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Postdoctoral position in visualization, topological analysis, and machine learning
by Joshua Levine 12 May '19

12 May '19

Postdoctoral Research Associate Dept. of Computer Science University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA Complete job posting here: https://uacareers.com/postings/37598 ----- The University of Arizona seeks a postdoctoral researcher in visualization under the direction of Joshua A. Levine. The primary duties will be conducting research on visualization of scientific data within the scope of projects in Dr. Levine’s research team. Secondary duties will involve projects associated with the HDC research group at the UA ( http://hdc.cs.arizona.edu/) In particular, this position will focus on research projects at the intersection of machine learning and topological analysis. The overall goal of this research is to produce novel analysis techniques for the visualization and analysis of multifaceted data coming from scientific simulations such as climate. We are seeking candidates with background in at least one of these areas. The position is a one-year term which can be extended an additional year by mutual consent. Please contact me directly (at josh(a)email.arizona.edu) for more information. Josh Levine http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~josh

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OzCHI'2019 - CfP - @Perth/Fremantle/WA/Australia - Submit your Long Papers/Workshops by 24th May 2019
by Artur Lugmayr 12 May '19

12 May '19

============================================================================================================================= OzCHI 2019 - Call for Participation 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction "Experience Design Across Asia Pacific" @Perth/Fremantle, WA, AUSTRALIA 3-5 December 2019 W. http://www.ozchi.org | F. https://www.facebook.com/ozchi2019/ T. https://twitter.com/OzchiWA | #Quokka_CHI E. ozchi2019(a)gmail.com IMPORTANT DATES 24 May 2019 Long Papers 24 May 2019 Workshop Proposals 24 June 2019 Doctoral Consortium 10 August 2019 Short Papers 24 August 2019 Student Design Challenge Team Applications 6 September 2019 Demos, Posters, Industry Papers, and Work-in-Progress We listen to YOUR voice and want to make OzCHI'19 even better - submit your conference ideas! The best ideas are awarded during the conference closing session. ozCHI ‘Idea Box': https://goo.gl/forms/0XceZlmoP0XSV5RO2 ============================================================================================================================= OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia and Australia's leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics and students. Participants come from a range of backgrounds, including interface designers, user experience (UX) practitioners, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts and social scientists. After 18 years, OzCHI finally come back to Western Australia. Time has passed and things have changed a lot since OzCHI 2001. More HCI and UX works have been done in Western Australia as well as its neighbouring countries. Having the privilege to convene the 2nd OzCHI conference in Western Australia, one of our objectives is to be inclusive towards attendees across overall Asia-Pacific. The conference theme is Experience Design in Asia Pacific, which highlights the challenges we all face in the endeavour to tame the environment without destroying it to ensure our continuing existence. Our vision is to make OzCHI 2019 as an inclusive event for academic, industry, research, start-ups, maker communities to learn and exchange knowledge in the recent and emerging HCI and UX areas - practical, technical, empirical and theoretical aspects regardless their level of maturity in the fields. We invite contributions on all topics related to Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Social Science, Creative Industries, and other related disciplines. Creating * Designing * Experiencing * Innovating * Intelligence * Community * Reaching out to Asia-Pacific Join us in Perth/Fremantle, Western Australia in December 2019 to explore and understand the design and role of contemporary interactive technologies. ============================================================================================================================= SUBMISSIONS ============================================================================================================================= Submissions will be accepted in various categories as described below. All submissions must be written in English and follow formatting guidelines in the paper template. Both long and short papers will undergo a double-blind review by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. This review will be based on the full text of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series available from the ACM Digital Library. Award will be given to the highest quality papers. We are looking for submissions under the theme of Experience Design across Asia Pacific in the following areas but not limited to: ============================================================================================================================= TOPICS ============================================================================================================================= HCI: Methods, Tools and Techniques • Usability Methods and Practices • Human-centered Design • Participatory Design • User Studies and Ethnographic Approaches • Design Methods • Tools for Design, Modelling and Evaluation • HCI and Software Engineering • Usability Metrics and Measurement • Ethical issues in HCI • HCI Education and Design Education • HCI4D UX Applications and Business Domains • Digital Transformation • Mobile User Experience • Organizational context and technology design • Games and Entertainment • Healthcare, E-health and Telemedicine • Interactive Design for Online Education • Computer-supported cooperative work and collaboration • E-commerce Interface Design and Evaluation • Electronic, Mobile and Ubiquitous Commerce • Service Design (Micro-finance, Micro-loan, Instant Courier, Agile Transport) • Social Computing (Social Media, Social Networking) • Online Gaming, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Online Dating • Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology • UX and eLearning • Blockchain • Crowdsourcing User Research and Usability • Lean User Experience • Agile User Experience • Usability Testing • User Research • Internationalization and Localization • Accessibility and inclusion • Design System • Multimedia and Multimodal Interfaces • Natural User Interfaces • Tactile and Haptic Interaction • Novel Interaction Techniques • Mobile User Interfaces • Responsive Design • Graphic User Interface • Information Visualisation Emerging Technologies • Virtual Reality • Augmented Reality • Mobile Computing and User Mobility • Affective Computing • Context-Aware and Ubiquitous Computing • Internet of Things • Big Data • Human Robot Interaction • Artificial Intelligence • Smart Cities • Autonomous Vehicles • Wearable Technology • Brain Computer Interface • Novel Interface Graphics, Art and Media Technology • Engaging users with multimedia • Methods and techniques of creative practices • Visualizing and interacting with data • Quality of Experience (QoE) • Digital storytelling • Interactive art • Media technology and interactivity • Designing for multi-user interaction • Tangible, mixed reality interfaces and multi-modal interfaces ============================================================================================================================= SUBMISSION TYPES ============================================================================================================================= 1. Long papers report on innovative, original, and completed research, which is relevant, significant, and interesting to the HCI community. 