See the call for papers below. Sincerely, Leilani, Dominik, and Joseph (DSIA 2019 co-chairs) Website: https://www.interactive-analysis.org Email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org -------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis (DSIA 2019), Co-located with VIS 2019 https://www.interactive-analysis.org/ October 20 or 21st, 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2019. *** Submission Deadline: July 13, 2019 *** DSIA seeks to foster innovative research at the intersection of data processing systems and interactive visualization. In this workshop, we will explore ideas at the frontier of databases, machine learning, and other large-scale data-processing systems impact visualization systems design. It is our core tenant that designing these systems together will yield better systems. Examples include: * How can machine learning influence visualization design? * What data pre-processing can or should be done automatically in a database? * How can perceptual principles be applied to query optimization? This workshop is a forum for cross-pollination between these fields. The program will include invited talks from researches in these communities and preliminary research work. It will include time for short presentations outlining needs and new approaches. Finally, we will break into discussion groups and have a report out on research areas for the next year (Please see http://www.interactive-analysis.org/ for links to the program from previous years, including the notes from last year's discussion groups). -- LIST OF TOPICS -- This workshop will focus on interactive systems: techniques, methods, architecture, systems that enable the user to explore and analyze large amounts of data. The focus will be on issues that span front-end and back-end, with low-latency techniques that enable interaction especially interesting. We encourage research in progress, position papers and late-breaking results in interactive analysis in the broadest sense. We are generally interested in questions that arise at as visualization systems interface with other systems. Topics of interest workshop include (but are not limited to): * Application architectures that exploit these novel back-end capabilities * Techniques for data storage, retrieval, compression, transformation, sampling, and streaming * Database architectures for interactive analysis (designs or implementations) * Novel use of database facilities for interactive analysis * Novel database techniques based on perceptual constraints and human-centered design * Evaluation of data systems for interactive analysis * Identify unique characteristics of databases for supporting visualization * Communication protocols between front and back ends * Techniques for metadata generation We are also interested in position abstracts. In this format, we invite ideas for new research directions, their expected impact and anticipated challenges. We especially encourage junior researchers and students to consider this track as an opportunity to share concepts and get feedback. -- SUBMISSIONS -- We are accepting papers in two formats: * Preliminary research, late-breaking results and work in progress: 4 to 6 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted papers will be given a full slot to present at the workshop and will have the option to publish in IEEE Xplore. * Position abstracts, research ideas and desired future work: 1 to 3 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted position papers will be given a 5-minute "lightning" talk slot at the workshop to share their ideas/concepts/concerns. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * Submission Deadline: July 20, 2019 * Notification Date: July 30, 2019 * Camera Ready Due: August 17, 2019 * Workshop Date: October 20 or 21, 2019 -- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS -- * Dominik Moritz, University of Washington. * Leilani Battle, University of Washington/University of Maryland. * Joseph Cottam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. -- CONTACT -- Website: https://www.interactive-analysis.org Email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org

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VisXVision Workshop: Deadline Extended to July 20
by Danielle N Szafir 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

