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IEEE VIS 2020 workshop: VisActivities-DataVis Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing (Oct. 25/26, 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah)
by Benjamin Bach 11 May '20

11 May '20

Dear All, Help us spread the news! We invite submissions for our IEEE VIS 2020 workshop: VisActivities-DataVis Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing (Oct. 25/26, 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah): <https://visactivities.github.io/>https://visactivities.github.io <https://visactivities.github.io/> Motivation: Workshops, classes, or collaborations with domain experts often include hands-on data visualization activities that involve analog or digital tools and materials as well as more or less well-defined protocols. Recent years have seen the emergence of such data visualization activities in different contexts, including education, visualization design, activism, self-reflection, and interdisciplinary collaboration: Sketching aids designers to consider alternative ideas; Manipulating tokens help students conceptualize quantities for data visualization; User interviews and discussions help developers understand requirements Manipulating data help activist better understand social issues The goals of this workshop include: start building an understanding and to synthesize protocols and materials used to lead data vis activities, to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators from within and outside of the visualization community, brainstorm, design, experience, and try novel activities, and to discuss issues around goals, methods, audiences, materials, and evaluation for teaching data visualization. Submissions: All submissions are submitted using PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com <https://new.precisionconference.com/> The workshop accepts 3 types of submissions: Research refers to classical workshop papers with a scientific contribution in theory, reflection, application, evaluation, design, or implementation. Page length will be limited to 4 pages. Contributions can include: activities, learning material, learning goals, taxonomies, visualization guidelines, critical reflections on conducting visualization activities (teaching experience), evaluation strategies for activities, teaching approaches, ethical and critical considerations on activities and teaching. … Activities include procedures, reports and experiences about one or many teaching activities, e.g., protocol and material of activities including results and reflections. As part of the call, we will provide a template to report and explain an activity (https://visactivities.github.io/activity-template.html <https://visactivities.github.io/activity-template.html>). Activities should be in PDF format and will be published in this format on the workshop website. This template will be subject to discussion by the workshop participants during the workshop. Materials include new teaching material that supports teaching in general and which is ready for application slides, visualizations of schema/diagrams/design spaces, cheat sheets <http://visualizationcheatsheets.github.io/> (http://visualizationcheatsheets.github.io <http://visualizationcheatsheets.github.io/>), teaching tools targeted to support specific activities physical visualization, sketching templates, programming tutorials A material submission should not exceed 2 pages text plus appendix and supplementary material (e.g., graphics, videos, websites). The 2 pages should describe context, design decisions, associated or possible activities, and reflections or evaluations from their application. The actual material is to be included as supplementary material, or linked URL and can be presented as poster at the workshop. Any submission—research, activity, or material—will be peer-reviewed, providing constructive feedback for the camera-ready version. All submissions will be published on and linked from our website and authors can choose to publish their accepted submissions in the IEEE DL. On submission, authors have to choose whether their successful submission should be made archival or should only be available on the workshop website. TIMELINE: July 4, 2020: Submission Deadline July 25, 2020: Reviews Collected August 3, 2020: Author Notification August 17, 2020: Submission Camera Ready Deadline In case IEEE VIS will not take place physically as scheduled, this workshop will be held online. ORGANIZERS Samuel Huron <https://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/shuron/#!index.md>, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Benjamin Bach <http://benjbach.me/>, University of Edinburgh Uta Hinrichs <http://utahinrichs.de/>, University of St. Andrews Jonathan C. Roberts <https://www.bangor.ac.uk/computer-science-and-electronic-engineering/staff/…>, Bangor University Mandy Keck <http://www.visual-search.org/>, Technische Universität Dresden The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Open Position at Zhejiang Lab: Research Scientist in Computer Science for the Visual Analytics Group
by Yingcai Wu 08 May '20