2. Short papers present ideas that are emerging and would benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. This type of submission may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches. 3. Workshops are half-day and full-day sessions on topics that contribute to community building around a specific HCI topic. Topics may include methods, practices, and other areas of interest and that support active participation beyond presentation. 4. Doctoral consortium is a full-day intensive session for research students. A panel of experienced HCI researchers provides advice and guidance. 5. Student Design Challenge is an annual international competition in which students work rapidly researching, brainstorming and sketching a solution for a real HCI problem. Finalists will present their work at the OzCHI 2019 conference. 6. Industry papers provide the opportunity for practitioners and industries for their initiatives or new developments that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. 7. Work-in-Progress papers are a subset of the long papers track (subject to the same format and deadlines). Rather than reporting on mature research, they describe work-in-progress, late-breaking and new ideas, questions, or challenges, and are intended to provoke discussion in the OzCHI community. The accepted submission will be required to present a poster 8. Demo/Posters is a venue for industry, research, startups, maker communities, the arts, and design to present their hands-on demonstration, share novel interactive technologies, and stage interactive experiences. This venue promotes and provokes discussion on novel technologies. ============================================================================================================================= OzCHI 2019 GENERAL CHAIRS ============================================================================================================================= General Chairs Artur Lugmayr, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Eunice Sari, UXINDO & Charles Darwin Univ., AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA Long Paper Chairs Ryan, Kelly, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Mark Reynolds, Univ. of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA Virpi Roto, Aalto Univ. FINLAND Ingrid Richardson, Murdoch University, AUSTRALIA Short Paper Chairs Haifeng Shen, Australian Catholic Univ. AUSTRALIA Callum Parker, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Naseem Ahmadpour, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Jo Li Tay, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Publication Chairs Hollie White, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Jared Donovan, QUT, AUSTRALIA Simon Perrault, Singapore Univ. of Technology & Design, SINGAPORE Workshop Chairs Greg Wadley, Univ. of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Sarah Webber, Univ. of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Jo Jung, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA Demos, Work in Progress, Posters Mark Billinghurst, Univ. of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND Soojeong Yoo, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Martin Masek, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA Doctoral Consortium Chairs Dana McKay, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Margot Brereton, QUT, AUSTRALIA Wally Smith, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Panel Chairs Marcus Foth, QUT, AUSTRALIA Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, RMIT, AUSTRALIA Student Design Challenge David Cook, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA Trevor Hunter, Univ. of Queensland, AUSTRALIA Peter Worthy, Univ. of Queensland, AUSTRALIA Industry Engagement and Sponsorship Chairs Jess Tsimeris, Google, USA Jonathan Steingeisser, Isobar, Perth, AUSTRALIA Greg Stewart, SMS Management and Technology, Perth, AUSTRALIA Christopher Kueh, ECU, Perth, AUSTRALIA Ulrich Engelke, Data61, CSIRO, AUSTRALIA Sean Gardiner, BHP, AUSTRALIA Adi Tedjasaputra, UX Indonesia, AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA Local Liaisons & Publicity Chairs Susannah Soon, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Website Yanginbo Zhang, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Student Volunteers Chairs Casey Xin Wei Lim, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Jamie Dougall, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Asian Liaisons and Publicity Ethel Ong, De La Salle University, PHILIPINES Masitah Ghazali, University of Teknologi, MALAYSIA Thippaya Chintakovid, Chulangkorn University, THAILAND Nova Ahmed, North South University, Dhaka, BANGLADESH Adi Tedjasasaputra, UX Indonesia, INDONESIA/AUSTRIA CHISIG Liasons Duncan Stevenson, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA George Buchanan, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Local Conference Steering Board Artur Lugmayr, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Andrew Woods, HIVE, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Andrew Rohl, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Christopher Kueh, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Clive Barstow, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA David Cook, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Eunice Sari, Charles Darwin University and UX Indonesia, AUSTRALIA Jo Jung, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Michelle Ellis, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Philip Ely, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Martin Masek, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Mark McMahon, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA Tele Tan, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Honorary Local Conference Steering Board Members Vasillis Kostakos, Univ. 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TVX 2019 -- Early Bird Registration Extended to 15th May
by Jonathan Hook 08 May '19

