November 2024 - Infovis

Two PhD scholarship opportunities (deadline 7 April)
by Kai Xu 20 May '25

20 May '25

There are two PhD scholarships sponsored by MHR<https://mhrglobal.com/uk/en>. It is open to both UK and international students. The application must be completed by 7 April. Please forward the information to students who might be interested. They can contact me by email (kai.xu(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:kai.xu@nottingham.ac.uk>) if there is any question. Project 1: Next generation HR: Conversational Interfaces and Large-Language Models for Empathic Human-Robot Interaction The project aims to explore how the use of AI could enhance various interface types beyond the usual web forms to better support staff training, facilitation and arbitration at meetings. This could take the form of an embodied conversational interface, using technology such as Large-Language Models (LLMs), integrated into a physical robot. The research goals are to investigate how LLMs can be adapted in real-time using multi-modal situational awareness, what capabilities an intelligent robot embodiment focussed on HR should have, and to understand how people would interact and behave around it. Project 2: Human-Centred AI for Productivity The project aims to explore the options to use human-centred AI to improve productivity, which is a core concern of many of sponsor’s customers. One possibility is to leverage the new data that is becoming available, such as user interactions with computer systems and those collected through wearables. The data will then be analysed with the latest AI and Machine Learning methods, with the goal to use the insight from the analysis to design the least intrusive intervention needed in a HR software solution setting that can improve productivity effectively and ethically. About MHR MHR (https://mhrglobal.com/uk/en) MHR is a specialist provider of software and outsourcing services for Human Resources (HR), payroll, finance, and business intelligence. They support the management, development, and payment of just over 10% of the UK workforce. Their R&D team are constantly looking to redefine the HR software market by developing new and innovative solutions to HR problems. Regards, Kai Dr Kai Xu Associate Professor Co-director of the Visualization, Text Analytics, and Graphics (VisTAG) Group School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK kai.xu(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:kai.xu@nottingham.ac.uk> https://kaixu.me/ Book a Teams chat <https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/86b31acc20a345da9ea76c5a4338d2ec…> 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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Reminder - Call for Nominations: IEEE VGTC Visualization Awards Due April 30th!
by Ebert, David 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

The IEEE VGTC Visualization Awards program recognizes and honors individuals who have made a significant contribution to the community through their research and/or service. Furthermore, we seek out nominations of individuals that enable us to recognize both the diversity of individuals and the diversity of contributions from the community at large. The VGTC Visualization Awards Program has five awards plus induction to the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy: VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award The Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding academic research and development in the field. VGTC Visualization Significant New Researcher Award The VGTC Significant New Researcher Award recognizes an individual who has made significant recent research contributions in the field. VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award The Technical Achievement Award is given each year to recognize an individual for a seminal technical achievement and/or significant contribution in the field. VGTC Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual to honor that person's lifetime contribution to the field. VGTC Visualization Service Award The IEEE VGTC Service Award recognizes extraordinary service to the community through the IEEE VGTC and/or the IEEE VGTC Sponsored Conferences and Symposia. VGTC Visualization Academy Selection The IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy is a prestigious academy that highlights the accomplishments of the leaders in the field. The criteria for these awards can be found at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/award-criteria Nominations are due by April 30, 2024. Nominations, except the Dissertation award, should contain the name of the person nominated, the awards for which they are nominated, the short citation for the award, and a summary that carefully addresses the criteria specified at the above URL while not exceeding 600 words. Dissertation Award nominations should include: (1) The title and abstract of the dissertation, (2) the name of the candidate, (3) the name of the candidate's primary advisor, (4) the institution where the dissertation was defended, (5) the date of the dissertation defense, (6) A 1-2 page summary of the significance and impact of the dissertation research, (7) an electronic copy of the full dissertation, or a pointer to where it can be obtained, (8) one letter of recommendation, up to 2 pages in length, ideally from the candidate's primary advisor, and (9) a list of publications, awards, and other recognition by peers produced from the dissertation work. To nominate someone for any of these awards or the academy, please visit: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/awards/vis-award-nominations/ If you have any questions, please contact: VGTC Awards Program Chair for Visualization David Ebert, University of Oklahoma vgtc-vis-awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vgtc-vis-awards@vgtc.org> Dr. David S. Ebert, Gallogly Chair Professor of ECE and CS Associate Vice President of Research and Partnerships Director, Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC) University of Oklahoma 5 Partners Place 201 Stephenson Pkwy, Ste 4600 Norman, OK 73019 ebert(a)ou.edu<mailto:ebert@ou.edu>

