January 2021 - Infovis

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

08 Sep '22

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

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Call for papers: Journal special issue "Special Issue "Eye-Tracking in Cartography"
by Arzu Coltekin 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Dear all, (apologies for cross-posting) As some of you may be already aware, there is an open special issue with the central theme "Eye tracking in Cartography" with the ISPRS IJGI. Our ISPRS working group Geovisualization, Augmented and Virtual Reality is supporting this effort. I copy the call below for your consideration. We are fully aware that there may be little 'new eye movement data' due to pandemic, but we also know from experience that there are usually quite a bit of not-yet-analyzed eye movement data in your drives. If your eye tracking study involves spatial topics (maps, map-like displays), 2021 may be the year to analyze and write it up. We also welcome literature reviews. Please let us know by an email at ijgi.eyetracking(a)gmail.com if you are considering a submission, and feel free to spread the word. Kind regards, -Arzu & co. ------ CfP Special Issue of IJGI: Eye-tracking in cartography https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Eye_Tracking_Cartography We would like to inform you about a new special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (impact factor 2.402) which is focused on the topics of eye-tracking and cartography. We believe this combination might be interesting to you or your colleagues. Below, you can find the details about the special issue as well as the list of possible topics. The details are also available at the website of the special issue. ISPRS IJGI is an open-access journal, so there is an Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1400, but you can use MDPI vouchers to decrease the price. Moreover, we have two fee waivers for high-quality papers. If you are a student and/or have no grants from which the APC could be paid, feel free to ask for a waiver. If you are planning to submit to this special issue, please let us know by an email at the address ijgi.eyetracking(a)gmail.com, containing a working title of your paper as soon as possible, ideally latest by 31 April 2021 (direct submissions by 31 June will still be considered). Deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 June 2021. If you have any questions regarding the special issue, feel free to ask any of the co-editors. Dr. Stanislav Popelka Dr. Zdeněk Stachoň Dr. Peter Kiefer Prof. Dr. Arzu Çöltekin Guest Editors ***** Eye movement analysis is a rich source of information that can be used to understand a person’s cognitive state, and interpret their cognitive processes as she/he executes visuospatial tasks. Eye-tracking, thus, is an important technique for evaluating and optimizing map design, geographic and other information visualizations, and a wide variety of cartographic products such as map-like displays including 3D representations. In cartography and related fields, understanding the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in tasks such as map reading, route learning and navigation not only enhances our understanding of human factors, but also leads to improved design decisions. With decreasing prices of eye-tracking devices in recent years, as well as promising developments in eye-tracking on smartphones, head-mounted devices, and in extended reality, we see an unprecedented amount of eye movement studies and data in cognitive cartography. Moreover, these technological developments have led to an increased use of eye-tracking for the design of gaze-based interaction, including also the interaction with maps. Given the description above, we are looking for contributions related, but not limited to, the following topics: - User studies with eye-tracking in cartography and related domains - Eye-tracking evaluation of static and interactive maps - Eye-tracking evaluation of geo- or information visualization displays - Mobile eye-tracking for studies of maps and other geo visualizations - Methodology of eye movement research in (cognitive) cartography - Webcam and smartphone based eye tracking - Eye-tracking evaluation of extended reality displays - Map optimization using eye-tracking data - Verification of cartographic rules using eye-tracking - Comparison of visualization methods using eye-tracking data - The use of low-cost eye-trackers in cartography - Eye-tracking as an input modality for geographic human-computer interaction - Development of new eye-tracking tools - Combining eye-tracking with other psycho-physiological measurements for cartographic studies - Case studies that critically examine eye movement metrics in context - Individual and group differences in visuospatial tasks with maps and map-like displays - Replication studies (can be exact, or with one variable changed) - Comprehensive, systematic and critical literature reviews on any of the topics above ------------------------------------------------------------------------- n|w University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW School of Engineering Institute of Interactive Technologies IIT Prof. Dr. Arzu Çöltekin Principal Investigator for HCI, Visualization, Extended Reality Bahnhofstrasse 6 5210 Windisch --------------------------------------------------------- T +41 56 202 84 73 M +41 78 785 76 07 https://fhnw.webex.com/meet/arzu.coltekin arzu.coltekin(a)fhnw.ch http://www.fhnw.ch/technik/iit --------------------------------------------------------

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CDVE2021 call for abstracts - abstract deadline approaching
by cdve .org 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

