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VisXVision Workshop: Deadline Extended to July 20
by Danielle N Szafir 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

*The deadline for the Vis X Vision Workshop on Novel Directions in Vision Science and Visualization Research has been extended to July 20. * Following the last three years of interdisciplinary events at both VIS and VSS, we are holding the first official event for vision scientist and visualization researcher collaboration, interaction, and peer reviewed research-sharing at VIS. The specific goal of this workshop is to provide a forum where vision science and visualization researchers can share cutting-edge research at this interdisciplinary intersection, in preparation for publishing and presenting it at both IEEE VIS, as well as in the upcoming Journal of Vision Special Issue<https://visxvision.com/journal-of-vision/> on Vision and Visualization. The workshop will feature short paper and abstract talks (~10 minutes each) as well as poster presentations with accompanying lightning talks (1 minute each). Finally, we are excited to announce invited talks by Jeremy Wolfe<http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/index.html> (Harvard), Timothy Brady<https://bradylab.ucsd.edu/> (UCSD), and Darko Odic<http://cogdev.psych.ubc.ca/> (UBC): Visual Search–Jeremy Wolfe If you want people to find “it”, what should “it” look like? Decades of research on visual search have given us quite a good understanding of how people look for targets in scenes containing distracting items. Knowing how people search is not the same as knowing how to design searchable visual stimuli, especially if we want users to be able to search those stimuli for a variety of different targets. Still, the topics of search and searchability must be related so we will explore what the rules governing the deployment of visual attention might suggest to the creators of new visualizations. Working memory– Timothy Brady How much visual information we can hold in mind at once: The role of visual ensembles & semantic knowledge. When processing complex visual displays, people often need to hold information actively in mind to facilitate comparison or integration. Decades of research have shown that our ability to hold information actively in mind is incredibly limited (e.g., we can miss large changes to scenes if we happen to not be holding in mind the right information), and simple rules like people can remember 3-4 things are popular ways to conceive of these limits. In this talk, I discuss what aspects of visual information people can easily hold in mind; what things are extremely difficult to hold in mind; and how these limits relate to visualization design. Visual magnitudes– Darko Odic How perception perceives number, time, and space. The perception of visual magnitudes – length, area, time, number, etc. – has been one of the foundational questions since the dawn of empirical psychology, stretching back from Weber and Helmholtz to today. In this talk, I will share a number of insights, new and old, about how we perceive number, time, and space representations throughout our entire lifespan, focusing especially on issues that might be relevant for data visualization. I will first discuss findings about how our perceptual system deals with competing magnitude dimensions: situations in which, e.g., both number and length are competing for attention. Next, I will share several findings demonstrating that surface area perception is susceptible to various surprising inconsistencies and illusions, whereby we perceive collections of objects to be cumulatively smaller than they really are. Finally, I will share findings on how perceptual magnitude representations allow us to easily find the maximal and minimal element in a set. ________________________________ Call for Papers Authors may submit either short research papers, short position papers, or abstracts for lightning talks and poster presentations. The paper length should match its contribution to the field and be between 2 to 4 pages (plus 1 page of references). All submissions should be formatted in the VGTC conference paper style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html.