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[EuroVA2019] CFP: EuroVA 2019 - EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics in Porto, Portogal
by Organizers EuroVA 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

Dear colleagues, Please find below the call for papers for EuroVA 2019 - EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics. We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of EuroVA !! EuroVA 2019 Workshop EuroVA 2019 (http://www.eurova.org) is the tenth international EuroVis workshop on Visual Analytics. It will take place on Monday, June 3, 2019 in Porto, Portugal and is co-located with EuroVis 2019 (https://www.eurovis.org) Visual Analytics is a problem-solving and sense-making technology that integrates analytical computations, visual representations, and interaction. It includes the analysis of complex (massive, dynamic, uncertain, …) data and information for gaining understanding, building knowledge, and inferring insight. Visual Analytics aims at a synergistic collaboration of humans and computers mediated through interactive visual interfaces. As such, Visual Analytics is an interdisciplinary field of research, including aspects of visualization, human-computer interaction, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning, cognitive and perceptual sciences, and more. EuroVA 2019 is the premier workshop to present and discuss fresh ideas on new methods and theories, novel applications, designs, and studies on the use of Visual Analytics methods and systems. The workshop will accept a wide range of contributions within the broad area of Visual Analytics, including novel techniques, systems, applications, evaluation studies and methods, and theoretical foundations, as well as fresh viewpoints on future challenges and critical reflections. Proceedings will be published in EG Digital Library. As a new development this year, selected papers are planned to be invited to submit their extended paper to a special issue of ACM TIIS (* subject to final approval). Call for Submissions EuroVA, a premiere workshop on Visual Analytics, is celebrating its 10th anniversary! The workshop seeks to attract innovative, fresh and creative ideas with a high potential of becoming significant contributions to the Visual Analytics community. We welcome a wide range of contributions within the broad area of Visual Analytics, including research papers presenting novel techniques or systems, evaluation studies and methods, and theoretical foundations, application papers, that describe success stories of Visual Analytics in practice, as well as fresh position papers expressing novel and potentially controversial viewpoints on Visual Analytics. Topics The workshop covers a broad range of topics in the area of Visual Analytics including, but not limited to: - User aspects in Visual Analytics - Scalable Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics for machine learning & machine learning for Visual Analytics & machine learning for Visual Analytics - Decision making through Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics based analytical workflows - Visual Analytics of streaming data - Uncertainty-aware Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics in Data Science - Interaction techniques and novel data representations for data analysis - Visual analysis of analytical processes and provenance - Infrastructures, systems, frameworks, and architectures for Visual Analytics - Data management, data provenance, and data uncertainty - Evaluation of Visual Analytics - Methodologic and theoretical foundations of Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics applications, such as sports, medicine, biology, finance, security, telecommunication, travel, ... Important Dates - Submission: March 7, 2019 - Notification: April 10, 2019 - Camera-ready: April 24, 2019 - Workshop: June 3, 2019 All submission deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated. Submission Guidelines Papers, 4 pages in length + 1 extra page for references (maximum) must be prepared using the EuroVA LaTeX template, which can be downloaded here: download link <http://www.eurova.org/wp-content/uploads/egPublStyle-EuroVA2019.zip> Papers are to be submitted via the new PCS at: https://new.precisionconference.com/eurova19a. Publication and Special Issue Papers At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop to present the accepted work. The EuroVA 2019 Workshop Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association <https://www.eg.org/>, and be stored on the Eurographics Digital Library <https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/982>. It is planned that the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS) (https://tiis.acm.org/) (* subject to final approval). Further details will be announced on this page. OrganizersProgram chairs - Tatiana von Landesberger, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - Cagatay Turkay, City, University of London, UK Publicity chair - Michael Behrisch, Harvard University, Cambridge Steering Committee - Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Germany - Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany *Links* News: http://www.eurova.org/ EuroVA 2019: http://www.eurova.org/eurova-2019

