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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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Special Issue of International Journal of Digital Libraries: multimedia, visualization
by Maria Zemankova 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

I would like to encourage you to consider contributing a paper to the "Special Issue on Digital Libraries, Epigraphy, and Paleography: Bringing Records from the Distant Past to the Present" (see attached) in the areas of Applications of computer vision, computer graphics, and information visualization tools for rendering inscribed artifacts In particular, contributions describing existing efforts and research issues in capturing and making accessible cultural heritage in Asia (near and far), Africa, Australia and South America would be most welcome. For additional information, please contact: Stephen M Griffin, Independent Scholar (prev. NSF, LoC, University of Pittsburgh), smg21601(a)gmail.com (Lead Guest Editor) or Maria Zemankova (prev. NSF, Program Director Intelligent Information Systems, retired) mzemanko(a)outlook.com

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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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BioVis@ISMB Social Event + Michel Westenberg Memorial Event
by Turkay, Cagatay 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

Dear colleagues, Everyone who is interested in biological visualization is cordially invited to join the virtual BioVis (http://biovis.net/2021/program_ismb/) Social Event today - Monday, July 26th @ 6 pm UTC (2 pm EST / 20:00 CEST) - in Zoom. As part of this event, we will host a Memorial Event for Michel Westenberg in a separate Zoom breakout room. Michel Westenberg (https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/29-04-2021-in-memoriam-…) passed away at a young age earlier this year. He was a core member of BioVis and an extremely valued colleague who will be dearly missed. The conference registration for BioVis@ISMB is not free this year, but the Social/Memorial Event is open to everyone. Please note that, although the program on the website says 6 pm - 8 pm UTC, the event will be open-ended, so just join us at your convenience. Since the goal of the event is to allow everyone to meet and take part in the discussions, there will be no program. Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/93869254726?pwd=SzFVWFJYRUxPNFMzN3BIRXhkNFhiQT09 Meeting ID: 938 6925 4726 Passcode: 616752 Best regards, Cagatay Turkay & Michael Krone BioVis@ISMB2021 General Chairs

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🎉Second call for participation for the workshop on VisActivities🍻🧠📊💡
by Samuel Huron 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Dear All, ================================================================== *🎉 Call for participation🍻🧠📊💡*VisActivities - Visualisation Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing, part of IEEE VIS (Oct. 24/29, 2021, Virtual) https://visactivities.github.io ================================================================== Given this year’s special circumstances 😷 VisActivities is now opening a second call for participation. These submissions are: 📝- Workshop Papers: deadline 24 August - On PCS ⚽️- Activity Descriptions: deadline 01 October 2021 - https://forms.gle/FahumF9hXnELYnJc9 😂- Challenges: deadline:deadline 01 October 2021 - https://forms.gle/y6qvf6LcrJSJcrkw7 More information on the individual calls below. *🔥Motivation:*Workshops, classes, or collaborations with domain experts often include hands-on data visualization activities that involve analog or digital tools and materials as well as more or less well-defined protocols. Recent years have seen the emergence of such data visualization activities in different contexts, including education, design, activism, and interdisciplinary collaboration. While many of these activities naturally take place in a group setting, due to the social distancing measures during the Covid-19 more and more of these activities are now happening online. The VisActivities workshop is a venue where researchers, practitioners, and educators from within and outside of the visualization community discuss goals, methods, audiences, materials and challenges they face when conducting and organising activities. It is also an opportunity where we can brainstorm, design and try novel activities collectively. (more detail on the website) *📝Workshop papers:* We invite a wide range of research papers. Contributions can include: visualization activities, online platforms for activities, learning material, learning goals, taxonomies, visualization guidelines, critical reflections on conducting visualization activities (teaching experience), evaluation strategies for activities, teaching approaches, ethical and critical considerations on activities and teaching. Reports on activities could include procedures, reports and experiences about one or many teaching activities, including a protocol and material of activities including results and reflections. Materials could include new teaching material that supports teaching in general and which is ready for application (slides, visualizations of schema/diagrams/design spaces, cheat sheets, teaching tools), or targeted to support specific activities (physical visualization, sketching templates, programming tutorials). We are particularly interested in ideas about evaluations for both activities and materials. *⚽️ Activity description:* In the 2nd VisActivities workshop, we want to give participants the opportunity to share their activities in the way they were meant to be disseminated: by running them. We therefore invite applications to run an online activity regarding visualization education, design, activism, interdisciplinary collaboration or beyond. Activities can include, for example, sketching aids for idea generation, toolkits for visualisation design, protocols with tangible tokens to help conceptualize quantities for data visualization; sketching exercises to help activists or other stakeholders better understand social issues etc. *Requirements*: The suggested activity must be adapted to online settings, could account for approximately 1 hour or less and expect a double digit number of participants. The suggested activities do not need to be polished: the workshop settings offer a great platform and audience from which to build upon. Upon request the workshop organisers can help with the facilitation. Submission form: https://forms.gle/FahumF9hXnELYnJc9 *😂 Challenges :* As part of the workshop program, we are collecting opinions and position statements on visualization education and teaching. We are especially looking to gather challenges and questions regarding experiences, methodologies, activities that educators face when teaching data visualisation concepts in light of Covid-19 but also more broadly. These challenges will be collected and organised into themes to help scaffold discussions during the workshop. Depending on participants’ interest these discussions could also form the basis for a shared viewpoint publication of what the community could be working towards. *Format:* 200 word text summarizing your positions about the main issues / challenges about teaching visualization. Submissions can choose to stay anonymous. Submission form: https://forms.gle/y6qvf6LcrJSJcrkw7 ❤️ Enjoy your summer ❤️ ORGANIZERS Samuel Huron, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh Georgia Panagiotidou, KU Leuven Mandy Keck, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Jonathan C. Roberts, Bangor University Sheelagh Carpendale, Simon Fraser University

