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IEEE VIS 2018 - Bike Ride(s) in Berlin
by Dykes, Jason 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

This year's IEEE VIS bike rides are less than a month away. LeTourDeVIS - a 100km road ride on Saturday 27th October - dawn start! We will ride through Berlin and into the surrounding countryside, returning for 3pm and evening travel. Pastries and coffee may be consumed: https://www.gicentre.net/velo-club-rides/ All are welcome, please sign up here: http://j.mp/veloClubDeVIS_signUp18 The Velo Club de VIS MeetUp is essential for sign-in, preparation and a ride briefing. It's also a good place to meet VIS cyclists and chat about bikes. Come along on Thursday. LeProlog - we will use the MeetUp to arrange a pop-up ride for Friday afternoon if people are keen. A short ride to a nice place to eat and drink, organised by the locals. City bike options are good in Berlin. If you are riding on Saturday, you'll need to get a few miles in your legs in advance. Join the Velo Club de VIS Strava Club to share your progress and encourage others: https://www.strava.com/clubs/velo-club-de-vis Be sure to contact veloclubdevis(a)gmail.com to receive updates on VIS cycling activities. Cycle safely, keep fit, enjoy the road (or the rollers). Jason Velo Club de VIS

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IEEE PacificVis 2019 - Last Call for Papers
by Jinwook Seo 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

** Apologies for cross-postings ** IEEE Pacific Visualization 2019 http://pvis.org/ 23 - 26 April, 2019 Bangkok, Thailand **CALL FOR PAPERS** We solicit original research papers in all areas of visualization. All submitted papers will go through a two-stage review process to guarantee the publication of high-quality papers. All papers accepted by IEEE Pacific Visualization 2019 will be published by IEEE and will also be included in the IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers will be published directly in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Important dates: - Abstracts submission (mandatory): September 28, 2018 - Full paper submission: October 5, 2018 - All deadlines are due at 9:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT/PST). Submissions: Papers are to be submitted online through the new Precision Conference System (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc) at the PacificVis 2019 Papers track. For more information, visit this page: http://research.cbs.chula.ac.th/pvis2019/call_for_participation.aspx Best wishes, Ross Maciejewski, Jinwook Seo, Rüdiger Westermann (IEEE PacificVis 2019 Papers co-chairs)

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IVAPP 2019 - Call For Papers
by IVAPP Secretariat 24 Sep '18

24 Sep '18

CALL FOR PAPERS10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and ApplicationsNew Submission Deadline: October 01, 2018http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/ February 2--- Please reply above this line ---CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications New Submission Deadline: October 01, 2018 http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/ [http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/] February 25 - 27, 2019 Prague, Czech Republic 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. IVAPP is organized in 3 major tracks: 1 - Abstract Data Visualization 2 - General Data Visualization 3 - Spatial Data Visualization Conference Chair Jose Braz, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal Program Co-chairs Ana Cláudio, BioISI, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA, France 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 and Semantic Scholar. 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 -HMSTOPPARSER- [HM_5ba8a135c31a301e141d7dfb(a)helpmonks.insticc.org]

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[VPG] Annual IEEE VGTC VPG Reception at IEEE VIS
by Dr. L. Miguel Encarnacao 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

### Please distribute as appriproate The IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) will like in past years host its member-exclusive reception on Monday evening of the IEEE VIS conference week, on *October 22, 2018.* To become a member of the VPG, one simply needs to have at least *20 years of contributions to some aspect of visualization and visual analytics*. If that applies to you and you plan to attend the next VPG reception at VIS, we encourage you to join VPG or renew your membership as soon as possible, so that we can have a more accurate head count for the reception. For more information on how to join VPG and to attend the VPG reception, please see http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/reception/ On behalf of the VPG operating committee, Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação Innovation Management Executive & Consultant Professor of Practice, Tippie College of Business Prof. (Adj.) of Computer Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Iowa *"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming)"* -- LME(a)computer.org <lme(a)computer.org> @mencarna http://www.linkedin.com/in/drmiguel

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ACM Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI 2019: Last CFP (Oct 1st, Abstract due)
by Axel Soto 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

