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Open Position for Permanent Employment as a Research Engineer in Information Visualization at Linnaeus University (LNU), Vaxjo, Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 20 May '22

20 May '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Come and join us! We are seeking for an engaged research engineer to work with us in the areas of information visualization and visual analytics. The advertised position (reference number: 2022/494-2.2.1) will be affiliated to the information visualization research group (ISOVIS) led by Professor Andreas Kerren (see http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/) The group is part of the national research infrastructure InfraVis and is with this advertisement recruiting a research engineer in information visualization for InfraVis. InfraVis (https://infravis.se) is a national research infrastructure in support of scientific advancement through the application of state-of-the-art data analysis and visualization techniques. The goals of InfraVis are to significantly improve data analysis support, address new challenges involving large and complex data and create competitive advantages for Swedish researchers. The infrastructure consists of visualization experts working with various software solutions and access to high-end visualization laboratories. Users of InfraVis will be offered assistance through a national helpdesk as well as in-depth projects addressing specific data and software challenges. InfraVis will also provide software solutions based on development in connected research groups, curation of international software and best practice, and user training in the form of courses, seminars, and on-line documentation. The successful candidate will be responsible for support and development in the visualization of data. The general tasks include advanced user support, selection of suitable software, development of visualization tools, and training of user groups from many different research areas. Thus, the main duty is to provide service in context of the national infrastructure. The employment is a permanent position (full-time). A PhD degree in information visualization, visual analytics, or equivalent from a related area is required. Please visit the official vacancy website of Linnaeus University for a more detailed description of the duties, formal requirements, and on how to apply for this position: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/work-at-the-university/?rmpage=j… The application deadline is June 8, 2022. We are looking forward to receiving your application! Please also consider to share this message with any great candidates. Best regards, Andreas Kerren ISOVIS Group @ Linnaeus University -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linnaeus University + Department of Computer Science and Media Technology + Vejdes Plats 7, Room B3019 + SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden + + Phone: +46 470 767502 + Fax: +46 470 84004 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)lnu.se + WWW: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +------------------------------------------------------- -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linnaeus University + Department of Computer Science and Media Technology + Vejdes Plats 7, Room B3019 + SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden + + Phone: +46 470 767502 + Fax: +46 470 84004 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)lnu.se + WWW: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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CfP VisGuides: 4th IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Guidelines – Visualization Guidelines in Research, Design, and Education
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 18 May '22

