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ACM ISS 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAPERS & NOTES
by Juho Kim 25 Apr '19

25 Apr '19

ACM ISS 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAPERS & NOTES 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.) PAPER SUBMISSIONS We invite paper submissions of papers with variable length (from 4 pages to a max. of 10 pages excluding references) of two possible types: - Academic papers present original, innovative, and forward-looking research. - Application papers demonstrate how surface and spatial interaction can be applied to real world problems. See details below for information on paper formatting, length, and submission. When appropriate, authors are also highly encouraged to submit supplementary materials such as video or data. Papers will undergo a high-quality peer-review process by a committee of recognized experts in order to be presented at the ISS conference, be included in the conference proceedings, and be archived in the ACM Digital Library. ACM ISS is ranked as an A conference according to the CORE Conference Ranking. ISS does not accept submissions that were previously published in formally reviewed publications or that are concurrently submitted elsewhere. All papers, regardless of submission length, go through the same rigorous review process. As per ACM Prior Publication policies, authors should only submit original work that has not been previously published. Thus, submitted papers must contain a novel contribution (25% or more new content) to the field. If any related prior publication(s) by the authors exist, in any language, these must be disclosed at submission time, and the nature of the new contribution in relation to these prior publications must be clarified. For more details on academic and application papers see: Academic Papers and Application Papers. ACADEMIC PAPERS: Academic papers must present original, innovative, and forward-looking research. This kind of paper corresponds to the standard scientific track of most HCI conferences. In addition to innovative systems, interaction techniques and studies, we are also open to surveys and other work that discuss the philosophy, trends and community aspects of academic research in interactive surfaces and spaces. APPLICATION PAPERS: Application papers are open to industrial and academic authors, and will explore how surface and spatial interaction can be applied to real world problems beyond the theoretical or research context, but without necessarily including original software, hardware, interaction techniques, or a formal study. For example, industry members can submit papers to share customer outcomes and iterative improvements over next-best alternatives. For application papers, reviewers will emphasize the connection between the real-world domain and the technology used. This connection may for instance concern a challenging domain, features of a system crucial for the real-world use context, a special design process, practical issues in implementation or deployment, or new business opportunities. Application papers are published in the same format as academic papers (will be presented during the main conference program, will be archived in the ACM Digital Library which provides free access through its Author-Izer service, and are free to publish), although they are reviewed through a slightly different process based on a rubric. Evaluation criteria for application papers will focus on aspects such as the description of a concrete, real-world application, the value hypothesis of the application design, the design process and principles followed during the design process, especially any design principles uniquely relevant to ISS, and discussion of design alternatives for the real-world context. More details on these evaluation criteria are below: - Real-world Application: The paper clearly describes a concrete application of interactive surface technologies to a real-world domain. The domain is richly described and there is a clear fit between the application and its real-world context. The paper demonstrates a clear understanding of the audience and their needs / values / priorities. - Value Hypothesis: The paper clearly describes the goals of the design or application and how the features work together to enable users to accomplish their tasks. - Design Process and Principles: The design presented in the paper best exemplifies relevant patterns, principles and practices that have been proven in ISS community research. The links between research and application are clearly explained. Each iteration of the design process is clearly described; logical reasoning behind feature changes is articulated. - Next Best Alternative: The paper helps the reader understand the competitive design space, and what needs the application fills within that space. First-time submitters in the application track are encouraged to apply for paper guidance well in advance of the submission deadline if deemed necessary (write to program2019(a)iss.acm.org) REVIEW PROCESS All papers will be reviewed by at least two external reviewers and a member of the program committee. After the review cycle a submission will receive either a "Conditional Accept" or "Reject" decision. Please do not submit extended abstracts or incomplete papers. As in the past, submit fully-completed, relevant, and publishable papers only. Incomplete, off-topic, or otherwise non-competitive submissions will be desk-rejected without review. Upon Acceptance All accepted papers must be presented as an oral presentation at the conference, by one of the authors of the paper. The presenting author must register for the full conference. In accordance with SIGCHI guidelines, ISS 2019 will have a “Best of ISS” awards program for accepted papers. Best paper awards will be awarded to papers in both the academic and application paper categories, and papers from either category will be considered for honorary mention awards. The program committee will nominate papers for these awards. In addition, we will continue to award a paper from the ITS/ISS conference series with a 10-year impact award. Paper Submission Information Please visit the ISS 2019 website (https://iss.acm.org/2019/authors/papers/) for more details on preparing and submitting your paper(s) for review by the Program Committee, and on information related to the copyright of accepted papers. Please note, submission of a 30-second video preview will be required for all accepted submissions, and 30-second or longer video figures are also encouraged to be submitted with your paper(s) as supplemental material to assist in the review process. Please see the submission website above for more details on preparing video previews. 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

