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CfP, 3rd IEEE VIS TREX wokshop on TRust and EXpertise in Visualization
by Nourani,Mahsan 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

Dear Colleagues/Friends, We are happy to invite submissions to the upcoming TREX workshop on TRust and EXpertise in Visualization, which will take place at IEEE VIS 2022. Please help us spread the word! Following the last two successful workshops, this year we will focus on **human-centered aspects of visualization and visual analytics systems that are powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, including, but not limited to 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/Workshop2022/index.html. Below is the formal call-for-papers for TREX 2022: ------------------------------------------------- **IMPORTANT DATES (All times in PST)** Submission Deadline: Jul 16, 2022 Author Notification: Aug 12, 2022 Camera-Ready Deadline: Aug 22, 2022 TREX 2021 Workshop: October 16 or 17, 2022 ( hybrid, online and in Oklahoma City, USA ) **WORKSHOP GOALS** Interactive visualization systems combine computational support, human cognitive, and perceptual skills to explore and analyze data. Many of these systems incorporate machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to introduce some level of automation to the analytical process. However, there are aspects that can impact the effectiveness of the human-machine collaboration, including, but not limited to: 1) People's domain and system expertise; 2) Human biases, including cognitive and perceptual biases; 3) Trust in ML models and visual representation of data. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and foster a conversation around the intersection of visualization and human-centered AI research and practice by providing an interdisciplinary platform from relevant fields to communicate challenges and novel findings around such topics. **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: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?next=https%3A//new.precision… . 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 Alireza Karduni -- Northwestern University Cindy Xiong – University of Massachusetts at Amherst Brittaney Davis – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory **PROGRAM COMMITTEE** TBD **CONTACT** For more information, you can email us at trex(a)ieeevis.org, follow us on Twitter @TrexInVIS, or visit our workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2022/. Best, Mahsan --- 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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Conferences: IEEE VR 2023 Call for Papers - Abstracts due Oct 7
by IEEE VR Publicity 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