18 May '22

VisGuides: 4th IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Guidelines – Visualization Guidelines in Research, Design, and Education This year’s topic: Visualization Research in the Wild 16 (or 17) October 2022, Workshop at IEEE VIS, October, Oklahoma City, USA VisGuides 2022 calls for submissions about visualization guidelines in research, design, and education. The ever-increasing global awareness, practice, and teaching of information and data visualization includes a growing audience of consumers and creators. Building on the success of prior editions of the VisGuides workshop in 2016, 2018<https://c4pgv.dbvis.de/>, and 2020<https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/c4pgv/>. This year’s edition focuses on * Visualization Research in the Wild and the roles guidelines play in it * Implementing an actionable framework around creating, curating, and applying guidelines for the wider visualization and non-visualization community. Submit your work and ideas as either a short paper, long paper, or a guideline report discussing a guideline, its empirical evidence, application, and limitations. Become part of a vibrant half-day workshop that will bring together an exciting program with papers and discussions on the future of guidelines in visualization. This workshop also features an open call for being part of the program committee (PC) to provide an opportunity to advocate for guidelines in a broad range of topics. If you would like to get involved, contact bbach(a)ed.ac.uk. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format. You can attend online or in person though we hope that you can join us in-person. Online sessions will be synchronous with the in-person workshop. Website: https://visguides-workshop.github.io/ Topics and Scope The IEEE VIS VisGuides workshop is a forum for constructive discussions around guidelines in visualization and how the visualization researchers and creators disseminate and discuss their designs. The understanding and operationalization of guidelines is important not only for academics, but also for practitioners alike, who are tasked to make design trade-offs, problem-solving, and justify decisions. Moreover, guidelines are essential for teaching and learning about visualization. Questions this workshop wants to discuss include: * What visualization guidelines exist and how do we (as a scientific community) collect and disseminate them? * How do we apply and discuss guidelines in daily-work practice, in design, in advising, and in teaching? * What is the role of visualization knowledge and guidelines in the wild, i.e., outside the scientific community? * How to scrutinize empirical knowledge and make a discussion around guidelines public? * What are types of guidelines, guidance, and how do we formalize visualization knowledge? * How can we systematize, rank and categorize guidelines in the wild? Goals * Illustrating the use of best practices and guidelines in the wild as seen from the VIS community and practitioners, through discussions among the presenters and the audience. Collecting, reflecting and discussing a survey of well-known guidelines from the presenters and the audience through interactive activities, examples, and submissions * Constructing an open and democratic discussion about principles, guidelines, recommendations, based on the presented evidence (including examples of their uses and misuses), critique (including revision and improvement) and conditioning (i.e., education, training, and deployment) compiling the lessons learned from the usage of those guidelines * Discussing ideas and proposals of feasible approaches towards the formalization of visualization guidelines, with an impact beyond the scientific visualization community. This is an important point as more and more visualization designs are created outside the scientific community. The visualization community must reinforce the efforts to publicize their study results * To raise questions about the ethical, practical, and technical implications of establishing guidelines for visualization. Broadening the discussion of guidelines to applications and educational contexts Workshop Schedule (Preliminary) * Keynote * Paper presentations * Group discussion (possible breakout groups) * Collecting & curating guidelines * Application in education * Research in the wild * Social dynamics and operationalization * Wrap-up Submission Info This workshop features 3 types of submissions. Please carefully read the respective instructions. Topics of these submissions include, but are not limited to: * Comparative analysis of several guidelines for visual representation, requirements, and gap analysis of principles and guidelines for one or more visualization tasks (or application domains) * Evidence-based critique of a principle or a guideline * Case studies of a principle in relation to a task, a visual design, and a group of users * Proposal of a new principle or a guideline, or a major revision of an existing one * Proposal of a mechanism for curating principles and guidelines * Proposal of a framework for the critique of principles and guidelines * Proposal of a mechanism for disseminating and deployment of established principles and guidelines * Proposal of a mechanism for prioritising and ranking established principles and guidelines * Discourse on a long-term sustainable mechanism for creation, curation, critique, and conditioning activities * Discourse on the relationships and transformations between principles and guidelines and other theoretical aspects, such as taxonomies, conceptual frameworks and models, and quantitative laws, and so forth Short Paper: * 2 pages + references in the IEEE VIS Style * Please add the [SHORT] label to your submission title in PCS. * Submission deadline: July 22 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Notification: August 14 (Monday, midnight PDT) * Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Publication through ArXiv and the workshop website Long Paper: * 6 pages + references in the IEEE VIS Style. * Please add the [LONG] label to your submission title in PCS. * Submission deadline July 22 (Friday, midnight PDT) * Notification: August 14 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Publication through IEEE Digital Library Guideline Report: * 6 pages + references in the IEEE VIS Style * Please add the [REPORT] label to your submission title in PCS. * Submission deadline: July 22 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Notification: August 14 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Published on ArXiv and the workshop website * Report example format: * Title of the guideline that is proposed or discussed. * Guideline description * Background * Supporting elements * Arguments (common sense) * Study evidence * Design examples * Rejecting elements * Arguments (common sense) * Study evidence * Design examples * Discussion * Implications / Considerations * Ethical * Practical * Technical * . . . * Conclusions * Summary-box * Title * Description * Supporting (max 3 bullet points) * Contra (max 3 bullet points) * Discussions (max 2 bullet points) * References Submission website: https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions Please select the following on the submission website: Society: “VGTC”, Conference: “VIS 2022”, Track: “VIS 2022 VisGuides” Review process: 2-3 peer reviews each. Single-blind mandatory, double-blind optional. Presentation: ~3-5 minutes plus plenary discussion. Registration: Participants must be registered for the specific day at the VIS conference. Workshop date: 16 (or 17) October 2022. Workshop Co-chairs Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh, UK Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King's College London, UK Alexandra Diehl, University of Zurich, CH Advisory Board Min Chen, University of Oxford, UK Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, DE Renato Pajarola, University of Zurich, CH Webmaster Gabriel Dias Cantareira, King's College London, UK