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Second call for papers: Schematic Mapping Workshop 2019
by Martin Nöllenburg 06 Dec '18

06 Dec '18

======================================================================== 2nd Call for Papers 2nd Schematic Mapping Workshop April 11-12, 2019 – TU Wien, Vienna, Austria www.schematicmapping.org ======================================================================== PDF version: https://tinyurl.com/y7sblgtb ======================================================================== * Submission deadline approaching: December 21, 2018 * Registration is now open. ======================================================================== First held in 2014 at the University of Essex, UK, the multidisciplinary Schematic Mapping Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners working on schematic maps of transport networks, including computer scientists, cartographers, graphic designers, psychologists, transport professionals and more. TOPICS ------ Submissions are invited on the following, or related topics concerning schematic mapping of transport networks: - New methods and algorithms for automatic layout of schematic maps - Theory of network schematics - Methods for evaluating/measuring map quality - Theoretical approaches to usability of schematic maps and its measurement - Results of usability and user-experience studies of schematic maps - Cross-cultural differences in designing and using schematic maps - Schematic mapping implemented on portable devices - The role of cognitive psychology in designing and understanding schematic maps - Critiques of existing schematic maps - New approaches to schematic mapping, such as use of atypical design rules - Historical approaches to mapping transport systems - The use of schematic maps beyond transit domains SUBMISSIONS ----------- We invite the following contributions, all will be submitted to peer review: - *Regular papers* will present original research, submitted as a four-page manuscript. Accepted papers will be presented orally. - *Posters* will present current projects or new techniques at an early stage of development, submitted as a two-page summary. Accepted posters will be exhibited at the workshop. - *Designs* that implement fresh approaches to mapping are welcome, submitted as a one-page description plus image. Accepted designs will be exhibited at the workshop. - *Position papers* will be solicited by the program committee, but proposals for these are welcome; please contact the organisers directly. Accepted contributions will be made available electronically as a collection of preprints. Authors will retain copyright. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission deadline December 21, 2018 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification February 8, 2019 Final versions due March 8, 2019 Schematic Mapping Workshop April 11-12, 2019 CO-CHAIRS --------- Martin Nöllenburg, TU Wien, AT Georg Gartner, TU Wien, AT Maxwell Roberts, University of Essex, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Linden Ball, University of Central Lancashire, UK David Forrest, University of Glasgow, UK Elise Grison, Institute Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, FR Zhan Guo, New York University, USA Bernhard Jenny, Monash University, AU Alexander Klippel, Pennsylvania State University, USA Menno-Jan Kraak, University of Twente, NL Wouter Meulemans, TU Eindhoven, NL Daniel R. Montello, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Sheila Pontis, Princeton University, USA and Sense Information Design Angela Schwering, WWU Münster, DE Alexander Wolff, University of Würzburg, DE CONTACT ------- For enquires about submissions, email: submissions(a)schematicmapping.org For all other enquiries, email: schematicmapping2019(a)ac.tuwien.ac.at

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[CFP] International Workshop on Visual Analytics in Supercomputing and Performance Engineering
by Call for Papers - VGTC 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