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Deadline Extension: CfP: 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

======================================================================== Call for Participation 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities 24th 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/. _______________________________________________ # Important Dates [Papers] Submission Deadline: 30 July, 2021 (5pm PST) Notification Deadline: 16 August, 2021 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 1 September, 2021 [Provocations] Submission deadline: 27 August 2021 (5pm PST) Notification Deadline: 10 September 2021 _______________________________________________ # 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 30, 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. _______________________________________________ # CfP - Provocations Track Submissions to the VIS4DH Provocations track will take the form of a paragraph articulating a strongly-held viewpoint that addresses a particular perspective on this year’s workshop topic, *The Politics of Scale*. We especially seek submissions that likely will promote back-and-forth debate within the interdisciplinary VIS4DH community. This year’s submissions to the Provocations track should reflect on one or several of the following questions: - What are the dangers of subscribing exclusively to either large-scale or small-scale approaches at the intersection of visualization and humanities research? - Is the dichotomy “large-scale or small-scale” real or perceived? And how much do questions of scale matter, if at all? - Do large-scale approaches to data and visualization promote dominant cultures? How do they play into existing marginalizations and biases in society? - Are questions of scale inherently political, and if so, in what sense? What is their influence on methodological choices? # Submission format Submissions to the Provocations track should take the following format: - Title: Provide a title that roughly describes the topic of your provocation/viewpoint. - Summary of provocation (1 sentence): One-sentence summary that describes the essence of your viewpoint/argument. - Provocation statement & argument (200 words): Provides a brief description of your provocation and its argument. - Counter-Perspective(s) (optional, 100 words): Provides potential counter-arguments to your provocation. Accepted authors will be invited to present their viewpoint and argument in the form of a panel discussion at the workshop. Accepted provocations will also be published on the workshop website. Submissions will be judged based on the quality of the argument they make as well as their likelihood of provoking fruitful discussion. Provocations presented and discussed at VIS4DH 2020 can be found at https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/2020/provocations/. # Submitting a provocation Submissions to the Provocations Track should be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vis4dh21) by *August 27, 2021 (5pm PST)*. Notification will be sent on September 10, 2021.

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Call for Posters: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization GD 2021
by Helen Purchase 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email ================================================================ Call for Posters GD 2021 29th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 14-17, 2021 - Tuebingen, Germany https://algo.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/gd2021/ ================================================================ 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 posters and to participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest. GD2021 will be held (hopefully) at Tuebingen from September 14 to 17, 2021 with a reception on the evening of September 14. A pre-conference PhD school is planned for September 13-14, 2021. In the event that a physical conference will not be possible, GD2021 will, like GD2020, be held virtually. Regardless of the format, we are committed to offering remote participation for both presenters and the audience. POSTER SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- The submission of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas is 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 two pages, excluding references, in LNCS style) that must be submitted together with the poster. Abstracts of accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings (two pages+references). The maximum size for a poster is A0 (84.1 cm x 118.9 cm). The posters must be in portrait mode. Each submission will then consist of two pdf files (the two-page abstract and the poster) and must include names, email addresses and contact information of the contributors. Contributions must be submitted via EasyChair at the web site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd2021 Each poster must be presented at the conference by an author (barring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the abstract will not be included in the proceedings. Should any visa/travel restriction prevent an author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means. BEST POSTER AWARD ----------------- To recognize the effort of the participants in preparing and presenting their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2021 attendees. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Poster submission deadline: August 11 (23:59 PDT) Notification of poster acceptance: August 20 Final versions due: August 31 (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 Förster, 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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InfoVis Designer Open Position
by Sheelagh Carpendale 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