The 18th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and engineering will be held in Bangkok on Oct. 24-27, 2021 (hopefully not virtual). You are welcome to submit abstracts by Feb. 15, 2021 which is coming soon. The submission of abstracts is highly recommended even it will not decide if your paper will be accepted. This is a step to raise the paper quality. We will give you feedback for your paper writing. Please refer to our web page www.cdve.org of how to submit the abstract to Easychair system, topics under call etc. Other deadlines are: Full paper Submission deadline: April 10, 2021. Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2021 Short paper Submission deadline: April 20, 2021. Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2021 You are welcome to forward this call. If you do not want to receive further calls from us, please unsubscribe from your mailing list. Be active, be optimistic and be safe! ------------------- The 18th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 24-27, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand Email: cdve2021(a)easychair.org <cdve2020(a)easychair.org> Web: http://www.cdve.org

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ETRA 2021 Call for Demo, Video, Doctoral Symposium, Workshop papers
by Kumar, Chandan 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2021) May 25-29, 2021 Virtual Event http://etra.acm.org/2021/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM ETRA is the premier forum for Eye Tracking Research and Applications. The aim of ETRA is to bring together researchers and practitioners from across fields with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward. The symposium presents advances and innovations in oculomotor research, gaze tracking systems, eye tracking applications, gaze-based interaction, and eye movement data analysis. DEMO/VIDEOS ============ Have a gaze interaction technique to share? Want to show off how your new eye tracking method works? Or want to discuss your study setup with other eye tracking researchers? At ETRA 2021, we will have a Demo & Video session, during which researchers give demonstrations of their research or show videos of their work. We encourage new and exciting ideas that may not yet be fully tested. To take part in this session, we request an extended abstract (4 pages + 1 additional page for references) to be submitted. Submission deadline: Feb 02, 2021 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM ==================== We invite abstracts from doctoral students who have a defined topic in the area of eye tracking research and applications, and whose work is still in a phase where it can be influenced by the feedback received at the symposium. Outstanding abstracts from students who have not yet been accepted into a doctoral program will also be considered. Participants will be selected based on an extended abstract (3 pages + 1 additional page for references) describing the thesis work, its current status, and future work. The abstract will be included in the ETRA adjunct conference proceedings and published at ACM. Submission deadline: March 5, 2021 WORKSHOPS ============ 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 evolving around eye tracking research. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and to develop emerging topics. The following workshops will be held during ETRA 2021: ActivEye - Challenges in large scale eye-tracking for active participants COGAIN Symposium 2021 EMIP - Eye Movements in Programming EyeSec - Workshop on Eye-Gaze for Security Applications PLEY - 1st Eye Tracking in Games and Play Workshop PrEThics PrEThics - 1st International Workshop on Privacy and Ethics in Eye Tracking For submission process and deadlines, please check the web page of individual workshops http://etra.acm.org/2021/acceptedworkshops.html --------------------------- For more details please visit: http://etra.acm.org/2021/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ETRAConference Twitter: http://twitter.com/ETRA_conference -- Thanks and Regards, Dr. Chandan Kumar Senior Scientist HCI-AI, IPVS University of Stuttgart, Germany http://chandankumar.net<http://chandankumar.net/>

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Updated: position in Data Visualization
by Sheelagh Carpendale 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Are you interested in building products that challenge conventions and improve people’s access and understanding of data that affects them? Do you like working on a diverse team and using your unique skills to help solve new technical challenges? If the answer is yes, then this opportunity might be for you! The Interaction Experience Lab (ixlab) at Simon Fraser University is looking to hire a software developer who can implement interactive web-based data visualizations. This person will work closely with a visualization designer to develop prototypes and final products. The design and development team will work with Inuvialuit, Scientists, and Data-Managers to develop new empowering interfaces through iterative participatory design. This position is within the Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability (CCADI). ixlab – https://ixlab.cs.sfu.ca/ CCADI – https://ccadi.ca/ Position: Software Developer – Data Visualization Hours per week: 40 Start Time: early 2021 Position Length: Ending Dec 31, 2021 with extensions possible. Location: Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Local candidates are preferred but, due to COVID-19, work is currently off-campus so remote candidates will be considered. Minimum Qualifications: · Graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or closely related degree from an appropriately accredited institution is preferred. · OR Bachelors’ Degree in one of the aforementioned areas and at least two years of experience in web development, graphics programming, API integration, database connectivity or other relevant areas. · OR a combination of education and experience that would meet the needs of this role. The ideal applicant will have experience with: · Implementing websites with responsive and accessibility practices · Building interfaces using JavaScript and data visualization libraries such as d3 · Using web-based services (such as API) to fetch data from providers · Agile and/or iterative development process · Working with designers, stakeholders, and data experts · Planning, deploying, and supporting software projects Compensation: Commensurate with experience. Please submit the following to Sarah_Storteboom(a)sfu.ca<mailto:Sarah_Storteboom@sfu.ca> · Cover Letter · Curriculum Vitae · Names of two References Applications will be reviewed starting January 30, 2021. Reviewing will continue until the position is filled -- Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale Professor, and Canada Research Chair: Information Visualization School of Computing Science School for Interactive Arts and Technologies Simon Fraser University https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~sheelagh/ https://ixlab.cs.sfu.ca/ At Simon Fraser University, we live and work on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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WSCG 2021-Call for Papers - 29.Conf. on Computer Graphics and Computer Vision
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

