September 2025 - Infovis

Call for Contributions – SAC 2026 ASH Track on Applied Computing in Healthcare
by Arleo, Alessio 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions to the ASH Track (Applied Computing in Healthcare) at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2026, sponsored by ACM SIGAPP, which will take place on March 23-27, 2026, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The ASH track brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of computing and healthcare. We welcome contributions that explore how computational techniques—such as AI, data analytics, cybersecurity, IoT, and user-centered design—can enhance healthcare delivery, decision-making, and system resilience. We encourage original submissions that present novel research, architectures, applications, and case studies in areas including (but not limited to): * Artificial Intelligence in clinical and personalized medicine * Security, privacy, and regulatory compliance in digital health * Wearable systems and IoT for remote care and monitoring * Patient-centered technologies and assistive solutions * Operational intelligence and optimization in healthcare systems Important Dates * Paper/SRC submission: September 26, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2025 * Camera-ready copies: December 5, 2025 * Author registration: December 12, 2025 The accepted papers will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library in the proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. For more details, please refer to the attached Call for Papers and to the following website: https://ash-sac.github.io/ash2026/index.html We look forward to your contributions and to an exciting track showcasing the latest advances in applied computing for healthcare. Best regards, ASH Track Chairs – SAC 2026 Alessandro Palma – Sapienza University of Rome Alessio Arleo – Eindhoven University of Technology Simone Guarino – University Campus Bio-Medico Simone Lenti – Sapienza University of Rome Emmanouil Spanakis – FORTH-ICS & Technical University of Crete

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[Reminder] Abstracts due Sept 5 AoE: IEEE VR 2026 Call for Papers
by ieeevrpublicity＠gmail.com 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