VASPE'19: International Workshop on Visual Analytics in Supercomputing and Performance Engineering 2019 Mumbai, India, April 2019 Conference website: https://vaspe.gitlab.io Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vaspe19 Both high performance computing (HPC) and performance engineering (PE) experts are facing the challenge of analyzing, comparing, visualizing, and reasoning about ever increasing volumes of performance-related data. While HPC typically deals with massively parallel simulation codes being executed on supercomputers, PE focuses on distributed, reliable software systems. Due to the scale of performance-related data and the open-ended nature of analyzing it, visualization (VIS) and data analytics are often the only feasible tools to comprehend, debug, and improve the performance behavior of systems and/or codes. This is becoming ever more important, since the scale of performance-related data keeps rapidly growing. However the research communities in HPC, PE, and VIS are mostly disjunct. VASPE '19 aims at gathering experts from (i) the HPC community, (ii) the PE community, and (iii) the VIS community in order to breed cross-community algorithms, techniques, and systems for analyzing and visualizing performance-related data. Workshop Topics Topics include, but are not limited to: • Scalable displays of performance data • Data models to enable scalable visualization • Graph representation of unstructured performance data • Presentation of high-dimensional data • Visual correlations between multiple data source • Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data • Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration • Data analytics of historical performance data • Machine learning or statistical techniques for data exploration Call for Papers We solicit 6–8 page full papers and 2–4 page short papers that focus on techniques at the intersection of the three communities HPC, PE, and VIS that either use visualization techniques to display large scale performance data or that develop new visualization or visual analytics methods that help create new insights. We welcome submissions presenting novel and experimental ideas as well as tool descriptions. Papers must be submitted as a PDF file in the ACM Standard proceedings format, and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). The 4-page and 8-page limits include figures, tables, and references. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of ICPE 2019 proceedings. Accepted papers will also be presented during the workshop as a paper talk (~20 min) or a lightning presentation (~10 min). All papers must be submitted through EasyChair. Important Dates • Submission deadline: Jan 7, 2019 • Notification of acceptance: Feb 1, 2019 • Camera-ready deadline: Feb 15, 2019 • Workshop: TBD, one day between 6th and 12th April 2019 Workshop Chairs Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tom Vierjahn, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences Contact: vaspe(a)googlegroups.com

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Fully funded PhD in visualization of multi-dimensional building data at UVic, BC, Canada
by Charles Perin 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Hi, We are looking for a PhD student to be part of a large-scale project about the new generation of cost effective, robust, high-performance, low-energy buildings. This PhD will be supervised by Dr Raplh Evins from Civil Engineering and Dr Charles Perin from Computer Science, and will focus on visualizing multi-dimensional building data, machine learning and optimization models for decision making in designing new buildings. You can find the full description and information on how to apply here: http://energyincities.gitlab.io/website/files/vacancies/visualization_adver… Feel free to circulate, and apologies for cross-posting. -Charles --- Charles Perin | Assistant Professor | University of Victoria | http://charlesperin.net

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From Skala - 27. WSCG 2019 Conf. on Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

>> Please, resend this Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------- >> Call for Papers and Conference Announcement >> WSCG 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------- WSCG 2019 (held annually since 1992) 27. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2019 page When: May 27 – 31, 2019 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (the City of Beer), close to Prague, Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates: --------------------- >> WSCG 2019 27. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: Workshops/Special sessions proposals - Decemeber 15, 2018 January 31, 2019 - Abstract, February 11, 2019 - Full, Short, Poster papers Proceedings will be published in Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Contact: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG 2019 Organizer & Chair --------------------- prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8 CZ 30614 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu Announcement sent via: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz Main topics (but not limited to) --------------------------- Computer graphics Scientific visualization Medical visualization Computer vision Image processing Pattern recognition GPU graphics Rendering and animation Virtual reality Haptic systems Medical imaging Graphical human computer interfaces Graphical interaction Computational photography Data compression for graphics Image based rendering Physically based modelling Mathematical methods for graphics and vision Geometric modelling Shape analysis Shape modelling Shape retrieval Surface and volume parameterization Parallel graphics CAD, CAGD and GIS systems -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic

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[CFP] IWISC 2019: 4th International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing
by Haghpanah, Mohammadreza 09 Nov '18

