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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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1st CFP for TREX'21 IEEE VIS Workshop
by Nourani,Mahsan 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

Dear Colleagues/Friends, I'm glad to announce the second-time TREX workshop on TRust and EXpertise in Visualization, that will take place at IEEE VIS 2021 (format TBD). Please help us spread the word! Following TREX'20, this year's workshop will focus on **human-centered aspects of visualization and visual analytics systems that are powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, including user trust, cognitive biases, domain expertise, transparency, and human-in-the-loop considerations**. For more information and updates, please follow us on Twitter @TrexInVIS (https://twitter.com/TrexInVIS) or visit our website: https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2021/. Below is the formal call-for-papers for TREX 2021: ------------------------------------------------- **IMPORTANT DATES** Submission Deadline: Jul 30, 2021 Author Notification: Sep 3, 2021 Camera-Ready Deadline: Sep 17, 2021 TREX 2021 Workshop: October 24 or 25, 2021 (Virtual or hybrid, depending on the IEEE VIS decision on conference format) **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, and (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 **TOPICS OF INTEREST** 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. 8. Human-centered considerations in Human-in-the-loop visualization tools and interpretable models. **CONTRIBUTION TYPES** We are looking for and open to diverse forms of research (as listed below) within the realm of visualization and machine learning 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 2 pages of references. All submissions must be in IEEE VGTC Conference Style Template format (Download the templates here: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) We also encourage authors to submit a short 30-second video of their work (for publication purposes) when submitting their work, if applicable. Depending on the conference format this year (i.e., virtual or hybrid), the authors of the accepted papers might be required to submit a longer video (e.g., 5 to 10 minutes) to substitute a live presentation. In such an event, we will send further instructions closer to the workshop. The submissions are made through the PCS (Precision Conference Solutions) website. At least one author from each accepted paper needs to register for the conference (please refer to the IEEE VIS Website http://ieeevis.org/ for the registration requirements). 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. **PUBLICATION** The workshop accepts papers in two formats, as seen below. Upon submitting the papers, authors are asked to determine their desired paper format: 1. Archival Short paper publication through IEEE Xplore. This means that the papers can only be published in a proper journal as an extended version with at least 30% new content. This means each paper will be published and available through IEEE Xplore with an assigned DOI and are citable. While the papers published in this format can be extended to a journal publication (with 30% new content, subject to the rules of that journal), this content cannot be re-used for a future conference submission, such as IEEE VIS, EuroVis, and CHI. 1. Short paper statements or Work-in-progress notes, which will be non-archival. In other words, the authors maintain the copyright of their paper and are allowed to reuse their material in future publications. **ORGANIZERS** Mahsan Nourani -- University of Florida Eric Ragan -- University of Florida Emily Wall -- Emory University Alireza Karduni -- Northwestern University **CONTACT** For more information, you can email us at TrexInVis(a)gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @TrexInVIS, or visit our workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2021/index.html. Kind Regards, --- Mahsan Nourani, Graduate Research Assistant, INDIE Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida mahsan.page<https://mahsan.page/>

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PhD/PostDoc Position in Game Computing | Austria
by Günter Wallner 31 May '21

31 May '21

Dear all, I'm seeking a highly motivated PhD and PostDoc candidate who would like to join the new Game Computing Group of the Institute of Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz. We welcome applicants with research interests broadly related to the areas of games user research, games analytics, and gameplay visualization. The focus will be on developing novel solutions for furthering our understanding of players to inform game design and development. Candidates with a strong background in HCI-related research, data science, or information visualization are particularly encouraged to apply. Both positions are full time for 4 years (PhD) and 6 years (PostDoc). Knowledge of German language is not mandatory. The deadline for application is June 30, 2021. For more information about the positions please visit https://www.jku.at/en/the-jku/work-at-the-jku/job-openings/academic-personn… (Job Reference Number: 4486 and 4487). If you have any questions please contact me directly. All best, Guenter Wallner

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CFP: Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making - Making Sense of a Growing Digital World Minitrack ( Decision Analytics and Service Science Track, HICSS 55)
by Ebert, David 30 May '21