*IEEE VR 2026: the 33rd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces* *March 21-25, 2026 | Daegu, Korea* https://ieeevr.org/2026/contribute/papers/ *Overview* IEEE VR 2026 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). This year there is again a SINGLE submission deadline for a unified review process for both the IEEE TVCG and the conference-only papers. The possible outcomes of this unified process are: 1. Accept as IEEE TVCG paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2026 2. Accept as IEEE VR 2026 conference paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2026 3. Reject *Inquiries*: program2026(a)ieeevr.org *New this year*: Papers will not have the option to be automatically accepted as IEEE VR Posters. Rather, authors of rejected papers will have to submit directly to the poster track. *New this year*: All senior (PhD-holding) authors should familiarize themselves with the IEEE VR 2026 reviewing guidelines [LINK TO COME]. Unless serving IEEE VR 2026 in another capacity, ALL SENIOR AUTHORS are expected to volunteer as reviewers and perform their duties in a timely and responsive fashion. This supersedes the prior requirement that one author for each paper commit to reviewing; if a paper has multiple senior co-authors, all are expected to volunteer. Egregious violations of this policy may be considered Highly Irresponsible Conduct, which could result in penalties up to and including desk rejection of their submitted paper(s). *Submissions will be accepted through Precision Conference Solutions this year. The PCS will open around mid Aug 2025:* *https://new.precisionconference.com/vr26a* <https://new.precisionconference.com/vr26a> *Important Dates* Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be honored. - *September 05, 2025*: Abstracts due (REQUIRED) - *September 12, 2025*: Submissions due - *December 12, 2025*: Initial notifications - *January 16, 2026*: Revised submissions due - *January 23, 2026*: Final notifications - *January 30, 2026*: Camera-ready materials due *Submission Guidelines* *IMPORTANT*: IEEE VR 2026 uses a *DOUBLE-BLIND* review process. Failure to anonymize submissions will result in *DESK REJECTION*. Each research paper should provide a contribution covering one or more of the following categories: methodological, technical, applications, and systems. - *Methodological papers* should describe advances in theories and methods of AR/VR/MR and 3DUI, such as ethical issues, theories on presence, or human factors. - *Technical papers *should describe advancements in algorithms or devices critical to AR/VR/MR and 3DUI development such as input, display, user interaction, or tracking. - *Application papers* provide an important insight to the community by explaining how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an evaluation of the success of the use of AR/VR/MR and/or 3DUI in the given application domain. - *System papers *should indicate how the developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, and convey any lessons learned in the process. Each paper should include an evaluation of its contributions, such as user studies, benchmarking and/or comparison with existing systems/techniques/methods. - *Format*: Papers must be strictly formatted according to IEEE VGTC conference submission guidelines and submitted electronically as PDF documents. - All paper submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society VGTC conference format ( https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/) See the visual examples below. - *MS Word template*: At the time of writing this CFP, the provided .docx file may not comply with the VR formatting guidelines. Please use the provided .dotx file and ensure that the final submission matches the formatting guidelines or the paper may be desk rejected. Check the provided sample pdf documents for correct formatting. - Papers should be 4-9 pages of text, figures, and tables, but NOT including references. References should not exceed 2 pages in length. Note that the minimum length is 4 full pages of text. Appendices are included in the page count. - Supplementary materials should be provided in a separate file. Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. - Accepted papers will have to be formatted by the authors according to the relevant camera-ready guidelines. *Topics* IEEE VR 2026 seeks contributions in VR/AR/MR and 3DUI including, but not limited to, the following topics: - 360° video - 3D and volumetric display and projection technology - 3D authoring - 3D user interfaces - Accessibility of immersive interfaces - Audio interfaces and rendering - Collaborative interactions - Computer graphics techniques - Crowd simulation - Cybersickness - Diversity and gender issues - Embodied agents, virtual humans, and (self-)avatars - Ethical issues - Evaluation methods - Haptic interfaces and rendering - Human factors and ergonomics - Immersive analytics and visualization - Immersive applications and games - Input devices - Locomotion and navigation - Mediated and diminished reality - Mobile, desktop, or hybrid 3DUIs - Modeling and simulation - Multi-user and distributed systems - Multimodal capturing and reconstruction - Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception - Multisensory interfaces and rendering - Perception and cognition - Presence, body ownership, and agency - Redirection - Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering - Teleoperation and telepresence - Therapy and rehabilitation - Touch, tangible, and gesture interfaces - Tracking and sensing - User experience and usability - XR technology infrastructure While no list can be exhaustive, papers should, as a rule of thumb, engage meaningfully with existing literature in VR/AR/MR/3DUI. If a submission contains few or no references to this literature (focusing entirely on, for example, computer vision or computer graphics), that submission might not be appropriate for IEEE VR and may be desk rejected. *Review Process* The review process will have two cycles. *Review Cycle I (Submission to Initial Notification)* Submissions will be assigned to two members of the VR 2026 International Program Committee (IPC): a coordinator (primary) and a secondary reviewer. Submissions that violate the submission guidelines or that receive low review scores from both the coordinator and the secondary reviewer will be rejected early. This stage of the review process will be double blind. We will strive to have all other submissions receive a total of at least three reviews. Based on the reviews and in consultation with a subset of the IPC, the Program Chairs will make one of the following initial recommendations for each submission: - *Conditionally accept as IEEE TVCG paper*. Continuing our cooperation with the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), the top submissions will be considered for publication in a special issue of IEEE TVCG. - *Conditionally accept as conference paper.* These submissions will be considered for inclusion in the Proceedings of IEEE VR, archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. - *Reject.* *Review Cycle II (Initial notification to Final decision)* Each conditionally accepted paper's revision will be reviewed by its coordinator, who will make a final recommendation to the Program Chairs regarding acceptance. If the conditions for acceptance are not met, the paper will be rejected. *Additional Guidelines* *Abstract Submission* Note that a paper abstract must be uploaded seven days prior to the actual paper submission deadline. This facilitates the process of assigning reviewers, as the review process operates on a very tight schedule. *Ethics and Responsibility* All submissions describing research experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by the authors' institution(s), and authors are required to secure and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee prior to collecting data. An approval by any ethical review board, if required by your institution, needs to be indicated via the submission system. Authors will be required to submit the name of the ethical review board, approved protocol title and number, and the date that ethical approval was obtained prior to running human participants. Authors must be able to provide proof of ethical approval upon request. Incorrect reporting of ethical approval will result in desk rejection. *Participant Diversity* To support high-quality research, all submissions describing research with human participants should strive for participant diversity. As first steps toward this goal, VR 2026 is encouraging the following: - Research that aims to benefit a general population should be representative of that population. (e.g., balanced across gender or age). Research that claims to benefit a specific population should clearly state and justify its focus on that population (e.g., pilots, surgeons). - All submissions must report participant demographics (gender, age, etc.). Notes about recruiting representative populations: - Recruiting more diverse samples does not imply that the research must treat these data as independent variables and analyze differences in independent variables between demographic groups. - Recruiting more diverse samples does not increase the number of participants required for adequate statistical power given an effect size. - Many ethics review boards and funding sources already require participant diversity for inclusive and unbiased research. The VR 2026 program committee and external reviewers will be strongly encouraged to consider participant diversity in relation to the generality of a submission's claims as a first-order reviewing concern. Submissions that make general claims yet rely on a severely imbalanced participant group may be negatively impacted by the reviewing process. *Review Duties for Authors* The increasing number of submissions for IEEE VR makes us all dependent on a large number of good reviewers who are willing to provide constructive feedback and engage with authors on their work. Every paper needs three quality reviews. To expand the reviewing pool and to promote quality reviews, for each submitted paper, each senior author will be required to register to review at least one paper through PCS at the time of submission - although more would obviously be welcome. Additionally, senior authors are encouraged to ask experienced junior authors to register in PCS to review papers, and then to mentor the experienced junior authors during the review process. *Presentation at the Conference* All accepted submissions must be presented orally at the conference. An in-person presentation is expected, and online presentations will be accommodated only in exceptional cases. Requests for online presentations due to exceptional cases must be made at least one month before the conference. *Submission Language* All paper submissions must be in English. *Previous Publication and Plagiarism* Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published. A manuscript is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A manuscript identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part) to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for another conference or journal during any part of the VR review process, from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed to authors. In some situations, a submission may build upon prior work. In order to fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and prior work, authors may upload additional papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of explanation that highlights the significant changes or advances; these materials will only be seen by the primary reviewer. Specifically, this treatment is applied to the following cases: - non-peer-reviewed works that are publicly available (on arXiv, as a technical report, etc.) - non-archival publications presented in past IEEE VR conferences (posters, demos, etc.) Submissions will be checked for plagiarism using IEEE Crosscheck. Detection of significant plagiarism will lead to rejection. For more information about definitions of plagiarism and IEEE policies in this area, please see the I Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints <https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism.html> and the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual <http://www.ieee.org/documents/opsmanual.pdf>. *AI-generated Text* In accordance with IEEE guidelines <https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-gene…>, the use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to an IEEE publication. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content. *Submission Anonymity* ** IEEE VR uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process ** This means that both the authors and the reviewers must remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (including citations and optional videos) 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 (exceptions were described above). Authors should work diligently to ensure that their submissions do not expose their identities either intentionally or through carelessness. Authors who have questions/issues around the double-blind submission policy should contact the program chairs. ** Failure to adhere to the double-blind policy will result in desk rejection. ** *Pre-dissemination through public online repositories* Uploading the submitted manuscript to an online repository (e.g., arXiv) before the end of the review process does not constitute a reason for rejecting the manuscript. However, the authors should be advised that doing so can compromise the anonymity of their manuscript and therefore bias its double-blind review. *Videos* Videos must be submitted according to the instructions on the submission website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as described in the separate Call for Videos). When submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of any identifying information prior to reviewing as per the double-blind submission policy. If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version of the materials will be requested. *Contacts* *Technical Papers Chairs:* - Lonni Besançon, Linköping University, Sweden - Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University, United States - Daisuke Iwai, University of Osaka, Japan - Shohei Mori, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Tabitha Peck, Davidson College, United States - Richard Skarbez, La Trobe University, Australia program2026(a)ieeevr.org

