- Infovis - infovis.org

[CfPoster Graph Drawing 2020]: Updated Call for Poster Graph Drawing Conference 2020
by David Auber 31 Jul '20

31 Jul '20

============================================== Call for Posters GD 2020 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 16-18, 2020 Vancouver, Canada https://gd2020.cs.ubc.ca/ ================================================ 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 where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas include data science, social sciences, web computing, information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, information security, and software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 25 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. GD 2020 will be online on September 16-18, 2020, hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. 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 and the graph drawing contest. POSTERS ------- The submission of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas is 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. Due to Covid-19 poster session will be done online. During the conference there will be an online 45-minute poster session where participants of the conference will have access to zoom rooms, one room for each accepted poster with at least one of the authors present in the room to answer questions. Furthermore, each poster will be accessible online to all participants during the entire conference. Authors of posters should prepare an abstract (up to two pages, excluding references, in LNCS style) that must be submitted via easychair. Abstracts of accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings (two pages+references). The format of the poster is unrestricted this year, the authors just send a URL for their electronic poster. However, there are two requirements: (1) the poster must be accessible online during the entire period September 10-25, (2) a participant should be able to get the main information within at most 5 minutes when browsing/reading the poster. A valid webiste URL is mandatory to submit your poster. That url may point to a blank page until 19 August and you'll be able to update it until 9 September (23:59 PDT). Each submission will then consist of a pdf file (the two-page abstract) and a web link and must include names, email addresses and contact information of the contributors. Contributions must be submitted via EasyChair at the web site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd2020 Each poster must be presented at the conference by at least an author, otherwise the abstract will not be included in the proceedings. BEST POSTER AWARD ----------------- To recognize the effort of the participants in preparing and presenting their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2020 attendees. PUBLICATION ----------- All accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The LNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD community upon publication and openly accessible to anyone after four years. Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv repository, in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access to them. The self-archived arXiv papers shall consist of the LNCS proceedings version (identical, except for possibly changed references to the appendix resp. the arXiv version) plus an optional clearly marked appendix. Subsequent submissions of revised versions of the paper to the arXiv (known as arXiv ``replacements’’) are allowed. Failure to comply with these guidelines will impede the publication of the paper. Each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author (barring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Should any visa restriction prevent an author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means. Selected papers from both tracks 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 version of their work to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Furthermore, two regular TVCG papers will be presented by their authors in a TVCG papers session. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline : June 3 (23:59 PDT) Paper submission deadline : June 8 (23:59 PDT) Notification of paper acceptance : July 20 Poster submission deadline : August 12 (23:59 PDT) Notification of poster acceptance : August 21 Final versions due : August 26 (23:59 PDT) Contest submission deadline : September 5 (23:59 PDT) Symposium : September 16-18 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Daniel Archambault, Swansea University, UK David Auber (co-chair), University Bordeaux , FR Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh, UK Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE Romain Bourqui, University Bordeaux, FR Steve Chaplick, University of Maastricht, NL Markus Chimani, Osnabrück University, DE Sabine Cornelsen, University of Konstanz, DE Walter Didimo, University of Perugia, IT Stefan Felsner, TU Berlin, DE Radoslav Fulek, IST Austria, AT Fabrizio Frati, Roma Tre University, IT Seokhee Hong, University of Sydney, AU Yifan Hu, Yahoo!, US Katherine Isaacs, University of Arizona, US Philipp Kindermann, Universität Passau, DE Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis, US Tamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Fabrizio Montecchiani, University of Perugia, IT Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, CA Martin Nöllenburg, TU Vienna University, Arnaud Sallaberry, University of Montpellier, FR Alexandru Telea, Utrecht University, NL Ioannis Tollis, University of Crete, GR Csaba Tóth, California State University, Northridge, US Pavel Valtr (co-chair), Charles University, CZ Alexander Wolff, Universität Würzburg, DE INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Jeff Erickson, Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sheelagh Carpendale, Professor, School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- William Evans. Computer Science. University of British Columbia CONTEST COMMITTEE ----------------- Philipp Kindermann, (Chair) Universität Passau, DE Tamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Ignaz Rutter, University of Passau, DE Wouter Meulemans, Eindhoven University, NL