<http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> The submission, however, must be made in PDF format. Authors can decide whether they want to reveal their names on the submission (single-blind) or submit it anonymously (double-blind). Suggested topics of interest include: * applications of perceptual theory to visualization research * novel evaluation techniques founded in vision science * vision science projects that have the potential to be applied towards visualization * visualization designs and tasks that pose interesting questions for perception research * novel operationalizations of visual or cognitive phenomena that can be studied in perception experiments Timeline for submissions Submission: July 20 Notification: August 5 Camera Ready: August 24 Submit to the Workshop on VisXVision at https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/vis19v! ________________________________ Submission Types The workshop calls for contributions from all areas of visualization and vision science. We accept 3 types of submissions—research, position, and abstracts: Short Research Papers These should comprise of empirical studies grounded in theories from perceptual or cognitive science. These might include the use of a novel evaluation technique, or a perception or visual cognition study that has direct implications for visualization research or design. These studies should aim to make progress towards the greater goal of collaboration and academic reciprocity between vision scientists and visualization researchers. Research papers must present new work, meaning that the results must not be published in an existing peer reviewed venue. They should be four page max + 2 page references. Accepted short research papers will be presented as a 10-minute talk. Short Position Papers These are problem discussions or statements describing the author’s relevant experience and ideas in regards to topics such as: applications of perceptual theory towards vision science, novel operationalizations of visual or cognitive phenomena that can be studied in perception experiments, visualization designs that have the potential to pose interesting questions for vision research, the role of vision in visualization, methods pertaining to collaborative efforts from these fields, etc. Position papers are often framed in the context of a brief review of literature, or are written as a review supporting a proposal for future work. They should be four page max + 2 page references. Accepted short position papers will be presented as a 10-minute talk. Abstracts These may cover any of the aforementioned topics, or other related areas. Abstracts should highlight research-in-progress, reviews, or experiments in preparation for journal submission, and must be 300 words or less. Abstract submissions will be considered for both research talks as well as poster presentations. Authors should specify which presentation format they prefer in their submission by writing “talk preferred”, “poster preferred”, or “no preference” under the title. Benefits of submitting a short paper: Short papers can be a useful way for researchers to present early data, meta analyses, preliminary positions, or smaller chunks of a project. For instance, a short paper may contain just set of experiments that clearly demonstrates a specific effect or phenomenon, but may not investigate its underlying mechanisms or explanations. Short papers may be submitted to showcase a follow up or extension of a known method or phenomena in either vision science or visualization research. Short papers’ reviews follow the same scientifically rigorous expectations as journal articles, but give researchers an opportunity to get feedback on more focused aspects of their research. ________________________________ Publication Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library, including the assignment of DOIs to individual papers. Per IEEE Xplore rules, VisXVision papers will be considered archival and can be referenced. The content of these papers may be sufficiently extended and modified for publication at other venues. Reuse of the content in a follow-up publication for ACM and IEEE venues is allowed provided that the paper is extended by at least 30%. Policies around shared material with a workshop paper at other venues will likely vary from journal to journal. We encourage you to reach out to contacts at any venues of concern. While the policies at various venues are beyond our control, we’ve updated our publication process in the following ways to try to reduce barriers to participation: 1. Archive Optional: As part of the camera-ready revisions, you may elect to have either your workshop paper formally archived or have only the abstract archived. The full text of papers with abstract-only archived will be made available to workshop participants through a password-protected site. Note that this would not change the submission process nor the kind of presentation your work will be considered for. 2. Supplementary Materials: If you wish to provide additional materials, you may include them either through an OSF repository or as a direct email to visxvision(a)gmail.com<mailto:visxvision@gmail.com>. 3. Revised Deadline: To accommodate these updates, we will be extending the submission deadline to July 20.