InfoVis Designer Open Position 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 design and technical challenges? If the answer is yes, then this is an opportunity for you! The Interaction Experience Lab (ixlab) at Simon Fraser University is looking to hire a person who can work as an integral part of a Data Vis design team. We have both Design and Technical people on the team who are developing visualization prototypes and products. You will work with Scientists and Data-Managers of Arctic data 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/ , https://www.sfu.ca/~sheelagh/ CCADI – https://ccadi.ca/ Position: Designer - Data and Information Visualization Hours per week: 40 Start Time: Starting as early as Sept. 1, 2021 Position Length: Ending Dec. 31, 2021 with extensions possible. Location: Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Work is Hybrid: including on and off campus. Fully remote is possible. Minimum Qualifications: * Complete or partial graduate degree in areas related to Data Visualization, Information Design, Human Computer Interaction, or Human Centered Design from an appropriately accredited institution is preferred. * OR Bachelors’ Degree in one of the aforementioned areas and at least two years of experience in UX/UI design, graphic design, design activities 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: * Generating and exporting vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator * Designing for data and information graphics * Designing for interactive web-based interfaces * Facilitating design elicitation activities * Working collaboratively with software developers, stakeholders, and data experts * Working with data in excel or other software * Design communication tools for remote collaboration * Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and data visualization libraries for web Compensation: Commensurate with experience. Please submit the following to ccadi.viz(a)gmail.com<mailto:ccadi.viz@gmail.com>, sarah_storteboom(a)sfu.ca<mailto:sarah_storteboom@sfu.ca>, and sheelagh(a)sfu.ca<mailto:sheelagh@sfu.ca> * Position title you intend to apply for * Cover Letter * Curriculum Vitae * Names of two References Applications will be reviewed as they arrive. Reviewing will continue until the position is filled. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have about the role on the aforementioned emails. -- 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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Software Developer – Data Visualization
by Sheelagh Carpendale 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Software Developer – Data Visualization 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 design and technical challenges? If the answer is yes, then this is an opportunity for you! The Interaction Experience Lab (ixlab) at Simon Fraser University is looking to hire a person who can work as an integral part of a Data Vis design team. We have both Design and Technical people on the team who are developing visualization prototypes and products. You will work with Scientists and Data-Managers of Arctic data 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/ , https://www.sfu.ca/~sheelagh/ CCADI – https://ccadi.ca/ Position: Software Developer – Data Visualization Hours per week: 40 Start Time: Starting as early as Sept. 1, 2021 Position Length: Ending Dec. 31, 2021 with extensions possible. Location: Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Work is Hybrid: including on and off campus. Fully remote is possible. Minimum Qualifications: * Complete or Partial graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, or a closely related degree from an appropriately accredited institution is preferred. * Grad students with full or partial studies are encouraged to apply – particularly in areas related to Data Vis, human computer interaction, and human centered design. * OR Bachelors’ Degree in one of the aforementioned areas and at least two years of experience in web development, 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: * Developing web backends with nodejs, mongodb and/or other similar tools * Familiarity with data manipulation and analysis * Deployment and hosting of web-based projects * Using web-based services to fetch data from providers * Agile and/or iterative development process * Working with designers, stakeholders, and data experts * Planning, deploying, and supporting software projects * Interest and/or experience with data visualization Compensation: Commensurate with experience. Please submit the following to ccadi.viz(a)gmail.com<mailto:ccadi.viz@gmail.com>, sarah_storteboom(a)sfu.ca<mailto:sarah_storteboom@sfu.ca>, and sheelagh(a)sfu.ca<mailto:sheelagh@sfu.ca> * Position title you intend to apply for * Cover Letter * Curriculum Vitae * Names of two References Applications will be reviewed as they arrive. Reviewing will continue until the position is filled. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have about the role on the aforementioned emails. -- 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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Poster Submission Invitation -- VizSec 2021-- August 02, 2021
by Sanchari Das 19 Jul '21

19 Jul '21

*** Website https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/ *** Poster Submission Deadline: August 02, 2021 Event Date: October 27, 2021 We are cordially inviting you to participate in the poster session of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) 2021. VizSec brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will take place on October 27, 2021, in conjunction with the 2021 IEEE VIS conference <http://ieeevis.org/>, giving VizSec authors and attendees enhanced access to IEEE VIS. VizSec program will be presented in an online format with virtual presentations. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user-assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, penetration testing, and other related research topics. We are soliciting Poster Submissions. Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. In line with the full conference, the presentation of posters will take place online. There will be 1-2 dedicated poster sessions in which poster authors can virtually meet and discuss their work with conference participants. An additional web presence of posters will replace the traditional physical installation of poster boards. More concrete details will follow soon. Awards There will be an award for Best Poster. This award will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly present their work to the audience. The award will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference. Submissions Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE VGTC conference proceedings template that can be found at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ Posters should be 2 page abstracts. Presenters are also encouraged to submit an accompanying video or other supplementary materials by following the IEEE VIS formatting guidelines. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. VizSec uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) <https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc> to handle the poster submissions and reviewing processes. Important Dates All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. Aug 2nd, 2021 Submission deadline for posters Aug 16, 2021 Author notifications for poster submissions For more information please see: https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/ Sincerely, VizSec 2021 Publicity Co-Chairs Sanchari Das, Noëlle Rakotondravony

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