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[DL June 30th] Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare @ IEEE VIS 2025
by Arleo, Alessio 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

Full-day Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) ============================================ (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2025) Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------ The submission deadline is June 30, 2025, creating an opportunity to showcase late-breaking research results on Visual Analytics in Healthcare. We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academia, healthcare organizations, and industry in any of the short paper types listed below: - Application/Research papers (format: “6+1”) - System Demonstration papers (format “2+1”) - Posters (format: “2+1” extended abstract and A0 poster) - **NEW FOR THIS YEAR** Grand Challenge (position) paper(format “2+1”) The 2025 Workshop on Visual Analytics (VA) in Healthcare (VAHC 2025) is the 16th annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art interactive visual data analysis techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. Moreover, recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, and other emerging technologies have led to a growing and evolving need in healthcare VA. These technologies can be leveraged to enhance AI explainability and improve human data analysis through AI-driven reasoning. The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together leading VIS designers, VA researchers, medical experts, and visionaries to discuss: a) interactive data visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data, b) areas of healthcare that need more attention from visualization and visual data analysis, and c) emerging research trends, visualization techniques, software applications, benchmarks, and open datasets. The workshop will enable presenters to showcase their ongoing work through oral presentation and system demonstrations. In past years, both demonstrations of prototype and production visual analytics software have been particularly well received, and paper submitters are encouraged to submit a companion demo proposal. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------ We welcome discussions on the use of VA approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, AI, explainable AI, and ML applied to healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of various user groups, including (but not limited to) patients, clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, and insurance claim analysts. The 2025 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare will cover a range of topics on the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and abstraction of VA methods, including (but not limited to): - Applications of visual analytics to: - Clinical care - Multi-omic datasets - Patient-generated health data - Digital and mobile health, and digital twins - Patient- and consumer-related methods: - Understanding of patient/health consumer behavior and experience - Personalized healthcare and health management - Patient education, empowerment, and quality of life - Clinician-patient communication - VA-machine intelligence for healthcare data visualization - Human-centered AI for health decision-making - Human-AI collaboration and modern mixed initiatives - Equitable and ethical AI for healthcare analytics - Explainable and interpretable AI - Large-language model workflow integrations - Public health data - Epidemiology and disease surveillance - Health behavior and lifestyle studies - Health systems and policy evaluation - Longitudinal and genetic studies - Global health inequality and development tracking IDENTIFYING GRAND CHALLENGES --------------------------------------- After 15 years of VAHC workshops at both IEEE VIS and American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), several special journal issues, the founding of a formal VIS Working Group within the AMIA, and a substantial collection of papers, VAHC has helped lead the way toward advancing the use of visualization and VA within health domains. Yet, over the same time period, many forces have emerged to transform the health informatics ecosystem: a worldwide pandemic, the proliferation of mobile devices and sensors, the emergence of AI, and the rise of large population electronic health data resources, to name a few. At VAHC 2025, we will include a Grand Challenges session where we will work to integrate the expertise of present and past authors, panelists, audience, and committees to shape a common set of grand challenges for this field, in this era. To support this, we introduce a separate track for short position papers. We aim to collaboratively publish a Grand Challenges article using workshop outcomes to help guide future research. PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- We will accept short papers with up to six pages plus one page of references (6+1). We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academia, healthcare organizations, and industry in any of the short paper types listed below: - Application/Research papers (format: “6+1”) - System Demonstration papers (format “2+1”) - Posters (format: “2+1” extended abstract and A0 poster) - (**NEW FOR THIS YEAR**) Grand Challenge (position) paper(format “2+1”) All accepted types of submissions will have the chance for an oral presentation. Demonstrations: Every system demonstration paper may be accompanied by a video submission. All material will be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS), and a link will be announced at a later date. For all submissions, please use the VGTC conference style template: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/journal/ Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions for the chairs, while contact vahc.paperschairs at gmail.com to get in touch with the paper chairs for any questions about the submission process. BEST PAPERS: ---------------- VAHC assigns Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards, expressed by certificates and recognition on the VAHC workshop website. We plan to invite authors of high-quality papers to submit a revised and extended version to an internationally recognized scientific journal. More details will be disclosed in the next weeks, as the submission deadline approaches. IMPORTANT DATES*: ---------------- - Deadline for submission: **June 30, 2025** - Notification of acceptance: **July 31, 2025** - Camera-ready papers due: **August 17 2025** - VAHC 2025 workshop: **November 2nd or 3rd, 2025** *All deadlines are due at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) on the date indicated. JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: ---------------------- Visit http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org to join our mailing list. GENERAL CHAIR ---------------- Alessio Arleo TU Eindhoven ORGANIZERS ---------------- Renata Raidou TU Wien Gabriela Morgenshtern University of Zurich PAPER CHAIRS ---------------- Velitchko Filipov TU Wien Robert Laramee University of Nottingham Roy Ruddle University of Leeds Jana Sedlakova University of Zurich STEERING COMMITTEE: ---------------- Jürgen Bernard University of Zurich Annie T. Chen University of Washington David Gotz UNC-Chapel Hill Danny T.Y. Wu UNC-Chapel Hill