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IEEE VIS Workshop VIS4DH 2019: Extended deadline July 15th
by Houda Lamqaddam 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Dear all, The deadline for the #VIS4DH workshop, around Visualisation for the Digital Humanities, colocated with IEEE VIS 2019, has been extended to the 15th of July, Please find the call for paper below, More information and contact info on vis4dh.org <http://vis4dh.org/> ---- ======================================================================== Call for Participation 4th Workshop on Visualisation for the Digital Humanities October 20th, 2019 - Vancouver, Canada www.vis4dh.org <http://www.vis4dh.org/> ======================================================================== We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 4th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, “VIS4DH”, under the theme of Trust: Process and Interpretation. This will be a full-day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. More information is available on vis4dh.org <http://vis4dh.org/>. CfP The call is open to all fields of the humanities/social sciences and all branches of visualization. We are particularly interested in papers that bring different disciplines together. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and to intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. In this year’s workshop, we will explore questions of how to build trust when working at the intersection of visualization and humanities-related fields. There are many ways in which trust plays an important role in these collaborations, including questions around general methodologies, approaches to research questions, data collection, extraction and transformation, visual encodings, as well as interpretation and deriving knowledge. The role of visualization in communication has made it key in collaborations spanning many fields related to the humanities, including the arts, history, social sciences, linguistics, literary studies and beyond. The target of this workshop is to explore ways in which trust can be built, strengthened, and maintained when communicating and transferring methodologies, designing tools and encodings, collecting and curating data, and deriving knowledge. Some guiding questions for the 2019 workshop: - How can we deal with different kinds of uncertainty (in data, methodology, research questions, visual encodings, and interpretation)? - How can one make trustworthy visualizations for humanistic research? - What does trust mean for different communities and sub-communities? - How can trust be established in transdisciplinary projects? - How much does trust rely on full understanding of methods, encodings, and other context, especially when collaborating across disciplines? - What do humanities researchers need to see and know to be able to trust visualization, as a tool and process? Submissions This workshop is seeking work from scholars in visualization, the humanities, social science, and the arts who use visualization as part of the process of analyzing and interrogating human culture. Submissions will present original research ideas or results as they relate to visualization for the digital humanities. Each submission should clearly state its specific contribution to this growing field of research. Submissions will take the form of short (2-4 page - excluding references) papers, falling into one of two submission types: - Short Papers: These submissions are meant to summarize more mature works at the intersection of visualization and humanities research, including case studies, system descriptions, and empirical results. Of special consideration are works that highlight the difficulties (and proposed solutions) of designing visualizations in the context of humanities research and/or applying concepts from humanities research to foster visualization research and design. - Position Papers: These submissions are meant to present viewpoints and opinions on the interplay between visualization and the humanities. These positions should be informed by a deep involvement and experience in one (or ideally, both) fields. Position papers should be thought-provoking but also well-supported. Authors of accepted short and position papers will be invited for a brief research presentation (including time for audience questions). Submissions should be in two-column IEEE TVCG format. Latex and Word templates are available at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html> Submissions will be optionally double blind. Authors wishing to submit their work double-blind should remove author information from the cover page of their submitted document, and take care to avoid identifying information in the submission itself (e.g., references to “our” work). Submissions should be in pdf format, clearly indicating the paper type: short paper, or position paper. Submissions should not exceed four pages of content. Submissions should be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vis4dh2019 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vis4dh2019>) by 5 PM PST, 8 15 July 2019. Important Dates Submission Deadline: 8th of July, 2019 15th of July 2019 Notification Deadline: 1st of August, 2019 8th of August 2019 Camera Ready Submission Deadline (tentative): 15th of August, 2019 IEEE VIS Conference: 20th - 25th of October, 2019 VIS4DH Workshop: 20th of October, 2019 ✎ Houda Lamqaddam PhD Researcher Department of Computer Science | Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, BE (+32) 16 37 9854

