September 2023 - Infovis

REMINDER: Call for Macroscope Tools for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit (2022) - Deadline is Feb 15, 2022
by Borner, Katy 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Happy New Year 2022! Call for Macroscope Tools for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit (2022) Please see below for more info. Deadline is Feb 15, 2022. Best regards from Bloomington, k From: Borner, Katy Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:17 PM To: 'SOCNET(a)LISTS.UFL.EDU' <SOCNET(a)LISTS.UFL.EDU>; 'SCISIP(a)LISTSERV.NSF.GOV' <SCISIP(a)LISTSERV.NSF.GOV>; 'ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics' <SIGMETRICS(a)listserv.utk.edu>; 'sigmetrics(a)mail.asis.org' <sigmetrics(a)mail.asis.org>; 'infovis(a)infovis.org' <infovis(a)infovis.org>; 'POLNET-L(a)LISTSERV.SIU.EDU' <POLNET-L(a)LISTSERV.SIU.EDU>; 'ieee_vis(a)listserv.uni-tuebingen.de' <ieee_vis(a)listserv.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: Record, Elizabeth <recorde(a)indiana.edu>; Theriault, Todd Nicholas <ttheriau(a)indiana.edu> Subject: Call for Macroscope Tools for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit (2022) - Deadline is Feb 15, 2022 Dear all, we are seeking engaging, relevant, interactive data visualizations of science and technology developments that help people make smarter decisions in their personal and professional lives. The Call for Submissions has been posted at https://scimaps.org/call-for-macroscopes and we welcome your help in spreading the word. Submissions are due by Feb 15, 2022. More information on maps and macroscopes included in the exhibit can be found at https://scimaps.org interviews with select map and macroscope makers are at https://scimaps.org/learning-center/maker-videos. Call for Macroscope Tools is below. Thank you and kind regards, Katy Bӧrner, Lisel Record, & Todd Theriault Curators, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org 2022 Call for Macroscopes Background and Goals The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit is designed to open people’s minds and hearts to the value, complexity, and beauty of science and technology. We are inviting authors of interactive data visualizations, also called macroscopes, to submit their work for inclusion in the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: Feb 15, 2022 Mapmakers notified: Apr 1, 2022 Submit final entries: May 30, 2022 Ready for display: Aug 31, 2022 Macroscopes are software tools that help us focus on patterns in data that are too large or complex to see with the naked eye. The idea of the macroscope was explored in 1979 by Joël de Rosnay in a book titled The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System [1]. To meet the challenges posed by the rapidly increasing abundance, diversity, and complexity of information, de Rosnay proposed the macroscope, a tool for observing “what is at once too great, too slow, and too complex for our eyes.” Like microscopes and telescopes, macroscopes can startle us when we point them at objects we thought we already knew. Through their lens, we may see familiar structures in a new light or gain a fresh perspective on an old process. This year’s call for submissions to the Places & Spaces exhibit celebrates the decidedly scopic feature of macroscopes. Simply put, we are looking for interactive visualizations that disrupt our old habits of seeing, that challenge our common patterns of perception in order that we might see something anew. To do so, they may use novel datasets and algorithms or employ innovative user interface designs. Places & Spaces is a traveling exhibit that currently features 100 maps and 28 interactive macroscopes from a wide range of disciplines. Since 2005, the exhibit has traveled to 28 countries and appeared in various formats at over 382 venues and events, including the Davos Economic Forum, National Academy of Sciences, and the New York Public Library. News coverage has appeared in Nature, Science, USA Today, and Wired. References [1] de Rosnay, Joël. 1979. The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System. New York: Harper & Row. Submission Details Interactive data visualizations designed for desktop, mobile, touch-enabled, and/or large (e.g., tiled wall) devices are all welcome. To be incorporated into the exhibit kiosk, macroscopes must be 1) web-based, 2) touch-enabled, 3) allowed to run inside an iframe element, 4) have CORS enabled for http://idemo.cns. iu.edu, and 5) served over HTTPS. Macroscopes will be deployed on a 46” multi-touch 1920 x 1080 display running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Chrome 91. Each macroscope should be fully functional for at least two years. Macroscopes might be deployed using other hardware, please contact the curatorial team to discuss options. Macroscope authors should be available to work with the exhibit staff over a period of three months to prepare the macroscopes for public display and travel. Each entry must be submitted by February 15, 2022, and needs to include: * Title of macroscope * Author(s) name, email address, affiliation, mailing address, and social media handles * Link to online site that features the macroscope tool or to executable code * Macroscope tool description (300 words max): user group and needs served, data used, data * analysis performed, visualization techniques applied, and main insights gained. Please also outline * the vision that this new macroscope embodies. * References to relevant publications or online sites that should be cited, links to related projects or * works * Describe the impact your data visualization has had on public awareness, social policy, or political * action. * Submit entries via https://forms.gle/wPr5X16Cm5MwDb7c9 Review Process Submissions will be reviewed and evaluated by the exhibit advisory board (listed below) in terms of their: * Scientific rigor * Value as a tool for data exploration * Ability to provide new, actionable insights * Relevance for a general audience Final Submission Authors of winning entries will be contacted by April 1, 2022 and invited to submit final entries by May 30, 2022. Each final entry consists of: * Link to online site that features the macroscope tool or link to executable code. This must be a * fully self-contained version of the macroscope that can operate without any outside links and * without opening new windows. * Biographies for all authors (100 words each) * High resolution author portraits that are no smaller than 360 x 450 pixels, or 1.2” x 1.5” at 300 dpi. * Signed copyright and reproduction agreement Authors are welcome to use the expertise and resources of the exhibit curators and designers. The macroscopes are expected to be ready for display by August 31, 2022. Exhibit Advisory Board * Gary Berg-Cross, Cognitive psychologist * Kevin Boyack, President, SciTech Strategies Inc. * Donna Cox, Advanced Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Bonnie DeVarco, Media X, Stanford University * Ingo Günther, Karlsruhe University of Art and Design * Francis Harvey, Cartography and Visual Communication, Leipzig University * Peter A. Hook, Associate Law Librarian, University of Notre Dame * Vincent Lariviére, Professor of Information Science, Universitè de Montrèal * Lev Manovich, Computer Science, The Graduate * Elijah Meeks, Chief Visualization Officer & Co-founder, Noteable * André Skupin, Geography, San Diego State University * Olga Subirós, Big Bang Data, Olga Subiros Studio * Stephen Uzzo, Chief Scientist, New York Hall of Science * Caroline S. Wagner, Wolf Chair in International Affairs, The Ohio State University * Benjamin Wiederkehr, Interactive Things Please feel free to send any questions you might have regarding the judging process to Todd Theriault (ttheriau(a)indiana.edu<mailto:ttheriau@indiana.edu>) and use the subject heading “Macroscope Inquiry.” -- Katy Borner Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu<http://cns.iu.edu/> Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org<http://scimaps.org/> ISE and ILS, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Luddy Hall 4018, 700 N. Woodlawn Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA Phone: (812) 855-3256 Twitter: @katycns