*IEEE VR 2023: the 30th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces* 25-29 March, 2023, https://ieeevr.org/2023/contribute/papers/ Overview IEEE VR 2023 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). This year there will be a single submission deadline for a unified review process for both the IEEE TVCG and the conference only papers. The possible outcomes of this unified process are: 1. Accept as IEEE TVCG paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2023 2. Major revision to IEEE TVCG 3. Accept as IEEE VR 2023 conference paper 4. Accept as IEEE VR 2023 poster 5. Reject For inquiries, contact: program2023 [at] ieeevr.org Important Dates Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. *The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be honored.* - *October 7, 2022*: Abstracts due *(REQUIRED)* - *October 14, 2022*: Submissions due - *December 16, 2022*: Notification of first review cycle results - *January 20, 2023*: Revised submissions due for second review cycle - *January 27, 2023*: Final notifications - *February 3, 2023*: Camera-ready material due Submission Guidelines Paper abstracts and complete papers must be submitted electronically through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr Each research paper should provide a validated contribution covering one or more of the following categories: methodological, technical, applications, and systems. - *Methodological papers* should describe advances in theories and methods of AR/VR/MR and 3DUI, such as ethical issues, theories on presence, or human factors. - *Technology papers* should describe advancements in algorithms or devices critical to AR/VR/MR and 3DUI development such as input, display, user interaction, or tracking. - *Application papers* provide an important insight to the community by explaining how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an evaluation of the success of the use of AR/VR/MR and/or 3DUI in the given application domain. - *System papers* should indicate how the developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, and convey any lessons learned in the process. Each paper should include an evaluation of its contributions, such as user studies, benchmarking and/or comparison with existing systems/techniques/methods. When in-person user studies are not possible, we encourage authors to think about other ways to validate their contribution, such as qualitative studies with fewer users, expert reviews, online studies. We welcome paper submissions between 4 and 9 pages, not including references. Paper length should be commensurate with the importance of the contribution. Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. Both abstracts and complete papers must be submitted electronically through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr All paper submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society TVCG journal format described at https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/journal/. Accepted papers and posters will have to be formatted by the authors according to the relevant camera-ready guidelines. Review process The review process will have two cycles. *First review cycle* All submissions will receive at least three reviews. Based on the level of contribution, reviewers will make an initial recommendation for one of the following outcomes for each submission: *Conditionally accept as IEEE TVCG paper.* Continuing our cooperation with the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), paper submissions with substantial contribution will automatically be considered for publication in a special issue of IEEE TVCG. *Conditionally accept as conference paper.* The remaining accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of IEEE VR and be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. *Recommend for major revision to IEEE TVCG.* Submissions that make a substantial contribution but that require revisions that are beyond what can be achieved within the conference reviewing process will be recommended for major revision to IEEE TVCG. Reviewer continuity will be attempted but not guaranteed. Note that as per IEEE TVCG rules a single major revision is possible. *Recommend as a 2-page poster.* If reviewers feel papers are not acceptable for the journal or conference tracks, reviewers may also recommend the papers for the poster proceedings. Posters are up to 2 pages including references. Traditionally, IEEE VR does not consider posters to be formal publications. Work accepted as a poster may be eligible for future publication in other venues. Posters will be included in the IEEE VR Abstracts and Workshops proceedings and will be archived in the IEEE Digital Library. *Reject.* *Second review cycle* Primary reviewers will review the revised papers and will make a final recommendation for acceptance. Should the conditions for acceptance not be met, the paper will be rejected. *Presentation at the Conference.* All accepted submissions must be presented orally during the conference either in person or remotely. There is also the possibility for authors of relevant previously published TVCG papers (accepted within the last year) to present their work at IEEE VR 2023. Interested authors should contact the editor in chief of IEEE TVCG for more details. *Review Duties for Authors.* The increasing number of submissions for IEEE VR makes us all dependent on a large number of good reviewers who are willing to provide feedback and engage with authors on their work. To expand the reviewing pool and to promote quality reviews, one author will be required to register to review up to three papers through PCS at the time of submission. Additionally, senior authors are encouraged to ask experienced junior authors to register in PCS to review papers, and then to mentor the junior authors during the review process. *Ethics and Responsibility.* All submissions describing research experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by the authors’ institution, and authors are required to secure and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee. An approval by any ethical review board, if required by your affiliation, needs to be indicated via the submission system. *Abstract Submission.* Note that a paper abstract must be uploaded seven days prior to the actual paper submission deadline. This facilitates the process of assigning reviewers, as the review process operates on a very tight schedule. Topics IEEE VR 2023 seeks contributions in VR/AR/MR and 3DUI including, but not limited to, the following topics: - 3D and volumetric display and projection technology - 3D authoring - 3D user interaction - 3DUI metaphors - Accessibility of immersive interfaces - Audio interfaces and rendering - Collaborative interactions - Computer graphics techniques - Crowd simulation - Diversity and gender issues - Embodied agents, virtual humans and (self-)avatars - Ethical issues - Evaluation methods - Haptic interfaces and rendering - Human factors and ergonomics - Immersive / 360° video - Immersive analytics and visualization - Immersive games - Input devices - Locomotion and navigation - Mediated and diminished reality - Mobile, desktop or hybrid 3DUIs - Modeling and simulation - Multi-user and distributed systems - Multimodal capturing and reconstruction - Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception - Multisensory interfaces and rendering - Perception and cognition - Presence, body ownership, and agency - Scene description and management issues - Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering - Teleoperation and telepresence - Therapy and rehabilitation - Touch, tangible and gesture interfaces - Tracking and sensing - User experience and usability Additional Submission Guidelines All paper submissions must be in English. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published. A manuscript is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A manuscript identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part) to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for another conference or journal during any part of the VR review process, from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed to authors. In some situations, a submission may build upon prior work. In order to fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and prior work, authors may upload additional papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of explanation that highlights the significant changes or advances; these materials will only be seen by the primary reviewer. Specifically, this treatment is applied to the following cases: - non peer-reviewed works that are publicly available (on arXiv, as a technical report, etc.) - non-archival publications presented in past IEEE VR conferences (posters, demos, etc.) Submissions will be checked for plagiarism using IEEE Crosscheck. Detection of significant plagiarism will lead to rejection. For more information about definitions of plagiarism and IEEE policies in this area, please see the Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints <https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism.html> and the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual <http://www.ieee.org/documents/opsmanual.pdf>. *IEEE VR uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process.* This means that both the authors and the reviewers should remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (*including citations and optional videos*) should not contain information that identifies the authors, their institutions, funding sources, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors should be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity(exceptions were described above). Authors should work diligently to ensure that their submissions do not expose their identities either through carelessness or intentionality. Authors that have questions/issues around the double-blind submission policy should contact the program chairs. *Failure to make reasonable attempts to adhere to the double-blind policy will result in desk rejection.* *Pre-dissemination through public online repositories.* Uploading the submitted manuscript to an online repository (e.g., arXiv) before the end of the review process does not constitute a reason for rejecting the manuscript. However, the authors should be advised that doing so can compromise the anonymity of their manuscript and therefore bias its double-blind review. *Videos.* Videos must be submitted according to the instructions on the submission website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as described in the separate Call for Videos). When submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of any identifying information prior to reviewing as per the double-blind submission policy. If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version of the materials will be requested. Contacts Technical Papers Chairs: - Bobby Bodenheimer, *Vanerbilt University, USA* - Voicu Popescu, *Purdue University, USA* - John Quarles, *The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA* - Lili Wang, *Beihang University, China* program2023 [at] ieeevr.org [image: beacon]

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Seeking Participants for a Survey and Interviews
by Nam Wook Kim 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

Dear all, We are investigating a potential knowledge gap between visualization design guidelines in practice and empirical studies in research. We need researchers who can provide a researcher's perspective on design guidelines and their relationship to empirical research. Here is the survey link: https://bostoncollege.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5orwdU7AmWRpwbQ This survey would only take about 5 to 10 minutes (20 multiple-choice questions). For compensation, we will run a raffle reward ($25) per 25 participants. In the end, you can indicate whether you would be willing to participate in a follow-up interview. Your participation will help understand and alleviate the gap between visualization practice and research. Please feel free to forward this to your fellow researchers. Kind Regards, Nam Wook Kim (he/him/his) Assistant Professor of Computer Science Boston College 🌐 www.namwkim.org 📞 +1 (857) 600-8725 [image: BOSTON COLLEGE LOGO]

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Professor in Data Science/Visualization - Newcastle University, UK
by Sara Fernstad 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

Dear everyone, We are recruiting for a Professor in Data Science/Visualization in the School of Computing at Newcastle University, UK. Newcastle University is a world class research-intensive university, with a strong group of data science researchers, including those working on new methods in Computing and Statistics, along with collaborators in Science, Engineering, Healthcare and the Humanities who are applying these methods to transform their work. Examples include analysing and visualising data from the world’s largest collection of open civic data – the Urban Observatory – and from Europe-wide digital healthcare programmes. We are a partner in The Alan Turing Institute and also host the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Data, which create new opportunities for Newcastle data science researchers. Please see link for more detail: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CRC434/professor-in-data-science-visualization _____________________________________________ Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies Senior Lecturer in Data Science School of Computing Newcastle University Urban Sciences Building 1 Science Square Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE4 5TG Office: 4.042 E-mail: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk> URL: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/staff/profile/sarafernstad.html

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