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Deadline Approaching: DSIA 2019 Workshop (co-located with IEEE VIS 2019)
by Leilani Battle 05 Jul '19

05 Jul '19

The deadline of the DSIA 2019 Workshop, co-located with IEEE VIS 2019, is fast approaching (submissions due Saturday, July 13). See the call for papers below. Sincerely, Leilani, Dominik, and Joseph (DSIA 2019 co-chairs) Website: https://www.interactive-analysis.org Email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org -------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis (DSIA 2019), Co-located with VIS 2019 https://www.interactive-analysis.org/ October 20 or 21st, 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2019. *** Submission Deadline: July 13, 2019 *** DSIA seeks to foster innovative research at the intersection of data processing systems and interactive visualization. In this workshop, we will explore ideas at the frontier of databases, machine learning, and other large-scale data-processing systems impact visualization systems design. It is our core tenant that designing these systems together will yield better systems. Examples include: * How can machine learning influence visualization design? * What data pre-processing can or should be done automatically in a database? * How can perceptual principles be applied to query optimization? This workshop is a forum for cross-pollination between these fields. The program will include invited talks from researches in these communities and preliminary research work. It will include time for short presentations outlining needs and new approaches. Finally, we will break into discussion groups and have a report out on research areas for the next year (Please see http://www.interactive-analysis.org/ for links to the program from previous years, including the notes from last year's discussion groups). -- LIST OF TOPICS -- This workshop will focus on interactive systems: techniques, methods, architecture, systems that enable the user to explore and analyze large amounts of data. The focus will be on issues that span front-end and back-end, with low-latency techniques that enable interaction especially interesting. We encourage research in progress, position papers and late-breaking results in interactive analysis in the broadest sense. We are generally interested in questions that arise at as visualization systems interface with other systems. Topics of interest workshop include (but are not limited to): * Application architectures that exploit these novel back-end capabilities * Techniques for data storage, retrieval, compression, transformation, sampling, and streaming * Database architectures for interactive analysis (designs or implementations) * Novel use of database facilities for interactive analysis * Novel database techniques based on perceptual constraints and human-centered design * Evaluation of data systems for interactive analysis * Identify unique characteristics of databases for supporting visualization * Communication protocols between front and back ends * Techniques for metadata generation We are also interested in position abstracts. In this format, we invite ideas for new research directions, their expected impact and anticipated challenges. We especially encourage junior researchers and students to consider this track as an opportunity to share concepts and get feedback. -- SUBMISSIONS -- We are accepting papers in two formats: * Preliminary research, late-breaking results and work in progress: 4 to 6 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted papers will be given a full slot to present at the workshop and will have the option to publish in IEEE Xplore. * Position abstracts, research ideas and desired future work: 1 to 3 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted position papers will be given a 5-minute "lightning" talk slot at the workshop to share their ideas/concepts/concerns. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * Submission Deadline: July 13, 2019 * Notification Date: July 28, 2019 * Camera Ready Due: August 17, 2019 * Workshop Date: October 20 or 21, 2019 -- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS -- * Dominik Moritz, University of Washington. * Leilani Battle, University of Washington/University of Maryland. * Joseph Cottam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. -- CONTACT -- Website: https://www.interactive-analysis.org Email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org

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IEEE VIS Workshop EVIVA-ML CFP – Extended Deadline July 15
by Nadia Boukhelifa 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

