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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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[2nd CfP GD 2020]: Second Call for paper Graph Drawing and Network Visualization Conference 2020
by David Auber 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

============================================== Second Call for Papers GD 2020 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 15-18, 2020 Vancouver, Canada https://gd2020.cs.ubc.ca/ CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: GD 2020 will be organized as an online meeting. We plan to keep all the important dates of the conference as announced. ================================================ Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas include data science, social sciences, web computing, information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, information security, and software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 25 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. GD 2020 will take place September 15-18, 2020, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspects of graph drawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters, and to participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest. PAPERS ------ We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. Regular papers must be submitted explicitly to one of two distinct tracks described below. Papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the other track. Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects ---------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances, such as combinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): • Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms • Geometric and topological graph theory • Computational topology of graphs on surfaces • Geometric network design and optimization • Geometric computing Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects ---------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph drawing, such as the development of network visualization systems and interfaces in different application areas. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): • Visualization of graphs and networks in real world applications, including big data analysis • Engineering of network visualization algorithms and systems • Experimental results in graph theory and algorithms • Benchmarks and experimental studies of network visualization systems and user interfaces • Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction • Interfaces and methods for interacting with graphs Authors of applied papers will have the opportunity to show a demo of their software/system during the conference. SHORT PAPERS ------------ In addition to the above two tracks, there will be a separate category for short papers, describing theoretical or applied contributions of shorter length. Papers in this category will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. SUBMISSION FORMAT ----------------- All submissions must be formatted using the LaTeX style file for the conference series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by Springer. The default margins and fonts must not be modified; in particular, the use of packages such as times.sty is not allowed. Submissions that do not comply with this format risk rejection without consideration of their merits. To promote inclusion of more figures in the submitted papers, submission will have a strict number of lines limit and the possibility to have one page more compared to previous years. REGULAR PAPERS HAVE AT MOST 400 lines (excluding references and figures) AND AT MOST 13 PAGES (excluding references). Short papers have at most 200 lines (excluding references and figures) AND at most 7 pages (excluding references). The claims of the paper should be fully substantiated. If this information does not fit within the page limits, the authors should include it in a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the reviewers may read at their own discretion. All submissions will be handled through EasyChair at the web site : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd2020 POSTERS & CONTEST ----------------- Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas are solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear elsewhere) to the GD community. Authors of posters should prepare an abstract (up to 2 pages in the LNCS style) that must be submitted together with the poster itself. Details about the traditional Graph Drawing Contest held at the conference are provided on the conference web site. PUBLICATION ----------- All accepted papers (including the two-page poster abstracts) will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The LNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD community upon publication and openly accessible to anyone after four years. Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv repository, in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access to them. The self-archived arXiv papers shall consist of the LNCS proceedings version (identical, except for possibly changed references to the appendix resp. the arXiv version) plus an optional clearly marked appendix. Subsequent submissions of revised versions of the paper to the arXiv (known as arXiv ``replacements’’) are allowed. Failure to comply with these guidelines will impede the publication of the paper. Each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author (barring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Should any visa restriction prevent an author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means. Selected papers from both tracks will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA). The authors of two selected papers in Track 2 will be invited to submit a substantially extended version of their work to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Furthermore, two regular TVCG papers will be presented by their authors in a TVCG papers session. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline : June 3 (23:59 PDT) Paper submission deadline : June 8 (23:59 PDT) Notification of paper acceptance : July 20 Poster submission deadline : August 12 (23:59 PDT) Notification of poster acceptance : August 21 Final versions due : August 26 (23:59 PDT) Contest submission deadline : September 5 (23:59 PDT) Symposium : September 15-18 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Daniel Archambault, Swansea University, UK David Auber (co-chair), University Bordeaux , FR Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh, UK Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE Romain Bourqui, University Bordeaux, FR Steve Chaplick, University of Maastricht, NL Markus Chimani, Osnabrück University, DE Sabine Cornelsen, University of Konstanz, DE Walter Didimo, University of Perugia, IT Stefan Felsner, TU Berlin, DE Radoslav Fulek, IST Austria, AT Fabrizio Frati, Roma Tre University, IT Seokhee Hong, University of Sydney, AU Yifan Hu, Yahoo!, US Katherine Isaacs, University of Arizona, US Philipp Kindermann, Universität Passau, DE Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis, US Tamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Fabrizio Montecchiani, University of Perugia, IT Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, CA Martin Nöllenburg, TU Vienna University, Arnaud Sallaberry, University of Montpellier, FR Alexandru Telea, Utrecht University, NL Ioannis Tollis, University of Crete, GR Csaba Tóth, California State University, Northridge, US Pavel Valtr (co-chair), Charles University, CZ Alexander Wolff, Universität Würzburg, DE INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Jeff Erickson, Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sheelagh Carpendale, Professor, School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- William Evans. Computer Science. University of British Columbia CONTEST COMMITTEE ----------------- Philipp Kindermann, (Chair) Universität Passau, DE Tamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Ignaz Rutter, University of Passau, DE Wouter Meulemans, Eindhoven University, NL