09 Nov '18

Dear all, This is a gentle reminder. I would like to inform you that the proceedings of IWISC 2019 will be published by ACM as part of the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. IWISC 2019: 4th International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing Guanajuato City, Mexico, May 9-10, 2019 Announcement The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT-DIISC<http://cs.utdallas.edu/ut-diisc/>) and the University of Guanajuato are pleased to announce the 4th International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC 2019<http://cs.utdallas.edu/ut-diisc/iwisc-2019/>). Interactive and Spatial Computing focuses on the real-time interactions among humans and computers, and the spatial information, qualities, technologies, and relationships that influence those interactions. Considering this broad scope, Interactive and Spatial Computing involves a wide range of research activities from many disciplines like augmented reality, computational geometry, computer graphics, computer vision, geographic information systems, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, information visualization, mixed reality, multimedia, and virtual reality. These research activities enhance human knowledge and performance through numerous applications and domains, such as bioinformatics, education, entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing, rehabilitation, smart cities, therapy, and training. IWISC is a venue for researchers from this broad spectrum of applications and domains to convene and discuss the next generation of interdisciplinary ideas related to Interactive and Spatial Computing. Call for Papers The 4th International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC 2019) will address the challenges and opportunities faced in this broad and yet important discipline. We solicit high quality, original research submissions in all areas related to Interactive and Spatial computing, including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Augmented reality * Computational geometry * Computer graphics * Computer vision * Geographic information systems * Human-computer interaction * Human-robot interaction * Information visualization * Mixed reality * Multimedia * Virtual reality A Best Paper Award will be given for the most outstanding paper in terms of groundbreaking research, ingenuity, and importance. Submission Deadlines All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (GMT/UTC‐12:00). * January 11, 2019: Paper submissions due * February 15, 2019: Notification of results * March 1, 2019: Camera-ready material due Submission Guidelines All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submissions should contain substantial scientific contributions to the field of Interactive and Spatial Computing. Each paper should be classifiable as one of the following: * Research papers should contribute state-of-the-art advances and provide results as evidence. * Application papers should explain how pre-existing ideas were applied to solve a novel problem. * System papers should indicate how developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce a novel system and provide evidence of the system’s effectiveness. All papers should be prepared in the ACM SigConf format. LATEX and Word templates are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template If you have any problems with the templates, please contact ACM’s TeX support team at Aptara (acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com>). If accepted, you will need to provide the source files and PDFs for ACM to process. Papers should be 5-10 pages in length, excluding an optional appendix. The optional appendix must be clearly marked and can include supplementary materials, such as proofs, additional images, and links to videos. These supplementary materials will be considered at the discretion of the reviewers and will not be published in the proceedings. IWISC 2019 will use a double-blind review process, in which both the authors and the reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Submissions must not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors, their institutions, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors should be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity. Papers must be submitted electronically, by the deadline above, through the EasyChair Conference System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwisc2019 Note, if you have not used the EasyChair system before, you will need to register for an account by clicking “Signup” in the upper right corner of the website. Publication The proceedings of IWISC 2019 will be published by ACM as part of the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS)<https://www.acm.org/publications/icps-series> and will be available in the ACM Digital Library<http://dl.acm.org>. The ISBN number assigned by ACM ICPS to IWISC 2019 is 978-1-4503-6114-9. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register, attend, and present at IWISC 2019. [ACM_ICPS_v.2B]<https://www.acm.org/publications/icps-series> General Chairs * Victor Ayala-Ramirez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Ovidiu Daescu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Technical Program Chairs * Raúl Enrique Sánchez Yañez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Benjamin Raichel, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Publicity Chair * Mohammadreza Haghpanah, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Website Chair * Alec G. Moore, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Technical Program Committee * Prabhakaran Balakrishnan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Sergey Bereg, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Francesco Bianconi, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy * Steven P. Bitner, University of West Florida, USA * Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico * K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA * Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico * Jonathan Cepeda-Negrete, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Antonio Fernandez, Universidad de Vigo, Spain * Kyle Fox, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Carlos H. García-Capulín, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Juan Carlos Gómez-Carranza, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Juan Manuel González-Calleros, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico * Xiaohu Guo, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Geovanni Hernández-Gomez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Mario A. Ibarra-Manzano, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Ryan P. McMahan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * José Raymundo Marcial-Romero, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico * Antonio Marín-Hernández, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico * José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico * Sergio A. Mota-Gutiérrez, Continental Automotive Occidente, Mexico * Isnardo Reducindo-Ruiz, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico * Mariano Rivera, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Mexico * Joaquín Salas-Rodríguez, Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada IPN, Mexico * Maria Luisa Sapino, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy * Haim Schweitzer, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Humberto Sossa-Azuela, Centro de Investigación en Computación IPN, Mexico * Yin Yang, University of New Mexico, USA * Zichun Zhong, Wayne State University, USA Contact For questions regarding this Call for Papers, please contact the Program Chairs. Best regards, Mohammadreza Haghpanah