*The deadline for the Vis X Vision Workshop on Novel Directions in Vision Science and Visualization Research has been extended to July 20. * Following the last three years of interdisciplinary events at both VIS and VSS, we are holding the first official event for vision scientist and visualization researcher collaboration, interaction, and peer reviewed research-sharing at VIS. The specific goal of this workshop is to provide a forum where vision science and visualization researchers can share cutting-edge research at this interdisciplinary intersection, in preparation for publishing and presenting it at both IEEE VIS, as well as in the upcoming Journal of Vision Special Issue<https://visxvision.com/journal-of-vision/> on Vision and Visualization. The workshop will feature short paper and abstract talks (~10 minutes each) as well as poster presentations with accompanying lightning talks (1 minute each). Finally, we are excited to announce invited talks by Jeremy Wolfe<http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/index.html> (Harvard), Timothy Brady<https://bradylab.ucsd.edu/> (UCSD), and Darko Odic<http://cogdev.psych.ubc.ca/> (UBC): Visual Search–Jeremy Wolfe If you want people to find “it”, what should “it” look like? Decades of research on visual search have given us quite a good understanding of how people look for targets in scenes containing distracting items. Knowing how people search is not the same as knowing how to design searchable visual stimuli, especially if we want users to be able to search those stimuli for a variety of different targets. Still, the topics of search and searchability must be related so we will explore what the rules governing the deployment of visual attention might suggest to the creators of new visualizations. Working memory– Timothy Brady How much visual information we can hold in mind at once: The role of visual ensembles & semantic knowledge. When processing complex visual displays, people often need to hold information actively in mind to facilitate comparison or integration. Decades of research have shown that our ability to hold information actively in mind is incredibly limited (e.g., we can miss large changes to scenes if we happen to not be holding in mind the right information), and simple rules like people can remember 3-4 things are popular ways to conceive of these limits. In this talk, I discuss what aspects of visual information people can easily hold in mind; what things are extremely difficult to hold in mind; and how these limits relate to visualization design. Visual magnitudes– Darko Odic How perception perceives number, time, and space. The perception of visual magnitudes – length, area, time, number, etc. – has been one of the foundational questions since the dawn of empirical psychology, stretching back from Weber and Helmholtz to today. In this talk, I will share a number of insights, new and old, about how we perceive number, time, and space representations throughout our entire lifespan, focusing especially on issues that might be relevant for data visualization. I will first discuss findings about how our perceptual system deals with competing magnitude dimensions: situations in which, e.g., both number and length are competing for attention. Next, I will share several findings demonstrating that surface area perception is susceptible to various surprising inconsistencies and illusions, whereby we perceive collections of objects to be cumulatively smaller than they really are. Finally, I will share findings on how perceptual magnitude representations allow us to easily find the maximal and minimal element in a set. ________________________________ Call for Papers Authors may submit either short research papers, short position papers, or abstracts for lightning talks and poster presentations. The paper length should match its contribution to the field and be between 2 to 4 pages (plus 1 page of references). All submissions should be formatted in the VGTC conference paper style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html.<http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> The submission, however, must be made in PDF format. Authors can decide whether they want to reveal their names on the submission (single-blind) or submit it anonymously (double-blind). Suggested topics of interest include: * applications of perceptual theory to visualization research * novel evaluation techniques founded in vision science * vision science projects that have the potential to be applied towards visualization * visualization designs and tasks that pose interesting questions for perception research * novel operationalizations of visual or cognitive phenomena that can be studied in perception experiments Timeline for submissions Submission: July 20 Notification: August 5 Camera Ready: August 24 Submit to the Workshop on VisXVision at https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/vis19v! ________________________________ Submission Types The workshop calls for contributions from all areas of visualization and vision science. We accept 3 types of submissions—research, position, and abstracts: Short Research Papers These should comprise of empirical studies grounded in theories from perceptual or cognitive science. These might include the use of a novel evaluation technique, or a perception or visual cognition study that has direct implications for visualization research or design. These studies should aim to make progress towards the greater goal of collaboration and academic reciprocity between vision scientists and visualization researchers. Research papers must present new work, meaning that the results must not be published in an existing peer reviewed venue. They should be four page max + 2 page references. Accepted short research papers will be presented as a 10-minute talk. Short Position Papers These are problem discussions or statements describing the author’s relevant experience and ideas in regards to topics such as: applications of perceptual theory towards vision science, novel operationalizations of visual or cognitive phenomena that can be studied in perception experiments, visualization designs that have the potential to pose interesting questions for vision research, the role of vision in visualization, methods pertaining to collaborative efforts from these fields, etc. Position papers are often framed in the context of a brief review of literature, or are written as a review supporting a proposal for future work. They should be four page max + 2 page references. Accepted short position papers will be presented as a 10-minute talk. Abstracts These may cover any of the aforementioned topics, or other related areas. Abstracts should highlight research-in-progress, reviews, or experiments in preparation for journal submission, and must be 300 words or less. Abstract submissions will be considered for both research talks as well as poster presentations. Authors should specify which presentation format they prefer in their submission by writing “talk preferred”, “poster preferred”, or “no preference” under the title. Benefits of submitting a short paper: Short papers can be a useful way for researchers to present early data, meta analyses, preliminary positions, or smaller chunks of a project. For instance, a short paper may contain just set of experiments that clearly demonstrates a specific effect or phenomenon, but may not investigate its underlying mechanisms or explanations. Short papers may be submitted to showcase a follow up or extension of a known method or phenomena in either vision science or visualization research. Short papers’ reviews follow the same scientifically rigorous expectations as journal articles, but give researchers an opportunity to get feedback on more focused aspects of their research. ________________________________ Publication Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library, including the assignment of DOIs to individual papers. Per IEEE Xplore rules, VisXVision papers will be considered archival and can be referenced. The content of these papers may be sufficiently extended and modified for publication at other venues. Reuse of the content in a follow-up publication for ACM and IEEE venues is allowed provided that the paper is extended by at least 30%. Policies around shared material with a workshop paper at other venues will likely vary from journal to journal. We encourage you to reach out to contacts at any venues of concern. While the policies at various venues are beyond our control, we’ve updated our publication process in the following ways to try to reduce barriers to participation: 1. Archive Optional: As part of the camera-ready revisions, you may elect to have either your workshop paper formally archived or have only the abstract archived. The full text of papers with abstract-only archived will be made available to workshop participants through a password-protected site. Note that this would not change the submission process nor the kind of presentation your work will be considered for. 2. Supplementary Materials: If you wish to provide additional materials, you may include them either through an OSF repository or as a direct email to visxvision(a)gmail.com<mailto:visxvision@gmail.com>. 3. Revised Deadline: To accommodate these updates, we will be extending the submission deadline to July 20.