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CfP IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2019) - Deadline approaching!
by Tanja Blascheck 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

====================================================================== IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (VISSOFT 2019) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 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: April 26, 2019 June 3, 2019 1st Notification: May 26, 2019 Revised Paper: June 9, 2019 Final Notification: June 16, 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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CDVE2019 paper deadline extended – May 20, 2019
by cdve .org 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

Due to requests from many potential authors, CDVE2019 conference paper submission deadline is now extended. Both full paper and short paper deadline has been extended to *May 20, 2019*. The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, CDVE 2019 will be held on Oct. 6-9 in Mallorca, Spain. You are welcome to submit full papers up to 10 pages and short papers up to 6 pages. See our call for papers http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html page for more details. Your paper should dress one of the major topics in the call for paper themes. The paper should be original and has not been submitted to other conferences and journals. You should submit your paper directly to the Easychair system. See paper submission page http://www.cdve.org/submit.htmlfor how to submit. If you have not yet submitted a paper, you can definitely take this as a great opportunity! ——————————————— The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 6 - 9, 2019, Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve2019(a)easychair.org <cdve2018(a)easychair.org> Web: http://www.cdve.org

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CFP: 4th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities at IEEE VIS
by Houda Lamqaddam 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

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 July 2019. Important Dates Submission Deadline: 8th of July, 2019 Notification Deadline: 1st 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 _______________________________________________ Infovis mailing list Infovis(a)infovis.org <mailto:Infovis@infovis.org> http://www.infovis.org/mailman/listinfo/infovis <http://www.infovis.org/mailman/listinfo/infovis> *** InfoVis Email Digest Moderator: Luc Girardin - luc.girardin(a)macrofocus.com <mailto:luc.girardin@macrofocus.com> Supporting web site: http://www.infovis.org <http://www.infovis.org/> Posting address: infovis(a)infovis.org <mailto:infovis@infovis.org> List archives are available at http://www.infovis.org/pipermail/infovis/ <http://www.infovis.org/pipermail/infovis/> To SUBSCRIBE: Visit http://www.infovis.org/mailman/listinfo/infovis <http://www.infovis.org/mailman/listinfo/infovis> -- or -- Send mail to infovis-join(a)test.infovis.org <mailto:infovis-join@test.infovis.org> with the subject (NOT BODY) "subscribe infovis" and follow the instructions. 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WSOM+2019, Barcelona, Spain: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Alfredo Vellido 21 Apr '19