30 May '21

Dear colleagues--- Please consider submitting a paper to the Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making - Making Sense of a Growing Digital World Minitrack ( Decision Analytics and Service Science Track, HICSS 55) by June 15, 2021. Please see author instructions at: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ and feel free to contact the co-chairs with any questions. Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making supports human decision making through interaction with data and statistical and machine learning processes, with applications in a broad range of situations where human expertise must be brought to bear on problems characterized by massive datasets and data that are uncertain in fact, relevance, location in space and position in time. Current applications include environmental science and technologies, natural resources and energy, health and related life sciences, precision medicine, safety and security and business processes. Submissions are encouraged that extend the areas of use to new analytic tasks in science and technology, public health, business intelligence, financial analysis, social sciences, and other domains. Particular emphasis will be given to submissions that use visual analytics for social change discovery, analysis and communication. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, Interactive Machine Learning, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. We encourage authors to address these themes from their own research perspectives. Authors are encouraged to bring the lens of their own background and expertise to focus on the analytics of the data itself and coordination of multiple levels of analysis, decision-making and operations to the design and evaluation of effective presentations for stakeholders. Visual analytics and visualization in digital economies Visual analytics and visualization in “wicked” problems Visualization in organizational analytics Visual analytics/visualization for trustable, explainable AI Visual analytics for Human-guided, interactive AI Visualization and analysis of datasets of varying size and complexity from archives and real-time streams Collaborative visual analysis and operational coordination within and across organizations. Interactive and visual risk-based decision making Interactive machine learning methods Managing response time of complex analytical tasks Effective deployment and case studies of success from deployed visualization and analytics experiences Visualization and analytics for data-driven policy making and decision support Issues and challenges in evaluation of visual decision making Cognitive and social science aspects of visual decision-making environments We also welcome participation from researchers who are looking at scaling issues and multiscale issues, whether these scales refer to the time of decision making, the form-factor and operational constraints of mobile devices, the number of decision makers or the more traditional notion of multiscale simulation and real-world scales of data. We are particularly interested in approaches that combine computational and interactive analytics in “mixed initiative” or Interactive Machine Learning systems, decision support in the context of an organization (e.g. communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. Minitrack Co-Chairs: David Ebert University of Oklahoma ebert(a)ou.edu<mailto:ebert@ou.edu> Brian Fisher Simon Fraser University bfisher(a)sfu.ca<mailto:bfisher@sfu.ca> Kelly Gaither University of Texas at Austin kelly(a)tacc.utexas.edu<mailto:kelly@tacc.utexas.edu> Dr. David S. Ebert, Gallogly Chair Professor of ECE and CS Associate Vice President of Research and Partnerships Director, Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC) University of Oklahoma 5 Partners Place 201 Stephenson Pkwy, Ste 4600 Norman, OK 73019 ebert(a)ou.edu<mailto:ebert@ou.edu>

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Nomination Reminder: IEEE VGTC Visualization Awards
by Chuck Hansen 18 May '21

18 May '21

Call for Nominations: IEEE VGTC Visualization Awards The IEEE VGTC announces a new awards program for the IEEE VGTC Visualization Awards. The IEEE VGTC Awards program recognizes and honors individuals who have made a significant contribution to the community through their research and/or service. Furthermore, we seek out nominations of individuals that enable us to recognize both the diversity of individuals, as well as diversity of contributions, from the community at large. The awards program will now have five awards plus induction to the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy: VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award - The Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding academic research and development in the field. VGTC Visualization Significant New Researcher Award - The VGTC Significant New Researcher Award recognizes an individual who has made significant recent research contributions in the field. VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award - The Technical Achievement Award is given each year to recognize an individual for a seminal technical achievement in the field. VGTC Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award - The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual to honor that person’s lifetime contribution to the field. VGTC Visualization Service Award - The IEEE VGTC Service Award recognizes extraordinary service to the community through the IEEE VGTC and/or the IEEE VGTC Sponsored Conferences and Symposia. VGTC Visualization Academy Selection - The IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy is a prestigious academy that highlights the accomplishments of the leaders in the field. The criteria for these awards can be found at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/award-criteria Nominations are due by May 31, 2021. Nominations, except Dissertation award, should contain the name of the person nominated, the awards for which they are nominated, the short citation for the award, and a summary that carefully addresses the criteria for the award while not exceeding 600 words. Dissertation Award nominations should include: (1) The title and abstract of the dissertation, (2) the name of the candidate, (3) the name of the candidate’s primary advisor, (4) the institution where the dissertation was defended, (5) the date of the dissertation defense, (6) A 1-2 page summary of the significance and impact of the dissertation research, (7) an electronic copy of the full dissertation, or a pointer to where it can be obtained, (8) one letter of recommendation, up to 2 pages in length, ideally from the candidate’s primary advisor, and (9) a list of publications, awards, and other recognition by peers produced from the dissertation work. To nominate someone for any of these awards or the academy, please visit: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/vis-award-nominations/ If you have any questions, please contact: Chair of the Awards Committee for Visualization Charles Hansen, University of Utah vgtc-vis-awards(a)vgtc.org