08 May '20

(Apologies for cross-posting) * Application deadline: June 30, 2020 * The visual analytics group at the Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China invites applications for a research scientist position in machine and deep learning-driven visual analytics. The group, newly established in 2019, conducts cutting-edge research on visual analytics and information visualization. It is currently seeking several highly-motivated individuals who will contribute to the growing research in machine and deep learning-driven visual analytics. A successful candidate should have a PhD degree in computer science or a similar area, and profound experience in one or more of the following or related topics: * Visualization and visual analytics * Human-computer interaction * Augmented reality and mixed reality * Big data, data mining, or machine learning for interactive data analytics To apply for the position, please send your application (a research statement, academic CV, list of publications, and the contact information of three referees) in one PDF file (up to 10 MB) to Prof. Yingcai Wu (ycwu(a)zju.edu.cn) Review of applications will begin on May 15, 2020, and will continue until the position is filled. Please get in touch as soon as possible if interested. Zhejiang Lab is a newly established national laboratory in September 2017. The lab aims to build a world-class fundamental research center. By building a batch of major scientific infrastructure and assembling a hub of top-notch research and development teams, Zhejiang lab advances the science and technology in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Network Information, with its core mission to achieve original innovations with scientific significance, supporting and leading the development of innovative industry clusters with global competitiveness. * More information on the Zhejiang Lab: http://en.zhejianglab.com/ Thanks for forwarding. Yingcai Wu Ph.D, ZJU100 Young Professor Interactive Data Group, State Key Lab of CAD&CG, College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R.China

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CDVE2020 paper deadline extended to May 25, 2020
by cdve .org 04 May '20

04 May '20

*CDVE2020 Full paper submission extended to May 25, 2020* *The 17th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering * http://www.cdve.org, email: cdve2020(a)easychair.org The CDVE2020 conference will be held from October 25-28, 2020 as planned and will go virtual with plan B. The full paper submission deadline is extended to May 25. All the paper submission, review, acceptance and final paper submission processes will be the same except that the registration fee will be lower. If you have not yet submitted your paper, it is a great opportunity to do so! The proceedings will be published by the LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special or normal issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. The topics of the paper should be about cooperative design, cooperative visualization, cooperative engineering and any other cooperative applications which includes social networks, cooperative learning, gaming, sensor network … and much more. See our conference web page http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for details. At least one keyword of your paper should be chosen from the call of papers. The paper format can be found on https://www.cdve.org/submit.html <http://www.cdve.org/submit.html>. The submission page is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2020 *Full paper submission: Extended to May 25, 2020.* Full Papers 8-10 pages. *Short Paper submission: Extended to May 25, 2020*. Short papers 4-6 pages. *Poster Paper abstract submission:* August 1, 2020 *Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors:* before June 25, 2020. One registration with payment is required for each paper to be included in the proceedings. *Early registration for all others:* Sept. 2, 2020 *Oct. 25 - 28, 2020*, CDVE2020 conference, virtual *Contact* All questions about submissions should be emailed to cdve2020(a)easychair.org You are welcome to forward this call. You can also reply to this mail with a mail title: “Unsubscribe” to stop receiving further calls from CDVE2020. -- ------------------- The 17th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 25-28, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand Email: cdve2020(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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two short pieces
by Ben Shneiderman 04 May '20

04 May '20

To: InfoVis list This is a transformative moment for data visualization, as it is central in much of the public and professional discussions on COVID-19. Please circulate, where appropriate. It's our chance to make a little noise about visualization. Data Visualization's Breakthrough Moment in the COVID-19 Crisis The discipline has made some important contributions over its 300-year history, but perhaps none more so than now https://medium.com/nightingale/data-visualizations-breakthrough-moment-in-t… If you haven't seen it, Nightingale, is a widely-read free online publication of the Data Visualization Society, which has emerged in the past year as a strong force in promoting data visualization, especially among professionals and the general public. The article describes and links to some of the 600+ visualizations that have appeared on the web during the COVID-19 crisis. It highlights the valuable role of visualization to inform the public, help hospital managers plan, and guide government policy-makers. I wrote a personal tribute to info vis and parallel coordinates hero Alfred Inselberg who died recently ... It appeared in: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=38> (Vol 40, 3<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=9082262>, May-June 1 2020) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9082278 Best wishes... stay safe... Ben Shneiderman Ben Shneiderman ben(a)cs.umd.edu<mailto:ben@cs.umd.edu> Dept of Computer Science www.cs.umd.edu/~ben<http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben> Iribe Building 2162 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20814 Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Founding Director (1982-2000) Human-Computer Interaction Lab Member, National Academy of Engineering Fellow, AAAS, ACM, IEEE, NAI, SIGCHI Academy, VIS Academy

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DIAGRAMS 2020 moving online
by Jens Lemanski 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