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[Call-for-Papers] IEEE VIS 2020 Workshop on TRust and EXperience in Visual Analytics, Oct 25/26 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah
by Nourani,Mahsan 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

We invite submissions for our IEEE Vis<http://ieeevis.org/year/2020/welcome> 2020 workshop: "TREX: Workshop on TRust and EXperience in Visual Analytics" that takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 25/26th, 2020. For more information, please refer to the workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2020/index.html. Please help us spread the news by forwarding this call-for-papers to those who will find it interesting and/or relevant. ------------------------------------------------ Important Dates Submission Deadline: July 20, 2020 Author Notification: August 12, 2020 Camera-ready Deadline: August 21, 2020 Workshop Goals Visual analytics (VA) systems combine computational support and human cognitive and perceptual skills to explore and analyze data. Many of these systems have been incorporating machine learning (ML) models and algorithms to introduce some level of automation to the analytical process. However, within this relationship, there are a number of aspects that can impact the effectiveness of the human-machine teaming, including 1) people's domain and system expertise; 2) human biases, including cognitive and perceptual biases; 3) trust in ML models and visual representation of data. Expertise, bias, and trust are intrinsically intertwined. Additionally, visual analytics systems are used in different fields and by people from various backgrounds, with different levels of domain expertise and experience with machine learning and visual analytics tools. This variety of experience and domain expertise among human users has opened the door for new research directions and challenges in the fields of visual analytics and machine learning. Designers who fail to consider the aforementioned diversities might introduce problems to the analysis effectiveness and user experience. Furthermore, experience and domain expertise might affect user trust in visual analytics tools; although, how and why they affect trust is still an open question. Trust will eventually affect how much the users would rely on and use the tool. While users will take advantage of their prior experiences to make better decisions with the assistance of analytic support, they might carry many cognitive biases that can negatively influence their decision-making or analysis process. Recent research shows trust in and reliance on the visual analytics systems/tools as well as user strategies and biases can be directly influenced by domain and system expertise (or lack of expertise). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to discuss and discover challenges in ML supported visual analytics tools and set the stage for future research directions and collaborations regarding these issues by proposing design guidelines, empirical findings, and VA techniques. Topics of Interest The workshop suggested topics are as followed: 1. Trust considerations based on different areas of domain expertise (e.g., medical, security, scientific, financial domains). 2. Trust and bias considerations based on different levels of user familiarity with machine learning and visual analytics systems. 3. Detecting and preventing cognitive biases in visual analytics and machine learning for users. 4. User trust in machine learning models and visual explanations of model decisions in visual analytics systems. 5. The correlation between trust, domain knowledge, and potential cognitive biases. 6. The relationship between domain expertise and trust with model transparency, human interpretability, and model understandability in visual data analysis. 7. The relationship between model interpretability, domain expertise, and trust. Contribution Types We are looking for and open to diverse forms of research (as listed below) within the realm of VA and ML with appropriate emphasis and relation to human trust, expertise, and cognitive factors. We encourage submissions of research involving: 1. Human empirical research/findings 2. Design guidelines and surveys 3. Technique papers 4. Position papers 5. Case studies Submission Format The workshop will accept papers with 2 to 6 pages in length, plus 1 page of references. All submissions must be in the IEEE VGTC Conference Style Template format. (You can download the appropriate templates here<http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html>.) We also encourage authors to submit a short 30-second video of their work when submitting their work, if applicable. For the camera-ready deadline, all the poster submissions must prepare a 30-second video for the poster fast-forward session. These videos might have audio for archival purposes, but the authors will only use the video as a visual tool while presenting their fast-forward in the workshop. The submissions are made through the PCS (Precision Conference Solutions<https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?next=https%3A//new.precision…>) website. At least one author for an accepted paper needs to register for the conference (at least the workshop registration). The submissions are not required to be anonymized and may include the full name of authors, their email, and affiliation as well as an acknowledgment. Workshop Organizers Mahsan Nourani, University of Florida (https://mahsan.online<https://mahsan.online/>) Eric Ragan, University of Florida (https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~eragan/) Emily Wall, Georgia Tech (https://emilywall.github.io/) John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Lab (https://jgoodall.me/) Aritra Dasgupta, New Jersey Institue of Technology (https://aedeegee.github.io/) Kris Cook, Pacific North National Lab (https://www.pnnl.gov/science/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=8639) Contact For more information, you can email us at TrexInVis(a)gmail.com<mailto:trexinvis@gmail.com> or visit our workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2020/index.html. Best Regards, Mahsan --- Mahsan Nourani, Graduate Research Assistant, INDIE Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida

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Deadline extension for IEEE VIS VisGuides Workshop: July 20th.
by benjamin bach 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, The deadline for our IEEE VIS workshop "3rd Workshop on the Creation, Curation, Critique and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization" has been moved to July 20, 2020 to accommodate for the extended paper and short paper deadlines at IEEE VIS. As the IEEE VIS conference will be held online this year, our workshop will be online, too. However, we do not yet know the details on timing and length of the workshop. We will post any updates on our website: https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/c4pgv <https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/c4pgv/> Best wishes, VisGuides: 3rd Workshop organizers ====================== Alfie Abdul Rahman, King's College London, UK Alexandra Diehl, University of Zurich, CH Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh, UK

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VizSec 2020 Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

The 17th 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 Salt Lake City, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Wednesday, October 28th 2020. VizSec will take place during the main week of the IEEE VIS 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. Currently, IEEE VIS is scheduled to be held in person in Salt Lake City. However, due to the dynamic and evolving impact of COVID-19, we will monitor and coordinate with VIS, and will move to a virtual online format if the primary conference does so. We will also work with authors in case of coronavirus-related travel restrictions or other concerns to allow for virtual presentations. 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 - Adversarial machine learning visualization - Adversarial visualization - 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 & educationn 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 existing 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 VizSec dataset links. 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 : - 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. Position Papers --------------- This year we are introducing a new VizSec paper type of position papers. Position papers focus on topics needing or calling for discussion or reconsideration of forgotten topics relevant for the VizSec community. They should report a clear position on the target topic and should also suggest a proposal or actions regarding the target topic. They should stimulate imaginative and hypothesis-driven research. In particular, we encourage submissions both from researchers inside the visualization community and outside, such as researchers and practitioners from pure cybersecurity domains who currently do not broadly employ visualization in their work. 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 Poster. This award will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly present their work to the audience. The award will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference. Submissions ----------- The VizSec 2020 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/Tasks/camera.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. Position papers may be up to 4 total pages including 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 Precision Conference System (PCS) to handle paper and poster submissions and the reviewing processes : https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. July 13 2020 Submissions due for Full, Short, and Position Papers August 13 2020 Author notification for Full and Short Papers August 31 2020 Camera ready submission and copyright forms August 20 2020 Submissions due for Poster Abstracts September 3 2020 Author notification for Posters October 28 2020 VizSec 2020 More information can be found on https://vizsec.org/vizsec2020/

