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Call for Papers: IEEE VIS 2023 Workshop on Visualization for Pandemic and Emergency Responses (submissions due July 1, 2023)
by Jentner, Wolfgang G. 12 May '23

12 May '23

Dear colleagues, Please find below the CfP for our IEEE VIS Workshop Vis4PandEmRes. Thanks! Call for Papers: ---------------------------- IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Pandemic and Emergency Responses 2023 (Vis4PandEmRes) https://vis4pandemres.github.io ---------------------------- Half-day workshop at IEEE VIS, Melbourne, Australia, 22-27 October Workshop date: October 22 or 23, 2023 During the COVID-19 pandemic, data visualization played a highly visible role in supporting decision-making and information dissemination. While a large number of online platforms have provided various regularly-updated COVID-19 key indicators to worldwide or regional audiences, there have also been R&D activities conducted by visualization and visual analytics (VIS) researchers and practitioners. Although some of the latter activities have been reported in publications, many have not become public knowledge yet. -------------- Aims and Scope -------------- It is highly desirable for VIS scientists, researchers, and practitioners to share their experience and knowledge gained through their efforts made in supporting the COVID-19 pandemic responses, and to share their insight and foresight to inform how VIS can better support future pandemic and emergency responses. This workshop will enable VIS researchers and practitioners to share their experience, knowledge, and reflection and offer their insight and foresight about the role of VIS in pandemic and emergency responses. It will also allow the VIS community to compile one or more achievable collections of records about various VIS activities around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. While COVID-19 has now progressed to the endemic phase, it is still very important to gather the built-up knowledge from COVID-19 in the visualization community to be better prepared for future Pandemics. Our workshop has the following aims: (A) To provide VIS researchers and practitioners with the opportunity for: sharing their experience, knowledge, and reflection about their R&D activities in the context of pandemic responses; and offering their insight how VIS research and techniques have helped COVID-19 pandemic responses and can be improved to provide better support in future emergency responses. (B) To provide the VIS community with a timely mechanism for: compiling one or more achievable collections of records on various VIS activities around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic; and for stimulating a new R&D agenda in preparation for future emergency responses. ------ Topics ------ VIS researchers and practitioners may share their experience, knowledge, insight, and foresight on all aspects of VIS research and applications in the context of pandemics and emergency responses. The topics of contributions may include, but are not limited to the following examples: • VIS for information dissemination to the public, • VIS for routine or critical decision-making, • VIS for highlighting and responding to mis/disinformation during health and emergency responses, • VIS for supporting the development of simulation and forecasting models, • VIS theories, methodologies, and guidelines useful in pandemic and emergency responses, • Perception and cognition in VIS applications for pandemic and emergency responses, • Methods for engaging and collaborating with domain experts (e.g., healthcare experts, epidemiologists, modelers, data analysts, policymakers), • VIS infrastructures, VIS systems, VIS tools, & other types of VIS software for supporting pandemic & emergency responses, • Design of dashboards, storytelling VIS, and visual representations for visualizing pandemic and emergency data, • Data transformation algorithms for processing pandemic and emergency data, • Specific data types or specific analytics problems: • Uncertainty & biases in data, data processing, visual representations, • VIS processes, decision processes, & public information dissemination, • VIS for supporting sensitivity analysis, • Bioinformatics data, • Medical and healthcare data, • Geographical and geoinformation data, • Social media data, • Contact-and-tracing data, • Ensemble modeling data. • Data quality and predictive value. • Data integration, organization, and retrieval, • Rapid VIS software engineering (including requirement analysis, design, development, testing, and evaluation) in emergency responses, • Research funding and project management during the pandemic and emergency responses, • Readiness of VIS resources for future emergency responses, • Requirements for VIS techniques in future emergency responses. ----------------------------- Submission Types and Criteria ----------------------------- The workshop will be open to all IEEE VIS attendees. The workshop will solicit two types of contributions: (A) Paper — Authors may submit a technical paper on a piece of work that has not been previously published, and optionally, an accompanying bulletin video (same as the bulletin video below but without a summary document). The length of a paper is 4-6 pages. The paper will undergo a review process with a technical depth and rigor appropriate for VIS workshop papers. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore and are to be presented during the workshop. (B) Bulletin — Authors are required to submit a short video to share their work and experience together with a summary document of up to 2 pages maximum. The videos of accepted bulletin submissions, as well as optional videos of accepted papers, will be combined to an archive of videos documenting the contributions to COVID-19 responses. Like abstracts or posters, bulletins are not considered research papers. Because we aim to compile a comprehensive record as specified in (b1), the works suitable to be reported in bulletins include: A piece of work has already been published, and the authors wish to keep a record in the community archive. Authors wish to keep a record in the community archive without affecting the plan of submitting a research paper in the future. Authors do not have a plan for a research paper but wish to keep a record of their effort and activities in the community archive. The metadata of each paper accepted by the workshop. We note, authors of accepted bulletin submissions are not required to present these in person at the conference. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Publication of CfP: May 11, 2023 Submissions due: July 1, 2023 Notification: July 28, 2023 Camera-Ready: August 21, 2023 Workshop: October 22 or 23, 2023 ---------------------- Submission Information ---------------------- Papers: • Size: 4–6 pages, following the IEEE VGTC Conference Style • Please add the [PAPER] label to your submission title in PCS. Bulletins: • Size: A short video with a summary document of up to 2 pages maximum, in the IEEE VGTC Conference Style • Please add the [BULLETIN] label to your submission title in PCS. All submissions need to be made through the PCS system. Please go to: https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions, and select Society: VGTC, Conference/Journal: VIS2023, Track: VIS 2023 Vis4PanDemRes. Paper template: IEEE VGTC Conference Style https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ ---------------------- Organizers and Contact ---------------------- Workshop Co-chairs • Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King's College London, UK • Kelly Gaither, University of Texas at Austin, USA • Wolfgang Jentner, University of Oklahoma, USA • Tobias Schreck, Graz University of Technology, Austria Advisory Panel Co-Chairs • Min Chen, University of Oxford, UK • David Ebert, University of Oklahoma, USA Please see the workshop webpage at https://vis4pandemres.github.io/, and contact the workshop chairs at vis4pandemres2023(a)cgv.tugraz.at for any questions.