>> Apologies for duplicates if any >> Please, forward to your fellows and/or PhD students >> Sent via a list server infovis(a)infovis.org >> ----------- WSCG 2021 - Call for Papers -------------- << >> 29. WSCG 2021 Conference on >> Computer Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision 2021 >> HYBRID MODE due to CoVid situation due to CoVid >> Pilsen (the city of beer) close to Prague, Czech Republic >> May 17-20, 2021 >> - http://www.wscg.cz - detailed info >> - http://www.wscg.eu >> Conference rates: CORE B, Qualis B1, ERA B ------------------ >> Important dates & Submission: February 28, 2021 - special session proposals via email only -------------- via submission server only --------------- March 18, 2021 Abstract - recommended only March 25, 2021 - Full, Short, Poster papers (via submission server only) >> Papers will be published in the Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). >> The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). >> At least one author has to present the paper physically or online or pre-recorded. << >> Proceedings will be made after the conference << Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Accepted workshops/sessions: - Meshless methods in Computer Graphics and Visualization - Other agreements expecting Conference organizer & Chair --------------------------- Prof. Vaclav Skala Contact: http://www.VaclavSkala.eu c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic ---------------- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Head of Computer Graphics and Visualization Center Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic ResearcherID:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-9141-2011 Scopus Author ID:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004643209 ORCID: 0000-0001-8886-4281 Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vaclav_Skala/publications ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jakákoli ujednání vzešlá z této e-mailové/elektronické komunikace se do jejich písemného potvrzení podepsaného oprávněnými osobami nepovažují za platná, účinná a vůči ZČU závazná. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any arrangements arising from this e-mail / electronic communication shall not be considered valid, effective and binding upon the UWB until their written confirmation signed by the authorized persons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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CfP: Special Issue E-Government and Smart Cities
by Hans-Christian Jetter 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Dear InfoVis community, as we are particularly interested in contributions about the visualization of urban sensing, smart city, or e-government data, I would like to share the CfP for our upcoming special issue below. Best regards Christian Jetter ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue on E-Government and Smart Cities i-com - Journal of Interactive Media https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/icom/icom-overview.xml?language=en http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/105?locale-attribute=en ** Submission Deadline: Mar 31, 2021 ** ----------------------------------------------------------------- MOTIVATION AND SCOPE ----------------------------------------------------------------- The widespread adoption of online services, mobile and pervasive computing, and social media has changed citizens' attitudes and expectations towards government, citizen participation, and the efficiency of public administration. In light of new technological opportunities and challenges, public administrations are expanding their digital services in all fields of action. This includes classic e-government offers, such as applications for social benefits or building permits, but also solutions in the context of smart cities, urban sensing, and connected rural communities that rely on active participation, communication, and cooperation among citizens. Ideally, such new technologies will help citizens and civil servants to become efficient users of government services, consentful providers and informed users of government or city data, participants of constructive discourse, and informed decision makers. However, in practice, these goals are difficult to meet due to problems with the acceptance, availability, usability, and practical usefulness of new digital technologies and their application. ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS ----------------------------------------------------------------- The relationship between citizens and public administrations has specific characteristics. Public services have a profound impact on the life of individuals and society. While the requirements for usability and user experience are not fundamentally different in the public sector compared to other areas, there are existential dependencies, for example against the background of security and order, protection, and welfare. On the other hand, public administrations are also accountable to citizens. Therefore, a key challenge is the human-centred design of new e-government and smart city services and answering key questions such as: - How can e-government or smart city services be designed to achieve sufficient usability and a positive user experience (especially with regard to trust, transparency, reliability) for all conceivable user groups? How can designers avoid that no one is excluded from government services and participatory platforms? - How can technologies such as information visualization, virtual reality, augmented reality, or conversational user interfaces contribute to human-centred e-government or smart cities? - How can e-government and smart city solutions be evaluated concerning usability and user experience? - How can services provide usable and human-centered applications while, at the same time, the regulatory framework needs to be correctly represented? - How can we harness the "bottom-up" creativity and innovative forces of civic hackers, citzen-led projects, and DIY initiatives, while also achieving the reliability and accountability of traditional "top-down" frameworks such as large IT or telecommunication cooperations? - How can we make citizens, public administration employees and other users curious about (or challenge them with) new civic technologies? - How can we educate citizens and public administration employees about e-government and smart city technologies and let them become active users or even active developers? - How can we enable citizens to actively control their level of participation, e.g., by enabling them to opt-in and opt-out of data collection and by letting them control their desired degree of privacy and anonymity? We welcome contributions that address these challenges and related interdisciplinary submissions. Accepted articles will be published in the Journal of Interactive Media (i-com). The journal is indexed by Scopus, among others. -------------------------------------------------------------- GUEST EDITORS -------------------------------------------------------------- Moreen Heine, University of Luebeck, Professor of eGovernment and Open Data Ecosystems, Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems (IMIS) Hans-Christian Jetter, University of Luebeck, Professor of Interaction Design and User Experience, Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems (IMIS) ---------------------------------------------------------------- TIMELINE ---------------------------------------------------------------- 28.02.2021 Submission Deadline Abstracts 31.03.2021 Submission Deadline 31.04.2021 Review results 21.05.2021 Revisions due 31.05.2021 Final Decision ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ----------------------------------------------------------------- All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Hereby, each manuscript will be reviewed by three independent expert reviewers. Possible outcomes of the first round of reviews are: accept, revision, or reject. Authors of submissions that require revision will have one month to implement the required changes. Anonymized manuscripts need to be submitted via ScholarOne. The anticipated length of papers for this special issue is about 7.000 - 10.000 words. The length of the manuscript should be proportional to its contribution. Templates for preparing submissions can be accessed below. Link to Submission System: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/icom Templates for preparing manuscripts are available at: https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/icom/icom-overview.xml?tab_body=ove… , but free-format submissions are also acceptable.