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[Special Issue CFP] Interactive Big Data Visualization and Analytics, Big Data Research Journal, Elsevier
by Nikos Bikakis 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Call for Papers Special Issue "Interactive Big Data Visualization and Analytics" Big Data Research Journal, Elsevier (Impact Factor: 2.95) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/big-data-research/call-for-papers/big-dat… Information Visualization is nowadays one of the cornerstones of Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that are dynamic, noisy and heterogeneous in nature. Transforming a data-curious user into someone who can access and analyze that data is even more burdensome now for a great number of users with little or no support and expertise on the data processing part. Thus, the area of data visualization, visual exploration and analysis has gained great attention recently, calling for joint action from different research areas from the HCI, Computer graphics and Data management and mining communities. In this respect, several traditional problems from these communities such as efficient data storage, querying & indexing for enabling visual analytics, new ways for visual presentation of massive data, efficient interaction and personalization techniques that can fit to different user needs are revisited. The modern exploration and visualization systems should nowadays offer scalable techniques to efficiently handle billion objects datasets, limiting the visual response in a few milliseconds along with mechanisms for information abstraction, sampling and summarization for addressing problems related to visual information overplotting. Further, they must encourage user comprehension offering customization capabilities to different user-defined exploration scenarios and preferences according to the analysis needs. Overall, the challenge is to offer self-service visual analytics, i.e. enable data scientists and business analysts to visually gain value and insights out of the data as rapidly as possible, minimizing the role of IT-expert in the loop. This special issue aims to publish work on multidisciplinary research areas spanning from Data Management and Mining to Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. Topics for the Special Issue ------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visualization, exploration & analytics techniques for various data types; e.g., stream, spatial, high-dimensional, graph - Human-in-the-loop processing - Human-centered databases - Data modeling, storage, indexing, caching, prefetching & query processing for interactive applications - Interactive machine learning - Interactive data mining - User-oriented visualization; e.g., recommendation, assistance, personalization - Visualization & knowledge; e.g., storytelling - Progressive analytics - In-situ visual exploration & analytics - Novel interface & interaction paradigms - Visual representation techniques; e.g., aggregation, sampling, multi-level, filtering - Scalable visual operations; e.g., zooming, panning, linking, brushing - Scientific visualization; e.g., volume visualization - Analytics in the fields of scholarly data, digital libraries, multimedia, scientific data, social data, etc. - Immersive visualization - Interactive computer graphics - Setting-oriented visualization; e.g., display resolution/size, smart phones, visualization over networks - High performance, distributed & parallel techniques - Visualization hardware & acceleration techniques - Linked Data & ontologies visualization - Benchmarks for data visualization & analytics - Case & user studies - Systems & tools Important Dates ------------------------------- Submission Deadline: October 1, 2020 Author Notification: December 1, 2020 Revised Manuscript Due: January 15, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: March 1, 2020 Tentative Publication Date: May, 2021 Guest Editors ------------------------------- David Auber, University Bordeaux, France Nikos Bikakis, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Mohamed Sharaf, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers
by Axel Soto 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * March 18-21, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Mar 18, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html. ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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CFP: Targeting Environmental Challenges Using Interactive Visual Technology, for a special issue of Sustainability journal
by Masood Masoodian 26 Jun '20