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CfP: 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 17 May '21

17 May '21

======================================================================== Call for Participation 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities 24th (or 25th) October, 2021 http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/ ======================================================================== We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, “VIS4DH”, under the theme of The Politics of Scale. This will be a full-day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2021. This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2021 in two ways - you can submit to the Paper track (see below), or you can submit to the Provocations track, which will be published by end of May. Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the humanities, social sciences and all branches of visualization. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and to intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. We are particularly interested in papers and provocations that bring different disciplines together. More information is available on http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/. _______________________________________________ # CfP - Paper Track This year, VIS4DH will revolve around the topic of “scale”. Visualization is often celebrated as a method to facilitate the exploration and interpretation of “big data”. But is scale a relevant yardstick to measure and characterize the challenges connected to humanities research questions? Scholars have warned about the development and focus on large-scale digital infrastructures within the humanities, suggesting that smaller datasets and lighter infrastructures could better support the needs of humanist researchers. Additionally, critical voices have pointed out the risk of reproducing assumptions about dominant cultures and groups while further marginalizing those who are less likely to be remembered. ‘Data humanism’ has been proposed to highlight the creative potential of “small data” in terms of personal impact. Choices of scale—in terms of data, tools, or teams—influence not only project outcomes but also research methods and processes. This year, we invite work around (but not limited to) the following questions: - Large scale approaches have been said to easily ignore context, to fetishize size and inflate their technical and scientific capabilities, which they rarely deliver. How can we mitigate these issues and effects of scale for existing large scale data infrastructures? - What other motivating factors should be taken into account regardless of scale? Are “volume, velocity and variety” our defining challenges, or should we deliberately shift the problem characterization in humanities projects towards data scarcity, sparsity, polysemy, uncertainty, historicity, quality, and contextuality? - What goes unseen when we look at massive datasets and large trends? How can information visualization techniques assist in bridging small and large scale findings? - How can we envision small data, small processes, small impact for visualization in the humanities? - What trade-offs in visibility (and in-visibility) are made when we consider different scales in projects at the intersection of visualization and the humanities research? - How can research at the intersection of visualization and the humanities counteract the dangers of data colonialism and of excluding marginalized positions? We invite papers at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide both theoretical and applied perspectives around these and other questions. For our paper track we are seeking works from scholars in visualization, the humanities, social science, and the arts who use visualization as part of the process of analyzing and interrogating human culture. Submissions will present original research ideas or results as they relate to visualization for the digital humanities. Each submission should clearly state its specific contribution to this growing field of research. # Submission format Submissions will take the form of short (4-6 page - excluding references) papers. Submissions are meant to describe and critically discuss works at the intersection of visualization and humanities research, including applied case studies and empirical results and/or theoretical perspectives. We welcome works that highlight the difficulties (and proposed solutions) of designing visualizations in the context of humanities research and/or applying concepts from humanities research to foster visualization research and design. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their paper at the workshop as a pre-recorded video plus online discussion. All presentations will be followed by a lively discussion with workshop participants. The archiving and publication options for VIS4DH 2021 are still under development and will be detailed soon. # Submitting a paper Paper submissions should be in PDF format following the two-column IEEE TVCG Conference Style Template (http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) Papers should be submitted via PCS (https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc) Submission deadline will be *July 23, 2021 (5pm PST)*. Notifications will be sent on August 16, 2021. Deadline for submitting a video of the pre-recorded talk is on September 1, 2021. Submissions to the Paper Tracks will be optionally double-blind. Authors wishing to submit their work double-blind should remove author information from the cover page of their submitted document, and take care to avoid identifying information in the submission itself. _______________________________________________ # Important Dates [Papers] Submission Deadline: 23 July, 2021 (5pm PST) Notification Deadline: 16 August, 2021 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 1 September, 2021