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Participants wanted for user study on Morphing Edge Drawing
by Alessandra Tappini 11 May '23

11 May '23

Dear Colleagues, we are conducting a user study to evaluate the readability of MED - morphing edge drawing. If you have a bit of time, please help us by participating to the study! This will take you about 15-25 minutes, including a short tutorial and a short training. Since you will be asked to execute visual tasks, please use a large enough screen (e.g., laptop or external monitor). Also, we recommend the Google Chrome browser. Please, visit the survey here: https://mozart.diei.unipg.it/limesurvey/index.php/169981?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. Carla Binucci Henry Förster Julia Katheder Alessandra Tappini

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postdoc position for 6 year for 40 hours/week at the Research Unit Visual Analytics (TU Wien)
by Miksch Silvia 09 May '23

09 May '23

We are looking for exceptionally talented and highly motivated candidates to fill the following open postdoc position at the Research Unit Visual Analytics (https://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/) (TU Wien) - for 6 year for 40 hours/week. ---> Research activities in the areas of visual analytics and information visualization (focus on (dynamic) network visualization) For more details, please see --> TU Wien Bulletin, issue 2023/16 (https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/mbl/blatt_struktur/anzeigen/10562#p199.5) or --> https://jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/208478 Closing date for applications: *** May 18, 2023 *** The position will be filled earliest as possible. The TU Wien 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 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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June 15 submission deadline for Decision Intelligence and Visual Analytics Minitrack @ HICSS
by Brian Fisher 08 May '23