26 Jun '20

*CFP: Targeting Environmental Challenges Using Interactive Visual Technology** **A special issue of Sustainability Journal** **Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2021** *https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/environmental_challenges Environmental concerns have now become global challenges faced by the entire world. Human-centered technologies, tools, and services are, therefore, urgently needed to assist people in dealing with these challenges. Interactive visual technologies can play an important role in helping users to become better aware of environmental issues and challenges, and understand their causes, as well as their socio-economic impacts. As a consequence, users can then take environmentally-conscious and appropriate actions, such as conserving energy, consuming natural resources more efficiently, dealing with sustainability-related concerns, and so on. Interactive visual technologies can also, in particular, address human behavior and support changes in negative behavior, which can then result in better achieving environmental user goals. Furthermore, such technologies can be used to create a bridge between environmental sciences and other disciplines, including many life sciences, economics, and sociology. This Special Issue focuses on the role of interactive visual technologies in targeting current and future environmental challenges. The emphasis is on the interactive and visual aspects of such technologies, which might be software applications, tools, visualizations, educational games, gamification, and other digital services in the private, public, or industrial sectors. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of interactive visual technologies for: - Monitoring and visualization of different kinds of environmental and user data; - Monitoring and detection of human behavior and activity patterns impacting environmental factors, both on the small-scale, individual level and on the large-scale, population level; - Facilitating exploration, interpretation, comparison, explanation, and simulation modeling using different kinds of environmental and user data; - Creating awareness, influencing choices, and encouraging environmentally conscious human behavior changes; - Utilizing different kinds of environmental data to support related applications in other areas, such as education, policy-making, public health, and well-being. For more information, including submission details, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/environmental_ch… Guest Editors, Masood Masoodian and Thomas Rist -- Prof. Masood Masoodian Visual Communication Design Aalto University avcd.aalto.fi

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CfP: Machine Learning from User Interactions Workshop at IEEE VIS
by John Wenskovitch 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

*Call for Participation:* Machine Learning from User Interactions (MLUI) workshop at IEEE VIS 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. We plan for two submission tracks, supporting both (1) papers and (2) late-breaking work. *Papers:* We invite research and position papers between 5 and 10 pages in length (NOT including references). All submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template (i.e., NOT the journal style template that full papers use). All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published and linked from the workshop website. All papers should contain full author names and affiliations. These papers are considered archival; reuse of the content in a follow-up publication is only permitted in a proper journal, and any extended version must extend the original paper by at least 30%. If applicable, a link to a short video (up to 5 min. in length) may also be submitted. The papers 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. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the conference (even if only for the workshop). Further submission details will follow. Submission deadline: July 24, 2020 Author notification: August 12, 2020 *Late-Breaking Work:* We anticipate that some participants would prefer to discuss either (1) limited aspects of their larger work that fit our call, or (2) late-breaking work. This replaces the posters track that we previously offered at MLUI. Submissions for this track will only require a ~250 word abstract, and selected talks will receive 5 minutes to present their current work. Further submission details will follow. Submission deadline: October 1, 2020 Author notification: October 8, 2020