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CDVE2021 paper deadline approaching
by cdve .org 13 May '21

13 May '21

The deadline for paper submission is approaching very soon. It is time to work on your paper and send it before the deadline! Both full papers and short papers submission deadline are May 20, 2021. See www.cdve.org for detailed information. The 18th International conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering CDVE2021 will be held online. We look forward to meeting you online in the conference! ------------------- The 18th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 24-27, 2021, Online Virtual Email: cdve2021(a)easychair.org <cdve2020(a)easychair.org> Web: http://www.cdve.org

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Second Call for Papers: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization GD 2021
by Helen Purchase 10 May '21

10 May '21

Subject: Second Call for Papers: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization GD 2021 Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email ================================================================ Second Call for Papers GD 2021 29th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 14-17, 2021 - Tuebingen, Germany https://algo.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/gd2021/ ================================================================ PDF version: https://algo.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/gd2021/data/uploads/cfp-gd2021.pdf ================================================================ 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, or software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 20 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. 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. GD2021 will be held from September 14 to 17, 2021. A pre-conference PhD school is planned for September 13-14, 2021. GD2021 will, like GD2020, be held virtually online, although we hope to arrange supplementary in-person activities for those who are able to travel to Tübingen (depending on numbers and any local restrictions in place at the time.) While this is disappointing, we also acknowledge the benefits of remote participation for those who are unable to travel - both presenters and attendees. 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. 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 * 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 poster session. 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 appropriate LaTeX style file, either gd-llncs.cls for long papers or gd-llncs-short.cls for short papers; these are derived from the style file used 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 figures in the submitted papers, submissions will have a strict number of lines limit. Regular papers must have at most 400 lines, (excluding references and figures) and at most 14 pages (excluding references). Short papers must have at most 225 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=gd2021 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 https://algo.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/gd2021/index.php?id=contest. 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. This appendix could contain a long version of the entire paper or proofs that have been omitted from the main text. Subsequent submissions of revised versions of the paper to the arXiv (known as arXiv "replacements") are allowed. Upon submission of the camera-ready version of an accepted paper, the authors will be required to specify the arXiv identifier associated with the paper for inclusion in a conference index, which will be also published in the arXiv repository. 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. 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 and enhanced version of their work to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). A TVCG papers session at the Graph Drawing conference will also feature regular TVCG papers. AWARDS ------ For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD2021 will give a Best Paper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to present their work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD2021 attendees. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline June 2 (23:59 PDT) Paper submission deadline June 9 (23:59 PDT) Notification of paper acceptance July 19 Poster submission deadline August 11 (23:59 PDT) Notification of poster acceptance August 20 Final versions due August 31 (23:59 PDT) Contest submission deadline September 7 (23:59 PDT) Symposium September 14-17 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Md. Jawaherul Alam, Amazon Inc., USA Michael Bekos, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany Carla Binucci, University of Perugia, Italy Romain Bourqui, Universite de Bordeaux, France Vida Dujmovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Cody Dunne, Northeastern University, USA Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney, Australia Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University, Japan Radu Jianu, City University of London, UK Michael Kaufmann, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany Andreas Kerren, Linkoping University, Sweden Linda Kleist, TU Braunschweig, Germany Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy Anna Lubiw, University of Waterloo, Canada Guy Melancon, Universite de Bordeaux, France Yoshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Maurizio Patrignani, Roma Tre University, Italy Helen Purchase (co-chair), University of Glasgow, UK Chrysanthi Raftopoulou, NTU Athens, Greece Ignaz Rutter (co-chair), Universitat Passau, Germany Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University, USA Geza Toth, Renyi Institute, Hungary Arthur van Goethem, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Tatiana von Landesberger, Universitaet Rostock, Germany Hsiang-Yun Wu, TU Wien, Austria Kai Xu, Middlesex University, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Michael A. Bekos (co-chair), Universitaet Tuebingen Henry Forster, Universitaet Tuebingen Renate Hallmayer, Universitaet Tuebingen Michael Kaufmann (co-chair), Universitaet Tuebingen Axel Kuckuk, Universitaet Tuebingen Maximilian Pfister, Universitaet Tuebingen Lena Schlipf, Universitaet Tuebingen CONTEST COMMITTEE ----------------- Philipp Kindermann (chair), Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany Tamara Mchedlidze, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Wouter Meulemans, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Participants for user study on hybrid visualizations wanted
by Emilio Di Giacomo 10 May '21