1 0

call for papers (VINCI 2020): VISUAL INFLUENCE AND INFLUENTIAL VISUALIZATIONS
by piero morseletto 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

Dear all, What influence do our visualizations have? How can we improve the influence of our visualizations? These are just a few among the many questions that can derive from the call below. If you have have an idea, please submit your paper (below the details as well). Have great days, piero *_call for papers - VISUAL INFLUENCE AND INFLUENTIAL VISUALIZATIONS _* VINCI 2020 - International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction this year, both on line and in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), 8-10 December 2020 details below or here: https://vinci-conf.org/workshop.html (workshop 5) - *submission deadline: September 15th, 2020* - length: short papers (4 pages limit) - early work and prototypes are welcome - submission guidelines: https://vinci-conf.org/submissions.html <https://vinci-conf.org/submissions.html> (end of the webpage) - extra information for authors (see below)_ The call:_ A visualization can influence and be influential, defining influence as the quality to change mindsets and behaviours without imposition. Influence of/in visualizations helps to shape ideas, create opinions, spread information or foster debates, often beyond the community of viewers it is devised. The most influential visualizations are recalled, mentioned, or imitated over time; mostly, they generate new knowledge or inspire new visualizations. Although we are all touched by influential visualizations, the topic of influence is still little explored by scholars of visual analysis/communication. For instance, defining, quantifying, and measuring influence in visualizations need to be verified. Equally, thorough investigations are required to define the visual elements that characterize influence or understand how producing more influential visualizations. In this workshop we will discuss ideas, concepts, problems, and challenges around important research questions that focus on influence in visualization and visual communication. _The relevant topics for this call/workshop are: _Visual encoding Visual elements (featuring/improving influence) Measurements (of influence) Visual system and perceptions (e.g. eye tracking) Emotional response and reactions Aesthetics of influential visualizations Memorability Visualization criticism Visual communication and analysis Close reading, active reading Paper Chair: Piero Morseletto, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Lisette van Beek, Utrecht University _EXTRA INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS_ * Each submitted paper is peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers selected by the program committee. If accepted, the papers have further check for readability and quality assurance. Accepted papers are published in the ACM Digital library, which is listed in DBLP and also appears in Google Scholar. The papers will be presented at the conference as a 10 minutes talk. The conference will be held both physically and virtually, then, the participants can attend and present online. * Moreover, authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to prepare revised versions of their work for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art, and a special issue of the Journal of Visualization (SCI and Scopus indexed).