It is with great regret that the organising committee of DIAGRAMS 2020 announce that the conference, planned for 24-28th August, will not take place face-to-face in Tallinn, Estonia. Authors of accepted papers, posters and abstracts will be invited to upload a video of their work, and their videos will be available through the conference website http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/ to all from August 24th. In order to allow the organising committee to focus on the main scientific conference, the satellite events have been cancelled entirely. These events are the Tutorials, the co-located Workshop, the Graduate Symposium, and the Keynote contributions. Please keep up to date with the latest developments for Diagrams 2020 at http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/index.php/covid-19/ PD Dr. Jens Lemanski (Publicity Chair) FernUniversität in Hagen Institut für Philosophie LG 1 58084 Hagen, Germany Tel.: 02331/ 987-2364 https://e.feu.de/jlem

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IEEE AIVR 2020 // Call for workshops & sp. sessions (deadline May 15, 2020)
by Wolfgang Huerst (UU) 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

3rd IEEE Intl. Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality Utecht, The Netherlands, Dec 14-16, 2020 http://ieee-aivr.org ========================================= 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. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL SESSIONS IEEE AIVR 2020 invites proposals for workshops and special sessions to be held on either of the conference dates (Dec 14-16). Workshops offer a chance to discuss topics related to AR/VR and AI more focused, explore new research directions and novel applications, and provide excellent opportunities for networking. They will run in parallel to the afternoon program of the conference. Special sessions on any topic related to the conference will take place as part of the main technical program and can feature paper presentation, invited and keynote talks, panels, or any other kind of suitable presentation. Duration should be about the same as a regular paper session. Accepted workshop papers and special session papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press and inculded in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. For details about submitting a workshop or special session proposal, please refer to the conference site: http://aivr.science.uu.nl/aivr_workshops.html IMPORTANT DATES (WORKSHOPS & SP. SESSIONS) Submission deadline for proposals: May 15, 2020 Notifications: about two weeks after submission of your proposal We will directly verify your proposal once you submit it. Thus, earlier notifications are possible, which would also give you more time to set up and advertise your workshop. We therefore encourage earlier submissions. ------- PS: We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation carefully and are prepared to take necessary actions if needed. At the moment, we still hope to host the event as planned in Dec 2020. Stay safe!

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CFP - VISSOFT 2020: 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization
by David Baum 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

====================================== 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2020) September 28-29, 2020, Adelaide, Australia http://vissoft20.dcc.uchile.cl/ ====================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and data science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to the visualization of software. VISSOFT 2020, co-held with ICSME 2020, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. ====================================== TOPICS OF INTEREST - Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks such as StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. - Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. - Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization. - Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education. - Integration of software visualization tools with development environments. - Empirical evaluation of software visualizations, including eye tracking. - Industrial experience with using software visualization. - Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented/mixed reality, gamification, and artificial intelligence. - Analytical approaches to understand software-related aspects based on data science concepts. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tool Demonstrations (TD) track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. ====================================== SUBMISSION TYPES **Technical papers**: A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is limited by two additional pages. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their paper if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL to the video should be provided. After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, data, model, etc.) Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2020 **NIER/TD Track**: The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT accepts two types of contributions: New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) and Tool Demonstrations (TD). Both NIER and TD contributions have a page limit of 5 (including bibliography). NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors are encouraged to include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas. A sound evaluation is not required for NIER contributions. One of the goals of the NIER Track is to foster collaboration among different research groups. Tool Demonstrations describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on the architecture of the tool or its use to gain new insights. During the conference, we will organize an informal tool demonstration session where authors of TD papers are requested to demonstrate their tools. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo) to show the interaction possibilities offered by the tool. ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: June 22, 2020 Technical paper submission: June 26, 2020 NIER/TD paper submission: June 26, 2020 Artifact submission: August 1, 2020 Author notification: July 24, 2020 Camera-Ready: August 7, 2020 Conference date: September 28-29, 2020 ====================================== **Statement on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)** The VISSOFT Organizing Committee is aware of the current COVID-19 situation. At this time, the conference is planned to take place as scheduled. The committee will continue monitoring conditions and will provide updates if plans change. Stay safe & we hope to see you at VISSOFT 2020! Best, Craig Anslow (General Chair) Andreas Schreiber and Takashi Ishio (Program Co-Chairs) https://twitter.com/IEEEVISSOFT

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Reminder: CDVE2020 full paper deadline approaching
by cdve .org 25 Apr '20