*** ACM IUI 2019: Call for Papers *** Los Angeles, CA, USA March 17-20, 2019 http://iui.acm.org/2019/ ACM IUI 2019 is the 24rd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas: academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Along with 25 other topics in AI & HCI, this year we especially encourage submissions on explainable intelligent user interfaces for IUI 2019. ** Dates ** Oct 1, 2018: Abstract deadline (compulsory) Oct 8, 2018: Papers deadline Dec 7, 2018: Notification Dec 21, 2018: Camera ready due Mar 17, 2019: Conference starts ** Why you should submit to ACM IUI ** At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. The conference brings together people from academia, industry, government and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Affective and aesthetic interfaces - Big data and analytics - Collaborative interfaces - Education and learning-related technologies - Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces - Explainable intelligent user interfaces - Explainable artificial intelligence - Interactive visual analytics and interpretation for deep learning - Health and intelligent health technologies - Information retrieval and search - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks - Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces - Intelligent ubiquitous user interfaces - Intelligent visualization tools - Interactive machine learning - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - Modeling and prediction of user behavior - Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) - Natural language and speech processing - Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI - Planning and plan recognition for IUI - Proactive and agent-based user interaction - Recommender systems - Smart environments and tangible computing - Social media analysis - User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces - User-Adaptive interaction and personalization ** Submission - Full and Short Papers ** We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2019". ** Submission Guidelines ** - Full paper (anonymized 10 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) should make substantial, novel, and relevant contribution to the field. - Short paper (anonymized 4 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) is a much more focused and succinct contribution to the field. Short papers are not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of Full papers. - Anonymization: ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: -- Author's names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. -- Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. -- Self-citations should be included where necessary, but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). - Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being rejected without review. - Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences, see: https://sigchi.org/about/sigchi-policies/conference-policies/submission-and… - Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format. Use either the Microsoft Word template (https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats/blob/master/Word/SIGCHIProceedin…) or the LaTeX template ( https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats/tree/master/LaTeX) Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation. ** AUTHORS TAKE NOTE ** The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) ** Chairs - program-iui2019(a)acm.org ** Oliver Brdiczka, Adobe, USA Gaëlle Calvary, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Polo Chau, Georgia Tech, USA

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Tenure-Stream Position in Data Science - Dalhousie University, Canada
by Fernando Vieira Paulovich 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

*Tenure-Stream Position in Data Science* *Dalhousie University is recognized internationally for our world-class academic programs and as one of Canada’s leading research institutions. With our 200**th **anniversary in 2018, Dalhousie welcomes talented scholars to our home by the ocean and to join our mission to make a lasting impact through the discovery, advancement and sharing of knowledge. * The Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University ( https://www.dal.ca/faculty/computerscience.html) invites applications for a Tenure-Stream Assistant Professor Position in Data Science. We are seeking an outstanding candidate whose research focus is within the broad area of Data Science including, but not limited to, streaming data, big-data software frameworks, and data analytics. Dalhousie University is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia ( http://www.halifaxinfo.com) which is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and affords its residents a high quality of life. Dalhousie University is a member of the U15 research-intensive universities in Canada. The Faculty of Computer Science is a research-intensive faculty within Dalhousie, with 40 faculty members, including Tier I and Tier II CRCs, and over 1400 students, one third of whom are graduate students at the Master’s or Doctoral level. The Faculty offers Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Master of Applied Computer Science, and PhD programs. The Faculty also partners with other Faculties in the University to offer the Master of Electronic Commerce, Master of Health Informatics, and Master of Science, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics programs, and is an active participant in the Interdisciplinary PhD program. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar who holds or will have completed a PhD in Computer Science or a related area by the appointment date. Evidence of a strong commitment to and aptitude for both research and teaching is essential. The ideal candidate will be open to collaborative research within the Faculty. Applicants should have demonstrated potential to establish independent scholarly research. The successful candidate will teach both undergraduate and graduate courses, develop graduate-level courses, and support the Faculty’s initiatives. The applicant will be expected to establish a strong externally funded research program, supervise graduate student research, and foster existing and new collaborations with government, industry, and with other members of Dalhousie’s research community. Dalhousie University is committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness. The university encourages applications from Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Applications must include an application letter, curriculum vitae, a statement of research and teaching interests, sample publications, and letters of reference from three referees. A complete application must also include a separate completed Self-Identification Questionnaire, which is available at http://www.dal.ca/becounted/selfid. Review of applications will commence *November 10th, 2018. * Applicants should provide their referees with the URL of this advertisement (see below), and request that they forward letters of reference by email to the same address. Submission address for application documents and reference letters: systems-search(a)cs.dal.ca Location of this advertisement: *https://tinyurl.com/FCSDataScience <https://tinyurl.com/FCSDataScience>*

