August 2019 - Infovis

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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CFP: ACM TiiS Special Issue on Interactive Visual Analytics for Making Explainable and Accountable Decisions
by Turkay, Cagatay 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

Dear colleagues, Please find below the call for papers for a special issue of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) (https://tiis.acm.org<https://tiis.acm.org/>) on “Interactive Visual Analytics for Making Explainable and Accountable Decisions” as a follow-on from this year’s EuroVA & MLVis workshops at EuroVis 2019. We look forward to your submissions and do not hesitate to contact us on vaxad_acm_tiis(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:vaxad_acm_tiis@googlegroups.com> with any questions. SI Guest Editors, Cagatay Turkay, Tatiana von Landesberger, Remco Chang, Shixia Liu, Daniel Archambault CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) Special Issue on Interactive Visual Analytics for Making Explainable and Accountable Decisions Background Due to recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, complex and advanced machine learning models have been developed and used increasingly in making data-driven decisions that have significant impact on science, business, and the wider society. Although effective, the complexity of these models can often make the results difficult to understand, explain, evaluate, and scrutinize. There is therefore a significant demand from governments, businesses, and the wider society for interpretable, explainable and accountable decision-making models and systems. Interactive visual analytics offer great potential in this space by marrying human intelligence with machine power, through, including but not limited to, visual representations of data and interaction techniques, to aid humans in better generating, interpreting, evaluating, and deploying statistical and machine learning models. In this special issue, we will feature cutting-edge research where interactive visual analytics methods are applied together with complex computational methods for making explainable and accountable decisions informed by data. Scope, Description, and More Information This special issue invites submissions that feature original research on designing, developing and evaluating interactive visual analytics methods that empower their users to make explainable and accountable inferences and decisions based on massive amounts of data. A suitable submission must also demonstrate its relevance to TiiS, the premier journal featuring interactive intelligent systems with two distinct characteristics: intelligence and interactivity. In particular, a suitable submission must exhibit or discuss how the resulting approaches, techniques, or systems advance an interactive intelligent system. Interdisciplinary and applied research is especially encouraged. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Role of interactive visualization in interpretable and explainable machine learning * Human factors in making decisions with machine learning models * Facilitating algorithmic transparency and accountability through visual analytics * Interactive visualization for supporting non-experts in creating and interpreting complex analysis results * Visual analytics for interactive, informed machine-learning model building * Uncertainty-aware visual analytics for the consideration of inherent uncertainty in data and models * Interactive visual analytics for addressing biases in the data and machine learning models Schedule * Full paper submission deadline: November 17th, 2019 * First author notification: Feb 14th, 2020 * Revised paper due: April 20th, 2020 * Final author notification: May 15th, 2020 * Expected publication: Summer 2020 Guest Editors * Dr. Cagatay Turkay City, University of London * Prof. Tatiana von Landesberger Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Dr. Remco Chang Tufts University * Dr. Shixia Liu Tsinghua University * Dr. Daniel Archambault Swansea University Check out http://tiis.acm.org/authors.cfm for author information and submission details. For further information, please contact vaxad_acm_tiis(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:vaxad_acm_tiis@googlegroups.com> Online version of the CFP can be found on https://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.cfm

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Call for Proposals: Liberact V, NC State University Libraries
by Walt Gurley 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

The North Carolina State University Libraries is pleased to host the 5th Liberact (Libraries & Interactive Technologies) conference <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/liberact> at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library in Raleigh, North Carolina on November 14 and 15, 2019. Liberact offers practitioners and researchers involved in immersive and large-scale visual technologies the chance to meet, build community, and gain inspiration for collaboratively advancing this area of study and scholarly production. Like earlier Liberact events, this conference will focus on implementing, supporting, and maintaining visualization and interactive technologies and the content produced within/for them. We broadly define these technologies to include systems, applications, and tools like: interactive gesture- and motion-based systems, large scale visualization environments, 3D and virtual reality environments, and emergent areas. We invite you to participate in our workshops and facilitate exploration of partnerships between institutions, especially in the sharing and transfer of content. Building on excitement and ideas flowing from similar meetings like THE CAAV <https://thecaav.squarespace.com/news>, the sessions at Liberact will utilize the variety of spaces, walls, and technologies in the Hunt Library for an applied and engaged experience. We invite proposals in the form of: 20-min. presentation sessions Lightning talks (Digital) Posters Project/Product demos The deadline for proposals is Wednesday, September 4, 2019. Submit a proposal and find more information on the conference site: https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/liberact -- Walt Gurley Data & Visualization Librarian Data & Visualization Services NC State University Libraries 919.515.8822