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IEEE VR 2025 - Call for Student Volunteer
by VR Publicity 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Call for Student Volunteers *studentvolunteers2025(a)ieeevr.org* *IEEE VR 2025: The 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces* March 8-12, 2025 | Saint-Malo, France Apply to be a Student Volunteer <https://forms.gle/Wu8Hw6qcEaYtezR59> Important Dates - *December 10th, 2024:* Open student volunteer applications - *January 13th, 2025:* Close student volunteer applications - *January 23th, 2025:* Student volunteer notification of acceptance Dedicated and enthusiastic student volunteers (SVs) are crucial for the organization of a successful conference. Serving as a student volunteer is also a great chance to meet and interact with scientists from the field of Virtual Reality. Volunteering for VR 2025 is also an opportunity to gain academic service experience—an often-critical component of post graduate work—and valuable experience for future scientific event organization. We look forward to receiving your application for IEEE VR 2025! Benefits Besides the stimulating experience, SVs will receive an excellent package of benefits that includes: - free registration* - hotel accommodation for non-local volunteers when possible (shared with one or two other SVs) * If you are an author, make sure to have one of your co-authors register and pay a full fee according to your publication. Expectations This year, IEEE VR will take place in Saint-Malo, France. You must be willing to work about *25 to 30 hours* during the conference. Furthermore, you must be available for SV orientation on Friday, March 7th, before the conference begins. Your SV duties will include: working the registration desk on-site, helping with the setup of the conference environment, providing assistance to speakers and attendees, and more. If you cannot commit yourself to this time frame and this amount of work, then please do not take away a slot from another willing student. Eligibility All full-time undergraduate and graduate students interested in Virtual Reality or related disciplines are eligible. We will consider geographic distance from the conference as well as diversity in the area of research. The following additional considerations will influence volunteer selection: - An accepted publication/presentation at VR 2025. - Good communication skills in English. - Previous experience in event organization is desired but not required. - The number of volunteers from each region, institution, and research group may be balanced to ensure broad participation. - Students from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Application Application will be done through this form: https://forms.gle/Wu8Hw6qcEaYtezR59 Contacts *studentvolunteers2025(a)ieeevr.org* For more information, please contact the Student Volunteer Chairs: - Huyen Nguyen, *Université Paris-Saclay, France* - Jason Orlosky, *Augusta University, USA* - Claudio Pacchierotti, *CNRS IRISA/Inria Rennes, France* Contact: studentvolunteers2025(a)ieeevr.org

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IEEE VR 2025 - Reminder for Doctoral Consortium Submission - November 25, 2024
by VR Publicity 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