IEEE VIS 2019 Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Visual Machine Learning Systems (EVIVA-ML) Extended deadline for short papers: July 15, 2019 Website: https://eviva-ml.github.io/ --- Recent advances in machine learning saw the rise of powerful automatic methods to build robust predictive models from data. To enhance understanding and improve performance, human-centred approaches have been pursued. In interactive visual machine learning (IVML) systems such as [1,2,3,4,5], a human operator and machine collaborate to achieve a task, mediated by an interactive visual interface. Typically, an IVML system comprises an automated service, a user interface, and a learning component. In IVML, the role of the human operator may be not only to interpret and understand the underlying models or decisions, but to also actively act on, and react to these models. This brings forth first the known problems of intelligibility, trust, and usability issues, but also many open questions with respect to the evaluation of the various facets of the IVML system, both as separate components, and as a holistic entity that includes both human and machine intelligence. Identifying the best evaluation methods to follow for validating machine learning (ML) and interactive visual machine learning (IVML) models remain a challenging topic. The goal of the EVIVA-ML workshop is to bring together visualization researchers and practitioners to discuss experiences and viewpoints on how to effectively evaluate interactive visual machine learning systems. Ultimately, the workshop aims to form a plan to develop a research agenda for IVML evaluation. [1] S. Amershi, J. Fogarty, D. Weld. Regroup: Interactive machine learning for on-demand group creation in social networks. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2012. [2] E. T. Brown, J. Liu, C. E. Brodley, R. Chang. Dis-function: Learning distance functions interactively. Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). IEEE, 2012. [3] W. Cancino, N. Boukhelifa, E. Lutton. Evographdice: Interactive evolution for visual analytics. Evolutionary Computation (CEC). IEEE, 2012. [4] M. El-Assady, R. Sevastjanova, F. Sperrle, D. Keim, C. Collins. Progressive learning of topic modeling parameters: a visual analytics framework. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 2018. [5] H. Kim, J. Choo, H. Park, A. Endert. Interaxis: Steering scatterplot axes via observation-level interaction. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 2016. Topics --- The workshop aims to foster discussion on topics related to the evaluation of interactive visual machine learning systems, including but not limited to: • User studies of existing or novel IVML systems • Computational and automatic evaluation of IVML systems • Comparative studies of variants of IVML systems • Case studies to evaluate the usability of IVML systems • Surveys on evaluation methods for IVML • Novel evaluation methods for IVML • Applications of existing evaluation methods for IVML • Heuristic and other low-cost approaches for evaluating IVML • Evaluation metrics for IVML (e.g., integrating model and user metrics) • Taxonomies of tasks for IVML • Lessons learnt and reflections on evaluation methods for IVML Submissions --- We invite short paper submissions (research or position papers) varying between two to four pages (excluding references). Submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected external reviewers, and will be chosen according to relevance, quality, and likelihood that they will stimulate and contribute to the discussion. Submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. Papers are to be submitted online through the Precision Conference System at the VIS 2019 Workshop on EVIVA-ML track (https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/vis19q) Accepted contributions will be made available electronically as a collection of preprints. Authors will retain copyright. Important Dates --- • Submission deadline: July 15, 2019 (extended by two weeks) • Author notification: August 5, 2019 • Camera-ready deadline: August 20, 2019 • Workshop: October 20 or 21, 2019 Organizing Committee --- • Nadia Boukhelifa (INRA, FR) • Anastasia Bezerianos (Uni. Paris-Sud, INRIA, FR) • Enrico Bertini (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA) • Christopher Collins (Ontario Tech University, CA) • Steven Drucker (Microsoft Research, USA) • Alex Endert (Georgia Tech, USA) • Jessica Hullman (Northwestern University, USA) • Michael Sedlmair (University of Stuttgart, DE) Advisory Committee --- • Remco Chang (Tufts University, USA) • Chris North (Virginia Tech, USA) Contact --- For all inquiries, contact eviva-ml(a)inra.fr<mailto:eviva-ml@inra.fr>

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[VPG] REMINDER: Best dissertation nomination period ends June 30
by Dr. L. Miguel Encarnacao 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

### Please redistribute as appropriate EXTENDED DEADLINE: *June 30th 2019* The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (*VGTC <http://vgtc.org/>*) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (*VPG <http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group>*) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the *IEEE VIS <http://ieeevis.org/>* conference. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15 two years before the award and August 15 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between August 15, 2017 and August 15, 2019 are eligible for the 2019 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1. AWARD The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) <http://www.computer.org/cga>. Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. Thesis Advisor(s) of the winning entrant will chair the following year’s Dissertation Review Committee, with full support from the VPG OC to handle details such as publicity and administration. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student’s advisor should email the nomination package to *vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org <vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org>*. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student’s advisor, which includes: - the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, - the name and email address of the candidate, and - a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission. On behalf of the VPG operating committee, Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação Innovation Management Executive & Consultant Professor of Practice, Business Analytics & Computer Science Tippie College of Business & College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Iowa *"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming)"* -- LME(a)computer.org <lme(a)computer.org> @mencarna http://www.linkedin.com/in/drmiguel <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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PostDoc in Graph Drawing at Roma Tre University
by Fabrizio Frati 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