08 May '19

Hi everyone, We’re pleased to announce that the early bird registration deadline for TVX 2019 has been extended to the 15th May 2019. This year’s conference takes place across two exciting venues in MediaCityUK, Manchester’s world-leading hub for creative media and technology innovation. Days 1 & 2 are held in The Lowry, a cultural centre that comprises two large theatres, a gallery exhibiting the work of the early 20th century painter L. S. Lowry and other facilities including bars, restaurants and shops. The third day of the conference — a ‘bazaar’ of interactive sessions and exhibits designed to provoke discussion, networking and collaboration amongst researchers and industry — takes place right in the heart of the BBC’s Manchester headquarters, Quay House. As home to major broadcasters and technology companies including the BBC, ITV, Ericsson and dock10, as well as more than 250 smaller media and digital businesses, we believe MediaCityUK is the ideal place for TVX to showcase cutting edge online, interactive and immersive video research and practice. Alongside our high quality programme of research papers, workshops, demos, work in progress, doctoral consortium and industry talks (inc. Samsung, BT, BBC, ESL, TNO), we are excited to have three inspiring keynotes by thought leaders from academia and industry. These will be presented by Andy Conroy who is Controller of Research and Development at the BBC; Geraint Wiggins who is Professor of Computational Creativity at VUB and at Queen Mary University of London; and Simon Lumb who is a Senior Research and Development Producer at the BBC. You can reserve your place now and find out more about the programme on our website: https://tvx.acm.org/2019/registration/ <https://tvx.acm.org/2019/registration/> We hope that you look forward to the conference with as much excitement as we do, and hope to see you in Manchester! Jon Hook, Marian Ursu, Phil Stenton TVX 2019 General Chairs

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Chris Oehmen to Keynote at VizSec 2019
by Nicolas Prigent 08 May '19

08 May '19

*** Please visit https://vizsec.org/ for more information. *** We are pleased to announce Chris Oehmen as the Keynote Speacker of VizSec 2019! Chris is at PNNL as a research scientist, previously serving as the lead for the Asymmetric Resilient Cybersecurity Initiative. His research is built on a foundation of high performance computing applications in biology, with special emphasis on how these biological approaches can be used as a new paradigm for other fields such as cybersecurity. His resilience and active defense work rely on a foundational application of biological principles for survivability and regeneration with special emphasis on facilitating human control of complex systems.

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VizSec 2019 Full and Short Papers Deadline Approaching
by Nicolas Prigent 08 May '19