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[Deadline Extension & Special Issue] BigVis Workshop: Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics, EDBT/ICDT 2021, Cyprus
by Nikos Bikakis 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

**Deadline Extension** Due to requests the submission deadline has been extended to **January 24, 2021** **Special Issue** Extended versions of the best papers will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) [pending final decision]. **Special Theme** Machine Learning and Visualization: BigVis 2021 will devote a session to machine learning approaches in the context of Big data visualization and analytics. ------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers BigVis 2021: 4th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2021 March 23, 2021, Nicosia, Cyprus Held in conjunction with the 24th Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 24th Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2021) 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 over-plotting. 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. The BigVis workshop aims at addressing the above challenges and issues by providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, exchange, and disseminate their work. BigVis attempts to attract attention from the research areas of Data Management & Mining, Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction and highlight novel works that bridge together these communities. Workshop Topics ------------------------------------ In the context of visual exploration and analytics, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visualization, exploration & analytics techniques for various data types; e.g., stream, spatial, graph - Human -in -the -loop processing - Human -centered databases - Data modeling, storage, indexing, caching, prefetching & query processing for interactive applications - Interactive & human -centered 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 Special Theme ------------------------------------ ***Machine Learning and Visualization*** BigVis 2021 will devote a session to machine learning approaches in the context of Big data visualization and analytics. Submissions ------------------------------------ Regular/Short Research papers [up to 8/4 pages] Work-in-progress papers [up to 4 pages] Vision papers [up to 4 pages] System papers and Demos [up to 4 pages] For the first time, BigVis will give a Best Paper Award. Best paper will be accompanied with a monetary prize, sponsored by the Visual Facts project. Special Issue ------------------------------------ Extended versions of the best papers will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) [pending final decision]. Important Dates ------------------------------------ Submission: January 24, 2021 ***extended*** Notification: January 29, 2021 Camera-ready: February 8, 2021 Workshop: March 23, 2021 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ Nikos Bikakis, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Tobias Schreck, Graz University of Technology, Austria Program Committee ------------------------------------ James Abello, Rutgers University, USA Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Michael Behrisch, Utrecht University, Netherlands Jacob Biehl, University of Pittsburgh, USA Rick Cole, Tableau Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Ahmed Eldawy, University of California, Riverside, USA Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France Steffen Frey, University of Stuttgart, Germany Issei Fujishiro, Keio University, Japan Giorgos Giannopoulos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Parke Godfrey, University of York, Canada Silu Huang, Microsoft Christophe Hurter, Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, France Halldor Janetzko, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Switzerland Stefan Jänicke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Eser Kandogan, IBM Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Google James Klosowski, AT&T Research Stavros Maroulis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Suvodeep Mazumdar, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark Martin Nöllenburg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, NAVER LABS Europe, France Jaakko Peltonen, Aalto University & University of Tampere, Finland Laura Po, Unimore, Italy Giuseppe Polese, University of Salerno, Italy Alexander Rind, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Rahman Sajjadur, Megagon Labs Hans-Jörg Schulz, Aarhus University, Denmark Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Kostas Stefanidis, University of Tampere, Finland Christian Tominski, University of Rostock, Germany Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete & FORTH-ICS, Greece Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University, Sweden Chaoli Wang, University of Notre Dame, USA Junpeng Wang, Visa Research Chen Wei, Zhejiang University, China Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University, China Jiazhi Xia, Central South University, China Panpan Xu, Bosch Research Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA -- Nikos Bikakis ATHENA Research Center Athens | Greece www.nbikakis.com -- Nikos Bikakis ATHENA Research Center Athens | Greece www.nbikakis.com