1 0

ACM ISS 2020 Workshop Submission Deadline Extended to August 7
by Ruolin Wang 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Dear Colleagues, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] We invite researchers and practitioners working in the field of interactive surfaces and spaces to submit workshop proposals for ISS 2020. *ISS Workshops provide a unique opportunity to discuss ideas, challenges, and new work around more specific topics in the area of interactive spaces and surfaces.* We welcome proposals from a large variety of topics and domains. Example topics include but are not limited to: Architectural concepts and emerging trends Immersive analytics and data physicalization Museum and art installation trends Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pen+touch, etc.) New and emerging body and space sensing technologies Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, and proxemics Evaluation methods for surface applications Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices Feel, taste, smell and splash user interfaces on surfaces ... and other exciting topics! All workshops will take place on *November 8, 2020* and will run for either half a day or the full day. Workshops can be open (free to anyone who registered for it) or closed (attendees need to submit position papers). Please indicate the length and type of workshop in your proposal (see below). Accepted workshop proposals will be part of the ISS conference proceedings and available in the ACM Digital Library. *Submitting a Workshop Proposal* We request a short proposal (up to 4 pages, excluding references) in the single-column ACM Master Article Submission Template as well as an additional information sheet about the particular workshop requirements (1 page). Please include the following information in your 4-page workshop proposal: Workshop title Full contact information of all workshop organizers and the main contact person Topic, nature and goals of the workshop Relevance of the workshop to the ISS community Topics and planned activities covered in the workshop and planned activities New: A description of how the organizers plan to handle the online aspects of the workshop Given the situation with COVID-19, ISS 2020 will be online. Please indicate how you aim to facilitate and support an engaging workshop in an online format. Example tools that could be used to facilitate online brainstorming include: Mural Program Committee members for the workshop (if applicable) Please include a single additional information page (in addition to the 4-page proposal) with the following information: A call-for-papers to your workshop (200 words max.) Link to the workshop website Proposed workshop length (half-day or full-day) Workshop type (open or closed) Maximum number of people Please submit the workshop proposal using the ISS Precision Conference system by July 24, 2020. *Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers* Workshop organizers are expected to organize and facilitate all proposed workshop activities. We suggest the page limit for workshop papers to be 4–6 pages excluding references using the single-column (ACM Master Article Submission Template), but it is up to the organizers to make this decision. Due to the very tight schedule, we, unfortunately, cannot include the contributions of workshop participants into the official conference proceedings and the ACM Digital Library. Workshop organizers will be asked to: Organize and manage the review of submitted workshop papers (e.g. through a reviewing system such as EasyChair) Set a workshop position paper submission deadline (on or before October 2, 2020) and an author notification date (on or before October 19). We will provide workshop organizers a special code for early bird registration that they can give to authors in the acceptance notification. Workshops Co-Chairs Jo Vermeulen, Aarhus University Simon Völker, RWTH Aachen workshops2020(a)iss.acm.org Best, Ruolin(Violynne) Wang | Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 1538 Boelter Hall 580 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 https://www.violynnewang.com/ Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/violynne

1 0

ACM ISS 2020 Tutorials CfP
by Ruolin Wang 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

ACM ISS 2020 Tutorials Call for Participants! Important Dates Submissions: *August 7, 2020*, 5PM PDT Notifications sent to Authors: August 21, 2020 Camera-Ready: September 9, 2020 Workshop day: November 8, 2020 ISS is a premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging *surface and space technologies*. Tutorials provide a broad overview of particular topics in the area of Interactive Surfaces and Spaces from recognized experts in the field. We invite industry and academic leaders in interactive surfaces and spaces technologies interested in leading a tutorial session at ISS 2020 to submit a tutorial proposal following the guidelines below. Tutorials should focus on topics relevant to the ISS community and can include but are not limited to the following areas: - Architectural concepts and emerging trends - Immersive analytics and data physicalization - Museum and art installation trends - Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pen+touch, etc.) - New and emerging body and space sensing technologies - Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, and proxemics - Evaluation methods for surface applications - Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices - Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, ...) - Feel, taste, smell and splash user interfaces on surfaces - ... and other exciting topics! In particular, we invite tutorial organizers to *think creatively about how tutorials can leverage the fact that ISS 2020 will be held as an online conference*. We encourage tutorials that explore new ways of engaging the ISS community that would not be possible in a traditional offline format. Topics include but are not limited to: - Online tools and technologies - Demonstrating hardware setups and installations, exploring the ins and outs of setting up interactive spaces in our labs - Live coding and code demonstrations - The latest hardware and platforms (e.g. HoloLens 2, pen & touch, gaze trackers, LIDAR sensors, MaxMSP, P5.js) - Using online tools to scale tutorials (e.g. multiple camera angles for sketching) Tutorials can run from *90 minutes* to a full day (the length is up to the tutorial organizers). Submitting a Tutorial Proposal We request a short proposal (up to 4 pages, excluding references) in the single-column ACM Master Article Submission Template <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>. Accepted proposals will be part of the ISS conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. Please include the following information in your tutorial proposal submission: - Title of the tutorial - Full contact information of all tutorial organizers and the main contact person (if there are multiple organizers) - Topics and objectives of the tutorial and how these are relevant to the ISS community - Description of planned hands-on activities and topics covered during the tutorial - *New:* A description of how the organizers plan to handle the online aspects of the workshop - Given the situation with COVID-19, the ISS 2020 conference will be online. - Please indicate how you aim to facilitate and support an engaging tutorial in an online format. - Short bio of the tutorial organizers Please include a single information page (in addition to the 4-page proposal) with the following information: - A maximum 100 words pitch advertising the aim and objectives to your tutorial - Proposed tutorial length (90 min, half day or full day) - Maximum number of tutorial participants Please submit your tutorial proposal using the ISS Precision Conference <https://new.precisionconference.com/> submission system by the deadline on *August 7, 2020*. Tutorials Co-Chairs Jo Vermeulen, Aarhus University Simon Völker, RWTH Aachen tutorials2020(a)iss.acm.org Best, Ruolin(Violynne) Wang | Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 1538 Boelter Hall 580 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 https://www.violynnewang.com/ Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/violynne