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postdoc position for 2 months for 40 hours/week at the Research Unit Visual Analytics (TU Wien)
by Miksch Silvia 17 May '22

17 May '22

We are looking for exceptionally talented and highly motivated candidates to fill the following open postdoc position at the Research Unit Visual Analytics (TU Wien) - for 2 months for 40 hours/week. Expected period: July-August 2022 For details, please see --> https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/mbl/blatt_struktur/anzeigen/10514#p238.3 or --> https://jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/182716 Closing date for applications: *** June 2, 2022 *** The Vienna University of Technology aims for enhancing the number of women in scientific positions and therefore, particularly invites women to apply. Applicants are not entitled to claim reimbursement of traveling expenses and/or other costs caused by the application procedures. Best regards, Silvia Miksch ================================================================ Silvia Miksch, Univ.-Prof. Ph.D. MSc. Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Faculty of Informatics Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 193-07 (188-1) A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe email: silvia.miksch(a)tuwien.ac.at url: https://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/team/silvia-miksch =================================================================

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AR/VR User Study Invitation
by Adcock, Matt (Data61, Black Mountain) 17 May '22

17 May '22

Dear colleagues - please see the below invitation to be part of a remote AR/VR user study. Cheers, Matt --------------------- Hi there, I am a masters student from the Australian National University (ANU) conducting a research project: Multi-View Web Interfaces in Augmented Reality. This project is to investigate informational web page presentation in augmented reality (AR), which involves using a virtual reality (VR) application to simulate different physical environments or activities and AR information contents. This study aims to elicit preferred layouts of arranging AR content. Participants will be asked to interact with the self-guided VR application and fill in an online survey to answer questions about their interaction experience. We are looking for participants who are: * Aged over 18 years old; * Can communicate in English; * Have access to an Oculus Quest or Quest 2 device. The study is designed to be self-guided so you can try our app with your own Quest device and answer survey questions by yourself remotely. If you need assistance to set up or run the application, we can schedule an online meeting to assist. Study period: 29 April - 20 May 2022. If you are interested in this study, please submit this Registration Form<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.off…>. For any questions, please contact feiyue.tao(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:feiyue.tao@anu.edu.au>. Thank you! Feiyue Tao (ANU Human Ethics Protocol number: 2021/709)

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Call for abstracts Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Using AI and NLP to leverage skills gaps in industry and academia
by Scrivner, Olga B 16 May '22

16 May '22

We invite submissions of abstracts to the Special Collection for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Using AI and NLP to leverage skills gaps in industry and academia) https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/32834/skills-in-demand-bridging… Topics of interest include natural language processing, data visualization, machine learning models, recommendation systems, smart AI, and data science applications. Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31st May. For further details on abstract submission, registration and invited speakers, please contact Olga Scrivner obscrivn(a)indiana.edu<mailto:obscrivn@indiana.edu> Olga Scrivner Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Topic Editor, Frontiers in AI President, Scrivner Solutions Inc

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CFP - Late Poster Deadline for Biovis @ ISMB - May 19
by Helena Jambor 13 May '22