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IEEE VIS Workshop VIS4DH 2019: Extended deadline July 15th
by Houda Lamqaddam 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Dear all, The deadline for the #VIS4DH workshop, around Visualisation for the Digital Humanities, colocated with IEEE VIS 2019, has been extended to the 15th of July, Please find the call for paper below, More information and contact info on vis4dh.org <http://vis4dh.org/> ---- ======================================================================== Call for Participation 4th Workshop on Visualisation for the Digital Humanities October 20th, 2019 - Vancouver, Canada www.vis4dh.org <http://www.vis4dh.org/> ======================================================================== We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 4th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, “VIS4DH”, under the theme of Trust: Process and Interpretation. This will be a full-day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. More information is available on vis4dh.org <http://vis4dh.org/>. CfP The call is open to all fields of the humanities/social sciences and all branches of visualization. We are particularly interested in papers that bring different disciplines together. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and to intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. In this year’s workshop, we will explore questions of how to build trust when working at the intersection of visualization and humanities-related fields. There are many ways in which trust plays an important role in these collaborations, including questions around general methodologies, approaches to research questions, data collection, extraction and transformation, visual encodings, as well as interpretation and deriving knowledge. The role of visualization in communication has made it key in collaborations spanning many fields related to the humanities, including the arts, history, social sciences, linguistics, literary studies and beyond. The target of this workshop is to explore ways in which trust can be built, strengthened, and maintained when communicating and transferring methodologies, designing tools and encodings, collecting and curating data, and deriving knowledge. Some guiding questions for the 2019 workshop: - How can we deal with different kinds of uncertainty (in data, methodology, research questions, visual encodings, and interpretation)? - How can one make trustworthy visualizations for humanistic research? - What does trust mean for different communities and sub-communities? - How can trust be established in transdisciplinary projects? - How much does trust rely on full understanding of methods, encodings, and other context, especially when collaborating across disciplines? - What do humanities researchers need to see and know to be able to trust visualization, as a tool and process? Submissions This workshop is seeking work from scholars in visualization, the humanities, social science, and the arts who use visualization as part of the process of analyzing and interrogating human culture. Submissions will present original research ideas or results as they relate to visualization for the digital humanities. Each submission should clearly state its specific contribution to this growing field of research. Submissions will take the form of short (2-4 page - excluding references) papers, falling into one of two submission types: - Short Papers: These submissions are meant to summarize more mature works at the intersection of visualization and humanities research, including case studies, system descriptions, and empirical results. Of special consideration are works that highlight the difficulties (and proposed solutions) of designing visualizations in the context of humanities research and/or applying concepts from humanities research to foster visualization research and design. - Position Papers: These submissions are meant to present viewpoints and opinions on the interplay between visualization and the humanities. These positions should be informed by a deep involvement and experience in one (or ideally, both) fields. Position papers should be thought-provoking but also well-supported. Authors of accepted short and position papers will be invited for a brief research presentation (including time for audience questions). Submissions should be in two-column IEEE TVCG format. Latex and Word templates are available at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html> Submissions will be optionally double blind. Authors wishing to submit their work double-blind should remove author information from the cover page of their submitted document, and take care to avoid identifying information in the submission itself (e.g., references to “our” work). Submissions should be in pdf format, clearly indicating the paper type: short paper, or position paper. Submissions should not exceed four pages of content. Submissions should be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vis4dh2019 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vis4dh2019>) by 5 PM PST, 8 15 July 2019. Important Dates Submission Deadline: 8th of July, 2019 15th of July 2019 Notification Deadline: 1st of August, 2019 8th of August 2019 Camera Ready Submission Deadline (tentative): 15th of August, 2019 IEEE VIS Conference: 20th - 25th of October, 2019 VIS4DH Workshop: 20th of October, 2019 ✎ Houda Lamqaddam PhD Researcher Department of Computer Science | Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, BE (+32) 16 37 9854