08 May '19

*** This is a reminder that the deadline for full and short papers is on *** *** June 15 2019. Please visit https://vizsec.org/ for more information. *** The 16th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held in Vancouver, Canada in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. This year, VizSec will be more closely integrated with the IEEE VIS program. VizSec will take place during the main week of the conference, giving VizSec authors and attendees enhanced access to IEEE VIS, the premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. Technical Papers ---------------- Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding. - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response. - Computer forensics. - Machine learning and explainable AI for cybersecurity. - Visual analytics for cybersecurity. - Data protection & privacy. - Blockchain performance & security. - Cybersecurity in critical infrastructure. - Recording and reporting results of investigations. - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment. - Reverse engineering and malware analysis. - Vulnerability management. - Multiple data source analysis. - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense. - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems. - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective). - Modeling system and network behavior. - Modeling attacker and defender behavior. - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks. - Predicting future attacks or targets. - Security metrics. - Software security. - Mobile application security. - Social networking privacy and security. - Training & education. When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable. Submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are also considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets. Short Papers ------------ Short papers describing initial research results, concise research contributions or incremental work on the above topics, even including practical applications of security visualization, are solicited. We encourage the submission of papers discussing the introduction of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not limited to: - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting operational needs. - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments. - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a positive impact. - Lessons learned from operational engagements. - Insights gained from the transition process. Cyber security practitioners from industry, as well as the research community, are encouraged to submit case studies. Posters ------- Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees, potentially also through live demos, and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Awards ------ There will be an award for the best paper from the accepted program. This award will be given to the paper judged to have the highest overall quality as determined by the program committee. Key elements of the selection process include whether papers include evaluation, repeatable results, and open-source data or software. Authors of the best paper will be invited for submission to Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Both full and short papers are eligible. There will also be an award for Best Presentation and an award for Best Poster. Each award comes with a $50 USD Amazon gift card thanks to our sponsor, Two Six Labs. These awards will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly and concisely present their work to the audience. The awards will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference. Submissions ----------- The VizSec 2019 Proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE VGTC conference proceedings template that can be found at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Track/vis.html. VizSec full papers are limited to 9 pages of content plus an additional 2 pages of references. Papers may be shorter than this but must make a similar contribution to a longer paper. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Short papers should be at most 4 pages plus 1 page of references. Posters should be 2 page abstracts. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. VizSec uses the the Precision Conference System (PCS) to handle their paper and poster submissions and reviewing processes. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. June 15 2019: Submissions due for Full and Short Papers. July 19 2019: Author notification for Full and Short Papers. August 10 2019: Fast forward deadline. August 15 2019: Camera ready submission and copyright forms. August 3 2019: Submissions due for Poster Abstracts. August 17 2019: Author notification for Posters. October 23 2019: VizSec 2019. 2019 Organizing Committee ------------------------- Robert Gove, General Co-Chair, Two Six Labs. Dustin Arendt, General Co-Chair, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Celeste Paul, Publication Chair, US Department of Defense. Jörn Kohlhammer, Program Co-Chair, Fraunhofer IGD. Marco Angelini, Program Co-Chair, University of Rome La Sapienza. Chris Bryan, Poster Co-Chair, Arizona State University. Sean McKenna, Poster Co-Chair, Lucid Software Inc. Nicolas Prigent, Publicity Chair, LSTI. Parnian Najafi, Sponsorship Chair, FireEye, Inc. Awalin Sopan, Web Chair, FireEye, Inc. Steering Committee ------------------ Greg Conti, IronNet Cybersecurity. Deborah Frincke, National Security Agency. John Gerth, Stanford University. John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Lane Harrison, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis. Kirsten Whitley, U.S. Department of Defense. Sophie Engle, University of San Francisco. Diane Staheli, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

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Survey for arXiv.org Usage in the Visualization Community
by Joshua Levine 06 May '19

06 May '19

Dear Visualization Community, As you may know, https://arxiv.org/ is an open access repository of electronic preprints that has become a resource for the broader scientific community. We are gathering data to better understand the extent that our community uses https://arxiv.org/ as well as the potential for creating a cs.VIS category. We invite you to complete the following survey to help us gauge interest. The survey should only take a few minutes to complete, and we would greatly appreciate any feedback you have. https://forms.gle/AdCVjPdGq5AykzxU8 Thanks, Steve Haroz Alvitta Ottley Joshua Levine Tamara Munzner Carlos Scheidegger

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Hiring: Data Visualization Scientist
by Alan Keahey 02 May '19