*IEEE VR 2025: The 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces* March 8-12, 2025 | Saint-Malo, France Important Dates - *November 25th, 2024 23:59 AoE:* Submission deadline. - *January 10th, 2025 23:59 AoE:* Notification of acceptance. - *January 24th, 2025 23:59 AoE:* Camera-ready. Overview The Doctoral Consortium at IEEE VR 2025 is a concentrated event where students present their research interests, plans, and results to a panel of researchers in related fields and receive specific and constructive feedback, including opportunities to meet with mentors one-on-one. Accepted students will be expected to give in-depth presentations of their research and will receive valuable comments from mentors and peers. Additionally, accepted students will have the chance to create a poster about their work to allow IEEE VR 2025 attendees to quickly familiarize themselves with each other’s work. These posters will also be shown to the broader audience during the conference poster session. Accepted students will have the option to publish their two-page extended abstract in the conference proceedings and to be included in the IEEE VR 2025 online program. Abstracts may be archived in the IEEExplore digital library. Eligibility and Topics Ideal candidates will be in the early or mid-stage of their PhD and should have a solid idea of their research direction as well as dissertation topic, which may still have room for improvement. The consortium welcomes applicants from a broad range of disciplines conducting research related to Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces including VR, MR, AR, 3D user interfaces, human-computer interaction, wearable computing, social informatics, information technology, cognitive science, and related fields. Submission Guidelines To apply to the Doctoral Consortium, please submit the following two documents via the Precision Conference Doctoral Consortium track at https://new.precisionconference.com/vr25 <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2wUceVB9xwCNlO6uHBrpsOsy…> as a single PDF file. All submissions to the Doctoral Consortium should be prepared in IEEE Computer Society VGTC format (see https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2ZA5MnE5VkDFrxCZ_-DXHoD6…> ). 1. *Position paper*: Submissions should be two pages in length (including references). This position paper must clearly motivate, discuss, and summarize the proposed PhD research, describe how the research fits into and advances research in the field, and report on your progress. You may additionally focus on a more specific area of the research if desired. In the concluding section, you should identify two to three questions or areas for improvement that you would like to discuss during the doctoral consortium. 2. A two-page Curriculum Vitae. *Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.* Financing Your Conference Travel Students are encouraged to seek funding from their institutions for registration costs. Doctoral Consortium participants who also apply as Student Volunteers should refer to the Student Volunteer chairs for funding information. Questions? For more information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Program Chairs at *doctoralconsortium2025(a)ieeevr.org*. - Marc Macé, *CNRS/Inria/Irisa, Rennes, France* - Iana Podkosova, *Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France* - Missie Smith, *Auburn University, USA* - Jonathan Ventura, *California Polytechnic State University, USA*

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IEEE VR 2025 - Reminder for Poster Deadline - December 03, 2024
by VR Publicity 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