25 Apr '20

The 17th International Virtual Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering http://www.cdve.org, email: cdve2020(a)easychair.org The CDVE2020 conference will be held from October 26-28, 2020 as planned and will go virtual with plan B. The full paper submission is May 1. All the paper submission, review, acceptance and final paper submission processes will be the same except that the registration fee will be lower. The proceedings will be published by the LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special or normal issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. The topics of the paper should be about cooperative design, cooperative visualization, cooperative engineering and any other cooperative applications which includes social networks, cooperative learning, gaming, sensor network … and much more. See our conference web page http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for details. Please feel free to forward this reminder. If you do not want to receive more calls from this conference, please reply to this mail with the title "Unsubscribe". -- ------------------- The 17th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 25-28, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand Email: cdve2020(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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CDVE2020 goes virtual with plan B - deadline extended
by cdve .org 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

*CDVE2020 will go virtual with plan B* *Full paper submission April 15 – May 1, 2020* *The 17th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering * http://www.cdve.org, email: cdve2020(a)easychair.org The CDVE2020 conference will be held from October 25-28, 2020 as planned and will go virtual with plan B. The full paper submission deadline is extended to May 1. All the paper submission, review, acceptance and final paper submission processes will be the same except that the registration fee will be lower. You are welcome to submit unpublished papers to the conference. We should keep our research and conferences as normal as possible to minimize the negative effect of the pandemic. This is actually an opportunity for our busy people to attend the conference. Thailand team is happy to host the conference next year 2021 in Bangkok and welcomes all of you there. For those decided to go, you still have this fancy trip on plan! The proceedings will be published by the LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special or normal issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. The topics of the paper should be about cooperative design, cooperative visualization, cooperative engineering and any other cooperative applications which includes social networks, cooperative learning, gaming, sensor network … and much more. See our conference web page http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for details. At least one keyword of your paper should be chosen from the call of papers. The paper format can be found on https://www.cdve.org/submit.html <http://www.cdve.org/submit.html>. The submission page is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2020 *Recommended abstract submission*: You can submit an abstract if you need some feedback before full paper submission. *Full paper submission: April 15 – May 1, 2020.* Full Papers 8-10 pages. *Short Paper submission: April 20 – May 1, 2020*. Short papers 4-6 pages. *Poster Paper abstract submission:* June 20 – August 1, 2020 *Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors:* before June 25, 2020. One registration with payment is required for each paper to be included in the proceedings. *Early registration for all others:* Sept. 2, 2020 *Oct. 25 - 28, 2020*, CDVE2020 conference, virtual *Contact* All questions about submissions should be emailed to cdve2020(a)easychair.org You are welcome to forward this call. You can also reply to this mail with a mail title: “Unsubscribe” to stop receiving further calls from CDVE2020. ------------------- The 17th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 25-28, 2020, Virtual Conference Email: cdve2020(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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New Book: Linked Data Visualization: Techniques, Tools and Big Data
by Nikos Bikakis 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

_ New Book "Linked Data Visualization: Techniques, Tools and Big Data" Laura Po, Nikos Bikakis, Federico Desimoni & George Papastefanatos Morgan & Claypool 2020 ISBN: 9781681737256 | 9781681737263 (ebook) DOI: 10.2200/S00967ED1V01Y201911WBE019 Morgan & Claypool: https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00967ED1V01Y201911WBE019 Homepage: http://www.linkeddatavisualization.com This book covers a wide spectrum of visualization topics, providing an overview of the recent advances in this area, focusing on techniques, tools, and use cases of visualization and visual analysis of Data (LD). It presents the core concepts related to data visualization and LD technologies, techniques employed for data visualization based on the characteristics of data, techniques for Big Data visualization, tools and use cases in the LD context, and, finally, a thorough assessment of the usability of these tools under different scenarios. The purpose of this book is to offer a complete guide to the evolution of LD visualization for interested readers from any background and empower them to get started with the visual analysis of such data. The book can serve as a course textbook or as a primer for everyone who wants to explore and analyze LD, whether undergraduate and post-graduate students, data scientists, semantic technology developers, or UI & UX designers who wish to gain some practical experience with LD tools. Previous knowledge of Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SPARQL, or programming skills is not required. Keywords: Linked Data, Visual Analytics, Big Data, Visualization Tools, Semantic Web, Data Exploration, Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Usability Read more information: http://www.linkeddatavisualization.com Order: Morgan & Claypool: https://tinyurl.com/qqul4tm Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681737256 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/v8g4yv3 AbeBooks: https://tinyurl.com/uvrqu86 More: http://www.linkeddatavisualization.com/order.html _ Nikos Bikakis ATHENA Research Center | Greece www.nbikakis.com

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