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CFP: IEEE VIS Workshop (Vis + Prov) x Domain
by Kai Xu 17 Oct '23

17 Oct '23

IEEE VIS Workshop (Vis + Prov) x Domain visxprov(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:visxprov@googlegroups.com> We invite submissions for the IEEE VIS Workshop (Vis + Prov) x Domain: Workshop on Visualization and Provenance Across Domains (https://visxprov.github.io/) Workshop Goals: Our ambition is to build this into a series of workshops, targeting a different research community outside visualization each year, and eventually create a provenance research network that connects all the relevant communities. For this year, we will target the database community, which is one of the first communities to formalize provenance research, providing the theoretical foundations such as the widely adopted W3C PROV specifications. Recently provenance and visualization have been adopted to address core database challenges such as query, workflow, and dependency. There is a clear need to build closer connections between the two communities. For this year, the workshop’s main goals are: 1. To establish and improve the collaboration between the visualization and database community on provenance-related research through a discussion of challenges that span both communities; 2. To further advance data provenance research within the database community to address the latest challenges, such as support for big data management, data processing, data sharing, or query optimization supported by provenance; 3. To further advance analytic provenance research within the visualization community to address the latest challenges, such as support for machine learning and visualization reproducibility. Scope of Topics: While we are interested in any submissions at the intersection of provenance and visualization, we are especially focused on: * What can we learn when contrasting the problems of these two communities? Is there any visualization problem that can benefit from a database/analytic provenance method or vice versa? * What are the most pressing provenance-related challenges in the database community? Is there any visualization-related solution to them? For example, * What visualization techniques may be used to assist the database community in constructing retrospective and prospective provenance that are more interactive, scalable, and user-friendly? * How can query languages be supported from the standpoint of provenance? * What are the opportunities for provenance in emerging visualization research areas such as machine learning visualization and visualization reproducibility? For example, * How do we show changes to visualizations, interactions, or algorithms over time in various domains, including progressive visualizations, interactive visualizations, and machine learning training? * How do we transparently and efficiently share visualizations and their production processes? Submission: We will accept research papers/extended abstracts or position papers. Your submission should be commensurate with the level of contribution but is required to be at least 2 pages (plus references). Papers must follow the IEEE VIS TVCG Journal submissions guidelines (https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/journal/) and be submitted through the Precision Conference System (PCS) (https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc) Your submission should be anonymized to facilitate a double-blind review between authors and the conference organizers. Accepted authors will be invited to post their work in an arXiv collection (which will not be considered archival). We are in contact with journals about the possibility of a special issue for the work accepted by this workshop. Important Dates: July 15, 2023: Paper submission deadline August 3, 2023: Paper author notification August 13, 2023: Paper camera-ready version deadline Notice: all times are midnight Anywhere on Earth (AOE) We hope to see you in Melbourne, Australia! Kai Xu, University of Nottingham Michelle Dowling, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory John Wenskovitch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Jeremy E. Block, University of Florida Yilin Xia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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Call for Papers: EuroVis 2024
by Daniel Archambault 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