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Deadline Approaching: DSIA 2019 Workshop (co-located with IEEE VIS 2019)
by Leilani Battle 05 Jul '19

05 Jul '19

The deadline of the DSIA 2019 Workshop, co-located with IEEE VIS 2019, is fast approaching (submissions due Saturday, July 13). See the call for papers below. Sincerely, Leilani, Dominik, and Joseph (DSIA 2019 co-chairs) Website: https://www.interactive-analysis.org Email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org -------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis (DSIA 2019), Co-located with VIS 2019 https://www.interactive-analysis.org/ October 20 or 21st, 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2019. *** Submission Deadline: July 13, 2019 *** DSIA seeks to foster innovative research at the intersection of data processing systems and interactive visualization. In this workshop, we will explore ideas at the frontier of databases, machine learning, and other large-scale data-processing systems impact visualization systems design. It is our core tenant that designing these systems together will yield better systems. Examples include: * How can machine learning influence visualization design? * What data pre-processing can or should be done automatically in a database? * How can perceptual principles be applied to query optimization? This workshop is a forum for cross-pollination between these fields. The program will include invited talks from researches in these communities and preliminary research work. It will include time for short presentations outlining needs and new approaches. Finally, we will break into discussion groups and have a report out on research areas for the next year (Please see http://www.interactive-analysis.org/ for links to the program from previous years, including the notes from last year's discussion groups). -- LIST OF TOPICS -- This workshop will focus on interactive systems: techniques, methods, architecture, systems that enable the user to explore and analyze large amounts of data. The focus will be on issues that span front-end and back-end, with low-latency techniques that enable interaction especially interesting. We encourage research in progress, position papers and late-breaking results in interactive analysis in the broadest sense. We are generally interested in questions that arise at as visualization systems interface with other systems. Topics of interest workshop include (but are not limited to): * Application architectures that exploit these novel back-end capabilities * Techniques for data storage, retrieval, compression, transformation, sampling, and streaming * Database architectures for interactive analysis (designs or implementations) * Novel use of database facilities for interactive analysis * Novel database techniques based on perceptual constraints and human-centered design * Evaluation of data systems for interactive analysis * Identify unique characteristics of databases for supporting visualization * Communication protocols between front and back ends * Techniques for metadata generation We are also interested in position abstracts. In this format, we invite ideas for new research directions, their expected impact and anticipated challenges. We especially encourage junior researchers and students to consider this track as an opportunity to share concepts and get feedback. -- SUBMISSIONS -- We are accepting papers in two formats: * Preliminary research, late-breaking results and work in progress: 4 to 6 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted papers will be given a full slot to present at the workshop and will have the option to publish in IEEE Xplore. * Position abstracts, research ideas and desired future work: 1 to 3 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted position papers will be given a 5-minute "lightning" talk slot at the workshop to share their ideas/concepts/concerns. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * Submission Deadline: July 13, 2019 * Notification Date: July 28, 2019 * Camera Ready Due: August 17, 2019 * Workshop Date: October 20 or 21, 2019 -- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS -- * Dominik Moritz, University of Washington. * Leilani Battle, University of Washington/University of Maryland. * Joseph Cottam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. -- CONTACT -- Website: https://www.interactive-analysis.org Email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org

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IEEE VIS Workshop EVIVA-ML CFP – Extended Deadline July 15
by Nadia Boukhelifa 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

IEEE VIS 2019 Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Visual Machine Learning Systems (EVIVA-ML) Extended deadline for short papers: July 15, 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 15, 2019 (extended by two weeks) • 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<mailto:eviva-ml@inra.fr>

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