*posters2025(a)ieeevr.org* *IEEE VR 2025: The 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces* March 8-12, 2025 | Saint-Malo, France Overview The 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2025 seeks poster submissions that describe recently completed work, highly relevant results of work in progress, or successful systems and applications in all areas related to virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and 3D user interfaces. Presenting a poster is a great way to get feedback on work that has not yet been published. Initial submissions should be in the form of a two-page extended abstract, which will undergo a review process. The poster design does not need to be submitted on the initial submission deadline. Authors whose posters are accepted will be able to submit their poster as a PDF at the camera-ready deadline so that it will appear together with the extended abstract on IEEE eXplore. In addition, *authors of accepted posters will be required to provide a teaser video and a teaser image*. More information can be found in the Poster Presentation section of this call. Poster presentations will be at the physical conference venue and no web-based presentation options will be considered. Authors will need to bring a physical printed copy of their poster to display at the poster session at the conference (instruction will be provided later). At least one author per accepted poster will be required to register for the conference and attend the poster session in person. Important Dates - *December 03, 2024:* Two-page extended abstract and optional material submission due - *January 09, 2025:* Notification of results - *January 16, 2025:* Camera-ready material and copyright submission via IEEE CPS (to be published in the conference’s abstract and workshop proceedings) and PCS (poster, video, teaser image and other additional materials) Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, irrespective of the submitter’s location.* The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be honored.* Submission Guidelines Submissions will be accepted through Precision Conference Solutions this year. https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2hMmLZw2hnz6Vn2Fx-68K_9y…> *Important:* *Submissions need to be anonymized.* Extended abstract and supplemental materials must not contain information that identifies the authors, their institutions, funding sources, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors must be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity. Submissions to the poster track must be written in English and in the form of a two-page extended abstract (references included). It should include an abstract with a maximum of 100 words, a concise description of the idea, the results of findings, supporting imagery and figures, and a discussion of the implementations of the work in the selected area of work. Full literature searches are not expected, although relevant citations should be included. The submission must be prepared in the IEEE Computer Society VGTC format (https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2MgVnSyL0QWD08TuPheJJpIB…>) and submitted as PDF. We highly encourage authors to use the LaTeX template (https://github.com/ieeevgtc/vgtc_conference_latex/releases <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2DgcJyZByPbvFFo82Hsn0Rjb…>). Authors who use the Word template must ensure that their PDF submission matches the format. Accepted two-page extended abstracts will be included in the Abstracts and Workshop Proceedings and will be archived in the IEEE Digital Library. Poster extended abstracts must be submitted through the particular poster track available at the online submission site - https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2nfjHNEJ1DeXQs6s--3jy1PA…>. After logging into PCS, start your submission by selecting VR > IEEE VR 2025 > IEEE VR Posters 2025. Supplemental materials, such as a video or image, can be uploaded to the submission site but are not mandatory for the initial submission. However, authors must select one of the following topic categories that best aligns with their poster's subject matter. This selection is important because posters will be organized by topic during the presentations, and these categories are designed to group similar topics under broader themes, ensuring a coherent and focused discussion. - *Interaction and Interfaces* (e.g., 3D Interaction, Multimodal Input and Interaction, Gestures and Interactions) - *Visualization and Rendering* (e.g., Rendering and Displays, Visual Rendering, Immersive Visualization) - *Haptic Feedback *(e.g., Haptics, Touch, Tangible and Gesture Interfaces, Haptics and Vibrotactile) - *Perception and Cognition *(e.g., Perception and Cognition, Multimodal Perception and Experience, Depth and Distance Perception) - *Collaboration, Virtual Humans and Social Applications *(e.g., Collaboration, Social Applications, Social Interactions, Virtual Humans and Avatars, Virtual Humans and Agents) - *User Experience and Presence* (e.g., Evaluating Immersion, UX and Interaction, Experiences, Cybersickness and Presence, Plausibility, Presence and Social VR) - *Training and Education* (e.g., Training and Learning, Education Applications, Training and Virtual Humans, Healthcare, Medical Applications) - *Locomotion, Navigation and Redirection* (e.g., Locomotion and Redirection, Perception in Navigation, Locomotion and Redirection, Redirected Walking) - *Ethical and Psychological Aspects *(e.g., Ethics in VR, Psycho-and Sociocultural Dimensions of Virtual Identities, Cognition and Psychology) - *Miscellaneous Topics* (This category serves as a space for diverse and unique research topics that may not clearly align with the other identified thematic area) In case of an acceptance, further material will be requested for the final Camera Ready deadline such as a teaser slide and a video. Failure to make reasonable attempts to adhere to this policy will result in desk rejection. Poster Review Process Submissions will be reviewed using a juried process, during which each poster will be read and evaluated by two reviewers. If reviewers do not reach an agreement, the final decisions will be made collectively by the Posters Chairs. Authors will receive reviews of their submissions explaining the decision and providing feedback. The possible outcomes of this reviewing process are: - Desk rejection due to violations of the IEEE VR submission policies - Rejection - Conditional Acceptance - Acceptance Authors of accepted posters are expected to address any recommendations and conditions of acceptance prior to the final submission of camera-ready materials. This will be verified by the primary reviewer. Poster Presentation There will be three dedicated days for poster presentations throughout the conference week. Each accepted poster will be assigned to *one* specific day and will have multiple presentation slots throughout that day, e.g., during coffee breaks, to maximize exposure and interaction with conference attendees. During the poster presentation, one or more authors need to be physically present at their poster to discuss their work with other attendees. Due to the number of anticipated posters and other time constraints, there will not be a traditional poster fast-forward session at this year’s conference. Instead, *authors of accepted posters will be asked to provide a 30 to 60 second teaser video with their final submission, which will be showcased on the conference website, and a teaser image, which will be showcased at the conference venue.* We will share more details including video requirements, teaser image requirements, and the anticipated date of presentation with the authors of accepted posters shortly after the notification of the results. Best Poster Awards The best poster award(s) will recognize the most outstanding poster contributions. It will be based on (1) the significance of the research contributions described in the submitted two-page poster summaries, as well as (2) the clarity, creativity, design, and presentation of the poster. Awards will not be selected by the Posters Chairs but by a committee of highly regarded individuals in our field. These awards will be noted in the program and presented with a signed certificate. The Large Language Model Policy Large-scale language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can only be used by the authors to edit grammar of their own text. Plagiarism All submissions must be original work not previously presented at any workshop, symposium, or conference and not published in any archived conference proceeding, magazine, or journal. At the time of submission, it is required by the authors to state explicitly in the submission form that the submitted work is the work by the authors themselves or is a summary of the authors’ previously presented/published work with clear attribution. Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable and will lead to the removal of the submission from the review process. Please see the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2NCkQMGo1K2gaIC_4o9Ycy0D…> and the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2VU6FCidbwUEbh0RLhF7wz1l…> . Contacts *posters2025(a)ieeevr.org* For more information, please contact the Posters Chairs: - Andrea Bönsch, *RWTH Aachen University, Germany* - Daniel Roth, *Technical University of Munich, Germany* - Justine Saint-Aubert, *IRISA, CNRS, France* - Jerald Thomas, *University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA* at the following address: *posters2025(a)ieeevr.org*