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Five Tenure Track Positions in Computer Science at the University of Victoria
by Charles Perin 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

We are hiring at the University of Victoria! The five positions are for the rank or Assistant or Associate Professor. With the new waves of hires, this is an opportunity to shape the future of the rapidly growing Department of Computer Science. One of the priority areas is "Interdisciplinary Areas", which includes Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Robotics and bioinformatics. One of the five positions is with preference for female candidates. The four positions: https://www.uvic.ca/engineering/computerscience/assets/docs/employment/csc-f aculty-posting-researchtrack-2018-19_final.pdf And the position with preference for female candidates: https://www.uvic.ca/engineering/computerscience/assets/docs/employment/prefe rential-csc-faculty-posting-final.pdf Deadlines is December 21, 2018. Victoria in BC, Canada, is a wonderful place to live, surrounded by the ocean and the mountains. It's very close to both Vancouver and Seattle (by seaplane, plane, or by boat). There are over 900 local companies (80% in tech). It's a paradise for outdoor activities such as hiking, sailing, and cycling. It's a great place to raise a family. Do not hesitate to contact me for further information, -Charles --- Charles Perin | Assistant Professor | University of Victoria | http://charlesperin.net

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Call for Papers - IVAPP 2019 (Position Paper)
by Andreas Kerren 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications Position Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2018 http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/ February 25 - 27, 2019 Prague, Czech Republic We would like to cordially invite you to submit a position paper to the 10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications. The International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Information Visualization. The conference will be structured along several topics related to Information Visualization. What is a position paper? A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. IVAPP is organized in 3 major tracks: 1 - Abstract Data Visualization 2 - General Data Visualization 3 - Spatial Data Visualization Conference Chair(s) Jose Braz, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal Program Chair(s) Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden Christophe Hurter, French Civil Aviation University (ENAC), France In Cooperation with European Association for Computer Graphics French Association for Computer Graphics With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers: Daniel McDuff, Microsoft, United States Diego Gutierrez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic Dima Damen, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Stefano Baldassi, Meta Company, United States Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: DBLP, Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI, SCOPUS, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar. A short list of papers will be selected and published in a special issue of the Open Access Information Science Journal. All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Kind regards, Ana Beatriz Filipe IVAPP Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2Esq, 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel: +351 265 100 033 Web: http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/ e-mail: ivapp.secretariat(a)insticc.org