A postdoc position in graph drawing and related areas is open in the graph drawing research group led by Prof. Giuseppe Di Battista at the Department of Engineering at Roma Tre University. The research group includes Fabrizio Frati, Maurizio Patrignani, and Maurizio Pizzonia as permanent members, together with several postdocs and PhD students. The postdoc position is funded by the PRIN (Research Projects of National Interest) Project "MODE" - Morphing graph drawings efficiently. The ideal candidate for the position should have a PhD in Mathematics or Computer Science and should have a background in algorithms, theoretical computer science and/or discrete mathematics, preferably with an interest in graph drawing, graph theory, and/or combinatorial geometry. The postdoc appointment is to begin as soon as possible. The position is for one year, renewable for a second year. The position is full-time and research-only. The position is open to candidates of any nationality; in particular, no knowledge of Italian is required. The gross salary is 27.5K, which will result in ~1650 net per month. Travel funding will be available. The call can be found here: http://www.ingegneria.uniroma3.it/?p=33042 The Italian version of the call is available here: http://www.ingegneria.uniroma3.it/?p=33033 Detailed information on how to apply are available in the call. In particular, a candidate should send a package to the address specified in the first page of the call, containing: - 3 filled forms "Allegato A" (Attachment A), "Allegato B" (Attachment B), and "Allegato C" (Attachment C), corresponding to the last three pages of the call - a copy of an ID - a copy of the CV - a copy of any relevant titles (e.g., the ph.d. award, awards at conferences, ...) - a copy of the most significant publications (possibly no more than five) The package has to be received no later than the 23rd of July. Selected candidates will be interviewed via Skype or similar electronic means. For any further information, please contact Fabrizio Frati <frati(a)dia.uniroma3.it> ------------------------ QUICK GUIDE TO THE FORMS Allegato A: - Rep. N is 70/2019 - At point 2) the candidate should indicate first the topic of his/her degree (e.g., mathematics or computer science), then the date of conferment, then the University where the degree was obtained, then the final grade (if available). Allegato B: This form is to self-certify that the candidate has obtained a master degree. In the thick box, the candidate should specify the topic of his/her degree (e.g., mathematics or computer science), then the date of conferment, then the University where the degree was obtained, then the Faculty where the degree was obtained, then the final grade (if available); the small box indicates a laurea cum laude. Allegato C: In the first list the candidate should list the relevant titles attached to the application. In the second list the candidate should list the titles of the scientific publications attached to the application.

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ISS 2019 Papers & Notes 2nd CFP, Posters & Demos CFP
by Juho Kim 23 Jun '19

