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ACM IUI 2021: Call for workshop proposals
by Axel Soto 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

ACM IUI 2021 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, TX, USA April 13 - 17, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/ IUI 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics (or related). This year we are particularly interested in workshops that have an interactive aspect. Preference will be given to workshops with interactive and hands-on sessions where participants can team up or work together towards the common goal of the workshop. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. == PROPOSAL FORMAT == Note: One of the keys to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshops2021(a)iui.acm.org) and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the Interim ACM templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Please submit your proposal via the PCS 2.0 submission system (https://new.precisionconference.com) The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to the IUI audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. - Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in, or contribute a paper to, the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from (sigconf): http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Additional guidelines: ---------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs. - Organizers: We strongly encourage all of the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. - Workshop summary: An extended abstract with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2021. - Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. - Cancellation: Workshops with few submissions by January 3 2021 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. This will be done in consultation between the IUI 2021 workshop chairs and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own website with updated information about the workshops and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2021 workshop chairs. == IMPORTANT DATES == Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP Workshop date: Proposals Due: September 15, 2020 Decisions sent: October 07, 2020 Submissions due: December 23, 2020 Reporting of status: January 03, 2021 Final go/no-go decisions: January 05, 2021 Notification to authors: January 31, 2021 Camera-ready for workshop summary [ACM Companion] February 10, 2021 Camera-ready for accepted papers February 28, 2021

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ACM ISS 2020 Workshops CfP
by Ruolin Wang 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

ISS 2020 Workshops Call for Papers Call for Proposals: WorkshopsImportant Dates - Proposal submission deadline: July 24 (5:00 p.m. PDT) - Notification: August 7 - Call for Participation released by workshop organisers and website up and running: (on or before) August 19 - Camera-Ready Deadline (for workshop organisers): September 2 - Participant submissions due: (on or before) October 2 - Participants notified of acceptance: (on or before) October 19 - Workshop day: November 8 Workshops We invite researchers and practitioners working in the field of interactive surfaces and spaces to submit workshop proposals for ISS 2020. ISS Workshops provide a unique opportunity to discuss ideas, challenges and new work around more specific topics in the area of interactive spaces and surfaces. We welcome proposals from a large variety of topics and domains. Example topics include but are not limited to: - Architectural concepts and emerging trends - Immersive analytics and data physicalization - Museum and art installation trends - Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pen+touch, etc.) - New and emerging body and space sensing technologies - Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, and proxemics - Evaluation methods for surface applications - Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices - Feel, taste, smell and splash user interfaces on surfaces - ... and other exciting topics! All workshops will take place on November 8, 2020 and will run for either half a day or the full day. Workshops can be open (free to anyone who registered for it) or closed (attendees need to submit position papers). Please indicate the length and type of workshop in your proposal (see below). Accepted workshop proposals will be part of the ISS conference proceedings and available in the ACM Digital Library. Submitting a Workshop Proposal We request a short proposal (up to 4 pages, excluding references) in the single-column ACM Master Article Submission Template <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow> as well as an additional information sheet about the particular workshop requirements (1 page). Please include the following information in your 4-page workshop proposal: - Workshop title - Full contact information of all workshop organizers and the main contact person - Topic, nature and goals of the workshop - Relevance of the workshop to the ISS community - Topics and planned activities covered in the workshop and planned activities - New: A description of how the organizers plan to handle the online aspects of the workshop - Given the situation with COVID-19, ISS 2020 will be online. - Please indicate how you aim to facilitate and support an engaging workshop in an online format. - Example tools that could be used to facilitate online brainstorming include: Mural <http://www.mural.co/> - Program Committee members for the workshop (if applicable) Please include a single additional information page (in addition to the 4-page proposal) with the following information: - A call-for-papers to your workshop (200 words max.) - Link to the workshop website - Proposed workshop length (half-day or full-day) - Workshop type (open or closed) - Maximum number of people Please submit the workshop proposal using the ISS Precision Conference system by July 24, 2020. Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers Workshop organizers are expected to organize and facilitate all proposed workshop activities. We suggest the page limit for workshop papers to be 4–6 pages excluding references using the single-column ACM Master Article Submission Template <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>, but it is up to the organizers to make this decision. Due to the very tight schedule, we unfortunately cannot include the contributions of workshop participants into the official conference proceedings and the ACM Digital Library. Workshop organizers will be asked to: - Organize and manage the review of submitted workshop papers (e.g. through a reviewing system such as EasyChair) - Set a workshop position paper submission deadline (on or before October 2, 2020) and an author notification date (on or before October 19). - We will provide workshop organizers a special code for early bird registration that they can give to authors in the acceptance notification. Workshops Co-Chairs Jo Vermeulen, Aarhus University Simon Völker, RWTH Aachen workshops2020(a)iss.acm.org 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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ACM IUI 2021: Call for papers [corrected dates]
by Axel Soto 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * April 13-17, 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 * Apr 13, 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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IEEE Vis Workshop on VisActivities: deadline moved to July 20.
by benjamin bach 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, The deadline for our IEEE VIS workshop Vis Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing 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 held online, too. However, we do not yet know the details of the timing and length of the workshop. We will post any updates on our website: https://visactivities.github.io <https://visactivities.github.io/> Best wishes, ******* Samuel Huron, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh Uta Hinrichs, University of St. Andrews Jonathan C. Roberts, Bangor University Mandy Keck, Technische Universität Dresden

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Postdoc in Network Visualization and Natural Language Queries, Paris, France
by emmanuel.pietriga＠inria.fr 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