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[CFP] Special track on AI for Good (AI4Good) @ ACM GoodIT 2025
by Chiara Ceccarini 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

CFP: Special track on AI for Good (AI4Good) @ ACM GoodIT 2025 https://sites.google.com/view/goodit-ai4good 3-5 September 2025, Antwerp, Belgium The “AI for Good” special track explores the dynamic relationship between artificial intelligence and sustainability from a two-fold perspective: the sustainability of AI systems themselves and the role of AI in promoting sustainable development. It highlights interdisciplinary approaches that optimize AI's environmental, social and economic footprint while leveraging its potential to address climate challenges, resource efficiency, and global sustainability goals. In this context, data visualization can serve as a powerful tool to communicate and optimize the interaction between AI and sustainability to guide strategic decisions toward a more sustainable future. ## Topics of Interest * Sustainable AI: approaches to address environmental, social and economic aspects of AI * Data visualization for the impact of AI Systems: data visualizations to monitor the carbon footprint and energy efficiency of AI systems, showing the impact of AI technologies on the environment and suggesting solutions to reduce their consumption. * AI for environmental monitoring: climate modeling, disaster prediction, and ecosystem management * AI for circular economy: waste reduction, supply chain optimization, and resource efficiency * Data visualization and AI-enhanced analytics: improving climate awareness and policy formulation * AI-powered decision-making: smart urban planning, infrastructure sustainability, and renewable energy solutions * AI applications in agriculture, biodiversity conservation, and water management * Data Visualization for Tracking Carbon Footprint of AI Models: visualize the carbon footprint of AI models, monitoring emissions during the training and inference phase. * Sustainable Large Language Models (LLMs): optimizing training and inference efficiency, reducing carbon footprint, and applying LLMs to sustainability challenges * Data Visualization Approaches for eXplainable AI: visualize explanations of AI models, focusing on specific target users. ## Important dates * Papers submission: 25th May 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 8th July 2025 * Camera-ready paper due: 19th July 2025 _________________________________________ Chiara Ceccarini, PhD. Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-A) Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna

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[VIS4DH CfP] 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Alfie Abdul Rahman 30 May '25

30 May '25

Dear colleagues, We’re happy to announce the call for papers for the VIS4DH workshop co-located with the IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna, Austria! The VIS4DH workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from the fields of visualization and the humanities to discuss new research directions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities research. This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2025 in two ways - you can submit to the workshop’s Paper track, or you can submit to the Agora track, which calls for provocations, artworks, work in progress, or lab talks. Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the (digital) humanities and social sciences, and to all areas of visualization research and practice. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. While the workshop theme for VIS4DH’25 remains open to all submissions exploring the intersection of the humanities and visualization, we especially invite contributions related to the theme Visualizing Peace and Conflict as a response to the global increase of violence and armed conflict (see https://ucdp.uu.se/encyclopedia) At the same time, however, submissions do not need to focus explicitly on conflict between warring parties. We also encourage submissions related to ideological, civil, social, environmental, or epistemic conflicts and the potential for their resolution to address a broader theme/trend of intensified division worldwide. The topic aims to bring together researchers in international relations, peace & conflict resolution, sociology, anthropology, digital humanities, and visualization to present and discuss how research approaches in these areas can critically inform one another and contribute to new ways of studying conflict and its peaceful resolution. Besides general contributions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide theoretical and/or applied perspectives, with this year’s theme, we invite work around (but not limited to) the following questions: * How can visualization techniques make cultural phenomena which are substantially structured or driven by tensions, antagonisms, controversies, or conflicts visible and negotiable? * How can visualization tools be designed to inform or support the resolution of conflicts? * What visual strategies can be employed to highlight how political conflicts frequently translate into representational or interpretive conflicts (e.g., generating contested or conflicting descriptions, datasets, framings, rhetorics, or other design choices)? * What role do disagreements play in collaborative research and visualization processes, and how might those be productively visualized rather than resolved or hidden? Submission Deadlines Paper Track: 30 June 2025, 23:59 AoE Agora Track: 22 August 2025, 23:59 AoE Please, visit the workshop website on https://vis4dh.dbvis.de<https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/> for more information. The organizing committee looks forward to your contributions and to lively discussions in Vienna Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Mark-Jan Bludau, Eva Mayr, Monika Schwarz, & Tomas Vancisin — vis4dh(a)gmail.com