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ACM ISS 2020 CfP
by Ruolin Wang 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2020) is the premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS 2020 welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces, interactive spaces and novel interface technologies. Beyond the traditional scope of the conference – i.e., interactive tabletops, large displays, multi-display systems, mobile and mini devices – we also encourage contributions focused on the use of space and technology around us to bridge the gap between our digital and everyday lives, such as interactive 3D spaces, on-body sensors, interactive art or interactive architecture. We also encourage contributions focused on understanding individual and group needs related to interactive surfaces and interactive spaces, and the impact on individuals and groups of these technologies. We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of such interactive systems. ========== Situation with Coronavirus/Covid-19: ISS 2020 will be virtual this year! Because of the evolving situation with covid-19 and the difficulties of running a physical in-person conference, ACM ISS will be a virtual conference event this year. The submission and reviewing process will remain as planned, and papers will be published at PACMHCI ISS. Please stay tuned for more information on the presentation format during the virtual event! ========== Dates Submissions: July 1st, 2020, 5PM PDT Notifications sent to Authors: August 21, 2020 Revisions: August 21, 2020 - September 14, 2020 Final Decisions: October 5th, 2020 Camera-ready due: October 9th, 2020 ========== New Publication Model: Journal PACMHCI ISS Starting this year, ISS will switch to a journal model. We will invite for presentation papers published by the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. PACMHCI ISS has 1 volume per year with 1 issue per conference per volume. At least one author of accepted papers needs to register and present at the ACM ISS conference. The conference will retain its workshop, poster, and demo tracks, which will have their own publication outlet. Upcoming deadlines for papers to be presented at the ISS 2020 are: 2020 Summer round: July 1st, 2020, 5PM PDT (Notifications: August 21, 2020, Final decision: October 5, 2020) Submissions will be done through http://new.precisionconference.com. ========== Submissions Submission to PACMHCI ISS should present original and mature research work. High-quality, elaborated case studies and practice reports with generalizable findings will also be considered. Papers should be written in the Official ACM Journal Template (direct links to Word Template, LaTeX Template using ‘manuscript’, and Overleaf Template). Please review the Workflow and Template section of the ACM Journal Submission page. Submissions should be anonymized. Primarily, this means that submissions must remove all author and institutional information from the title and header area of the first page of the paper. Author information should also be removed from submitted supplementary materials, in particular, videos. Submissions that do not do so may be rejected without review. Furthermore, all references must remain intact. If you previously published a paper and your current submission builds on that work, the complete reference with the author's name must appear in the references. Authors must refer to their previous work in the third person (e.g., “We build on prior work by Smith et al. [X] but generalize their algorithm to new settings.”) and avoid blank references (e.g., “12. REMOVED FOR REVIEWING”). Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper (for example, in an Acknowledgements section), while encouraged, is left to the authors’ discretion. Submit your papers at http://new.precisionconference.com/. ========== Paper Length We recommend a page length in the new format of between 5-15 pages + any additional pages for references. There are no length restrictions on papers, so papers of any length can be submitted. However, reviewers will put the length of any submitted paper in context of the provided contribution when making decisions about acceptance and revisions. ========== Revisions The editorial board members will make decisions for any submitted papers as either accepted, minor revisions, major revisions, or rejected. These notifications are sent to authors on August 21st. If the initial decision is "minor revisions", the authors will have a revision cycle within the current to address these changes, from August 21st to September 14th. After the revised paper is submitted on September 14th, the final decisions will be sent to authors on October 5th. If the initial decision is "major revisions", the paper must be submitted in the following round to guarantee treatment as a revision, meaning that the same primary and secondary Board Members are assigned to continuously handle the submission. Submissions requiring "major revisions" will not submit on the revision deadline on September 14th, but in the next full review cycle for the following ISS 2021. This is to allow extra time in case the authors need to perform significant new work, such as conducting a new evaluation, before acceptance is possible. ========== Topic Areas The conference welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces as well as novel interface technologies, including (but not limited to): 1. Real-world applications of interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.) 2. Large display interfaces and multi-display environments 3. Gesture-based interfaces (hands, finger, body) 4. Multi-modal interfaces 5. Tangible user interfaces 6. Novel interaction techniques and paradigms 7. Interaction with mobile and body-worn devices 8. Different materials and form factors: curved, sand, water, ... 9. Interactive 3D spaces (Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality, mid-air displays, ...) 10. Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, ...) 11. Interactive architecture 12. Beyond traditional surfaces: shape-changing and actuated surfaces, body-related, ... 13. Interactive information visualization/data presentation 14. Software engineering methods and frameworks 15. Social aspects and protocols related to interacting with surfaces and spaces 16. Interactive surfaces and spaces that support group work or social interaction 17. Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities, and results from maker communities 18. Human-centered design and methodologies related to interactive surfaces and spaces 19. Empirical evaluations of novel interactive surfaces and/or spaces designs 20. Evaluations of deployed interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.) Best Regards, Violynne(Ruolin) Wang | Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 1538 Boelter Hall 580 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 https://www.violynnewang.com/

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