The ILDA group [1] at Inria Saclay, near Paris, is looking for a postdoc to work on interactive network visualization involving natural language queries. The project is a collaboration between Inria [2] and IFPEN [3]. The post-doctoral fellow will be hosted at Inria in project-team ILDA and will work in collaboration with IFPEN. ILDA’s research work focuses on the design of data-centric interactive systems. We design, develop and evaluate novel interaction and visualization techniques to empower users in both mobile and stationary contexts involving a variety of display devices, including: desktop workstations, tabletops, ultra-high-resolution wall-sized displays, smartphones and tablets, augmented reality headsets. The team publishes primarily in HCI conferences and journals, including: ACM CHI, ACM UIST, IEEE TVCG/InfoVis. The position is for 18 months and can start as soon as September (negotiable). More info at [4]. [1] https://ilda.saclay.inria.fr [2] https://www.inria.fr/en [3] https://www.ifpenergiesnouvelles.com [4] https://ilda.saclay.inria.fr/jobs/ifpen2020.html Thanks for forwarding. -- Emmanuel Pietriga INRIA - ILDA http://pages.saclay.inria.fr/emmanuel.pietriga

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VCBM 2020 Call for Posters (August 14, 2020)
by Fritz Lekschas 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine 2020 in Tübingen, Germany We invite you to submit work in progress, preliminary results, research overview, or open research challenges to be presented as a poster. For detailed information please continue reading or see https://www.gcpr-vmv-vcbm-2020.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=558. == Important Dates == *) Poster abstract submission deadline: August 14, 2020 *) Author notification: August 21, 2020 *) Camera-ready deadline: September 4, 2020 *) Workshop: September 28 - October 1, 2020 All deadlines are at 23:59 CET (UTC+1). == Aims and Scope == EG VCBM (http://www.vcbm.org/) the Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, is an annual event addressing the state of the art in visual computing research with a strong focus on applications in biology and medicine. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for experts (researchers and practitioners) from visualization, visual analytics, computer graphics, image processing, computer vision, human-computer interaction, as well as experts from biology and medicine, jointly working on next-generation visual computing solutions for medicine, healthcare, and the biotechnology sector. This year’s workshop (already the 10th VCBM since its foundation in 2008) will be held during September 28 - October 1, 2020 in Tübingen, Germany. We are pleased that this year we accept the following types of posters: *) Original, application-oriented research posters that advance the fusion of visual computing methods within medicine and biology, according to the general call that can be found at http://www.vcbm.org/. *) Research overview posters summarizing biomedical visualization research on topics below. This is an excellent way to highlight, for example, the research carried out in the scope of a PhD project, to promote PhD direction discussions with experts, or to present activities of a specific research group. *) Research group overview posters presenting the current research work of an entire group or a research center. The scope of such a poster can also include upcoming funded projects and thus even indicate open vacancies. *) Posters describing an open research problem that may have been defined by a domain scientist (e.g., a physician or biologist). This is a unique opportunity to present an exciting research problem to a broad professional audience and to promote new collaborations. Suggested topics for posters include, but are not limited to: *) Visual computing solutions for medical applications like radiology, surgery, pathology, cardiology, nephrology, neurology, etc., including medical education *) Visual computing solutions for applications that support biomedical research in systems biology, -omics research, molecular pathology, neuroanatomy, biomedical imaging, etc. *) Medical simulation and visual computing solutions that support new approaches in computational medicine, including also the uses of stereoscopy and haptics *) Visualization approaches for data from new or challenging imaging modalities including real-time imaging (e.g., ultrasound) *) Visual computing solutions in the context of the virtual physiological human Methods might include, but are not limited to: *) Visualization and analysis of all kinds of biomedical data (signals and images) *) Visualization, mining, and analysis of biomedical data collections, including cohort data *) Information visualization of medical data sets, e.g., electronic health records *) Computer models of biomechanical, physiological, and biochemical functions in living systems *) Fusion, analysis, and visualization of heterogeneous and/or multi-source data *) Multi-scale methods and data structures for large data *) Interaction and design of visual computing workflows in medicine and biology *) Data tracking and registration *) Data reconstruction and geometry extraction *) Real-time rendering and interaction with anatomy models == Information for Authors == EG VCBM 2020 continues the poster track to enable researchers to present their work in progress, minor improvements beyond the state-of-the-art, and the best results of the undergraduate student projects in the area of visual computing for biology and medicine. Accepted posters will be placed in the workshop area during the time of the event, and the program will feature a dedicated poster session where the authors have the opportunity to present their research and lead fruitful discussions with peer researchers to inspire future research and cooperation. == Submission Instructions == The submission to the poster track at EG VCBM consists of a ½ - 1 page abstract (using the poster submission template) including one picture. The posters abstracts will be reviewed by the poster conference chairs and the abstracts of the accepted posters will be included in the conference publications. The material from the poster can be re-used for a full paper submission somewhere else. This act is not to be considered as self-plagiarism. Authors of the accepted posters are expected to bring their poster to the conference, register for the conference participation, and present their work at the poster at the time of the poster session. Please submit your non-anonymized poster abstract submissions including authors names, affiliations, and acknowledgments using the Eurographics SRM conference management system: https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/VCBM_2020p Please use the LaTeX style available at https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/VCBM_2020/GetConferenceFile?fileID=11… to prepare your submission. More information on the preparation of your submissions will also be available soon on the VCBM 2020 website: http://www.vcbm.org/ -- Sincerely, the Poster Co-Chairs of EG VCBM 2020, Fritz Lekschas (Harvard University, United States) and Gabriel Mistelbauer (University of Magdeburg, Germany)

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