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2025 IEEE Workshop on Uncertainty Visualization: November 2-7, 2025, in Vienna, Austria
by Athawale, Tushar 28 May '25

28 May '25

Tushar Athawale, David Pugmire, and Antigoni Georgiadou from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, along with Chris Johnson and Paul Rosen from the University of Utah, Kristi Potter from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Tim Gerrits from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University, and Nadia Boukhelifa from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, are excited to announce the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) workshop on, “Uncertainty Visualization: Unraveling Relationships of Uncertainty, AI, and Decision-Making”. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2025 <https://ieeevis.org/year/2025/welcome> IEEE VIS Conference<https://ieeevis.org/year/2025/welcome> in Vienna, Austria, November 2-7, 2025. Uncertainty in data, algorithms, and processes is a big obstacle to reliable analysis and decision-making. Furthermore, the use of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming pervasive across scientific domains, but it faces a major limitation of trustworthiness of predictions due to uncertainties propagated from the data and AI models. The Call for Papers for this workshop invites you to submit short/full papers on the topics related to visualization, analysis, and treatment of uncertainty stemming from data, algorithms, and ML/AI workflows used in a broad range of science and application domains, including visualization, material science, energy science, and quantum computing, for trusted scientific discovery (more information can be found in the link below). The deadline for submission is July 10, 2025. 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞: https://tusharathawale.github.io/uncertainty-vis-workshop-2025/index.html VIS workshop 𝐰𝐞𝐛page: https://ieeevis.org/year/2025/info/program/workshops#uncertainty Contact: uncertainty-vis(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:uncertainty-vis@ieeevis.org>

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GD 2025: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
by Andreas Kerren 27 May '25