EuroVis 2024 Call for Full Papers (https://www.eurovis.org/) TLDR: Please submit your papers! Abstracts due Thursday Nov 23 2023. New: Reduced workload without rebuttal and without video submission of the presentations. With this call for full papers, we invite original submission of high-quality papers that will set the standard and stimulate future trends in the field of visualization and visual analytics. Accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, the International Journal of the Eurographics Association, after a two-stage peer-reviewing process. All accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference. EuroVis 2024 (https://www.eurovis.org) will be held in Odense, Denmark on May 27-31, 2024. We encourage submissions from all areas of visualization and visual analytics. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Techniques: novel algorithms, visual encoding methods, and/or interaction techniques for data analysis, exploration, or communication. All sub-areas of visualization and visual analytics are welcomed, including high-dimensional, time-series, spatial, geographic, text, hierarchical, and network data. Techniques may be specialized for specific devices or form-factors (e.g., mobile or wall-scale visualization). * Systems: new software frameworks, languages, or tools for visualization; systems for large-scale visualization; integrated graphical systems for visual analysis or interactive machine learning; collaborative and web-scale visualization systems. * Applications & Design Studies: novel use of visualization to address problems in an application domain, including accounts of innovative system design, deployment and impact. We welcome diverse application areas, including the physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, engineering, arts, sports, and humanities. * Evaluation & Empirical Research: Comparative evaluation of competing visualization approaches; controlled experiments to inform visualization best practices; longitudinal and qualitative studies to understand user needs, visualization adoption, and use. * Theory: models of visual encoding, interaction, and/or analysis tasks; implications from theories of perception, cognition, design, and/or aesthetics; methods for automated design or visualization recommendation. For a wider range of paper types, please see “Broadening Intellectual Diversity in Visualization Research Papers<http://cmci.colorado.edu/visualab/papers/19-CGA-ContributionTypes.pdf>” by B. Lee et al. (http://cmci.colorado.edu/visualab/papers/19-CGA-ContributionTypes.pdf) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The maximum length for submitted papers to the full papers track is 10 pages (in Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) style, including all images and acknowledgements, but excluding references). Authors are encouraged to use supplementary documents to provide extra content. Papers exceeding the maximum allowed number of pages will be automatically rejected. Submissions must be made using the Computer Graphics Forum style, using the conference LaTeX template for full papers which includes a sample document explaining the required format LaTeX2e Style template<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w05AGfa-8xs8bEJfMAAMxQFKIybLhZwS?us…> (https://event.sdu.dk/eurovis/full-papers) On Overleaf, this template can be imported easily by selecting “New Project” -> “Upload Project” and uploading the zip file. Use EGauthorGuidelines-eurovis24-full.tex for your submission. Authors have the option to submit their papers anonymously. In contrast to previous years, double-blind reviewing is optional, not required: authors may choose to disclose their identities to the reviewers. The reviewing process does not consider anonymity as a factor. The process will attempt to preserve anonymity of authors of anonymized submissions. However, the program committee, which is responsible for half of the reviews, will know the authors of submissions reviewed by them. This is required for selecting reviewers without conflict of interests. Authors have the option of submitting additional material with their submissions. Supplementary materials, such as videos and supporting data, are encouraged. For papers that have previously been reviewed for other venues and have been rejected or withdrawn, the authors are strongly encouraged to provide the original submission with a cover letter describing the changes they have made to comply with reviewers' comments and requests. All full papers accepted to EuroVis appear in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, containing the conference proceedings, and will appear at the same time in the Eurographics digital library. EuroVis submissions and papers are subject to the pre-print and self-archiving policies of the Computer Graphics Forum journal. Details are available from the journal web site: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-acce… Plan S Compliance EuroVis publishes all its material in the Eurographics Digital Library, and some material also in cooperation with Wiley Computer Graphics Forum (Full Papers, STAR Reports). The Eurographics Publication Board, Eurovis Steering Committee, and Eurovis Full Paper Chairs are aware of these questions, and state the following: * Publishing in the Eurographics Digital Library is Plan-S compliant. * Publishing with Wiley Computer Graphics Forum is Plan-S compliant in many cases, due to so-called transformational agreements between Wiley and national funding agencies and/or universities. In case of questions for clarification, please contact plan-S(a)eurovis.org and we will help to find a solution. We look forward very much to receiving your work for EuroVis. Abstracts and full papers are submitted using the Precision Conference System (PCS): https://new.precisionconference.com/eurovis24a. Please select Society: Eurographics, Conference/Journal: EuroVis 2024, Track: EuroVis 2024 Papers. Submission of an abstract is mandatory by the abstract deadline, with completed papers due on by the full paper deadline. Submissions will not be accepted if an abstract is not submitted by the abstract deadline. Abstract submissions require the title, authors, paper type, abstract, and keywords in the form. The paper title and authors may not be changed after the abstract deadline. The remaining fields (the document, additional material) are submitted by the full paper deadline. Please note that EuroVis accepted full papers are published as a regular-length journal article, so submitting just an abstract is not sufficient. Submitters need to choose keywords and categories appropriate for their paper as this information is used in reviewer selection. New to EuroVis 2024. In contrast to the previous edition, we will no longer have a rebuttal phase for the full paper track. However, authors have the opportunity to reach out to the paper chairs after the first round reviews in case reviewers have made clear errors or if the reasons for rejection are not provided. This information will be communicated to the primary and secondary reviewers for comment. Additionally, there will be no need for full video recordings of paper presentations, but fast forward videos will remain a requirement. For more details please see the EuroVis 2024 website: https://www.eurovis.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: November 23, 2023 (Thursday) Full paper deadline: November 30, 2023 (Thursday) First Round Notification: February 2, 2024 (Friday) Revised Submission: February 29, 2024 (Thursday) Final Notification: March 15, 2024 (Friday) Camera Ready Version: April 4, 2024 (Thursday) Conference: May 27 - 31, 2024 (Monday - Friday) All submission deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated. For any questions concerning full paper submissions please contact the full papers chairs: fullpapers(a)eurovis.org FULL PAPERS CHAIRS Wolfgang Aigner, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, AT Daniel Archambault, Newcastle University, UK Roxana Bujack, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

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IEEE AIxVR 2024 (2nd CfP - deadline Oct 20, 2023)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

