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Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators 2019
by Anne Marie Faisst 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Dear Sirs and Madams, The Vienna Science Fund provides a great opportunity for tenure track positions in Vienna. The position will provide up to 1.6 million Euros for up to 8 years. It will require a university host. The newly established interdisciplinary research group Data Science @ University of Vienna would be happy to support applicants in the area of Data Science. For details about us and the procedure, please consult: https://datascience.univie.ac.at/job-board/ Please send us your information by Apr 1st 2019. Best Regards, -- Anne Marie Faisst, BA Organisationsassistentin Universität Wien Fakultät für Informatik Forschungsgruppe Visualization and Data Analysis Koordination Forschungsplattform Data Science Währinger Straße 29/S6/1.04, A-1090 Wien T +43-1-4277-790 03

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CFP: MLVis 2019: Machine Learning Methods in Visualisation
by Peltonen Jaakko 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

MLVis 2019: Machine Learning Methods in Visualisation - Call For Papers https://events.uta.fi/mlvis2019/ MLVis 2019 will be a co-located workshop at EuroVis 2019 in Porto, Portugal. It aims to bring Machine Learning and Visualization researchers together in order to exchange research ideas. We solicit short papers on machine learning methods in visualisation, from both the machine learning and visualisation communities, addressing how the two technologies can be used together to provide greater insight to end users. Paper submissions for MLVis should be at most 4 pages in MLVis 2019 latex style (provided on the website), with an additional page allowed for references. Papers are to be submitted via the PCS system, link on the website. Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association, and be stored on the Eurographics Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS). Important Dates: Submission deadline: March 14, 2019 Notification deadline: April 12, 2019 Camera-ready deadline: April 24, 2019 Workshop: June 3, 2019 All submission deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated.

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Final CFP: Interactive Visualizations for Sustainability, for a special issue of MTI journal
by Masood Masoodian 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

*CFP: Interactive Visualizations for Sustainability** **A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Journal** **Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2019** **https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/visualizations_sustainability* Open Access: Free publication for well-prepared manuscripts submitted before 1 July 2019 Rapidly increasing global consumption of natural resources demands for more efficient use, as well as for more sustainable management of energy, water, minerals, land and other natural resources. Human-centred technologies, tools and services can provide effective solutions to support sustainability in different domains. To create better awareness, and support human decision making, such technologies, tools and services should provide advanced interactive visualization capabilities to their users to allow them to monitor, manage, compare, or share and use data, with the aim of identifying patterns and supporting efficiency in the use of natural resources. This special issue will focus on interactive visualizations for sustainability-related applications, tools, games, and services in the private, public, and industrial sectors. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, design, deployment and evaluation of interactive visualizations for: - monitoring and managing generation and consumption of resources; - analysis of generation and consumption data; - identifying consumption patterns and behavior; - relating consumption data, patterns, and behavior to other information; - sharing and comparing consumption data with others; - creating awareness, influencing choices and stimulating sustainable behavior changes For more information, including submission details, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/visualizations_sustainabili… Guest Editors, Masood Masoodian and Thomas Rist -- Prof. Masood Masoodian Visual Communication Design Aalto University avcd.aalto.fi