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CFP: Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)
by Fernando Vieira Paulovich 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) Los Angeles, USA, March 20, 2019 Hosted by IUI 2019, March 17-20, 201 https://sites.google.com/view/esida2019 Important dates Submission deadline: December 17, 2018 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 23, 2019 Final manuscript due: February 6, 2019 Workshop Topic and Description In recent years, retrieval techniques operating on text or semantic annotations, have become the industry standard for retrieval from large data collections, such as documents, images, videos, music, medical data. This approach works well with sufficient high-quality meta-data or tagging. However, with the explosive growth of big data collections, it has become apparent that tagging new data quickly and efficiently is not always possible. Secondly, even if instantaneous high-quality data tagging were possible, there would still be many instances, where search by keyword query is problematic. For example, in the case of image retrieval it might be easier for a user to define their query if they are looking for an image of a cat, but how would they specify that the cat should be of a particular shade of ginger with sad looking eyes? A solution to these problems is active engagement of the user in the information retrieval loop, thus enabling the user to not only explore a given dataset more easily but also gradually direct their search to a more specific area of the search space. The aim of this workshop is to explore new methods and interface/system design for interactive data analytics and management in various domains, including specialised text collections (e.g. legal, medical, scientific), multimedia, and bioinformatics, as well as for various tasks, such as semantic information retrieval, conceptual organization and clustering of data collections for sense-making, semantic expert profiling, and document/multimedia recommender systems. The primary audience of the workshop is researchers and practitioners in the area of interactive and personalized system design as well as interactive machine learning both from academia and industry. IUI, with its focus on the intersection of HCI and AI, is a perfect venue where researchers from system/interface design community and the machine learning community can meet. Workshop Target Areas The workshop aims to solicit submissions in all areas of interactive data analytics and exploratory search including: - design, testing and assessment of interactive systems for data analytics - interactive data visualization for exploratory and investigative analysis - interactive classification and clustering of data - user-assisted curation and validation of the analysis process, and generation of data visualizations - user engagement in the semantic analysis process via suitable annotation and correction tools - study of the trade-off between accuracy of the results and user effort - personalization and user modeling related to interactive system design Submissions aimed at solving practical problems in specific application domains are especially welcome, including: - digital libraries - legal document management - personalized online learning systems - news media - biomedical data - multimedia collections - specialized image and video collections, e.g. medical images. We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: - full papers (up to 8 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented either as contributed talks or posters - extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Submission information Submissions to the workshop will be through EasyChair, <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2019> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida19 Workshop date March 20, 2019 Workshop location Marriott Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, CA, USA - https://iui.acm.org/2019/venue_transportation.html Keynote Speaker John O'Donovan: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Organizers Dorota Glowacka, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, dorota.glowacka(a)ed.ac.uk Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, eem(a)cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, axel.soto(a)manchester.ac.uk Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, paulovich(a)dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, dparra(a)ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn(a)univ.haifa.ac.il Program Committee (to be updated/confirmed): Jaegul Choo — Korea University, South Korea Casey Dugan — IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Mennatallah El-Assady — University of Konstanz, Germany Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira — University of São Paulo, Brazil Patrik Floreen — University of Helsinki, Finland María Luján Ganuza — Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Andreas Kerren — Linnaeus University, Sweden Koji Koyamada — Kyoto University, Japan Joel Lanir — University of Haifa, Israel Alan Medlar — University of Helsinki, Finland Martijn Millecamp — Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Rosane Minghim — University of São Paulo, Brazil Ilaria Torre — University of Genoa, Italy Chun-Hua Tsai — University of Pittsburg, USA Eduardo Veas — Graz University of Technology, Austria Chaoli Wang — University of Notre Dame, USA

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CFP: ACM TVX 2019 International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video
by Jonathan Hook 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