1 0

IEEE AIVR 2020 CfP (deadline extended to Aug 3, 2020)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

3rd IEEE Intl. Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality Dec 14-18, 2020, http://ieee-aivr.org ========================================= *Update* Due to many requests because of vacations and covid, the full/short paper deadline has been extended till August 3, 2020. IEEE AIVR is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. It provides an international forum for the exchange between those fields to present advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and together define the future of these exciting research domains. We invite researchers from Virtual, as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) to participate and submit their work to the program. Likewise, any work on AI that has a relation to any of these fields or potential for the usage in any of them is welcome. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Systems, including techniques, performance, and implementation * Content creation and modelling * Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour * AI technologies for VR/AR * Interactions / interactive and responsive environments * Applications and use cases * Ethical and societal aspects of AI and VR/AR See website for futher details. DEADLINES August 3, 2020 (extended & final deadline): * Full & short papers September 4, 2020: * Special session papers * Posters & work-in-progress * Demo/video papers * Industry contributions September 24, 2020: * Workshop papers

1 0

Call for Poster: ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2020
by Isaac Cho 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Apologies for cross-posting. ACM Spatial User Interaction 2020: Call for Poster Submissions We invite you to showcase your demo at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2020, https://sui.acm.org/2020/) which will be held virtually from 31 October to 1 November 2020. Posters offer you the opportunity of engaging the audience of the Symposium at a personal level, elicit feedback on early stage work, and discuss potential collaborations in an informal manner. You will also be able to publicize your poster during the fast-forward session at the Symposium. We seek posters describing work in progress, novel ideas or systems, or late breaking results and application implementations from all areas of spatial user interaction. You can submit both a paper and a poster on the same topic, and some authors of otherwise rejected papers will be invited to present their work as a poster. Extra information such as videos may also be submitted. These will be taken into account during the review process and may be included in the final publication. This year, SUI will be co-located with the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2020) and CHI PLAY 2020. Topics of interest include: - Spatial interaction techniques - Spatial user interface metaphors - Spatial input devices and technology - Interaction on spatial, stereoscopic, and 3D displays - Evaluation methods for spatial user interaction - Collaborative interaction in 3D space - Design and user experience (UX) for spatial user interaction - Applications of human spatial perception to interaction - Adaptive and perceptual-inspired spatial user interaction - Applications of spatial UIs, such as games, entertainment, CAD, education - Gesture-based spatial interaction - Tangible spatial user interaction - Multi-touch technologies for spatial user interaction - Desktop interfaces for spatial interaction - Multisensory and other novel forms of spatial user interaction Important Dates - Submission Deadline: August 7, 2020, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>) - Author Notification: August 28, 2020 - Camera Ready Deadline: September 4, 2020 Submission Instructions * Unlike paper submissions, poster submissions are not anonymous. Be sure to include the names and affiliations of all authors. Posters extended abstracts should be prepared as a two-page manuscript in the ACM SIG Proceedings format<http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html>. Please submit your extended abstract in camera-ready format and include an initial poster draft. For the LaTeX version, the correct template to use is sigconf. The poster abstracts will be included in the ACM Digital Library. * Submissions are expected to address topics within the scope of SUI, i.e., one or more of the topics listed in the Call for Papers page<https://sui.acm.org/2020/papers>. Unlisted but strongly related topics are also welcome. * At least one author of each accepted poster will be required to register to present at the symposium. The author is also required to be available during the poster viewing session. * SUI 2020 uses the new version of the Precision Conference System<https://new.precisionconference.com/sui20a/>. Supplementary videos are encouraged, but not required. * In addition to on-site presentation of posters, authors will be expected to submit a hi-res PNG of their actual posters before the event, in time for the organizers to incorporate them into a VR viewing platform that will be publicly accessible through this web site. Authors will be encouraged to provide videos or other content for incorporation into the VR viewer. For further information and questions please contact the Poster, Deme and Interaction Chairs: poster(a)sui.acm.org Kangsoo Kim, University of Central Florida, USA Isaac Cho, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Tham Piumsomboon, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Isaac Cho, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Computer Science The North Carolina A & T State University 1601 E Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411 Tel: 336-285-3700 | Office: 502 McNair Hall ------- NOTICE: This e-mail correspondence is subject to Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. --------