================================ IEEE AIxVR 2024 - Call for papers, http://aixvr.org 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality January 17-19, 2024 (Los Angeles, CA, USA) ================================ IEEE AIxVR is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. It provides an international forum for the exchange between those fields, to present advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and together define the future of these exciting research domains. === AREAS OF INTEREST ========== We invite researchers from Virtual (VR), as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) to participate and submit their work to the program. Likewise, any work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has a relation to any of these fields or potential for the usage in any of them is welcome. Areas of interest for the technical program include but are not limited to: + Systems, incl. techniques, performance, implementation + Content creation and modelling + Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour + AI technologies for VR/AR + Interactions, interactive & responsive environments + Applications and use cases + Ethical & societal aspects of AI and VR/AR === SUBMISSIONS ========== In the 2nd call for papers, we are welcoming submissions for the following tracks: + Late-breaking-work & posters (up to 4 pages, focus on initial ideas, pilot studies, work in progress) + Demos & videos (up to 4 pages, focus on working systems, prototypes, implementations) + Special session "AI for VR/AR" (up to 8 pages, focus on AI research with potential relevance for VR/AR) + Special session "VR/AR for AI" (up to 8 pages, focus on VR/AR research with potential relevance for AI) Accepted papers in all of these tracks will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. === IMPORTANT DATES & SUBMISSION DETAILS ========== + October 20, 2023: Submission deadline (all tracks) + Mid-to-late November 2023: Acceptance notifications + Early December 2023: Camera ready versions due For submission details please refer to the conference's website at http://aixvr.org === VENUE & DATES ========== The conference will take place from Jan 17-19, 2024, at the USC Institute of Creative Technologies in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Options for remote participation for presenters who are unable to travel to L.A. will be provided.

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EuroVis 2024 - Call for State of the Art Reports (STARs)
by Andreas Kerren 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