02 May '19

We are hiring! Come join our Data Science Visualization team as we explore petabytes of data and billions of daily transactions in the digital economy. We have a deep and varied set of visualization challenges to work on and a strong mandate for innovation while delivering results to both client and technical stakeholders. You will not be bored! https://jobs.conversantmedia.com/jobs/analytics/l5-chicago-il-cnvr/data-vis… <https://jobs.conversantmedia.com/jobs/analytics/l5-chicago-il-cnvr/data-vis…> ------------------------------------------------ As a Data Visualization Scientist in our Decision Sciences Visualization team, you will create innovative visualization systems that demonstrate the business value of Conversant’s digital marketing platform directly to our customers and stakeholders. Our visualization challenges span hundreds of millions of highly detailed individual profiles across hundreds of millions of web sites and apps tied together by sophisticated real-time analytics that make near instantaneous decisions on messaging to those profiles trillions of times a day. This provides an incredibly rich environment of business questions and answers that are hidden within petabytes of data. You will be a key team member creating effective visualization tools that use the data to reveal, explore and explain complex enterprise-critical information in an engaging, intuitive and informative manner. This is a multi-faceted effort involving an array of visualization tools such as D3.js, WebGL, Three.js, Tableau and more. We are looking for strong candidates with extensive experience in visualization programming and algorithms who can push the boundary beyond conventional charting. Our team works closely with business and analytics units across the company and produces a range of products including line of business dashboards, client facing visualizations and advanced technical analytics systems. As a member of this team you will have an opportunity to have a broad impact on the company, as well as to dive deep into technical areas. RESPONSIBILITIES • Research and prototype innovative visualizations that demonstrate the value of our platform and that help our clients to understand complex digital marketing ecosystems. • Implement production versions of the visualizations using your programming skills in Javascript, D3, WebGL and other libraries and frameworks. • Meet with internal business units and stakeholders to understand their requirements and propose visualization and interaction systems that meet those. • Work closely with the Analytics and Decision Sciences teams to understand intricacies of the analytics models in such a way that we can demonstrate the benefits of our analytics to our customers. • Be a supportive and positive contributor in a highly collaborative team with shared and overlapping responsibilities. REQUIREMENTS • A PhD degree plus relevant experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics or a related scientific discipline. • Extensive experience programming visualizations with one or more of: D3.js, WebGL, Three.js. • Extensive experience programming in Javascript/ES to create interactive web-based systems. • Experience with front end frameworks such as Angular or React. • Experience manipulating large datasets in tabular, JSON and other formats to make suitable for use in interactive visualizations. • Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment. ADDITIONAL USEFUL BUT NOT REQUIRED SKILLS • Experience with creating interactive systems with multi-tier/SPA architectures. • Experience with large scale distributed computing, such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Scala or related technologies. • Experience with SQL or other databases (NoSQL) • UX design skills: rapid iteration from interview to concept to prototype to product. • Foundational graphic design knowledge: you know how to use layout, color and typography to make things look beautiful.

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CHITALY 2019 - CFP Doctoral Consortium
by Daniela Fogli 02 May '19

02 May '19

[Apologies for multiple postings] ======================================= CHITALY 2019 - DESIGNING THE NEXT INTERACTION The Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter 23 September - 25 September 2019 Palazzo Bò, Giardino delle Biodiversità and Orto Botanico - Padova, Italy www.chitaly2019.org <http://www.chitaly2019.org/> Organized by the University of Padova and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI and SIGCHI Italy ======================================= Doctoral Consortium at CHITALY 2019 ======================================= The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting in which PhD students can present and receive feedback on their work. The Doctoral Consortium also aims to provide students with useful guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. The main goal of the consortium is to enables PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics. The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. ======================================= Important dates for Doctoral Consortium ======================================= June 1: Submission deadline July 1: Notification to authors July 15: Submission deadline for the camera ready of accepted contributions July 30: Early Registration deadline Sept 23: Doctoral Consortium Sept 24-25: Main conference ======================================== Paper Format, Submission and Proceedings ======================================== Submissions must be single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. The language of the consortium is English. All submitted materials must be in English. DC papers must be 2-page word abstracts in the ACM template and pdf format, references included. Submissions must: - identify a significant problem in the field of research - outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions - describe the contribution of the applicant’s work by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far Papers must be sent to chitaly2019(a)gmail.com <mailto:chitaly2019@gmail.com> with 'DC proposal' in the e-mail subject. Accepted papers will be included in the adjunct proceedings volume (not published by ACM). Each author of an accepted paper will present orally his/her research problem and contribution the first day of the conference (Sept 23, 2019). Participants will also be requested to attend the presentation of the other authors of a paper accepted at the DC. ======================================= Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs ======================================= Francesco Di Nocera, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Emmanuel Dubois, University of Toulouse, France Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy For any further information, please write an email to the co-chairs: dinocera(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:dinocera@uniroma1.it>, emmanuel.dubois(a)irit.fr <mailto:emmanuel.dubois@irit.fr>, daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it <mailto:daniela.fogli@unibs.it> ———————————————————— Daniela Fogli Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione Università degli Studi di Brescia Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia Tel. +39 030 3715666 Email: daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it <mailto:daniela.fogli@unibs.it> -- Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155 <http://www.unibs.it/node/8155>

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PostDoc in PeaceTech and Data Visualization, Edinburgh University
by benjamin bach 28 Apr '19