23 Jun '19

*ACM ISS 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAPERS & NOTES* https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/papers/ *Important Dates* - Abstract Submission: 28 June 2019 (5:00 p.m. PDT) - Complete Paper Submission: 5 July 2019 (5:00 p.m. PDT) - Author Notifications: 23 August 2019 - Camera-Ready Deadline: 8 September 2019 - ISS 2019 Conference: 10-13 November 2019 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2019) (https://iss.acm.org/2019) being held in Daejeon, South Korea this year, is the premier venue for research in the design, development, and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS 2019 welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces, interactive spaces and novel interface technologies. Beyond the traditional scope of the conference – i.e., interactive tabletops, large displays, multi-display systems, mobile and mini devices – we also encourage contributions focused on the use of space and technology around us to bridge the gap between our digital and everyday lives, such as interactive 3D spaces, on-body sensors, interactive art or interactive architecture. We also encourage contributions focused on understanding individual and group needs related to interactive surfaces and interactive spaces, and the impact on individuals and groups of these technologies. We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of such interactive systems. *Topic Areas* The conference welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces as well as novel interface technologies, including (but not limited to): - Real-world applications of interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.) - Large display interfaces and multi-display environments - Gesture-based interfaces (hands, finger, body) - Multi-modal interfaces - Tangible user interfaces - Novel interaction techniques and paradigms - Interaction with mobile and body-worn devices - Non-traditional interactive surfaces such as curved, sand, and water interfaces - Interactive 3D spaces (Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality, mid-air displays, ...) - Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, ...) - Interactive architecture - Beyond traditional surfaces: shape-changing and actuated surfaces, body-related... - Information visualization / data presentation with interactive surfaces and spaces - Software engineering methods and frameworks - Social aspects and protocols related to interacting with surfaces and spaces - Interactive surfaces and spaces that support group work or social interaction - Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities, and results from maker communities - Human-centered design and methodologies related to interactive surfaces and spaces - Empirical evaluations of novel interactive surfaces and/or spaces designs - Evaluations of deployed interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.) *Program Chairs* Gerard Jounghyun Kim - Korea University Stacey Scott - University of Guelph, Canada Melanie Tory - Tableau Software, USA email contact: program2019(a)iss.acm.org === *ACM ISS 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: POSTERS* https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/posters/ *Important Dates* - July 31, 2019: Deadline for submissions - August 23, 2019: Author Notifications - August 30, 2019: Deadline for invited submissions from paper/note track - September 8, 2019: Camera-Ready Deadline *General Information* We invite submissions to the poster category of ISS 2019. The ISS 2019 poster program offers an engaging venue to present and discuss new and developing research. Posters provide the opportunity for researchers to get feedback on early-stage work and work-in-progress, to establish potential collaborations and to discuss the burning issues in ISS 2019 in an informal manner with the larger community during the interactive poster session. Work that is best suited for a poster submission includes - but is not limited to - preliminary results, thought-provoking and current topics, novel experiences and/or prototypes that have not been fully tested but show great promise, summaries of small-scale studies, design-led explorations of interactive tabletops, surfaces and spaces. A poster submission will allow you to: - Have a poster displayed during the posters & demos reception at the ISS 2019 conference and get feedback from the conference attendees (there will also be a Best Poster Award at the conference). - Publish an extended abstract of the poster in the electronic conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Publish an optional video of up to 3 minutes long in electronic conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. - Introduce your poster alongside other authors in a plenary fast-forward madness session at the conference (30 seconds presentation). *Posters Co-Chairs* Tony Tang, University of Calgary Andrea Bianchi, KAIST If you have questions about Posters for ISS 2019, contact the Poster Chairs posters2019(a)iss.acm.org === *ACM ISS 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DEMOS* https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/demos/ *Important Dates* - Deadline for submissions: July 31 - Author Notifications: August 23 - Author Notifications (papers): August 23 - Deadline for invited submissions from paper/note track: August 30 - Camera-Ready Deadline: September 8 *General Information* The ISS demo session provides a great opportunity for authors to present their prototypes, products and applications to conference attendees. We will provide a large area in which you will be able to showcase your best interactive experiences and commercial products. Our goal is to provide a highly interactive forum for lively discussions and hands-on experiences. What are we looking for? Creative and innovative technologies and applications in interactive surfaces and spaces, including displays, input and sensing technologies, interaction techniques, shape-changing devices, computer vision applications, audio – speech interfaces, wearable devices, visualization techniques, interfaces for public spaces and more. Also demos from industry (i.e. commercial applications and products) are highly encouraged. What are the benefits? You will get the opportunity to present your exciting projects and ideas to experts from both academia and industry during the conference. Your submission will be published and indexed as an extended abstract in the ACM digital library. How we will evaluate? Demo abstracts will be reviewed and selected by the demo chairs. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference. Abstracts of invited demos from paper/note track will not be reviewed. We will focus on interactive and exciting demos. We want to showcase interactive technologies from all over the world and create a highly exciting event. We thus encourage resubmission of existing and exciting demos. *Demo Co-Chairs* If you have questions about Demos for ISS 2019, contact the Demo Chairs: Michel Pahud, Microsoft Research Seongkook Heo, University of Toronto Jaemin Jo, Seoul National University demos2019(a)iss.acm.org

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Updated IEEE VIS publication visualization tools
by Stasko, John T 21 Jun '19

21 Jun '19

We recently updated the VISLists (http://iilabgt.org/vislists/) and CiteVis (https://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/citevis/) systems that communicate data about IEEE VIS and IEEE InfoVis papers, respectively. The systems now include data from IEEE VIS 2018, except for VISLists missing the '18 VAST conference-only papers which haven't been pushed to the IEEE DL yet. The data driving VISLists is from the vispubdata project (http://www.vispubdata.org) and the data driving CiteVis is hand-curated and available on its website.