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Postdoc positions in visual analytics
by David S. Ebert 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Visual Analytics Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN We invite applications for an postdoctoral researcher positions with April 1 and July 1 start dates in visual analytics, visualization, social media analytics, and big data analytics across a wide spectrum of application areas. The successful candidate will perform duties including: . Research in visual analytics in application domains including social medial analysis, interactive and explainable AI, sustainable food-energy-water systems public safety, crisis management, functional soil mapping, precision agriculture. . Assist in drafting successful research grant proposals. . Lead research activities within the group, including project management and stakeholder engagement. . Assist in supervising graduate and undergraduate students. . Interface with renowned academic research groups at and beyond Purdue University. The candidate should hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Information Science, Industrial Engineering, Geography, Statistics, or a related field, with a strong research background and expertise in visual analytics and some of these areas: visualization, geospatial and temporal analysis, statistics, machine learning, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, big data, human factors, computer graphics, food-water-energy systems, sustainable/precision agriculture. Purdue has multiple joint research projects with Peruvian Universities. Therefore, professional proficiency in Spanish is a plus. Both beginning and senior postdoctoral candidates are encouraged to apply. Excellent oral and written communication skills are mandatory. We are the Purdue Visual Analytics Center and are engaged in many cross-disciplinary visual analytics projects. We are also the lead of the VACCINE Center, an Emeritus Visualization Sciences Center of Excellence funded by many U.S. agencies including DHS, NSF, DOE and other government agencies. We have partner institutions across the world. We have many interesting integrated, stakeholder oriented projects working on real data and great challenging projects. VACCINE is working closely with collaborators including social media experts, sustainability experts, agricultural producers, health and public safety departments, US Coast Guard, economists, first responders, computational scientists, soundscape ecologists, businesses, and researchers in science, engineering, and economics. To apply, please send your CV, a research statement (no more than one page) to Dr. Ebert (ebertd(a)purdue.edu) and Dr. Morteza Karimzadeh (karimzadeh(a)purdue.edu) Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting March 8 until the position is filled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Dr. David S. Ebert, Silicon Valley Professor of ECE, Purdue University Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center Interim Director, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/ ebertd(a)purdue.edu http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Dr. David S. Ebert, Silicon Valley Professor of ECE, Purdue University Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center Interim Director, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/ ebertd(a)purdue.edu http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------

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Call for participation: Schematic Mapping Workshop 2019
by Martin Nöllenburg 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

======================================================================== Call for Participation 2nd Schematic Mapping Workshop April 11-12, 2019 – TU Wien, Vienna, Austria www.schematicmapping.org ======================================================================== * Early registration until March 4. Register here: https://schematicmapping2019.ac.tuwien.ac.at/registration/ ======================================================================== The 2nd Schematic Mapping Workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of schematic maps of transport networks, including cartographers, computer scientists, graphic designers, psychologists, and transport professionals. The two-day workshop program will feature presentations of contributed original research papers as well as a number of invited position papers surveying the state of the art on different aspects of schematic mapping. In addition it hosts an exhibition of posters summarizing ongoing research projects as well as new designs of schematic maps. All participants will further have the opportunity to present late-breaking results in an open-mic session and to contribute to the poster exhibition. More information about the event including a list of the accepted papers and posters can be found on the workshop webpage http://www.schematicmapping.org. ======================================================================== Workshop chairs Georg Gartner, TU Wien, AT Martin Nöllenburg, TU Wien, AT Maxwell Roberts, University of Essex, UK

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OzCHI'2019 - CfP - @Perth/Fremantle/WA/Australia - Submit your Long Papers by 24th May 2019
by Artur Lugmayr 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '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 IMPORTANT DATES 24 May 2019 Long Paper Due 19 July 2019 Short Paper Due 6 September 2019 Demos and Work-in-Progress Due 24 May 2019 Workshops and Student Design Challenge Due 24 June 2019 Industry Paper and Doctoral Consortium Due 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 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. This year the competition took place the 7th of April and now the submissions are under review, 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 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 ============================================================================================================================= 1. Artur Lugmayr – artur.lugmayr[at]curtin.edu.au 2. Eunice Sari – eunice[at]uxindo.com -- powered by phpList, www.phplist.com --