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ACM ISS DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM - EXTENDED
by Christopher Collins 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ACM ISS DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM - EXTENDED The ISS Doctoral Symposium (ISS DS) is a single day invitation-only forum in which Ph.D. students can meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers in an informal and interactive setting. Participants can expect an opportunity to present their dissertation research in a supportive environment and to receive constructive expert and peer feedback on their research topics and possible career paths in both academia and industry. The Symposium aims to support community building by connecting beginning and established researchers. The ideal time to apply to participate in the DS is when some progress has been made in Ph.D. research, and a path to completion is planned but could benefit from outside opinions and refinement. Students should submit a paper that describes: the problem that the thesis aims to address; the broad approach and how it builds upon and goes beyond key relevant previous work; the work completed and the plan for the full dissertation work; and open questions/issues for discussion and/or what you want to get out of participation in the symposium. Completed work may be presented as an overview or highlighting a particularly important part in depth. Doctoral Symposium papers will be published in the ISS conference companion proceedings, distributed at the conference and published in the ACM digital library. All research topics suitable for the ACM ISS Conference and associated workshops are appropriate for the DS. The DS chairs aim to achieve diversity among the student participants, including diversity across research groups and geographical areas. All Ph.D. students are welcome to apply regardless of whether they are presenting at the main conference or not. Each submission will be reviewed by both DS chairs to assess its suitability for the DS, as well as additional expert reviewers when necessary. This will be based on whether the work is sufficiently mature to present but still early enough for the student to benefit from the feedback and experience of the panel. Accepted authors will present their work to the DS chairs and expert reviewers and participate in an intensive workshop around ISS research. They will have *free registration*. The Doctoral Symposium will take place at the conference venue on Sunday, November 10, 2019 (for accepted authors and invited experts only!). IMPORTANT DATES * Extended to 30 August, 2019, 5:00 p.m. PDT: Deadline for submissions * Tuesday, 2 August 2019: Author Notifications * Sunday, 8 September 2019: Final Manuscript Submission SUBMISSION Every submission should include both an extended abstract (no more than six pages in ACM landscape format) and a draft poster design. You may also submit a video and you are encouraged to do so if this clarifies the work, as is often the case in ISS interfaces. Complete submission and formatting information are available on the conference website: https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/doctoral/ CONTACT Christopher Collins, Ontario Tech University Daniel Saakes, KAIST doctoral2019(a)iss.acm.org

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Research Summit: Making Digital Heritage Multisensory (Danube University)
by Image Science 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

Making Digital Heritage Multisensory Strategies and Political Impact ************************* Research Summit Sep 4, 2019 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm Audimax, Danube University Campus Organized by the Department for Image Science www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw ▪ zbw[at]donau-uni.ac.at ************************* Digital technologies and culture have become part of the fabric of our societies. In the digital sphere, artistic creation and scientific research are closely intertwined with the latest technological developments. Interfaces, visualizations, social media platforms, innovative communication devices, and data mining are significant components of our digital heritage. Does the inclusion of digital heritage into the museum world also enable digital arts to be finally represented in our publicly funded institutions? Because of the postdigital turn, digital materialities are explored through multisensory devices, haptic interfaces and tangible user applications. Simultaneously, through digitalization, new experiences of (inaccessible) cultural heritage have been established with virtual and immersive installations, 3D illusions and data visualizations. Today, we live in ever-changing knowledge societies: how do these new digital infrastructures influence socio-cultural transformations? The Research Summit is a new conference format at Danube University with the overall goal of bringing together scientists, technicians, students and the interested public for an interdisciplinary exchange. /// Intro /// Prof. Dr. Oliver Grau, MAE, Chair Professor, Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems, Austria Digital Arts & The Museum: A Political Game /// Keynotes /// Prof. Dr. Sarah KENDERDINE Director of Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Experimental Museology: Sculpting Cultural Data Prof. Dr. Hiroshi ISHII Associate Director of MIT Media Laboratory Director of Tangible Media Group Making Digital Tangible /// Panel /// Prof. Dr. Ryszard Kluszczyński, Chair Professor, Department of Media and Audiovisual Culture, University of Lodz, Poland Ass. Prof. Dr. Morten Søndergaard, Research Laboratory for Art and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark Prof. Dr. Oliver Grau, MAE, Chair professor, Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems, Austria Moderation: Wendy Coones, Department for Image Science /// Information /// www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw http://www.mediaartscultures.eu/ www.digitalartarchive.at The Research Summit will be held at Audimax, Danube University Campus, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems, Austria. New Publication: Oliver GRAU, Janina HOTH and Eveline WANDL-VOGT (eds.): Digital Art through the Looking Glass: New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in Digital Humanities free download: https://www.academia.edu/40089496/Digital_Art_through_the_Looking_Glass_ The event is free of admission. We kindly ask you to register at zbw[at]donau-uni.ac.at.