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EuroVis 2025: Call for Education Papers
by Aurisano, Jillian (aurisajm) 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Call for Eurovis Education Papers We seek original contributions for presentation and publication in the Eurovis Education Papers track. The scope includes various topics related to education: 1. Teaching related areas such as Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Visual Analytics, 2. Designing and teaching online and hybrid courses: novel teaching methods, curriculum design, teaching to diverse audiences, tools and platforms for teaching, assessment techniques for evaluating learning outcomes, 3. Enabling and exploiting visualization tools and techniques to teach in other disciplines. 4. Classroom challenges in visualization, e.g. innovative and effective assessment, engaging student interest, managing diverse student backgrounds, teaching mathematical foundations, 5. Incorporating modern technology in visualization courses (e.g. VR, AR, 3D printing, gaming, etc), 6. Bringing visualization research into the classroom, 7. Promoting undergraduate research in visualization, 8. Visualization Literacy - models and frameworks for evaluating data visualization literacy, strategies to enhance data visualization literacy in the classroom or with general audiences, case studies of data visualization literacy initiatives. We invite authors to submit their contributions that fall into one of the following categories: * Regular papers [max. 8 pages] describing the experience of educators in the topics listed above, bringing ideas on how to make the education process more efficient and funnier, attracting students to further research work, discussing innovative opportunities, etc. Whenever possible, we encourage authors to provide evidence of their effectiveness. * Innovative assignments [max. 4 pages] explaining real assignments, providing examples of handouts and starter code and examples of student work. Explanations and descriptions of when and how to implement and facilitate the assignments in a semester (e.g., orchestration details) are highly recommended. Providing a description of the assessment method is also suggested. Authors may provide all relevant artifacts as supplementary materials during submission, and agree to provide access to them online upon acceptance. * Outstanding student projects (individual or group) [max. 2 pages] should describe the learning context for the project and show how the student(s) brought creativity to their work. Upon acceptance, authors are expected to demonstrate the project during their presentation. Eurovis Education contributions are published in the Eurographics Digital Library. The best regular papers may be recommended to the editors of prestigious journals in the field, Computer Graphics Forum<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678659>, Computers and Graphics<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics>, and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/cg>, who may invite the authors of these papers to submit extended versions to their journals. The best assignments may be invited to publish in CGEMS: Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source<https://education.siggraph.org/resources/cgems>. Timeline All deadlines are in 2025. Submission: January 8 Notification: March 4 Camera-ready deadline: March 25 All deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated Eurovis 2025 Education Paper Chairs Jillian Aurisano, University of Cincinnati, US Robert S Laramee, University of Nottingham, UK Carolina Nobre, University of Toronto, Canada