Dear colleagues, apologies for cross-posting. We invite submissions of high-quality State of the Art Reports (STAR) to be presented at the EuroVis 2024 conference (https://eurovis.org/) and published in the Computer Graphics Forum journal. The EuroVis 2024 conference will be held in Odense, Denmark on May 27-31, 2024; please see https://www.eurovis.org/eurovis/tracks-and-submissions for additional details. The STAR submissions go through a two-stage process, and the deadline for the first stage, i.e., submissions of STAR sketches of two pages (+references, +bibliography), is just around the corner on October 16, 2023, and we look forward to receiving your submissions, details below. For any questions, please contact us at stars(a)eurovis.org Best wishes, Christoph, Andreas, and Renata - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EuroVis 2024 - Call for State of the Art Reports (STARs) ** Submissions (STAR sketches) due: October 16, 2023 ** State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) are intended to provide up-to-date and comprehensive surveys on topics of interest to the visualization research community. We encourage the submission of STARs on topics that have not yet been covered in any recent STAR or other survey [1]. We welcome submissions that introduce emerging areas of research that are of relevance and interest to visualization research, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. We also welcome contributions from related disciplines and application areas demonstrating contributions to, or benefits from, the area of visualization including, but not limited to, visual computing, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, virtual reality, image processing, computer vision, psychology, geography, chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, computational sciences, medicine, biology, economy, social science, etc. All accepted EuroVis STAR reports will be published in the Computer Graphics Forum journal. ** Important Dates ** - Submission of STAR Sketch: October 16, 2023 (two pages, +references, +bibliography) - Invitation for full STAR submission: November 6, 2023 - Submission of full STAR: January 8, 2024 - Full STAR notification: March 4, 2024 - Second round submission: March 25, 2024 - Second review notification: April 8, 2024 - Camera-ready deadline: April 22, 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated. ** Instructions ** As part of the acceptance process for Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a multi-stage review process where authors first submit a 2-page STAR Sketch that they receive preliminary feedback on, followed by a full STAR submission. Submission of the STAR Sketch and full report is mandatory and will be conducted using the Precision Conference System (PCS). For detailed paper preparation and submission instructions please refer to the submission guidelines below. Upon acceptance, we aim to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 minute presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2024 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will be given a longer time slot than that of a full paper. ** STAR Sketch Submission ** A STAR Sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance to the visualization community, providing the planned structure and outline of the STAR together with all key references, and short biographies of the authors. The length of a STAR Sketch main text is limited to two pages. To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR, brief biographies of all authors are required as supplementary material. References and short biographies are considered supplementary pages and are not counted within the two page limit. Authors receive feedback on their sketches to help improve the submission and to inform their decisions whether to progress to the Full STAR submission stage. ** Full STAR Submission ** In the next stage, authors are required to submit a full STAR. There is no strict maximum length for full submissions. However, it is unusual for STARs to exceed 20 pages (excluding references). Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, two-stage review process, similar to that of regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, where 3-4 external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR. ** STAR Chairs ** - Christoph Garth, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany - Andreas Kerren, Linköping University, Sweden - Renata G. Raidou, TU Wien, Austria For any questions concerning State-of-the-Art Report submissions, please contact the STAR chairs at stars(a)eurovis.org. ** Submission Guidelines ** Since all accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum, the submission process uses a multiple-stage reviewing process. The submission procedure is as follows: - Submit a STAR Sketch by October 16th, 2023. The length of a STAR Sketch main text is limited to 2 pages. References and short biographies are considered supplementary pages