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Seeking Questionnaire Participants
by Bendeck, Alexander E 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

Hello, The Information Interfaces Group at Georgia Tech is recruiting participants who are willing to volunteer their time to take a 30-minute online survey. You will not receive any compensation, but your participation will greatly help our ongoing research. Please see more information below. We are seeking participants for a study to help us understand the questions that arise when users of a data visualization system are conducting visual data analysis. We especially intend to understand the types of open-ended questions that arise which cannot be directly answered using the data or visualization at hand. If you choose to be a participant, you will click on the link below. You will first be asked to read a consent form. You will then complete a Qualtrics survey in your web browser. Your total time commitment will be around 30 minutes. To participate, you must be at least 18 years of age and be physically present in the United States. Please contact John Stasko at john.stasko(a)cc.gatech.edu or Alexander Bendeck at abendeck3(a)gatech.edu with any questions. https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6x4BY42Zp1LBmnQ Thanks, Alexander Bendeck

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EuroVis 2026: Call for workshops - 1st Reminder
by Chatzimparmpas, A. (Angelos) 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

EuroVis 2026: Call for workshops - 1st Reminder https://eurovis.org.uk/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, September 29, 2025 * Notification: Monday, October 13, 2025 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 * Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Utrecht University * Guido Reina, Universität Stuttgart * Cagatay Turkay, University of Warwick

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Call for Papers - GRIVAPP 2026
by Kostiantyn Kucher 01 Sep '25

01 Sep '25

--------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 21st International Conference on Computer Graphics, Interaction, Visualization Theory and Applications (GRIVAPP 2026) March 9–11, 2026, Marbella, Spain (Hybrid Event) https://grivapp.scitevents.org/ The International Conference on Computer Graphics, Interaction, Visualization Theory and Applications brings together researchers, engineers, and practitioners across the fields of Computer Graphics, Information Visualization, and Human-Computer Interaction. It serves as a central forum to explore advances in the following areas: 1. Geometry — Modeling and Rendering 2. Animation and Simulation 3. Information Visualization & Visual Analytics 4. Scientific Visualization 5. Interactive Environments and Human-Computer Interaction ---------------------------------------- Regular Paper Submission (1st batch): October 2, 2025 Position Paper / Regular Paper (2nd batch) Submission: November 13, 2025 Proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions: October 29, 2025 Proposals for Tutorials, Demos, and Panels: January 23, 2026 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. All submissions must be prepared in English and the use of artificial intelligence-generated text must be disclosed. 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 2025: https://doi.org/10.5220/0000196500003912) 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). 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://grivapp.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx ---------------------------------------- Conference Chair - Stefan Jänicke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Program Chair - Daniel Meneveaux, University of Poitiers, XLIM, France Associate Chairs - Bailin Deng, Cardiff University, United Kingdom - Veronica Costa Orvalho, Didimo Inc. Universidade do Porto, Portugal - Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden - Johanna Schmidt, TU Wien, Austria - Daniel Gonçalves, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal In Cooperation with - European Association for Computer Graphics - French Association for Computer Graphics ---------------------------------------- For any questions regarding paper submission or participation, please contact GRIVAPP Secretariat at grivapp.secretariat(a)insticc.org ----------------------------------------

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