28 Apr '19

Dear all, We are seeking candidates for a post-doc fellowship application in PeaceTech and data visualization at the University of Edinburgh, for up to 5 years. A detailed description can be found below and online: https://vishubblog.wordpress.com/postdoc-peacetech <https://vishubblog.wordpress.com/postdoc-peacetech>. Application criteria: https://www.ed.ac.uk/human-resources/jobs/train-ed/train-ed-application-pro… <https://www.ed.ac.uk/human-resources/jobs/train-ed/train-ed-application-pro…> Application deadline is May 14, but I you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible (let’s chat if you’re at CHI) and discuss a proposal and further details. The project will be supervised and coordinated by: - Dr Benjamin Bach (School of Informatics and Design Informatics, Data visualization, Human Computer Interaction), http://benjbach.me - Prof Christine Bell (School of Law, Director of Peace Agreement Settlement Programme) http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/christinebell <http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/christinebell> A successful candidate will benefit from an interdisciplinary and international environment, across the Schools of Informatics, School of Law, and College of Art, NGOs, and other international collaborators and their projects in conflict regions. best regards, Benjamin Bach Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Design Informatics and Visualization School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh http://benjbach.me ——— ‘Edinburgh Peacetech’ is a new initiative being developed at the University of Edinburgh in conjunction with other NGOs and tech companies. It seeks to develop digital tools for conflict analysis and inclusive peacebuilding. The overarching vision is to build a collaborative peacetech hub at the University of Edinburgh, to harness the energies of interdisciplinary research, peacebuilding practitioners, and technology providers, which would produce a radical improvement in how peace processes are designed and managed to effectively end violent conflict. This Fellowship provides an opportunity to help us shape a research agenda and new forms of academic-NGO-business collaborations, for how data collection, analysis and visualisation, and visual storytelling can support conflict interpretation and peace processes. The fellowship will investigate how data analytics, data visualization, distributed applications and platforms for engagement and participation can help us monitor and understand conflict and peace processes worldwide. This can include text mining and analysis, aggregating data from different sources, dealing with incomplete and uncertain data, developing faithful visual representations of geographic multivariate and potentially temporal data, in innovative and interactive forms. The successful candidate will need to have strong programming and design skills, and experience in several of the following: visualization design, natural language processing, semantic web, web development and databases, workshop organization, ethnographic and qualitative research, user tracking. Some understanding of development and peacebuilding issues would be an advantage. Interested candidates should contact Professor Christine Bell (Christine.bell(a)ed.ac.uk) and Dr Benjamin Bach (bbach(a)inf.ed.ac.uk) for an informal discussion before applying. Eligibility Criteria: Applicants must meet eligibility criteria as listed here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/human-resources/jobs/train-ed/train-ed-application-pro… Annual salary: £33,199 – £39,609. In addition, you will receive payments into a pension scheme and other benefits of employment. Each year, you will be able to use funds up to £2500 to support attendance at conferences and meetings and £6000 to support other research costs. As a special exemption, we have made our relocation support available for TRAIN@Ed fellows. benjamin

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IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2019) - Deadline extended!
by Tanja Blascheck 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

====================================================================== IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (VISSOFT 2019) DEADLINE EXTENSION for TECHNICAL PAPERS Deadline: May 10, 2019 (extended by two weeks) Cleveland, Ohio, USA (http://vissoft19.dcc.uchile.cl/) ====================================================================== 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 principally 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 software visualization. This year's VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, 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 like 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 reality, gamification, and machine learning. * 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 Tools 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. Authors of conditionally accepted papers must revise the paper based on the reviewers' comments and submit a response letter explaining how the comments are taken into account in the revised paper version. In a second reviewing cycle, the reviewers decide if the paper has been revised accordingly. After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, data, model, etc.) or modify their paper to make it acceptable for the NIER/TOOLS track which will have their own call for papers. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2019 NIER/TD Track: The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT accepts two types of contributions: NIER (New Ideas and Emerging Results) 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 (TD) 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 Technical Papers NIER/TD Track Paper Submission: May 10, 2019 June 3, 2019 1st Notification: June 10, 2019 Revised Paper: June 24, 2019 Final Notification: July 1, 2019 June 24, 2019 Camera-Ready: July 8, 2019 Conference Date: September 30 - October 1, 2019 We hope to see you at VISSOFT 2019! Best regards, Johan Fabry (General Chair) Craig Anslow and Michael Burch (Program Co-Chairs)

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