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Faculty Positions at Tufts University
by Remco Chang 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Hi everyone, Tufts University has one tenure-track faculty position in HCI-VIS where I'm the search committee chair. We also have a (non-tenure track) teaching professor position in AI where the ability to teach the Intro to AI course is required. Still, we're generally interested in people who can teach courses for our new MS in AI program, including Big Data, ML, NLP, Statistics, etc. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. p.s., Tufts is located in the Boston area. We're 2 subway stops away from Harvard, 2 additional stops from MIT, and (on the new Green Line), 30 minutes from Northeastern, Boston University, and Boston College. Employment opportunities Faculty positions The Department of Computer Science at Tufts University invites applications for multiple open faculty positions. Candidates are encouraged to demonstrate throughout their application their attention to diversity and inclusion as these topics relate to teaching, research, and engagement within the academic environment. We welcome candidates with a variety of life experiences and perspectives that will positively contribute to the Tufts computer science department and broader university community. Women, Black/African Descent, Indigenous/Native American, Hispanic/Latinx, People of Color, LGBTQ+, individuals with disabilities, and others with intersecting marginalized identities are strongly encouraged to apply. The department especially values candidates who have an interest in civic engagement, social impact, and the betterment of society. Tenure-track faculty positions starting in Fall 2025 *Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): *The department seeks candidates who conduct research in human-computer interaction (HCI), interpreted broadly. We especially seek candidates who publish in venues such as CHI, VIS, UIST, and CSCW. Those who can connect to and build on the department’s and/or university’s strengths in related areas, including visualization, interaction techniques, human-robot interaction, usable security, human-AI interaction, and cognitive science, are strongly encouraged to apply. While candidates at the assistant professor level are preferred, candidates at all levels will also be considered. *Systems:* The department seeks candidates who conduct research in computer systems, especially those with interests in networking, operating systems, cloud and mobile systems, databases, security and privacy, and systems for AI/ML. The department’s presence in systems has been quickly growing in recent years, with faculty publications in top venues such as OSDI, ATC, and SoCC. Candidates who can connect to and build on the department’s and/or university’s strengths are particularly encouraged to apply. While candidates at the assistant professor level are preferred, candidates at all levels will also be considered. Exceptional candidates not matching the above position descriptions will also be considered. Please submit your application through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/155047. Review of applications will begin December 15, 2024 and will continue until the positions are filled. Inquiries should be emailed to ttsearch(a)cs.tufts.edu. Teaching-track faculty positions (in person and online) starting in 2025 We invite applications for a full-time teaching position as Teaching Professor (open rank), Lecturer (open rank), or Professor of the Practice. The primary responsibility for the position is teaching and curriculum development for the department’s undergraduate and graduate programs. The position will begin in Spring or Fall 2025. The department primarily seeks candidates who have strong foundational knowledge in Artificial Intelligence who can contribute to expanding diversity of thought in the field. We also invite applications from exceptional candidates in any area. These are full-time, non-tenure-track positions. The initial appointment term will be for two years with the possibility of renewal contingent on annual performance review results. Please submit your application through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/154438. Applications are due December 1, 2024 but review of applications will begin October 15, 2024 and will continue until the positions are filled. Inquiries should be emailed to cssearch(a)cs.tufts.edu. Remco -- Remco Chang (he/him) Professor Department of Computer Science Tufts University http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~remco (lab) 617-627-6514 https://tufts.zoom.us/my/remcochang http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~remco/calendar.html

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[One Week Left! Apply or Share!] PhD in Visual Analytics for Explainable Visual Rehabilitation
by Chatzimparmpas, A. (Angelos) 07 Nov '24