=== TVX 2019: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION === ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video 5-7 June 2019 Manchester, UK http://tvx2019.com The ACM TVX 2019 Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video will be held on 5-7 June 2019 at Manchester’s MediaCityUK hub for technology innovation and creativity. TVX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. We invite authors to submit Long & Short Papers, Workshop Proposals, Demos, Work-in-Progress, TVX in Industry and Doctoral Consortium submissions. These can address various facets of TV, online video and other forms of video-centric media including (but not limited to): understanding what audiences want and how they engage with content; developing new content forms and formats, and video centric experiences; analysing and developing underlying technologies and systems; critiquing and developing production tools and workflows; developing new business models and marketing techniques; understanding wider social and cultural contexts; and showcasing avant-garde ideas and media art. == SUBMISSION DEADLINES == All deadlines are specified as 12:00 PT. -- 16th November 2018: Workshop Proposals -- 18th January 2019: Long & Short Papers (abstract, title & metadata) -- 25th January 2019: Long & Short Papers (submission of manuscript) -- 22nd March 2019: TVX-in-Industry, Demos, Work-in-Progress, Doctoral Consortium -- 1st November 2018: SIGCHI Student Travel Grant -- 15th November 2018: SIGCHI Gary Marsden Student Development Fund == SUBMISSION TYPES == Further details on each of the conference tracks, including formatting requirements and how to submit can be found on the conference website: http://tvx2019.com. -- Long & Short Papers: high quality academic papers that make a significant contribution to the field of interactive, immersive and online video. -- Workshop Proposals: proposals for half-day workshops that convene communities of researchers and provoke focussed debate around specific TVX topics. -- TVX-in-Industry: presentations that share significant advances in research and development, technologies and real-world experiences that have industrial applicability. -- Demos: demonstrations of novel experiences and technologies, which will be exhibited at our “Conference Bazaar”; a hands-on day of interactivity at held in the BBC. -- Work-in-Progress: submissions that highlight innovative and promising ongoing work. Work in Progress submissions will be presented as posters with an optional demo at the abovementioned “Conference Bazaar”. -- Doctoral Consortium: an interactive forum for PhD students to share their ideas and plans, and gain feedback from leading figures in the TVX community. == ACM EUROPE COUNCIL BEST PAPER AWARD @ TVX 2019 == This year, we are proud to announce that TVX Long & Short Paper submissions will be considered for an ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award. The ACM Europe Council Best Paper Awards recognize authors of outstanding technical contributions to ACM conferences taking place in Europe. Awards at TVX will be given to acknowledge ground-breaking research, likely to shape the future of computing both in Europe and worldwide. Winners will be decided by the Program Committee and will receive a plaque and a 1000 Euro honorarium. == STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS == SIGCHI provides two opportunities for students to receive funding to attend TVX: the SIGCHI Student Travel Grant and the Gary Marsden Student Development Fund. Details about these programs, how to apply and deadlines can be found here: https://tvx.acm.org/2019/attending/student-travel-grant-programme/ == MENTORING == During the TVX submission process, we can provide the opportunity to receive feedback and guidance from established researchers. The mentoring program is geared towards Long and Short Papers, and Work in Progress Papers, so that those who need additional support in their submission can be assisted. In the mentorship program, we get you in contact with a specific member of the community who will provide feedback and support for your submission. Further information can be found here: https://tvx.acm.org/2019/mentoring/ == ORGANIZERS == -- General chairs: Jonathan Hook, Marian Ursu and Phil Stenton (chairs(a)tvx2019.com) -- Programme chairs: Guy Schofield and Vatavu (papers(a)tvx2019.com) -- Workshop chairs: Tom Bartindale and Davy Smith (workshops(a)tvx2019.com) -- Demo chairs: Shauna Concannon and Timothy Neate (demos(a)tvx2019.com) -- Work-in-Progress chairs: Werner Bailer and Rhianne Jones (wip(a)tvx2019.com) -- Doctoral Consortium chairs: Mike Evans and Hartmut Koenitz (dc(a)tvx2019.com) -- TVX in Industry chairs: Ian Kegel and Ian Forrester (industry(a)tvx2019.com) -- Inclusion chairs: Mariana Lopez and Si Jung "SJ" Kim (inclusion(a)tvx2019.com) -- Publicity chairs: David Green and Rene Kaiser (publicity(a)tvx2019.com) -- Sponsorship chair: Florian Block (sponsorship(a)tvx2019.com) -- Student volunteer chairs: Gerald Wilkinson and Neelima Sailaja (sv(a)tvx2019.com) -- Web chairs: Sha Li and David Zendle (web(a)tvx2019.com) == FURTHER INFORMATION == For up-to-date information and further details visit: http://tvx2019.com. To keep updated about conference developments, you may also wish to join our mailing list (tvx-announce(a)listserv.acm.org) using the subscription form on this page (https://tvx.acm.org/sc/) or by sending a mail to listserv(a)acm.org with the following text in the body of the mail: “subscribe tvx-announce Firstname Lastname”. For any other questions, please contact the conference chairs on: chairs(a)tvx2019.com.

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