10 May '21

Dear Colleagues, We are conducting a user study to compare different types of hybrid graph visualizations. If you have a bit of time, please help us by participating to the study! This will take you about 25-30 minutes, including a short tutorial and a short training. Since you will be asked to execute visual tasks, you should avoid using a small screen (mobile phone or small tablet). Please, visit the survey here: http://mozart.diei.unipg.it/limesurvey/index.php/963874?lang=en <http://mozart.diei.unipg.it/limesurvey/index.php/963874?lang=en> Comments are also very welcome! (You can provide feedback in the last question of the study.) Thank you in advance for your consideration and your valuable help. Emilio Di Giacomo Walter Didimo Beppe Liotta Fabrizio Montecchiani Alessandra Tappini

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Diagrams 2021: 2nd Call for Graduate Symposium
by Mikkel Willum Johansen 06 May '21

06 May '21

Dear all The Diagrams 2021 conference hosts a free graduate symposium. Deadlines for submission is June 21, so there’s still time! Please find more information in the call for papers attached below or on the conference webpage www.diagrams-conference.org/2021<http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021> - and do pass on the information if you know students or recent graduates for whom it may be relevant. I hope to see you at the conference! Best, Mikkel Willum Johansen Publicity Chair Diagrams 2021 *** Call for Graduate Symposium: Diagrams 2021 *** 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams September 28 – 30, 2021 Virtual Event www.diagrams-conference.org/2021<http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021> *** Highlights of Diagrams 2021 *** - FREE REGISTRATION - Graduate Symposium proceedings will be available online - Inspirational ECR Speaker: Francesco Bellucci, University of Bologna - Three Conference Tracks: Main, Philosophy, and Psychology and Education - Conference proceedings published by Springer - Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards - Graduate Symposium submission deadline June 21, 2021. - Conference paper submission dates in April 2021. ***************************************************************** Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams and has a multidisciplinary emphasis. The goal of the Diagrams 2021 Graduate Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the Symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent Masters and Doctoral graduates with the opportunity to present their research. Established researchers will provide feedback and comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the Symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues. In previous Diagrams Graduate Symposiums, lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their on-going research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field. The Graduate Symposium will include an Inspirational Early Career Researcher Invited Talk<http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/keynotes/>. The invitation to deliver this talk is reserved for an active Diagrams researcher, within approximately ten years of their PhD, who has demonstrable potential to be a major leadership force within the community. The Inspirational ECR talk will be open to the entire Diagrams delegation. ***************************************************************** Submission Requirements Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research are welcome. Topics of interest are the same as those given in the calls for papers for the three conference tracks: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/main-track/ http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/philosophy/ http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/psychology-of-diagr…. Students who wish to present their work at the symposium must submit a 3-page report describing – their thesis topic, – the approach being taken, – the work that has been completed, – the expected contributions of the research – any necessary acknowledgements (for example, supervision team and source funding). The student should be the sole author of their submission and the supervisor names should be included in the acknowledgements section. The report must be submitted in Springer LNCS format. Authors of accepted submissions will be expected to be in attendance at the virtual conference to present their research and respond to questions presented by delegates. All presenters must accept that it is not within the power of the organisers to prevent delegates from recording talks. However, when registering, delegates will be asked to confirm that they will not record any part of the conference. More details can be found at http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/graduate-symposium/. ***************************************************************** Supervisor Support Students who submit to the graduate symposium must ask their main or lead supervisor to submit a short supporting statement, by email to Mohanad Alqadah, msqadah ‘@’ uqu.edu.sa. The supporting statement should confirm that the supervisor supports the student’s participation in the symposium and briefly explain why the student will benefit. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that their supervisor submits the supporting statement. ________________________________ Mikkel Willum Johansen Associate professor Department of Science Education University of Copenhagen Tlf: (+45) 28 72 84 41

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