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cfp: ACM SIGIR CHIIR 2020
by CHIIR 2020 Program Co-Chairs 23 Aug '19

23 Aug '19

Dear Colleagues, Please mark your calendars: the fifth ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pronounced “cheer”) will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 14–18 March, 2020. ACM CHIIR 2020 invites submissions focused on user-centered approaches to the design and evaluation of systems for information access, retrieval, and use. Papers may explore improvements to existing systems and interfaces, propose novel theories, models, and systems, or focus on understanding individual and group interactions with information and information systems. As a multi-disciplinary research meeting, we welcome submissions using a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Topics covered include but are not limited to: -Information seeking, including task-based and exploratory studies -Search interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations and domains -User-centered design approaches to humans interacting with information and systems -Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery -Online information seeking, including log analysis of search and browsing -Modeling and simulation of information interaction -Information use, including measures of use as well as broader sense-making -Field and case studies relevant to understanding prerequisites for information searching, design and access -User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and neuro-physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability -Human interaction and experience with conversational information systems -Context-aware and personalized search, including design, contextual features and analysis of information interaction -Information visualization and visual analytics, including search result presentation -Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction -Conversational search and other types of stateful and multi-turn interactions between users and search applications -Insights and analyses related to human experiences and usage trends with recommendation technologies -Information interaction and seeking with mobile devices and services ACM CHIIR operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct. Please note the following submission deadlines October 1, 2019 Workshop and Tutorial proposals due October 15, 2019 Full papers and Perspectives papers due October 29, 2019 Short papers, Demos and Doctoral Consortium proposals due October 23, 2019 Notifications of acceptance for Workshops and Tutorials December 10, 2019 Notifications of acceptance for all other submission types Submission Requirements can be found on the conference website: https://sigir.org/chiir2020/calls.html The poster of this call is available at: http://sigir.org/chiir2020/cfp.pdf The submission system will open in September 2019. Please stay tuned for further announcements and details. Questions? Please send an email to chiir2020conf(a)gmail.com. CHIIR Organizing Committee chiir2020program(a)gmail.com --- ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2020) Program Co-Chairs Orland Hoeber, University of Regina Ioannis Arapakis, Telefonica I+D Irene Lopatovska, Pratt Institute Conference website: http://sigir.org/chiir2020/ Call for papers: http://sigir.org/chiir2020/calls.html Important deadlines: Oct 1, 15, and 29 Oct 1 (workshop and tutorial proposals) Oct 15 (full and perspective papers) Oct 29 (short papers, demos, and doctoral consortium proposals)

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IEEE AIVR 2019 - Special session "Immersive Analytics" (CfP)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 20 Aug '19

20 Aug '19

*IEEE AIVR 2019, Dec 9-11, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA* http://ieee-aivr.org The IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2019), now in its second run, is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. This year features a dedicated call for a special session on "Immersive Analytics": *Call for papers on Immersive Analytics* Immersive analytics (IA) is an interdisciplinary research field that uses VR/AR to create truly immersive and interactive representations of big data for a better analysis and understanding. In this special session, we want to explore the state of the art in IA, identify problems and major challenges, and look into recent improvements and promising ideas. We are particulary interested in examples that show how AI and VR/AR can be brought together to create and improve IA. Related topics include but are not limited to: * IA for data analysis, exploration, and decision making * Application domains for IA, including health, science & engineering, education * Human factors related to IA, including perception, awareness, and cognitive load * Good examples and innovative ideas for visualization, exploration, and interaction in IA * Tools, standards, and best practices Special session papers are treated like regular conference papers. They undergo a thorough double-blind review process. Accepted ones that are presented at the conference will be included in the proceedings and the IEEE Xplore digital library. Outstanding papers will be considered for inclusion in special issues of high ranked journals. *Deadline* for special session papers is September 9, 2019. Please refer to the conference site for further details: http://aivr.science.uu.nl/aivr_special.html

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Associate Lecturer in Interactive Media, University of York, UK
by Jonathan Hook 19 Aug '19