13 May '22

Dear InfoVis Community, We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues or visualization challenges to be presented as a poster and/or interactive demo. Posters submitted for this May 19th deadline may not get a poster slot during the conference. Authors are required to submit a short abstract (250 words) and a supporting figure by May 19, 2022. Abstracts should include a concise description of an idea, work in progress, preliminary results, visualization challenges, or previously published work presented at other venues that is also relevant to the BioVis community. If the submission is based on previous work, the published paper must be submitted along with the summary, unless the paper is open access, where instead a direct link to the open-access version should be provided. Poster preparation instructions will be e-mailed to authors of accepted submissions. * ISMB Abstract Guidelines<https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022-submissions/abstracts> As a reminder for deadlines: Deadlines and Notifications for Talks * Submission deadline: April 21, 2022 * Submission acceptance notification: May 12, 2022 Deadlines and Notifications for Posters * Submission deadline: April 21, 2022 * Submission acceptance notification: May 12, 2022 * Late posters deadline May 19, 2022 * Late posters acceptance notification: May 26, 2022 More information on the BioVis website → http://biovis.net/2022/cfp_ismb/ Warm Regards, BioVis 2022 @ISMB Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Helena Jambor ______________________________ Dr Helena JAMBOR MSNZ, NCT-UCC, MK1 Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität Dresden Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden Tel +49 (0)351 458 - 11780 Email helena.jambor(a)tu-dresden.de<mailto:helena.jambor@tu-dresden.de> Twitter @helenajambor

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Jobs: Postdoctoral position at NJIT in HCI, AR/VR, 3DUI, Simulation and Training
by IEEE VR Publicity 11 May '22

11 May '22

Apply for a postdoctoral researcher position at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The areas or research include but are not limited to Human Computer Interaction, AR/VR, 3D Graphics, Simulation & Training, Learning Systems, Healthcare Simulation. Candidates with computing backgrounds are preferred. The position starts this summer. Contact Dr. Salam Daher (salam.daher(a)njit.edu) if you have any questions. Please apply in the link below. *https://njit.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/3939?c=njit <https://njit.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/3939?c=njit>* [image: beacon]

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Open PostDoc Position: Equity Analytics : Addressing gender pay equity with visual analytics at Inria in France
by Petra Isenberg 11 May '22

11 May '22

We are recruiting a 2-year PostDoc to work on the topic of Equity Analytics : Addressing gender pay equity with visual analytics. The position is part of a collaboration between that Aviz team at Inria in France and an Icelandic startup called Payanalytics. The goal of the project is to reduce bias and support decision making regarding pay equity with visualization/visual analytics solutions. For more detail on the position please refer to the job call: https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2022-04887 If you are interested contact Petra Isenberg: petra.isenberg(a)inria.fr

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Open PostDoc Position in Information Visualization / Visual Analytics at Linköping University (LiU), Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 10 May '22

