August 2019 - Infovis

PacificVis 2020 Call for Papers
by Beck, Fabian 07 Aug '19

07 Aug '19

############################################################################## Call for Papers: 13th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2020) APRIL 14-17, 2020 Pan Pacific, TIANJIN, China http://pvis.org ############################################################################## PacificVis is a unified visualization symposium, welcoming all areas of visualization research such as information visualization, scientific visualization, graph and network visualization, visual analytics, and specific applications such as (but not limited to) security, software, and biological visualization. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and application papers in all areas of visualization. We encourage papers in any new, novel, and exciting research area that pertains to visualization. All submitted papers will go through a two-stage review process to guarantee the publication of high-quality papers. All papers accepted by IEEE Pacific Visualization 2020 will be published by IEEE and will be also included in the IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers will be published directly in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Important Dates --------------- Abstract due : Sep. 27, 2019 Full paper due : Oct. 4, 2019 Reviews due : Nov. 15, 2019 1st cycle notification : Nov. 29, 2019 Revision due : Dec. 20, 2019 2nd cycle notification : Jan. 13, 2020 Camera ready paper due : Jan. 23, 2020 All deadlines are due at 9:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT/PST). Topics ------ Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Visualization Application Areas: * Statistical Graphics and Mathematics * Financial, Security, and Business Visualization * Physical Sciences and Engineering * Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences * Geographic, Geospatial, and Terrain Visualization * Molecular, Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Medical Visualization * Text, Document, and Software Visualization * Social and Information Sciences * Education and Everyday Visualization * Multimedia (Image/Video/Music) Visualization Data-focused Visualization Research: * High-dimensional Data, Dimensionality Reduction, and Data Compression * Multi-field, Multi-modal, Multi-resolution, and Multi-variate Data * Causality and Uncertainty Data * Time Series, Time Varying, Streaming, and Flow Data * Scalar, Vector, and Tensor Fields * Regular and Unstructured Grids * Point-based Data * Large-scale Data (Petabytes, ...) Technique-focused Visualization Research: * Volume Modeling and Rendering * Extraction of Surfaces * Topology-based and Geometry-based Techniques * Glyph-based Techniques * Integrating Spatial and Non-spatial Data Visualization * Machine Learning Approaches Graph and Network Visualization Research: * Design and Experimentation of Graph Drawing Algorithms * Techniques, Interfaces, and Interaction Methods for Graphs, Trees, and Other Relational Data * Visualization of Graphs and Networks in Application Areas * Interfaces and Interaction Techniques for Graph and Network Visualizations * Benchmarks and Experimental Analysis for Graph Visualization Systems Interaction-focused Visualization Research: * Icon- and Glyph-based Visualization * Focus + Context Techniques * Animation * Zooming and Navigation * Brushing + Linking * Coordinated Multiple Views * View-dependent Visualization * Data Labeling, Editing, and Annotation * Collaborative, Co-located, and Distributed Visualization * Manipulation and Deformation * Visual Data Mining and Visual Knowledge Discovery Empirical and Comprehension-focused Visualization Research: * Visual Design and Aesthetics * Illustrative Visualization * Cognition and Perception Issues * User Studies on Visualization Readability and User Interaction * Presentation, Dissemination, and Storytelling * Design Studies, Case Studies, and Focus Groups * Task and Requirements Analysis * Metrics and Benchmarks * Evaluations of All Types: Qualitative, Quantitative, Laboratory, Field, and Usability Studies * Use of Eye Tracking and Other Biometric Measures System-focused Visualization Research: * Novel Algorithms and Mathematics * Taxonomies and Models * Methodologies, Discussions, and Frameworks * Visual Design, Visualization System, and Toolkit Design * Data Warehousing, Database Visualization, and Data Mining * Collaborative and Distributed Visualization Hardware, Display, and Interaction Technology: * Large and High-resolution Displays * Stereo Displays * Mobile and Ubiquitous Environments * Immersive and Virtual Environments * Multimodal Input (Touch, Haptics, Voice, etc.) * Hardware Acceleration * GPUs and Multi-core Architectures * CPU and GPU Clusters * Distributed Systems, Grid, and Cloud Environments * Volume Graphics Hardware Submission ---------- Papers are to be submitted online through the new Precision Conference System (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc) at the PacificVis 2020 Papers track. Original unpublished papers of up to ten (10) pages (two-column, single-spaced, 9 point font, including figures, tables, and references) are invited. Manuscripts must be written in English and follow the formatting guidelines (https://pacificvis.github.io/) It is recommended (but not mandatory) to submit an anonymized version of your manuscript for double-blind review - in this case, please remove all author and affiliation information from submissions and supplemental files as well as substitute your paper's ID number for the author name. Papers should be submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format. Please provide supplemental videos in QuickTime MPEG-4 or DivX version 5, and use TIFF, JPEG, or PNG for supplemental images. Papers Chairs ------------- Fabian Beck University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jinwook Seo Seoul National University, Republic of Korea Chaoli Wang University of Notre Dame, USA Email: fabian.beck(a)paluno.uni-due.de<mailto:fabian.beck@paluno.uni-due.de>; jseo(a)hcil.snu.ac.kr<mailto:jseo@hcil.snu.ac.kr>; chaoli.wang(a)nd.edu<mailto:chaoli.wang@nd.edu> Paper Types ----------- A visualization research paper typically falls into one of five categories: technique, system, application/design study, evaluation, or theory/model. We briefly discuss these categories below. Although your main paper type has to be specified during the paper submission process, papers can include elements of more than one of these categories. Please see "Process and Pitfalls in Writing Information Visualization Research Papers" by Tamara Munzner for a more detailed discussion. *Technique papers* introduce novel techniques or algorithms that have not previously appeared in the literature, or that significantly extend known techniques or algorithms, for example, by scaling to datasets of much larger size than before or by generalizing a technique to a larger class of uses. The technique or algorithm description provided in the paper should be complete enough that a competent graduate student in visualization could implement the work, and the authors should create a prototype implementation of the methods. Relevant previous work must be referenced, and the advantage of the new methods over it should be clearly demonstrated. There should be a discussion of the tasks and datasets for which this new method is appropriate, and its limitations. Evaluation through informal or formal user studies, or other methods, will often serve to strengthen the paper, but are not mandatory. *System papers* present a blend of algorithms, technical requirements, user requirements, and design that solves a major problem. The system that is described is both novel and important, and has been implemented. The rationale for significant design decisions is provided, and the system is compared to documented, best-of-breed systems already in use. The comparison includes a specific discussion of how the described system differs from and is, in some significant respects, superior to those systems. For example, the described system may offer substantial advancements in the performance or usability of visualization systems, or novel capabilities. Every effort should be made to eliminate external factors (such as advances in processor performance, memory sizes or operating system features) that would affect this comparison. *Application/design study papers* explore the choices made when applying visualization and visual analytics techniques in an application area, for example relating the visual encodings and interaction techniques to the requirements of the target task. Similarly, application/design study papers have been the norm when researchers describe the use of visualization techniques to glean insights from problems in engineering and science. Although a significant amount of application domain background information can be useful to provide a framing context in which to discuss the specifics of the target task, the primary focus of the case study must be the visualization content. The results of the application/design study, including insights generated in the application domain, should be clearly conveyed. Describing new techniques and algorithms developed to solve the target problem will strengthen a design study paper, but the requirements for novelty are less stringent than in a technique paper. Where necessary, the identification of the underlying parametric space and its efficient search must be aptly described. The work will be judged by the design lessons learned or insights gleaned, on which future contributors can build. We invite submissions on any application area. *Evaluation papers* explore the usage of visualization and visual analytics by human users, and typically present an empirical study of visualization techniques or systems. Authors are not necessarily expected to implement the systems used in these studies themselves; the research contribution will be judged on the validity and importance of the experimental results as opposed to the novelty of the systems or techniques under study. The conference committee appreciates the difficulty and importance of designing and performing rigorous experiments, including the definition of appropriate hypotheses, tasks, data sets, selection of subjects, measurement, validation and conclusions. The goal of such efforts should be to move from mere description of experiments, toward prediction and explanation. We do suggest that potential authors who have not had formal training in the design of experiments involving human subjects may wish to partner with a colleague from an area such as psychology or human-computer interaction who has experience with designing rigorous experimental protocols and statistical analysis of the resulting data. Other novel forms of evaluation are also encouraged. *Theory/model papers* present new interpretations of the foundational theory of visualization and visual analytics. Implementations are usually not relevant for papers in this category. Papers should focus on basic advancement in our understanding of how visualization techniques complement and exploit properties of human vision and cognition. For more information and updates please visit: http://pvis.org ----------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Fabian Beck Juniorprofessur für Informatik paluno - Universität Duisburg-Essen Gerlingstr. 16 45127 Essen, Germany mail: fabian.beck(a)paluno.uni-due.de<mailto:fabian.beck@paluno.uni-due.de> web: http://vis.wiwi.uni-due.de Tel.: +49 201 183-7057 -----------------------------------------