19 Aug '19

** Associate Lecturer in Interactive Media, University of York, UK ** - Contact status: 6 months full-time (starting mid-December 2019) - Salary: £32,236 to £39,609 a year - Closing date: 15th September 2019 - Find out more and apply: bit.ly/im-york-lecturer <http://bit.ly/im-york-lecturer> We invite applications for the position of Associate Lecturer in Interactive Media to contribute to the University of York’s BSc in Interactive Media programme. Launched in September 2014, this interdisciplinary BSc programme achieved an overall satisfaction score of 90% in the 2018 National Student Survey, and ranked first in the Russell Group for “Learning Opportunities” and “Organisation and Management” measures. This position will commence mid-December 2019 and will be available as a full time appointment for a period of 6 months (until mid-June 2020). The role will be held within the University’s interdisciplinary Department of Theatre, Film and Television (TFTV). TFTV, established in 2006, is a highly innovative department that brings together research, teaching and commercial activities in the fields of interactive media, film, television and theatre. In September 2010, we moved into a £30m purpose-designed building with superb facilities for both production activities and academic study. In 2015, the department together with Computer Science started leading the Digital Creativity Labs, a newly funded £18m flagship project of the UK Government’s Digital Economy programme. On 1 May 2019, the department, together with the Digital Creativity Labs, launches XR Stories, an exciting new R&D partnership for the Yorkshire screen industries as part of the Creative Industries Cluster Programme, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and part of the Industrial Strategy. == Role == The successful candidate will lead and teach on existing modules covering introductory programming in Processing (Java) and the interactive media development process (e.g. design, user experience, prototyping, evaluation and project management for a variety of applications). You will develop and apply innovative and appropriate teaching techniques and material to create interest, understanding and enthusiasm amongst students as well as carry out on-going curriculum review, and contribute to the development of teaching and learning strategies. You will also contribute to final year project supervision and marking and undertake a range of administrative responsibilities. == Skills, Experience & Qualification needed == You will have a postgraduate degree, ideally a PhD, but at least a Masters degree in a relevant subject (e.g. Computer Science, HCI or Games Design and Development) and experience teaching at HE level. You must have experience with / knowledge of object-oriented programming, especially in Java, and the software development lifecycle for different kinds of interactive media (e.g. entertainment, mobile, education applications). You will also have the skills to design, manage and deliver their own teaching, carry out assessment duties, engage with a wide-ranging audience, as well as supervise student work and carry out pastoral supervision. Personal attributes must include demonstrated attention to detail and commitment high-quality work, a collaborative ethos, a positive attitude to colleagues and students, willingness to work proactively and ability to plan and prioritise their own work. Closing date: 15 September 2019 Find out more and apply: bit.ly/im-york-lecturer <http://bit.ly/im-york-lecturer> Jonathan Hook Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media Dept. of Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media University of York, Baird Lane, YO10 5GB +44 (0)1904 325238 www.jonhook.co.uk <http://www.jonhook.co.uk/>

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CfPosters: Machine Learning from User Interactions (MLUI) at VIS 2019
by John Wenskovitch 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

The Machine Learning from User Interactions (MLUI) workshop seeks to bring together researchers to share their knowledge and build collaborations at the intersection of the Machine Learning and Visualization fields, with a focus on learning from user interaction. Rather than focusing on what visualization can do to support machine learning (as in current Explainable AI research), this workshop seeks contributions on *how machine learning can support visualization*. Such support incorporates human-centric sensemaking processes, user-driven analytical systems, and gaining insight from data. Our intention in this workshop is to generate open discussion about how we currently learn from user interaction, how to build intelligent visualization systems, and how to proceed with future research in this area. We hope to foster discussion regarding systems, interaction models, and interaction techniques. Further, we hope to extend last year’s collaborative creation of a research agenda that explores the future of machine learning with user interaction. For our workshop poster session, we invite both late-breaking work and contributions in this area from other research domains to submit extended abstracts between 2 and 4 pages in length (NOT including references). All submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> (i.e., NOT the journal style template that full papers use). Extended abstracts are to be submitted via email to our GMail account: learningfromusersworkshop(a)gmail.com. All abstracts accepted for presentation at the workshop will be linked from the workshop website. All abstracts should contain full author names and affiliations. If applicable, a link to a short video (up to 5 min. in length) may also be submitted. The abstracts will be juried by the organizers and selected external reviewers and will be chosen according to relevance, quality, and likelihood that they will stimulate and contribute to the discussion. *Submission deadline:* August 20, 2019 *Author notification:* September 1, 2019 *Camera-ready deadline:* October 1, 2019 *Workshop:* October 20, 2019 More info, posters, and papers from MLUI 2018 can be found at: https://learningfromusersworkshop.github.io/workshop2018.html

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IEEE VIS - Bike Ride and Bike Jersey Orders
by Dykes, Jason 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

This year's IEEE VIS bike ride will be out of Vancouver at 7am on Saturday 26th October. We'll be back by 1pm for late afternoon flights. Train up and join in. Provisional details are here: http://www.gicentre.net/velo-club-de-vis Look the part. Order spectacular IEEE VIS cycling kit BEFORE AUGUST 14th here: https://www.gicentre.net/velo-club-jersey/ Ride! And track your training and how others are doing in our Strava club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/velo-club-de-vis Be sure to contact veloclubdevis(a)gmail.com to receive updates. Ride safely. Jason. Velo Club de VIS.

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