08 May '23

Dear colleagues--- Please consider submitting a paper to the Decision Intelligence and Visual Analytics Minitrack ( Decision Analytics and Service Science Track, HICSS 57) by June 15, 2023 to be held Jan 3-6, 2024, Hawaiian Village, Waikiki, Ha, 2024 Decision Intelligence and Visual Analytics Minitrack <https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-57/decision-analytics-and-service-science/#…> Submissions here: https://hicss-submissions.org/ This minitrack seeks submissions that discuss how to augment human reasoning and decision making through interactive data visualization coupled with statistical and machine learning processes. This Hybrid Intelligence approach has applications in a broad range of situations where human expertise must be brought to bear on problems characterized by complex causal models, 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. Visual analytic environments have been widely used for pandemic policy making, response planning and execution. There has also been a growth in visual decision making environments to analyze supply chain risks, climate resiliency and adaptation. Submissions are encouraged that focus on technological and sociotechnical approaches to support individual and collaborative analysis and decision making in organizations. Core issues of theory and methods for decision intelligence, collaborative work, data visualization, analytics, and knowledge integration in organizations. Case studies of applications of these methods to new analytic and decision making tasks in science and technology, public health, business intelligence, financial analysis, social sciences, and other domains are particularly welcome. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision intelligence in the context of an organization (e.g., business planning, communication with analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of graphical visualization environments in the context of cognitive tasks, Interactive Machine Learning, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. Additionally, submissions may include methods for understandable, trustable AI as well as human-guided AI to round out the problem-solving process. Emphasis will be given to submissions that use visual analytics for social change discovery, analysis, communication, and focus on mixed-initiative human/AI analysis. Topics for this minitrack include, but are not limited to: * Decision Intelligence approaches to computer augmented decision-making. * Use of interactive visualization and visual analytics in in organizations. * Applications of visual analytics. * Visual analytics and visualization in “wicked” problem solving in organizations. * 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 * Mixed-initiative analysis methods for decision making * Cognitive and social science aspects of visual decision-making environments Authors are encouraged to bring the lens of their own background and expertise to discuss the complexities of advanced analytic and decision intelligence systems in organizations, coordination of multiple levels of analysis, decision-making and operations and design and evaluation of effective communication with and among diverse stakeholders. We invite computational, cognitive, and organizational perspectives on advanced data processing and interactive visualization for analysis and decision-making across a range of human endeavors. We also invite 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* (Primary Contact) University of Oklahoma ebert(a)ou.edu *Brian Fisher* Simon Fraser University bfisher(a)sfu.ca *Kelly Gaither* University of Texas at Austin kelly(a)tacc.utexas.edu -- *Brian D. Fisher, Ph.D.* Professor | School of Interactive Arts and Technology Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology | Simon Fraser University Rm. 7475 | 13450-102 Avenue, Surrey BC, V3T 0A3 SFU Research: https://tinyurl.com/2s3kmjcd Department Page: http://www.sfu.ca/siat/people/faculty/brian-fisher.html ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5665-5709 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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Call for Papers - ChinaVis 2023 (Abstract DDL May 10)
by Wang, Qianwen 07 May '23

07 May '23

Dear Colleagues, Please find below the CFP for ChinaVis 2023 and feel free to forward to anybody who might be interested. Thanks! The 10th China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (ChinaVis 2023) will be held in Chongqing, China, from July 21 to 24, 2023, hosted by the China Society of Image and Graphics, and co-organized by Technical Committee on Visualization and Visual Analysis, Chongqing University, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Chongqing University of Education with multiple sponsorships. **Submission Guidelines** ChinaVis 2023 solicits papers written in either Chinese or English. Accepted papers in English will be recommended to publish in the Journal of Visualization or Visual Informatics, and accepted papers in Chinese will be recommended to the Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics or similar journals. Papers in English are required to use the IEEE VGTC conference template (http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html) Papers in Chinese should follow the formatting guidelines of the Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics (http://www.jcad.cn/) The non-reference content of a manuscript should not exceed 8 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by anonymous domain experts in two rounds. The conference uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) (https://new.precisionconference.com/chinavis) for the first-round review, and manuscripts conditionally accepted will be recommended to the corresponding journals. For the second-round review, authors must revise their manuscripts according to the comments received in the first-round review and submit manuscripts using the respective submission system of the recommended journal. In the past years, the acceptance rate of papers was approximately 30%. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format. To better illustrate the dynamic operational status and process of interactive visualization systems, authors are encouraged to submit additional materials such as a screen-captured video of their system. All submissions must be unpublished original work. If the paper has been reviewed and rejected by other international visualization conferences or journals, the authors can attach past reviews and provide a "Cover Letter" to clarify the improvement of the paper. Please refer to https://chinavis.org/2023/english/paper_en.html for more details. For any questions, please contact: chinavispaper(a)163.com<mailto:chinavispaper@163.com>. ***TOPICS**** (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO) • Scientific visualization • Information visualization • Visual analytics • Data processing for visualization • Interactive design and display technology in visualization • Visual design and visualization system • Visualization evaluation and visual cognition • Big data visual analytics • Visualization and visual analytics theory • Visualization and visual analytics applications (including but not limited to natural sciences, engineering, social sciences) • State-of-the-art survey in visualization ***IMPORTANT DATES**** - Abstract submission deadline (PCS system): May 10, 2023 11:59 p.m. Beijing Time - Full paper submission deadline (PCS system): May 15, 2023 11:59 p.m. Beijing Time - First-round acceptance notice for papers: June 20, 2023 11:59 p.m. Beijing Time - Paper revision submission deadline (journal system): July 10, 2023 11:59 p.m. Beijing Time (Tentative) ***GENERAL CHAIRS*** Hongxing Qin, Chongqing University Shengling Geng, Qinghai Normal University ***PAPER CHAIRS*** Yunhai Wang, Shandong University Ying Zhao, Central South University Jun Tao, Sun Yat-sen University

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