1 0

Call For Demo: ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2020
by Isaac Cho 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Apologies for cross-posting. ACM Spatial User Interaction 2020: Call for Demo Submissions We invite you to showcase your demo at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2020, https://sui.acm.org/2020/) which will be held virtually from 31 October to 1 November 2020. Demos offer you the opportunity of engaging the audience of the Symposium at a personal level, elicit feedback on your work, and discuss potential collaborations in an informal manner. We seek exciting research demonstrations, interactive experiences or commercial products from individuals, laboratories or research groups (academic, government, or industrial) from all areas of spatial user interaction. We are also open to artists who are focusing on the intersection between artistic expression and the technological mediums enabling spatial interaction. You can submit both a paper and a demo on the same topic, and some authors of otherwise rejected papers will be invited to present their work as a demo. Extra information such as supplementary videos may also be submitted. These will be taken into account during the review process and may be included in the final publication. Topics of interest include: - Spatial interaction techniques - Spatial user interface metaphors - Spatial input devices and technology - Interaction on spatial, stereoscopic, and 3D displays - Evaluation methods for spatial user interaction - Collaborative interaction in 3D space - Design and user experience (UX) for spatial user interaction - Applications of human spatial perception to interaction - Adaptive and perceptual-inspired spatial user interaction - Applications of spatial UIs, such as games, entertainment, CAD, education - Gesture-based spatial interaction - Tangible spatial user interaction - Multi-touch technologies for spatial user interaction - Desktop interfaces for spatial interaction - Multisensory and other novel forms of spatial user interaction Important Dates - Submission Deadline: August 14, 2020, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>) - Author Notification: August 28, 2020 - Camera Ready Deadline: September 4, 2020 Submission Instructions * Demo proposals should be prepared as a two-page abstract in the ACM SIG Proceedings format<http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html> and submitted as PDF in camera-ready format. For the LaTeX version, the correct template to use is sigconf. The demo abstracts will be included in the ACM Digital Library. * Also, a mandatory explanatory video of the demo should be included in the original submission. The submission should include information about the overall architecture of the system, installation, exhibit or performance, interaction with the audience, foreseen benefits to audience members, as well as its relevance and impact on the SUI community, emphasizing on the novelty and rationale. In addition, a short paragraph with a description of the research lab or creators is strongly encouraged. * Unlike paper submissions, demo submissions are NOT anonymous and should include full names and affiliations of the authors. * Supplementary materials should include a schematic of the layout (showing components such as projectors/cameras) of the demo and a picture showing the demo in action, particularly for presenting the demo physically at the symposium. Demos should be presentable in a form of video presentation or online live demonstration during the symposium. * The authors of the accepted demos must provide a 30-sec brief video of the demo in action, including audio descriptions, for the final camera-ready version. The video should demonstrate how users will interact with the demo as well as any other relevant information about the demo. This video will be used as part of a teaser to publicize the demos in a fast forward type video presentation on the website and to the symposium. * Submissions should be made through the online submission system: Precision Conference System<https://new.precisionconference.com/sui20a/>. * At least one author of each accepted demo will be required to register to present at the symposium. The author is also required to be available during the demo session. For further information and questions please contact the Poster, Deme and Interaction Chairs: poster(a)sui.acm.org Kangsoo Kim, University of Central Florida, USA Isaac Cho, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Tham Piumsomboon, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Isaac Cho, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Computer Science The North Carolina A & T State University 1601 E Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411 Tel: 336-285-3700 | Office: 502 McNair Hall ------- NOTICE: This e-mail correspondence is subject to Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. --------