21 Apr '19

[Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this message] =============================================================== *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******* * ************* WSOM+ 2019 ************ 13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 June 2019 *https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu wsom2019(a)easychair.org Barcelona awaits your participation in the 13th WSOM+ conference! This is a welcoming and inclusive city, home to thriving Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence communities. Hosted by the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI) Research Center at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), WSOM+ 2019 aims to build on a successful string of editions that started more than two decades ago with WSOM’97 in Helsinki. The conference is meant to be an international reference for research in unsupervised learning, self-organizing systems, Learning Vector Quantization and data visualization. For full details on dates, registration, venue, committees, and the city at large, please visithttps://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu Meet us in the Barcelona summer! **** REGISTRATION **** Take advantage of the*MAY 12th EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION RATES*. The WSOM+2019 Registration System is available @ https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu/registration/ **** INVITED SPEAKERS **** Paulo J.G. Lisboa, Head of Department of Applied Mathematics at Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. "Unsupervised ML in Sports Analytics" Tobias Schreck, Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization at the Faculty for Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering of TU Graz, Austria "Visual Analytics Techniques for Data Exploration: Visual Cluster Analysis, Interactive Data Modeling, and User Guidance" Aïda Valls, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain. "Ontology-based Clustering for Managing Semantic Data and its Use in Tourism Applications" Alessandro Sperduti, Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy. "convolutional Neural Networks for Graphs" **** SOCIAL EVENTS **** A welcome cocktail by the beach to get in the mood, after the first day of the conference (June 26th). It will happen at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB,http://www.prbb.org) Gala Dinner at Palau Requesens, a Gothic palace built on top of the ancient Roman walls of Barcino. Right at the heart of the old city and, you might say, at the heart of Catalan culture. Guided tour of Barcelona city center. **** VENUE **** The city of Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,7 million inhabitants and 3 million in the metropolitan area. Its cultural richness, vibrant life, and splendid location has made it one of the most visited cities in the world, with over 4 million visitors per year (http://www.barcelonaturisme.com/wv3/en/) The 13th edition of WSOM+ will take place at UPC BarcelonaTech Vèrtex Building of Campus Nord, the location of the UPC Department of Computer Science (https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu/upc-venue) This campus is in the south part of the city, at walking distance from Barcelona Football Club stadium and perfectly communicated with the city center and main tourist amenities through public transport: underground, tram and buses. ************ WSOM+ 2019 ************ *Organizing Committee* Alfredo Vellido, Chair (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) Karina Gibert (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) Cecilio Angulo (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) José David Martín (Universitat de València) *Steering Committee:* Teuvo Kohonen (Honorary Chairman, Finland) Marie Cottrell (France) Pablo Estevez (Chile) Timo Honkela (Finland) Jean Charles Lamirel (France) Thomas Martinetz (Germany) Erzsebet Merenyi (USA) Madalina Olteanu (France) Michel Verleysen (Belgium) Thomas Villmann (Germany) Takeshi Yamakawa (Japan) Hujun Yin (UK) ==========================================================

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CDVE2019 short paper deadline approaching April. 20, 2019
by cdve .org 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering CDVE2019 conference will be held from October 6-9, 2019 in Mallorca, Spain. You are welcome to submit unpublished short papers to the conference. *Short Paper deadline: April 20, 2019*. 4-6 pages. You should submit your papers to the Easychair system. See www.cdve.org for details. The conference proceedings of CDVE2019 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 issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. *Note:* If you already prepared a long paper 8-10 pages, you can also submit it by the short paper deadline. *Venue* Mallorca is a famous vacation resort in the Mediterranean Sea with beautiful landscapes. It is the number one choice for Europeans to spend their holidays and the home of CDVE conferences. CDVE2019 will be held in a 4 Stars vacation village - Club Pollentia in front of the Mediterranean Sea. Our conference has an "all inclusive" settlement with the hotel. Unlimited drink and food will be available when you reserve the hotel via the conference and the room prices are very low this year by our settlement. The airport code is PMI. You will enjoy the environment, the rich variety of food and the conference for sure! Please feel free to forward this call. You can also reply to this mail with a mail title: “Unsubscribe” to stop receiving further calls from CDVE2019 ------------ The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 6 - 9, 2019, Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve2019(a)easychair.org <cdve2018(a)easychair.org> Web: http://www.cdve.org

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BioVis 2019: Call for Talks, Highlights and Posters
by Fritz Lekschas 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