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Visualization Recommendation Evaluation Survey
by Leilani Battle 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Hi Everyone, we are seeking participants to complete a short online survey (roughly 15 minutes) on evaluating visualization recommendations. If you are interested, please let me know, or feel free to complete the quick screening survey here <https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_88oACZwXmHJvkoJ> (takes < 5 mins). Details are below. We would be incredibly grateful for your participation! ------------------------------------ To whom it may concern, Dr. Leilani Battle and her students are conducting a user study to inform our development of a standardized metric for evaluating visualization recommendation systems. We located you through the InfoVis mailing list and wanted to reach out and see if you would be interested in participating in our study. The study consists of a short survey (~20min) asking for your opinions regarding a set of design principles as applied to various data visualizations. To be considered for participation, you can contact us at* leilani(a)cs.umd.edu <leilani(a)cs.umd.edu>*, or simply complete a brief (<5min) survey here: https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_88oACZwXmHJvkoJ. To be eligible for the study, the following requirements must be met: • Participants must be 18 years or older. • Participants must have some background in the fields of data visualization and analytics If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or you would just like to hear more about the research we are doing, do not hesitate to reach out to us at leilani(a)cs.umd.edu. Thanks, --Leilani -- Leilani Battle, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Maryland, College Park http://www.cs.umd.edu/~leilani/

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VizSec 2019 Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

*** 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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ACM Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium 2019 - Call for Video & Demo Submission
by Fabian Deitelhoff 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

========================================================= ACM EYE TRACKING RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS SYMPOSIUM 2019 CALL FOR VIDEO & DEMO SUBMISSIONS ========================================================= Have a gaze interaction technique to share? Or want to show off how your new eye tracking method works? At ETRA 2019, we again have a Video and Demo Track where researchers give demonstrations of their research or show videos of their work. We encourage new and exciting ideas that may not yet be fully tested. To take part in this session, we request an extended abstract (2 pages + 1 additional page for references) to be submitted. If a full or short paper has been accepted to the conference, you will have the option of presenting a video or demo of your work without the need for submitting the extended abstract. See below on how to submit. ========================================================= IMPORTANT DATES (Time Zone: AoE) Demo/Video Mar 8, 2019 Authors: Extended abstracts due Mar 15, 2019 Feedback: Notifications due to authors Mar 22, 2019 Authors: Camera ready papers due ========================================================= SUBMISSION TO THE VIDEO & DEMO TRACK To submit to the Video & Demo Track, you need to prepare an extended abstract (2 pages + 1 additional page for references), along with a video submission. For demos we also require a video showing the demonstration. Note: this video will be used for reviewing purposes - only videos accepted in the Video Track will be played at the conference, however, Demo submissions might be moved to the Video Track in case they lack demonstrability. Detailed instructions are available below. In case you have a full or short paper accepted and would like to present a video or demo related to the paper, please enter the accepted paper number into the submission form. The extended abstract will be part of the ETRA 2019 proceedings. Copyright of the work will be held by the authors, which means that the extended abstract (2 pages + 1 additional page for references) will not be regarded as a previous publication when submitting a longer version of the paper to a journal or conference. A good extended abstract should: Fall under the topics mentioned for the ETRA 2019 conference. Motivate the use cases of the work. Describe the novelty of the tool/method and how it relates to other work. Describe any inner workings of the tool/method as necessary. Describe experiences gained in developing the tool/method. ========================================================= ABSTRACT PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS Abstracts should be 2 pages + 1 additional page for references in length and should follow preparation instructions found at: http://www.siggraph.org/learn/instructions-authors. To prepare the content of the PDF file, SIGGRAPH encourages authors to use LaTeX. When generating the PDF file, please make sure that the fonts are embedded in the PDF file. This will ensure that reviewers can view the paper without problems. The submitted abstracts do not have to be anonymized for peer review. In addition to the extended abstract, you will be asked to submit either a video or a demo description with a video as stated below. ========================================================= VIDEO PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS The video should depict your technology in action and we encourage researchers to explain in the video a) the motivation for their work, b) the specific problem being addressed, and c) the demonstrated solution to the problem. Note that the video should be self-explaining, no in-person explanation of the videos should be necessary at the conference. We highly encourage videos to include an audio track and discourage the use of background audio or music. If you feel uncomfortable recording your own voice, check the web for a text-to-speech tool to generate your audio commentary. The video should include a title slide with the title of the work, authors, affiliations, etc. at the start of the video. A submitted video should have a maximum length of 5 minutes and should not be larger than 100 MB. We recommend using MP4 format with H.264 codec and a resolution of 1280 x 720 px, at 24 to 30 frames/s. Most video production systems can encode in this format and most video applications are able to play it. If you use a different codec, you risk that reviewers might not be able to view the video clip and you will need to re-encode the video clip for the conference proceeding USB. The video should play in the VLC media player version 3.0 (freely available at http://www.videolan.org/vlc) without additional software, codecs or settings. For a longer guideline of how to make good videos for conference submission, please see the UIST video guidelines. ========================================================= For more details visit: http://etra.acm.org/2019/demovid.html with best regards, Tanja Blascheck and Fabian Deitelhoff