07 Nov '24

Dear all, We are hiring a fully funded PhD Student at Utrecht University, NL! The deadline is due in one week (15 Nov. 2024)! Do you want to develop a Visual Analytics solution to help therapists monitor the rehabilitation of visually impaired patients? This PhD project is for you! In this PhD project, several teams (clinical centers, serious game developers, and academic institutions) combine their multidisciplinary skills to create and deploy a solution for rehabilitating patients having visual impairments by offering them training scenarios using a virtual reality (VR) setup. As PhD candidate in this project, you will conduct independent, high-quality research resulting in a doctoral dissertation. Your research will focus on designing a Visual Analytics solution to analyse data from rehabilitating patients with hemianopsia (partial blindness). With the support of explainable AI models, you will develop Visual Analytics dashboards for exploring complex data recorded from the training patients including eye tracking, task progress, and success rates. By quantifying model uncertainty, these dashboards will enable therapists to monitor and improve patients’ visual rehabilitation progress. You will collaborate with a diverse project team of academics, clinicians, and software developers to realize the goals of the project. Do you want to know more and apply? Follow the link below: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-in… For more information, please contact Dr. Chatzimparmpas at a.chatzimparmpas(a)uu.nl<mailto:a.chatzimparmpas@uu.nl>. With best regards, Angelos Chatzimparmpas and Alex Telea ——————— Visualization and Graphics Research Group Department of Information and Computing Sciences Utrecht University The Netherlands

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2nd Call for Papers - IVAPP 2025 (2nd Batch of Submissions Deadline: November 13)
by Kostiantyn Kucher 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

--------------------------------------- 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP) @ VISIGRAPP 2025 February 26-28, 2025, Porto, Portugal (Hybrid Event) https://ivapp.scitevents.org The International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Information Visualization, covering themes relating to Information and Data Visualization, as well as Visual Analytics or Scientific Visualization. IVAPP is organized in 3 major tracks: 1 - Information Visualization 2 - Scientific Visualization 3 - Visualization Techniques ---------------------------------------- Position Paper / Regular Paper (2nd batch) Submission: November 13, 2024 Proposals for Tutorials, Demos, and Panels: January 17, 2025 All deadlines refer to AOE time, i.e. "Anywhere on Earth" ---------------------------------------- Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. Regular and position paper submissions must be anonymized for the double-blind review process, which will involve two or more expert reviewers. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference theme and originality as part of the peer-review process. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support (e.g., see the proceedings from VISIGRAPP 2024: https://doi.org/10.5220/0000183300003660) SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers are planned to be published by Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending). A short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science Journal. Furthermore, we would like to inform that the event will be of hybrid nature, in the sense that online presentations of accepted papers will be possible for those authors that are unable to travel to the venue. Please see further information and detailed submission instructions at https://ivapp.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx ---------------------------------------- Conference Chairs - Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France - A. Augusto Sousa, FEUP/INESC TEC, Portugal Program Chairs - Stefan Jänicke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark - Helen Purchase, Monash University, Australia Associate Chairs - Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden - Christina Gillmann, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Johanna Schmidt, VRVis Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization Forschungs-GmbH, Austria Technically co-sponsored by: - IEEE CS Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) In cooperation with - European Association for Computer Graphics - VRVis Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization Forschungs-GmbH - French Association for Computer Graphics Keynote Speakers - Julien Pettré, Inria, France - Daniel Archambault, Newcastle University, United Kingdom - Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany - Diane Larlus, Naver Labs Europe, France ---------------------------------------- For any questions regarding paper submission or participation, please contact IVAPP Secretariat at ivapp.secretariat(a)insticc.org

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Reminder - EuroVis 2025: Call for workshops
by Alfie Abdul Rahman 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