BioVis 2019: Call for Talks, Highlights and Posters The BioVis Community Of Special Interest <http://biovis.net/> group organizes the interdisciplinary event BioVis, which this year takes place as a one-day track at ISMB/ECCB 2019 on July 22nd 2019. The program includes keynotes from leading visualisation researchers in computer science and industry experts, and selected talks from abstracts submitted by participants. Aims and focus. BioVis covers all aspects of computational data visualisation in biology. Its aims are to educate and inspire computer scientists, bioinformaticians and biologists to more effectively engage, and work together to solve critical problems in biological data visualisation. New experimental data generation and analysis methods create enormous challenges for existing visualization techniques, and new approaches are needed that enable researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets. Talks and Poster submissions. We are accepting long abstracts (1500 words) for talks describing new work, and short abstracts (200 words) highlighting work recently published. We also invite abstracts for posters describing work in progress and preliminary results and these will also be considered for oral presentation during the meeting. Submissions are made via the 2019 ISMB/ECCB Abstracts Submission system <http://email.iscb.org/c/eJwdTksSgyAUOw0smQcolgULW8d7wONZaetnQBe9fbGZbJJJMon…> by selecting the ‘BioVis COSI’ as the track relevant to your submission. Formatting guidelines and submission rules are detailed at the BioVis Website <http://email.iscb.org/c/eJwVjdsKwyAQRL8mPsq6RhsffGgb8hsl3pptawwx6ffXwsAwB4Y…>. Key Dates/Deadlines: Long abstracts and highlight talks deadline: April 11, 2019 Posters submissions deadline: May 6, 2019 Long abstracts/highlights acceptance notification: May 9, 2019 Posters acceptance notifications: May 23, 2019 Early Registration Ends: June 20, 2019 Meeting Program: July 22, 2019 Best regards, The BioVIs organizing committee

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GD Contest 2019
by Philipp Kindermann 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Dear Colleagues, the 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization will take place near Prague, Czech Republic, from September 17 to 20, 2019. As has been tradition since 1994, the symposium will be accompanied by a Graph Drawing Contest, allowing all community members to demonstrate their graph drawing skills in a fun competitive setting. The contest has two parts: the Creative Topics and the Live Challenge. 1) Creative Topics For your entertainment and inspiration, we have composed two nice graphs that you may draw with full artistic freedom. The first graph represents the appearances of 28 superheroes in 24 movies of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe". The second graph describes 151 food recipes and their ingredients extracted from the TheMealDB database. In both cases, you may visualize the graph in any way you like. Submissions will be judged on a list of criteria that includes, but is not limited to, readability, aesthetics, novelty, and design quality. The weighting of the criteria might be different for the two graphs. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair. For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2019/topics.html Submission deadline: September 05 (23:59 PDT) 2) Live Challenge Following popular tradition, a live challenge will be held during the symposium in a format similar to a typical programming contest. Teams are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and have approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings. This year, the challenge focuses on minimizing the number of crossings in a straight-line upward drawing on a fixed grid. Teams may either draw the graphs manually, or use their own customized tools. Remote participation will also be possible. For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2019/challenge.html 3) Awards Thanks to our generous sponsors, a monetary prize will be awarded to up to three submissions in each of the four different categories. We are looking forward to your submissions! Best regards, the Graph Drawing Contest Committee, Philipp Kindermann, Tamara Mchedlidze, and Ignaz Rutter

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Interview on Medium: Jessica Hullman with Ben Shneiderman
by Ben Shneiderman 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Dear InfoVis community, Jessica Hullman challenged me with a great set of questions about information visualization... and then edited the responses into an interesting interview that has gotten 1,200+ downloads in a few days on Medium. Please take a look and if you like it share with colleagues and students. Best wishes... Ben The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures: An interview with visualization pioneer Ben Shneiderman https://medium.com/multiple-views-visualization-research-explained/the-purp…

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Postdoc Opportunity at Carnegie Mellon University
by Stephanie Rosenthal 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hello! We are starting a new research project to learn to differentiate novices from experts in performing open ended tasks like data science as well as to teach novices to become experts by identifying differences in their action patterns. The work requires interdisciplinary skills - knowing how to understand and visualize data sets, machine learning/AI, and learning/explainability and HCI. We see opportunities to make both algorithmic and human study contributions. We’re looking for a postdoc to drive the work. We have a lot of flexibility in the research. They would mostly be working independently and could take ownership of a large project. Ideally, the postdoc would start in August for a two year position. To apply or inquire, please email Stephanie Rosenthal (srosenth(a)cs.cmu.edu) and Reid Simmons (reids(a)cs.cmu.edu)

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