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CFP - Algorithms that Make you Think (Apply by March 6, 2019)
by Chris North 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Algorithms That Make You Think http://hci.vt.edu/algorithms-that-make-you-think/ <http://hci.vt.edu/algorithms-that-make-you-think/> Fourth Annual Virginia Tech Workshop on the Future of Human-Computer Interaction April 11-12, 2019, Blacksburg, VA Call for Provocations (Apply by March 6th, 2019, notifications by March 8th, 2019). Algorithms play an increasingly important role in shaping many aspects of our daily lives. Researchers across a wide variety of disciplines including human-computer interaction, communication, law, and computer science have debated over the ways in which algorithms govern and keep the human out of the decision making process. What if human-algorithm communication were different? What if we purposely involve humans in the algorithmic decision making pipeline? What if we support human agency and traits in building and sustaining algorithmic data and decision systems? How can the inherent values of human critical thinking and creativity be incorporated into algorithms? How can we reconcile diverse perspectives and points of view about human-algorithm communication? How can we design effective human-machine collaborations for critical analysis? The Virginia Tech Center for Human-Computer Interaction is hosting a two-day workshop, to be held April-11-12, 2019 in Blacksburg, Virginia, to find answers to these key questions pertaining to human-algorithmic interactions. The workshop aims to bring in scholarly expertise from a wide range of disciplines, including human-computer interaction, communication, law, and computer science. Therefore, a driving force behind this workshop is to encourage increased dialogue among researchers from different domains with intersecting interests in human-algorithm communication. Workshop outcomes may include system designs, best practices for ethical and responsible algorithm development, research and policy proposals, and publications and recommendations for building this area of research and practice. Keynote Speakers: * Jenna Burrell (UC-Berkeley) * Adam Perer (Carnegie Mellon) * Christian Sandvig (University of Michigan) SUBMISSIONS: We invite interested researchers to submit a 1-2 page (including references) position paper that addresses any of the workshop’s key questions. The paper should also include a short author bio with details about current research or potential goals of research. Authors of selected papers will be invited to give lightning talks and participate in breakout sessions at the workshop. REVIEW: Submissions will be lightly reviewed to ensure their relevance to the workshop theme and their potential for clustering with an eye to novel idea integration. On the basis of these submissions, some authors will be invited to give lightning talks, participate in provocative panels or breakout discussions. We anticipate accepting submissions up to the maximum number of attendees that we can support for the event. REGISTRATION: With your acceptance notification you will receive a link to register for the workshop. Registration is free of charge for those with accepted submissions. Continental breakfast and lunches will be covered by our sponsors. We ask that participants cover all other expenses. DATES: 6 March 2019 Submission as PDF by e-mail (to cevia(a)vt.edu <mailto:cevia@vt.edu> and tmitra(a)vt.edu <mailto:tmitra@vt.edu> ) 8 March 2019 Notification of acceptance 15 March 2019 Registration deadline 11 April 2019 Morning introduction to workshop 12 April 2019 Evening conclusion of workshop QUESTIONS: Please contact cevia(a)vt.edu or tmitra(a)vt.edu. We thank you for your submission and look forward to engaging and provocative ideas in this upcoming workshop. Leading Organizers: Tanu Mitra and Carlos Evia Workshop presented by the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, and co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science, the Center for Humanities, and the Discovery Analytics Center.

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