EuroVis 2025: Call for workshops https://www.eurovis2025.lu/for-submitters/workshops We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization. These informal workshops in EuroVis provide a setting for participants to discuss advanced topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Workshops at EuroVis are open to all registered attendees (“invitation only” workshops will not be approved). Important Dates * Proposal Submission Monday, November 11, 2024 * Notification Monday, November 25, 2024 All deadlines are at 11:59 pm (23:59) AoE Anywhere on Earth (AoE)<https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth>. Workshops should: * Emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium; * Encourage information flow not solely from the presenters to the audience but rather engage the participation of all attendees, for example, through collective or small group discussions. Possible topics may include emerging or persisting problems, developing research agendas, networking to find common interests and possibilities for cooperation, interacting with domain experts involving analysis of their domain problems, etc. When choosing workshop topics to propose, please consider pre-approved workshops and try to avoid large overlaps: * EGPGV * EuroVA Note that workshops remain extremely well attended, but as new associated events and publication formats are introduced to EuroVis, the number of submitted papers may drop from previous years. So, a more interactive format (rather than one based mainly on presentations of submitted papers) is encouraged. Submission requirements Workshop proposals should include: * a title, * the contact details of the organizers, * a brief description of the organizers’ background, related publications, and research, * the planned activities (e.g., mainly talks, mainly interactive sessions, a mix), including an outline schedule for the program—workshops are strongly encouraged, though not required, to consider ways to engage all participants interactively, * the intended result and impact of the workshop, * a brief justification for why this workshop is necessary (e.g., why would the topic benefit from a more informal setting, in what ways is the topic emergent or a relatively poor fit for the main conference program, etc.), * a chosen measure for a successful CFP (e.g., number of submissions), possibly including an outline for a “backup policy” (e.g., changing the workshop format or voluntarily withdrawing the workshop before acceptance notification is sent, but should not require the workshop organizers to submit emergency papers to their own workshop), * a statement of the organization and the development of the list of participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures, and timeline for finalizing workshop presenters), * a list of any special technology needed, * the number of poster slots requested, if the workshop intends to feature posters, and * the proposed dates for the call for participation, author notification, and camera-ready deadlines (author notification must be before the early registration deadline for EuroVis; for inclusion of materials in the EG digital library and/or the downloadable proceedings, the camera-ready deadline must be 4 weeks prior to the conference). Because the number of workshop time slots is limited, half-day workshop proposals are strongly encouraged. However, well-justified full-day proposals will also be considered. Full-day proposals may optionally state what changes would be implemented to allow the workshop schedule to fit within a half day. If the proposed workshop is a follow-up of a previous workshop, please include a critical reflection of the prior workshop(s), including a discussion of the results and evidence of impact. The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please use the template file from https://www.eurovis2025.lu/fileadmin/files/egPublStyle-EuroVis_full-short-s… Attendance At least one author for each paper must register and attend the conference in person. Evaluation criteria The workshops aim to include various topics and a healthy mix of new and recurring events. Repeat submissions will be partially judged by the previous workshop's success. Workshop success will be judged subjectively, but popularity, research impact, visibility, and attendee feedback will all be considered. Specifically, the workshop proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria: * The potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research, * The degree to which the workshop provides a more interactive environment for participants—all things being equal, preference will be given to workshops that emphasize participant interaction, * The coherence of the proposed topic and the degree to which it would benefit from a workshop environment, * The ability to attract people and make them excited about the workshop, * The appropriateness with respect to EuroVis topics, * If this workshop has special needs, the feasibility of the proposed plan, including financial, logistics, scheduling, and coordination impact, is also important. The workshop chairs will balance the proposed topics to support the diversity of topics within EuroVis and complement the main program. Organizers should consider what steps they will take to encourage diverse participants in their workshop (e.g., a balance of experience, background, gender, etc.) to make participation as inclusive as possible. If accepted, workshops are required to prepare a short summary (50–100 words) for the workshop website and the web program. Workshop Support The workshop organizers will receive the following support from the EuroVis conference: * One complimentary 1-day registration for an invited speaker, * Room and AV support suitable for around 50 attendees, * Food and beverages for attendees: coffee breaks throughout the day, Sunday evening opening reception, space in the poster display area, if requested (from a limited pool set aside for standard workshops; available space depends on the specifics of the venue; early requests given priority over late requests), * PCS (Precision Conference Solutions) support for managing submissions and the review process, * EuroGraphics Digital Library publication of the workshop proceedings, if requested (considered archival). Note that each workshop participant will need to register to attend the EuroVis conference. Workshop Chairs * Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King's College London * Guido Reina, Universität Stuttgart

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