1 0

[Call-for-Papers] IEEE VIS 2020 Workshop on TRust and EXperience in Visual Analytics, Oct 25/26 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah
by Nourani,Mahsan 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

We invite submissions for our IEEE Vis<http://ieeevis.org/year/2020/welcome> 2020 workshop: "TREX: Workshop on TRust and EXperience in Visual Analytics" that takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 25/26th, 2020. For more information, please refer to the workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2020/index.html. Please help us spread the news by forwarding this call-for-papers to those who will find it interesting and/or relevant. ------------------------------------------------ Important Dates Submission Deadline: July 20, 2020 Author Notification: August 12, 2020 Camera-ready Deadline: August 21, 2020 Workshop Goals Visual analytics (VA) systems combine computational support and human cognitive and perceptual skills to explore and analyze data. Many of these systems have been incorporating machine learning (ML) models and algorithms to introduce some level of automation to the analytical process. However, within this relationship, there are a number of aspects that can impact the effectiveness of the human-machine teaming, including 1) people's domain and system expertise; 2) human biases, including cognitive and perceptual biases; 3) trust in ML models and visual representation of data. Expertise, bias, and trust are intrinsically intertwined. Additionally, visual analytics systems are used in different fields and by people from various backgrounds, with different levels of domain expertise and experience with machine learning and visual analytics tools. This variety of experience and domain expertise among human users has opened the door for new research directions and challenges in the fields of visual analytics and machine learning. Designers who fail to consider the aforementioned diversities might introduce problems to the analysis effectiveness and user experience. Furthermore, experience and domain expertise might affect user trust in visual analytics tools; although, how and why they affect trust is still an open question. Trust will eventually affect how much the users would rely on and use the tool. While users will take advantage of their prior experiences to make better decisions with the assistance of analytic support, they might carry many cognitive biases that can negatively influence their decision-making or analysis process. Recent research shows trust in and reliance on the visual analytics systems/tools as well as user strategies and biases can be directly influenced by domain and system expertise (or lack of expertise). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to discuss and discover challenges in ML supported visual analytics tools and set the stage for future research directions and collaborations regarding these issues by proposing design guidelines, empirical findings, and VA techniques. Topics of Interest The workshop suggested topics are as followed: 1. Trust considerations based on different areas of domain expertise (e.g., medical, security, scientific, financial domains). 2. Trust and bias considerations based on different levels of user familiarity with machine learning and visual analytics systems. 3. Detecting and preventing cognitive biases in visual analytics and machine learning for users. 4. User trust in machine learning models and visual explanations of model decisions in visual analytics systems. 5. The correlation between trust, domain knowledge, and potential cognitive biases. 6. The relationship between domain expertise and trust with model transparency, human interpretability, and model understandability in visual data analysis. 7. The relationship between model interpretability, domain expertise, and trust. Contribution Types We are looking for and open to diverse forms of research (as listed below) within the realm of VA and ML with appropriate emphasis and relation to human trust, expertise, and cognitive factors. We encourage submissions of research involving: 1. Human empirical research/findings 2. Design guidelines and surveys 3. Technique papers 4. Position papers 5. Case studies Submission Format The workshop will accept papers with 2 to 6 pages in length, plus 1 page of references. All submissions must be in the IEEE VGTC Conference Style Template format. (You can download the appropriate templates here<http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html>.) We also encourage authors to submit a short 30-second video of their work when submitting their work, if applicable. For the camera-ready deadline, all the poster submissions must prepare a 30-second video for the poster fast-forward session. These videos might have audio for archival purposes, but the authors will only use the video as a visual tool while presenting their fast-forward in the workshop. The submissions are made through the PCS (Precision Conference Solutions<https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?next=https%3A//new.precision…>) website. At least one author for an accepted paper needs to register for the conference (at least the workshop registration). The submissions are not required to be anonymized and may include the full name of authors, their email, and affiliation as well as an acknowledgment. Workshop Organizers Mahsan Nourani, University of Florida (https://mahsan.online<https://mahsan.online/>) Eric Ragan, University of Florida (https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~eragan/) Emily Wall, Georgia Tech (https://emilywall.github.io/) John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Lab (https://jgoodall.me/) Aritra Dasgupta, New Jersey Institue of Technology (https://aedeegee.github.io/) Kris Cook, Pacific North National Lab (https://www.pnnl.gov/science/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=8639) Contact For more information, you can email us at TrexInVis(a)gmail.com<mailto:trexinvis@gmail.com> or visit our workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2020/index.html. Best Regards, Mahsan --- Mahsan Nourani, Graduate Research Assistant, INDIE Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida