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CHIIR 2020 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals
by CHIIR 2020 Program Co-Chairs 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

CHIIR 2020, 14–18 March, 2020 • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada CHIIR 2020 is pleased to invite proposals for satellite workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. http://sigir.org/chiir2020/call-workshop-proposals.html CHIIR 2020 workshops will provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and emerging areas in Interactive IR, Information Seeking or Interfaces for Information Access in a less formal and potentially more focused way than the conference itself. Workshop topics typically match those identified in the CHIIR 2020 general call for contributions, but proposals related to other areas of Interactive IR are welcome as well. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organisers and can be either full-day or half-day. We encourage workshops that foster collaboration, discussion, group problem-solving and community building initiatives. Workshops that only revolve around the presentation of papers in a “mini conference” format are discouraged. Researchers and practitioners from IR, Information Science or any related discipline are invited to submit proposals for review. The organisers of approved workshops will be expected to define the workshop’s focus, gather and review submissions, and decide upon the final program content. At least two organizers are expected to attend the entire workshop. * PROPOSAL FORMAT AND SUBMISSION The tutorial proposal should be a PDF document no more than 4 pages long (including references), submitted by e-mail to workshops.chiir2020(a)gmail.com and organised as follows: Title: Format: half/full day Brief description Please indicate the main topics/issues of the workshop. We welcome workshops that address important issues, discuss potential solutions, integrate various approaches, and offer innovative perspectives within the themes of the conference and have strong potential to contribute to the evolution of research and development of Human Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. Significance and relevance to CHIIR Please indicate here why the workshop is significant and relevant to CHIIR. Provisional plan Please describe the type of activities you intend to carry out during the event. Successful workshop proposals will show a high proportion of interactive elements. Organisers (contact person) Name Surname – http://your.web.page.com – your(a)email.com Name Surname – http://your.web.page.com – your(a)email.com … Part of a series If the workshop is part of a series please state it here, refer to the past editions and explain in what way the proposed workshop brings genuine novelty. * EVALUATION CRITERIA Tutorial proposals will be reviewed according to: (1) novelty of the topics, (2) relevance for CHIIR community, (3) quality of workshop planning (4) potential to generate future research output. Reviewers will be selected by the workshop chairs from the pool of Senior Programme Committee Members. * IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposal submission deadline: Tuesday October 1, 2019 Workshop proposal notification: Tuesday October 23, 2019 Camera-ready Workshop summary deadline: Monday January 13, 2020 Workshop date: Saturday March 14, 2020 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. * WORKSHOP CHAIRS David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg, Germany Markus Kattenbeck, TU Wien, Austria Please contact the chairs at workshops.chiir2020(a)gmail.com if you have any questions. --- 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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Senior lecturer/associate prof position in geomatics, geovis, VA, VR/AR
by Karimzadeh, Morteza 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

Please direct your questions to the hiring department: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/900501/senior-lecturer-associate-prof… The Opportunity The Department of Infrastructure Engineering (IE) combines the suite of disciplines of civil engineering, environmental engineering and geomatics into one department creating an unusually broad scope for our research and engineering education. Our aim is to build integrated capabilities that allow us to comprehensively solve infrastructure problems that are sustainable into the future. We are seeking an outstanding and enthusiastic Geomatics specialist at either the Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor level. You research area will be capable of further strengthening the team's expertise in any one of the following areas: * measurement science * spatial data infrastructure and land administration * geographic information science and additionally, broaden the geomatics team's academic network and industry engagement. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to shape the spatially-enabled, sustainable development of society by contributing to one of our broad engagements in: * future digital infrastructure * urban land administration systems * autonomous systems platforms * or spatially intelligent mobility You will be supported to both independently and as a member of the team, work on all four pillars of your academic career by: * pursuing internationally leading research, * teaching and teaching innovation, * engagement with industry and partner institutions, * and taking on leadership roles within the University. In research, you should be able to develop an internationally recognized and innovative research portfolio, as well as establish funding streams to support it. You should be able to contribute to, and in time lead, larger research initiatives within and beyond the department through industry engagements. In teaching, you should be able to teach Australia's best students at both undergraduate and Masters' level, and to contribute to the innovation of the curriculum within the Geomatics and related disciplines. Selection Criteria * o * A PhD or equivalent in Geomatics or a cognate discipline * A demonstrated track record of high-quality research, teaching and scholarship * A track record in attracting research funding from competitive grant agencies and other sources * Experience with undertaking collaborative research projects as part of a team across institutions and/or disciplines; * A track record of engaging industry, government and/or the community in teaching; * Demonstrated ability to teach effectively, including through design and project studios; * Experience in curriculum development and implementation at undergraduate and postgraduate level that will maintains the highest international standards; * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with industry, government, research groups, diverse student cohorts and a variety of other stakeholders; * Exhibited commitment to the highest standards of scientific and ethical integrity * Demonstrated leadership and service to relevant domestic and international academic associations, journals and professional bodies. What we offer you We offer flexibility, whatever that may mean for you. Many of our benefit programs and onsite amenities are aimed at supporting you - including generous leave, child care subsidies, discounted parking, medical and health care. We offer extensive opportunities for personal and professional development and we'll support you in doing what you love. If you're curious, motivated and ready to undertake a challenging and rewarding role we're ready to meet you. How to Apply Apply online, complete the application and upload your Cover Letter and Resume. Please note, there is no need to address the selection criteria. While we review your application, get to know us by visiting http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/join-mse/why-join-mse Regards, Morteza Morteza Karimzadeh, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher, Purdue University Visualization and Analytics Center (PURVAC) Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University karimzadeh(a)purdue.edu<mailto:karimzadeh@purdue.edu>

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