and are not counted within the two-page limit. The format of the sketch should follow the format specified in the formatting instructions for the STAR below. STAR Sketches will be reviewed by the STAR IPC and comments on suitability and relevance will be provided on November 6th, 2023. According to the feedback given by the IPC members, the authors can submit a full STAR by January 8th, 2024. The requirements for EuroVis 2024 STARs follow the EUROGRAPHICS policy on STAR length. We do not impose strict maximum lengths for submitted STARs. However, it is unusual for STARs to exceed 20 pages (in CGF latex style) including all figures and tables, but excluding references. There is no limit as to the number of references or the number of pages for references. STARs should only be as long as their content justifies. Reviewers might rate a submission lower if it is perceived as being unnecessarily long. Authors are encouraged to use supplementary documents to provide extra content. To submit, please go to “submissions in progress” on PCS. Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, two-stage review process, similar to that of regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, where 3-4 external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR. Once your full STAR submission has been accepted or conditionally accepted, submit your revised version together with a cover letter detailing your changes by March 25th, 2024. To do so, please go to “submissions in progress” in PCS. The camera-ready version is due on April 22nd, 2024. ** Formatting Instructions ** The sketch as well as the full version submission of the STAR should be submitted as a PDF file using the EuroVis 2024 LaTeX2e Style template. The template will be made available soon. On Overleaf, this template can be imported easily by selecting “New Project” -> “Upload Project” and uploading the zip file. Use EGauthorGuidelines-eurovis24-star.tex for your submission. Please make sure that images embedded in your paper do not contain transparent pixels (i.e., an alpha channel of a transparent color), because this will lead to problems when the resulting PDF is displayed or printed. Submissions can also include supplementary material such as videos or executable programs. The server will accept uploads of at most 200 MB, so multiple files of over 200 MB must be submitted separately. Please use only the most common video codecs (e.g., MP4 format using the H.264 codec) to maximize the chances that the reviewers can see it. STAR Sketches and full STARs are submitted using the Precision Conference Submission System (PCS). **** Camera Ready Version **** In order to submit the camera ready version to EuroVis 2024, authors should prepare their submissions as a PDF file using the EuroVis 2024 LaTeX2e Style. Please ensure that the option \SpecialIssuePaper is used. Authors of accepted papers are also requested to fill in the Exclusive License Agreement (one per paper) and send the signed document to s.behnke(a)eg.org. Common mistakes when creating the final version of the paper are: Headlines are too long: besides the running headlines, there has to be space for the page numbers. Please shorten the headline to accommodate for page numbers. Formatting of figure captions: “Figure <number>:” should be bold, and the caption should be set in italics. This is often caused by overwriting the default settings when using the figure, caption, or subfigure packages. Try using \captionsetup{labelfont=bf,textfont=it}) ** Author Guidelines ** A state-of-the-art report submitted to EuroVis 2024 must be original, unpublished work. Any work that has previously been published or has simultaneously been submitted in a substantially similar form to any other conference or journal will be rejected. All STARs accepted to EuroVis 2024 appear in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, containing the conference proceedings, and will appear at the same time in the Eurographics Digital Library. At EuroVis 2024, the authors of a STAR will be invited to present their report at a level that also allows non-experts in the particular domain to follow. We plan to schedule each STAR as an approximate 45-minute presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2024 program, but ensuring that STAR presentations will be given a longer time slot than those of full papers). At least one author of an accepted paper must register and attend the conference to present the work, and authors will also be required to submit a 25-second video preview summarizing their work and eventually present a brief (less than one-minute) summary of their talk at the opening papers preview session (also called papers fast-forward). Contributions must be written and presented in English. ** References ** [1] L. McNabb and R.S. Laramee, A Survey of Surveys (SoS)-Mapping the Landscape of Survey Papers in Information Visualization, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Volume 36, Number 3, (June) 2017, pages 589-617.