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PhD Position in Data Physicalization and AR - University of Bath
by Jason Alexander 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

I have a funded PhD position in Data Physicalization and AR open in my new group at the University of Bath, deadline January 31. Please share with any great candidates. Full details: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/understanding-the-digital-physical-tr… Summary: Data Physicalization is the physical analogy of Data Visualization---physicalizations convey data using an artefact's geometry or material properties. Data Physicalizations range from static 3D-printed artefacts to fully interactive dynamic bar charts that can update their physical form as a user interacts (see the dataphys website<http://dataphys.org/list/gallery/> for a list of examples). From a scientific perspective, this is a relatively new field of study that brings together researchers across Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Design, Engineering and Information Visualization. This technologically exciting project aims to understand the role and trade-offs of digital content in dynamic data physicalizations. You will design and construct a testbed that combines dynamic data physicalizations with Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces (such as the Microsoft Hololens). You will then explore the design space of digital/physical data display and human-data interaction, and empirically evaluate the resulting interfaces and interaction techniques to understand how mixed-reality data physicalizations can provide benefits over traditional data visualizations. Your work will lead to guidelines that will lay the foundation for the design of all future data physicalizations. You will publish your results at the top venues in HCI and Information Visualisation, including ACM CHI, ACM UIST, and IEEE VIS. Prof Alexander<http://www.jasonalexander.kiwi/> recently joined the University of Bath and is building a group of researchers that conduct visionary blue-skies research into interactive systems that cross the digital-physical boundary, including shape-changing displays and dynamic data physicalizations. You will join the Human-Computer Interaction group in the Department of Computer Science; the group hosts a growing cluster of excellent PhD students and academics working across a wide spectrum of HCI topics. You will have access to a new hardware prototyping lab and the group's usability lab. Do get in touch if you have any questions! -- Professor Jason Alexander Department of Computer Science University of Bath www.jasonalexander.kiwi<http://www.jasonalexander.kiwi/>

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EuroVis 2021 Best PhG Dissertation Awards - Call for Nominations
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, The *EuroVis Best PhD Dissertation Award* recognizes outstanding dissertations in academic research and development over topics relevant to visualization. The intent of this award is to recognize excellent young researchers in their early career and to highlight visualization research. Eligibility: all PhDs from the European visualization community (e.g., through contributions to the EuroVis conference) that defended and get awarded the degree of Doctor between Jan 1, 2019 and Dec 31, 2020 are eligible for the 2021 competition. Submission: the student’s advisor should email the nomination package to Jean-Daniel Fekete (Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr) it should contain: 1) A nomination letter written by the student’s advisor including the name, email address and CV of the candidate, a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertations 2) A copy of the dissertation. 3) Optional additional letters of recommendation can also be attached. Deadline for nominations is *January, 31st 2021*. See https://www.eg.org/wp/eurovis-phd-award/ -- Jean-Daniel Fekete Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr AVIZ Team Leader, INRIA www.aviz.fr INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France www.aviz.fr/~fekete Bat 660, Université Paris-Saclay tel: +33 1 69156551 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France fax: +33 1 69154240

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