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CfP VINCI 2019 Workshop on Immersive Analytics and Visual Communication
by Karsten Klein 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on Immersive Analytics and Visual Communication (IAVC) (in conjunction with VINCI 2019, Shanghai, China, 20 September 2019) More information can be found on the webpage: http://vinci-conf.org/workshop.html ** Paper submission is due on June 30, 2019 ** CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- The 2019 Workshop on Immersive Analytics and Visual Communication, held alongside the 12th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, provides an opportunity to showcase and discuss the state of the art in immersive analytics, present new concepts and studies, highlight application use-cases, and to investigate issues and opportunities regarding both foundations and applications of immersive analytics. The workshop will enable participants to showcase their ongoing work through demo presentations. TOPICS AND SCOPE ---------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Communicating information using immersive environments * Evaluation for immersive environments and IA concepts * Collaborative immersive analytics * Human-computer interaction for analytics * Applications and case-studies * Tools for building immersive analytics applications * Visual and multisensory data representation * Theoretical foundations of immersive analytics PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- We welcome position papers, surveys, discussions on interaction design, use of immersive technologies, evaluation methods, user studies, and application use-cases for immersive analytics. Ongoing work, prototypes, and preliminary results are welcome if they clearly address relevant topics and either demonstrate potential for significant contributions or might trigger interesting discussions on foundations of immersive analytics. Please submit your paper by following the submission guidelines for VINCI short papers (4 pages limit+ 1 page references). The paper submission deadline is June 30th. Accepted papers will be included in the VINCI proceedings, and published as VINCI short papers. Selected papers will be invited for journal publication. Submission should be done via the Easychair system, see the VINCI submissions webpage for further information.

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CfP Extended Deadline: Machine Learning from User Interactions (MLUI) at VIS 2019
by John Wenskovitch 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

The Machine Learning from User Interactions (MLUI) workshop seeks to bring together researchers to share their knowledge and build collaborations at the intersection of the Machine Learning and Visualization fields, with a focus on learning from user interaction. Rather than focusing on what visualization can do to support machine learning (as in current Explainable AI research), this workshop seeks contributions on *how machine learning can support visualization*. Such support incorporates human-centric sensemaking processes, user-driven analytical systems, and gaining insight from data. Our intention in this workshop is to generate open discussion about how we currently learn from user interaction, how to build intelligent visualization systems, and how to proceed with future research in this area. We hope to foster discussion regarding systems, interaction models, and interaction techniques. Further, we hope to extend last year’s collaborative creation of a research agenda that explores the future of machine learning with user interaction. We invite research and position papers between 5 and 10 pages in length (NOT including references). All submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference template. Papers are to be submitted online through the Precision Conference System at the MLUI track. All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published on IEEE Xplore and linked from the workshop website. These papers are considered archival; reuse of the content in a follow-up publication is only permitted in a proper journal, and any extended version must extend the original paper by at least 30%. Papers will be juried by the organizers and selected external reviewers and will be chosen according to relevance, quality, and likelihood that they will stimulate and contribute to discussion and the workshop. *Submission deadline:* July 15, 2019 *Author notification:* August 6, 2019 *Camera-ready deadline:* August 20, 2019 *Speaker schedule available:* September 15, 2019 *Workshop:* October 20 or 21, 2019 More info and papers from MLUI 2018 can be found at: https://learningfromusersworkshop.github.io/

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