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PostDoc and Ph.D. positions in Visual Analytics at TU/e, the Netherlands
by Fernando Paulovich 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

*PostDoc in Visual Analytics for trustworthy AI in long-term health risk assessment* *Ph.D. in Visual Analytics for prescriptive data analysis* We are looking for a highly motivated PostDoc researcher and a Ph.D. candidate who wants to develop exciting visual analytics solutions involving trustworthy and explainable artificial intelligence. Both positions are with the Visualization cluster at TU Eindhoven (TU/e), the Netherlands. The visualization cluster (https://research.tue.nl/en/organisations/visualization <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.…>) at TU/e has a strong track record in visualization and visual analytics for ML models and high-dimensional data. It has generated several award-winning contributions at major visualization conferences (IEEE VIS, IEEE InfoVis, IEEE VAST, EuroVis); several successful start-up companies (MagnaView, Process Gold, and SynerScope); and several techniques that are used on a large scale worldwide. More details about the PostDoc position can be found at: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/postdoc-visual-analytics-for-trustworthy-ai-… <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjobs.tue.…> More details about the fully funded Ph.D. position can be found at: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-visual-analytics-for-prescriptive-dat… <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjobs.tue.…> All the best, Prof. Dr. Anna Vilanova Dr. Fernando Paulovich -- -------------- Fernando V. Paulovich, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Visual Analytics for Data Science Department of Mathematics and Computer Science TU Eindhoven Email: f.paulovich(a)tue.nl De Zaale, Metaforum MF 7.089 PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands -------------

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IEEE AIxVR 2024 (call for workshops & special sessions)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

================================ IEEE AIxVR 2024 - Call for papers, http://aixvr.org 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality January 17-19, 2024 (Los Angeles, CA, USA) ================================ IEEE AIxVR is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. It provides an international forum for the exchange between those fields, to present advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and together define the future of these exciting research domains. === CALL FOR WORKSHOPS === Workshops are an important part of IEEE AIxVR and complement the main program. They offer the opportunity to discuss topics related to AR/VR and AI more focussed, explore new research directions and novel applications, and provide excellent opportunities for networking. They typically feature regular paper presentations, but also other forms of interaction such as invited talks, panels, demos, and hands-on sessions. If you are interested in organizing a workshop at IEEE AIxVR 2024, please refer to the call for workshops on the conference's website: https://aivr.science.uu.nl/aixvr2024_cfw.html#workshops === CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS === Special sessions provide organizers with an opportunity to host a session about a dedicated topic related to the conference as part of the technical program. They are integrated into the main program in the same way as regular sessions and typically feature technical paper presentations but can also contain other types of presentations such as invited talks or panels. If you are interested in organizing a workshop at IEEE AIxVR 2024, please refer to the call for workshops on the conference's website: https://aivr.science.uu.nl/aixvr2024_cfw.html#special === DEADLINES & PROCEDURE === Submissions are processed immediately on a case-base. Thus, please submit your proposal at your earliest convenience to allow for sufficient time to set up and prepare your workshops and special sessions. For more information about the conference and related procedures, please refer to the event's website: http://aixvr.org

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IEEE VR 2024 call for reviewers
by IEEE VR Publicity 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

Dear VR/AR/XR community, IEEE VR2024 needs your help. We are currently looking into recruiting more reviewers to ease the review load for everyone. Please consider signing up as a reviewer in PCS. PCS signup instructions for reviewers 1. Log on to the system at https://new.precisionconference.com/vr <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2bzERJF4yJ5Gr41bXRZqF6Ml…> 2. Click on "Reviews" at the top of the page. 3. Click on "Volunteer to Review". 4. Select "VR" and "IEEE VR 2024" from the drop-down menus. 5. Volunteer for a number of reviews on the "Papers" line. 6. Click again on "Reviews" at the top of the page. 7. Click on "Provide sample publications". To help the system match you to submissions, please upload 8 to 10 PDF papers in which you have expertise. They can be your own publications, or can be publications of other authors in an area in which you have expertise. PCS does not store the PDFs; it only extracts and stores word counts from them. If you provide fewer than 8 papers, the system will not be able to accurately match you to the conference submissions. We really appreciate your support. Best regards, IEEE VR 2024 Paper Chairs Yuta Itoh Tabitha Peck Voicu Popescu Stefanie Zollmann program2024 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2mNduDMg2jq8poJ8gzytf_X5…> [image: beacon]