27 May '25

Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ================================================================ GD 2025: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS The 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025) September 24-26, 2025, Norrköping, Sweden https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2025/ ================================================================ PDF version: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2025/assets/pdfs/Call_for_Papers-2025.pdf HTML version: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2025/pages/cfp/ ================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission deadline: June 3 - Paper submission deadline: June 10 - Author notification: July 23 - Poster submission deadline: August 22 - Poster notification: September 1 ================================================================ *Graph Drawing* is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of *Network Visualization*. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications for which it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Application areas include data science, social sciences, web computing, information systems, life sciences, geography, business intelligence, information security, and software engineering. Graph Drawing has been the main annual conference in this area for more than 30 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing, their experimental evaluation, as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspects of graph drawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters and to participate in the symposium as well as the graph drawing contest. GD 2025 will be held in Norrköping, Sweden, on September 24-26, 2025 with a reception on the evening of September 23. A preconference PhD school will take place September 22-23, 2025. GD 2025 is designed to be held on-site. It is expected that regular papers are presented on site by one of the authors. To address the global challenges and as an offer for authors who are unable to attend we allow for a limited number of remote presentations, as further explained below. The code of conduct for the GD conference can be found at http://graphdrawing.org/safetoc.html ================================================================ PAPERS We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. To promote a balanced coverage of the field, GD has two distinct tracks, and papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the other track. Regular papers must be submitted explicitly to one of the two tracks. However, all program committee members may review papers from either track. *TRACK 1:* Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects This track is mainly devoted to *fundamental theoretical graph drawing advances*, such as combinatorial and algorithmic aspects. We aim at covering a diverse set of topics, which for this track includes (but is not limited to): - Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms - Geometric and topological graph theory - Computational topology of graphs on surfaces - Graph representations - Geometric advances and computing in graph drawing - Combinatorics and optimization in graph drawing *TRACK2 :* Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects This track is mainly devoted to the *practical aspects of graph drawing*, such as experimental evaluations of graph drawing related algorithms, the development and/or evaluation of related libraries and tools, or systems and interfaces in different application areas. We aim at covering a diverse set of topics, which for this track includes (but is not limited to): - Engineering of graph drawing algorithms and network visualization systems - Interfaces, methods, and high-quality tools for interacting with graphs and networks - Benchmarks and experimental studies in the context of graph drawing and network visualization - Cognitive studies on network visualization aesthetics and user interaction - Visualization of networks in real world applications - Machine learning methods in graph drawing & network visualization - Graph drawing & network visualization for AI explainability Authors of accepted papers in this track are encouraged to show a demo of their software/system during the poster session. *SHORT PAPERS* In addition to the above two tracks, there will be a separate track for short papers. Here we welcome smaller and less elaborate contributions on relevant topics. Papers in this category will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. *REMOTE PRESENTATIONS* For authors who cannot present their paper in person we offer the possibility for remote presentation, which must be declared at submission time. Authors of accepted papers in this category have to register for the conference. Papers in this category are evaluated and selected by the program committee by applying the same high standards as for the other tracks. In addition, the authors have to submit a recording of their presentation two weeks after the submission of the paper. The remote submission chair can influence the score of papers in this track based on the quality of the recorded talk and even reject submissions if the quality of the recorded talk is inappropriate. There is a limit of six remote presentations. *POSTERS & CONTEST* Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas are solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear elsewhere) to the GD community. Authors of posters should prepare an abstract that must be submitted together with the poster itself. Each submission will thus consist of two pdf files (the abstract and the poster). Details about the traditional *Graph Drawing Contest*, which is held at the conference, are provided at the website <https://mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/2025/>. ================================================================ RULES FOR SUBMISSION Results that have been previously published (or are scheduled for publication) in another conference proceedings or journal, as well as simultaneous submissions of results to other conferences with published proceedings or journals are not permitted, except for poster submissions. With the exception of remote presentations, each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author, otherwise the paper can be excluded from publication in the proceedings. ChatGPT and similar large language models may be used to improve the paper’s language, but its use should be mentioned as a footnote and the authors remain responsible for the full paper. In particular, the unattributed use of any such tools in the creation of the paper’s scientific content is forbidden. *SUBMISSION FORMAT* The proceedings will be published in the LIPIcs <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publishing/series/details/lipics> series. To facilitate the process, submissions have to be prepared in accordance with the LIPIcs author instructions <https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author>, the page provides links to the LIPIcs class file along with an example and detailed author instructions. For the submission, the use of the LaTeX class file gd-lipics-v2.cls <https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2025/assets/template/gd-lipics-v2.cls> is requested. The class file is a wrapper around the standard LIPIcs class and implements line counting, see CG-linecount.pdf <https://www.computational-geometry.org/guidelines/linecount_2022_09_19.pdf> for details. Submissions must not exceed the following limits: - 500 lines for full papers, - 225 lines for short papers, - 80 lines for posters’ abstracts. The above limits do not include front matter (title, authors, and affiliations), references, or appendices. The class files provide line counting which should be accurate in most cases. Authors should avoid substantial amounts of text in unnumbered lines. In addition, the main content of the paper must not exceed the following page limits excluding references: - 15 pages for long papers, - 7 pages for short papers, - 3 pages posters’ abstracts. The claims of full and short papers should be fully substantiated. If this information does not fit within the line limit, the authors should include it in a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the reviewers may read at their own discretion. For poster submissions, no appendix is expected. We also encourage authors to avoid "et al." in citations in favor of an equal mention of the surnames of all authors. For references with few authors, it is recommended to name all of them; if the number of authors is large, consider writing "(It is shown that) X [#]" or "The authors in [#] show that X" instead of "A et al. [#] show that X". *PAPER SUBMISSION, PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE* Papers should be submitted electronically via Easychair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd2025>. The proceedings will be published in the *Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)* series and are available open access. Selected papers from Track 1 and Track 2 will be invited for submission to a special issue of the *Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA)*. The authors of two selected papers in Track 2 will be invited to submit a substantially extended and enhanced version of their work to *IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)*. A special TVCG papers session at the Graph Drawing conference will also feature regular TVCG papers. Further details can be found at https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tvcg/tvcg-partners-with-c… ================================================================ LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEW PROCESS The review process of regular and short papers will be handled in a lightweight double-blind mode. This means that authors are not allowed to reveal their identity in the submitted paper, but are free to disseminate draft versions of the paper prior to the conference and to give talks on the topic as they normally would. In particular, the submitted paper should not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses. References to their own related work are allowed, as long as the supporting text maintains anonymity (e.g., using sentences in the third person). Members of the Program Committee will not have the identity of the authors of any paper revealed to them during the entire review process. To handle conflicts of interest effectively, authors will be required to declare conflicts of interest with PC members when they submit their paper. Poster submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee in a single-blind mode. In particular, the submitted abstract should contain the authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses. ================================================================ AWARDS For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD 2025 will bestow a Best Paper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to present their work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2025 attendees. ================================================================ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Andreas Kerren, Linköping University, Sweden (general co-chair) Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden (general co-chair) Claudio Linhares, Linnaeus University, Sweden (PhD school chair) Nico Reski, Linköping University, Sweden (Decision Arena chair) Zeyang Huang, Linköping University, Sweden (web chair) ================================================================ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessio Arleo, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Michael Bekos, University of Ioannina, Greece Markus Chimani, University of Osnabrück, Germany Éric Colin de Verdière, CNRS, LIGM, Marne-la-Vallée, France Giordano Da Lozzo, Roma Tre University, Italy Sara Di Bartolomeo, TU Wien, Austria Vida Dujmovic, University of Ottawa, Canada (program co-chair) Henry Förster, TU Munich, Germany Fabrizio Frati, Roma Tre University, Italy Robert Ganian, TU Wien, Austria Daniel Gonçalves, CNRS & University of Montpellier, France Siddharth Gupta, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, India Thekla Hamm, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University, Japan Philipp Kindermann, Trier University, Germany Stephen Kobourov, TU Munich, Germany Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden Silvia Miksch, TU Wien, Austria Fabrizio Montecchiani, University of Perugia, Italy (program co-chair) Pat Morin, Carleton University, Canada Tamara Mchedlidze, Utrecht University, Netherlands Giacomo Ortali, University of Perugia, Italy Sergey Pupyrev, Meta, USA Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University, USA Raphael Steiner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Andrew Suk, University of California San Diego, USA Antonios Symvonis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Csaba D. Tóth, CSU Northridge, USA Torsten Ueckerdt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Pavel Valtr, Charles University, Czech Republic Tatiana von Landesberger, University of Cologne, Germany Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University, Israel ================================================================ CONTEST COMMITTEE Sara Di Bartolomeo, University of Konstanz, Germany Fabian Klute, UPC Barcelona, Spain (chair) Debajyoti Mondal, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Jules Wulms, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands

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Invitation for Feedback on the HDMI Canvas (EuroVA 2025 Position Paper)
by Jürgen Bernard 26 May '25

26 May '25

Dear colleagues and friends, Next week, I will present the Human-Data-Model Interaction (HDMI) Canvas <https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07534> as a position paper at EuroVA 2025 <https://www.eurova.org/eurova-2025>. The HDMI Canvas structures key Visual Analytics building blocks by the benefits they offer for Humans, Data, and Models. It also maps how Humans, Data, and Models contribute to the Visual Analytics process — what we describe as the three E’s: - Externalizationof Human Knowledge and Preferences, - Exploration of Data, - Explanation of Models (including statistics, analytical methods, and machine learning) I am looking for feedback to help refine and generalize the canvas, towards a tool that is useful for the community. If you have 15 minutes, I would greatly appreciate if you could complete the following questionnaire: *Questionnaire Link:* https://forms.gle/ysEj1PrELrra7qM37 Thank you very much for your time and support! Best regards, Jürgen Bernard -- Jürgen Bernard Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Zurich juergen-bernard.info

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[CfP] SUMAC'25 @ACMMM'25: the 7th ACM International workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents
by Valerie Gouet 26 May '25

26 May '25

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Call for Papers SUMAC 2025 7th ACM International workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents Advances in machine learning, signal processing, multimodal techniques and human-machine interaction 27 - 31 Oct, 2025 Dublin, Ireland In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2025 Workshop: https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2025/ Main conference: https://acmmm2025.org/ *** Aims and scope The ambition of SUMAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current trends in the analysis, understanding and promotion of heritage contents. These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub- fields of machine learning, signal processing, multi-modal techniques and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics: * Information retrieval for multimedia heritage * Automated archaeology and heritage data processing * NLP and knowledge graphs * Multi-modal deep learning, generative modeling * Time series analysis for heritage data * Heritage visualization, virtualization and narratives * Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data * Open heritage data and bench-marking The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes: * Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts * Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation * Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage * Inclusive education * Smart and sustainable tourism * Urban planning * Digital Twins *** Important dates (AoE) * Paper submission: July 11, 2025 * Author acceptance notification: August 1, 2025 * Camera-Ready: August 11, 2025 * Workshop date: TBA (October 27 or 28, 2025) *** Keynote speakers * Johan Oomen (Research Director, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, The Netherlands): talk "TransMIXR : ignite the immersive media sector by enabling new narrative visions for cultural heritage". * Diego Jiménez Badillo (Profesor Investigador, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico): talk "The analysis of cultural heritage in the age of Artificial Intelligence - application to archaeology and cultural heritage conservation". *** Special Highlights Best Paper Award. Following tradition, SUMAC 2025 will also be awarding a best paper award, accompanied with a certificate and a trophy. *** Submission guidelines Submission format. All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work (full paper) as well as work in progress (short paper). Two submission formats are accepted: a) 4 pages plus 1-page reference (short paper); or b) 8 pages plus up to 2-page reference (full paper). They must be encoded as PDF using the ACM Article Template of the main conference ACM Multimedia 2025, see https://acmmm2025.org/information-for-authors/. Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field; they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. As for the main conference ACM MM, the workshop papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *** Organizers Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab / IGN-ENSG / Gustave Eiffel University, France) Edgar Roman-Rangel (ITAM, Mexico) Li Weng (Zhejiang Financial College, China) Looking forward to hearing from you at SUMAC! The workshop organizers -- Valerie Gouet-Brunet Senior researcher / DR1 Ministère de la Transition Ecologique LASTIG Lab. / Univ. Gustave Eiffel / IGN (French mapping agency) https://www.umr-lastig.fr/vgouet/

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The future of Visual Analytics panel
by Fernando Paulovich 23 May '25

23 May '25

Hello all, This year, "Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics," the cornerstone of Visual Analytics, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Aiming to discuss the future of Visual Analytics and potentially give the first steps to updating such an agenda, we are organizing a panel to debate who we are (what our identity is), our vision for the next decades (what we want) and how to achieve such a vision (what we should do) at the EuroVa workshop (inside Eurovis 2025) - June 2nd, 2025. The form https://forms.gle/bCGyF7ay1y7V8xY49 enables you to actively contribute to our discussion, helping us focus on what is most relevant to the community. Your participation is anonymous (unless you want to identify yourself). Please, circulate this so we can reach as many participants as possible. All the best, Fernando -- -------------- 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 6.078 PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands -------------

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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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Postdoctoral Researcher position @ ULisbon (HORIZON Europe)
by Augusto Esteves 02 May '25

02 May '25

The first of the two postdoctoral research positions at the University of Lisbon, under the RELISH project (https://relisheu.org/) is out! You can find the full application details here: https://tinyurl.com/relish-eu, but below is a quick summary: # We are looking for an inspired researcher interested in establishing a platform for rich visualisations of recipes and gastronomy that helps younger people (re)connect with Europe's cultural heritage, and that can be a resource for educational efforts and policy change. Researchers with experience or interest in web tech stacks are highly encouraged to apply. # The call is open until May 7, and you can apply via the following link: https://dot.ist-id.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/admissions/contest/1697860701651070. I'm happy to help decipher the submission requirements and to have a general call about the position: augusto.esteves(a)tecnico.ulisboa.pt <mailto:augusto.esteves@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> # I'm flexible with the start date and will consider remote working. This position is a work contract (24 months) and not a scholarship -- i.e., it includes 14 monthly payments per year (12 months plus summer and Christmas allowances), work insurance, meal allowance, and contributions to social security in Portugal. Thank you, Augusto Esteves

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