1 2

Job posting: Assistant Director of Visual Communication (Rice University)
by Jennifer Wilson 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

The Center for Academic and Professional Communication at Rice University (Houston, TX) is hiring a specialist in visual communication. The description and link to apply are below. All inquiries should be directed to Kyung-Hee Bae, the director of the CAPC, at kbae(a)rice.edu. *Assistant Director in Visual Communication *of the Center for Academic and Professional Communication at Rice University (Application deadline: July 27, 2020) The Center for Academic and Professional Communication (CAPC) at Rice University invites applications for the position of the Assistant Director in Visual Communication of the CAPC. The Center for Academic and Professional Communication (CAPC) is a multimodal communication center that provides resources and support tailored for students and faculty across the campus. Link to read the full job description and to apply online: *http://jobs.rice.edu/postings/23924* Position summary: The responsibilities of the assistant director of visual communication in the CAPC include developing workshops and other resources for faculty and students, consulting with faculty and students (especially those in STEM fields) on visual projects, organizing a biennial symposium on visual and multimodal communication, helping the CAPC and the Program in Writing and Communication with in-house visual projects, and helping to assess the CAPC’s visual communication efforts. The assistant director also may teach one credit-bearing course on visual and multimodal communication per year. The application deadline is *July 27, 2020*. Education required: Master’s degree Education preferred: PhD degree Experience preferred: Related experience in the following areas: * Employment or attendance at a Tier 1 research university * Experience working with STEM researchers * Experience developing programs in visual and multimodal communication * Experience creating training/teaching materials for different academic audiences * Experience visualizing research and designing figures * Experience with event planning Skills required: * Proficiency in the use of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) * Excellent written and communications skills and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with diverse audiences * Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively with program staff, faculty and course teams and external contractors * Ability to work on multiple projects * Ideally, the candidate will have a working knowledge of Python or R. -- Jennifer Shade Wilson, Ph.D. Director, Program in Writing and Communication Senior Lecturer Rice University 200D Fondren Library 713-348-4924

1 0

VizSec 2020 Final Deadline Extension
by Nicolas Prigent 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Due to numerous requests, the deadline for submissions to VizSec 2020 has been extended to the 22nd of July 2020. More information can be found online : https://vizsec.org/vizsec2020/#cfp

1 0