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Only 9 days left to apply for position: Associate Professor of Spatio-Temporal Data Visualization
by Yuri Engelhardt 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

Please share – only 9 days left to apply for the position of: * Associate Professor of Spatio-Temporal Data Visualization * Join our team at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, as an Associate Professor of Spatio-Temporal Data Visualization, to work with us on your passions in cartography, (geo)visual analytics, data visualization and/or information visualization – seehttps://utwentecareers.nl/en/vacancies/1377/associate-professor-spatio-temporal-data-visualization/ We will prioritize selecting women who fit the profile. You have a PhD degree in cartography, data and/or information visualization, geo-informatics, geography, or a related field, and experience in one or more of the following areas: cartography, (geo-)data/information visualization, (big data) visual analytics, AR/VR/XR, ethics in geo-visualization, cognition / usability testing. You have experience in teaching, including (online) lecturing and tutoring at an academic level, and supervision of graduate students and emerging researchers. You will develop a research direction and educational profile within the ambitions of the Faculty ITC (https://www.itc.nl/) at the University of Twente (https://www.utwente.nl/en/) and contribute to ITC’s mission of capacity development (https://www.itc.nl/global-impact/) Brief introduction to our 'faculty with a mission':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAJhLG085Wg At the University of Twente we thrive to be driven by societal needs + open + inclusive + sustainable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrxg6QznghE You will (co-) supervise graduate students (as well as collaborate with our e-Learning specialists) to develop educational materials for a diversity of MSc programs: our faculty-wide MSc programs M-Geo (https://www.itc.nl/education/course-finder/geo-information-science-earth-ob…) and MSc Spatial Engineering (https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/master/programmes/spatial-engineering/) and our national and European joint MSc degrees GIMA (https://www.msc-gima.nl/) and MSc Cartography (https://cartographymaster.eu/) You will take ownership of coordination and management tasks throughout the faculty, particularly in the joint MSc programs. You will have at your disposal our visualization lab (https://www.itc.nl/facillities/labs-and-resources/visuse/) with its innovative equipment for VR/AR/XR, and eye-tracking usability research. We offer: - An inspiring multidisciplinary, international and academic environment. The university offers a dynamic ecosystem with enthusiastic colleagues in which internationalization is an important part of the strategic agenda - Position for initially one year (full-time), after which your position can become PERMANENT, subject to a successful evaluation - Gross monthly salary between € 6,002.- and € 7,025.- (depending on experience and qualifications, job profile Associate Professor, level 2 or 1). This is the maximum start salary with growth opportunities - A holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary and a year-end bonus of 8.3% - Costs for moving to Enschede may be reimbursed - Excellent support for professional and personal development - A solid pension scheme - A total of 41 holiday days in case of full-time employment Please see our vacancy page for more information:https://utwentecareers.nl/en/vacancies/1377/associate-professor-spatio-temporal-data-visualization/ For more information you can also contact prof. Raul Zurita-Milla (r.zurita-milla(a)utwente.nl) prof. Karin Pfeffer (k.pfeffer(a)utwente.nl) or Yuri Engelhardt (yuri.engelhardt(a)utwente.nl) Application deadline: before 30 September 2023

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Call for Papers - MDPI Analytics Special Issue "Visual Analytics: Techniques and Applications"
by Kostiantyn Kucher 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

--------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MDPI Analytics Special Issue "Visual Analytics: Techniques and Applications" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/analytics/special_issues/6TU44NMM74 Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2023 Special Issue Guest Editors: - Dr. Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University, Sweden - Dr. Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden --------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue invites article submissions within the broader field of visual analytics, including research papers presenting novel approaches, systems, techniques, evaluation studies and theoretical methodologies, application papers presenting design studies and successful uses of VA in practice, and survey papers giving state-of-the-art overviews of the field. Manuscripts should be submitted online via mdpi.com until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. Please see further details regarding the submission process and APC fees at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/analytics/special_issues/6TU44NMM74 ---------------------------------------- For any questions regarding manuscript submission or publication, please feel free to contact guest editors at {katerina.vrotsou,kostiantyn.kucher}(a)liu.se or Analytics Editorial Office at analytics(a)mdpi.com ---------------------------------------

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