10 May '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Come and join us! We are seeking for an engaged and bright PostDoc to work with us in the areas of Information Visualization and Visual Analytics. This position (ref. LiU-2022-01774) is part of a joint collaboration between the two largest research programs in Sweden, the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) and the SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), with the ultimate goal of solving ground-breaking research questions across disciplines. The successful candidate will become member of an interdisciplinary research project entitled “Visual Analytics for Enhancing Quality and Trust in Genome-wide Expression Clustering and Annotation”, where the Information Visualization group at Linköping University (LiU) and the Systems Biology group at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) work closely together. There is a need for a functional genome-wide annotation of the protein-coding genes to get a deeper understanding of mammalian biology. The new data-driven strategy to be developed in the project is based on interpretable unsupervised learning (e.g., dimensionality reduction and clustering) of whole-body co-expression patterns, supported by state-of-the-art visual analytics. Interactive guiding of the clustering process will be used to explore the gene expression landscape in humans and other mammalian species, and to create a whole-body map of all protein-coding genes in all major cell types, tissues and organs. This will allow for the improvement of the quality of the classification of all protein-coding genes according to their whole-body co-expression patterns, resulting in every gene being annotated to a unique expression cluster together with other genes with a similar body-wide pattern. The focus of this PostDoc position at LiU will be on research and development of an interactive and interpretable (human-in-the-loop) clustering strategy to reach these goals. The successful candidate will develop visual analytics approaches that provide fine-grained quality analysis of the clustering processes and better interpretation/annotation of clusters. Please visit the official vacancy website of Linköping University for a more detailed description of the duties, formal requirements, and on how to apply for this position: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=18950&rmlang=UK The application deadline is May 20, 2022. The advertised position will be affiliated to the iVis research group led by Professor Andreas Kerren (see http://bit.ly/ivis-liu) Linköping University, Norrköping Campus, which is part of the division for Media and Information Technology. The research group mainly focuses on the explorative analysis and visualization of typically large and complex information spaces, for example in environmental research, transportation systems, social sciences, or artificial intelligence. Our vision is to attack the big data challenge by a combination of human-centered data analysis and interactive visualization for deriving meaning from the data and final decision making. Our research is highly relevant for academia and industry as both make increasing use of data-intensive technologies. We are looking forward to receiving your application! Please also consider to share this message with any great candidates. Best regards, Andreas Kerren iVis Group @ Linköping University -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linköping University + Department of Science and Technology + Kopparhammaren 2, Room 3028 + SE-602 33 Norrköping, Sweden + + Phone: +46 11 36 34 06 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)liu.se + WWW: https://liu.se/en/employee/andke01 + WWW: https://ivis.itn.liu.se +-------------------------------------------------------

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VIS4DH CfP: VIS4DH 2022 – Multimodality
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 09 May '22

09 May '22

VIS4DH CfP: VIS4DH 2022 – Multimodality The workshop will take place as part of the IEEE VIS conference (16–21 October 2022) in Oklahoma City, OK, USA in the form of a hybrid format, including virtual as well as in-person parts. In this year’s workshop we invite you to explore and discuss aspects of multimodality: Human expression has myriad forms. Painting, reading & writing, music, crafts, dance, fashion, cooking, and other artistic or cultural efforts are more than just visual experiences—they incorporate hearing, touch, and even taste. This multimodality raises both reflective and creative questions about the role of visualization. What do we lose when we reduce these rich multisensory experiences, artifacts, or collections down to just the visual and textual content? How can we compensate for or offset these losses? How can we augment visualizations with other experiential modes, and can these augmentations improve the (embodied) experience accessibility, viscerality, or impact of our data? In other words, what does it mean to think beyond the visual when it comes to visualization in the humanities? This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2022 in the following ways - you can submit to the Paper track<https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/#papers> (https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/#papers) the Provocations track<https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/#provocations> (https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/#provocations) or Lab talks<https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/#labs> (https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/#labs) * Paper Track: We invite papers at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide both theoretical and applied perspectives around these and other questions. Submissions will take the form of short papers. Papers should not exceed 5 pages excluding references. Submissions are meant to describe and critically discuss works at the intersection of visualization and humanities research, including applied case studies, empirical results and/or theoretical perspectives. * Provocation 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, Multimodality. We especially seek submissions that likely will promote back-and-forth debate within the interdisciplinary VIS4DH community. * Lab Talks: Since 2020, the VIS4DH workshop has included Lab Talks, a format where research groups working at the intersection of visualization and the digital humanities present their work or labs more generally in brief lightning talks. Additionally, groups can be listed in our VIS×DH overview: https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/labtalks Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the (digital) humanities, social sciences and to all areas of visualization research and practice. 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. Submission Deadlines Paper Track: 8 July 2022, 5PM PST Provocation Track: 29 August 2022, 5PM PST Lab Talks: 29 August 2022, 5PM PST We hope to see you at the conference! VIS4DH programme committee vis4dh(a)gmail.com<mailto:vis4dh@gmail.com>

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