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IEEE PacificVis 2019 Call for Papers
by Jinwook Seo 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

*IEEE Pacific Visualization 2019http://pvis.org/ <http://pvis.org/> 23 - 26 April, 2019 Bangkok, Thailand **CALL FOR PAPERS**We solicit original research papers in all areas of visualization. All submitted papers will go through a two-stage review process to guarantee the publication of high-quality papers. All papers accepted by IEEE Pacific Visualization 2019 will be published by IEEE and will also be included in the IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers will be published directly in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Important dates: - Abstracts submission (mandatory): September 28, 2018- Full paper submission: October 5, 2018- All deadlines are due at 9:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT/PST).Submissions:Papers are to be submitted online through the new Precision Conference System (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc <https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc>) at the PacificVis 2019 Papers track. For more information, visit this page:http://research.cbs.chula.ac.th/pvis2019/call_for_participation.aspx <http://research.cbs.chula.ac.th/pvis2019/call_for_participation.aspx> Best wishes,Ross Maciejewski, Jinwook Seo, Rüdiger Westermann (IEEE PacificVis 2019 Papers co-chairs)*

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CFPosters: 4th International Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA 2018) - Deadline Sept. 9, 2018)
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

=========================================================================== 4th International Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA 2018) Call for Posters, Konstanz, Germany - October 17th to October 19th 2018 =========================================================================== The BDVA 2018 Symposium is calling for contributions in the area of Visual Analytics and Immersive Analytics of Big Data. Submit your work and be part of a vibrant venue that will bring together an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and workshops: http://bdva.net Visual Analytics plays a major role in the analysis and decision-making processes for science, industry, and government organisations. It is one of the best ways we have for making sense of large and complex data sets. Reflecting its history of encouraging research into less-traditional approaches to visual analytics, this year BDVA has broadened scope to include the emerging field of Immersive Analytics. Immersive Analytics aims to support data understanding and decision making everywhere and by everyone, working individually or collaboratively. It aims to make embodied tools that are intuitive, engaging, and make the best possible use of all sensory channels. This may be achieved through the use of immersive virtual environment technologies, natural interfaces or responsive analytics, but is not tied to the use of any particular technology. Immersive Analytics brings promising opportunities to interact with Big Data coming from geo-science, biomedical applications, collective behaviour, text mining, crime analysis, among other application domains. Symposium topics include but are not limited to: - Theoretical Foundations of Immersive Analytics - Immersive Storytelling - Collaborative Visual and Immersive Analytics - Personalized Visual and Immersive Analytics - Use of Mixed Reality for Analytics including Situated Analytics - Visual, Audio, Haptic, and Multisensory Data Presentation including Data Physicalization - Human-Computer Interaction including Use of Natural Interfaces for Analytics - Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making of Big or Complex Data - Scalable Visual and Immersive Analytics including HPC for Visualisation - Responsive Analytic Algorithms for Interactive Data Exploration - Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation - Context-Semantics-driven Visual and Immersive Analytics - Processes & Tools for Building Visual and Immersive Analytics Applications - Applications and Case Studies *Poster Submission Instructions* Authors are invited to submit poster papers that report work in progress, explore new problem areas, and new angles on existing work of known approaches. In addition to every poster, a two-page summary (one additional page for references) of the work has to be submitted. Please us the VGTC conference template (http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) for the summary paper. The posters themselves have no predefined format. Dimensions of the posters must be A0 (841mm x 1189mm / 33.1’’ x 46.8’’), and only portrait format is acceptable. Posters are not archival publications. The two-page summary papers will be distributed to the conference attendees on a USB flash drive. Authors whose posters are accepted to the conference will be asked to revise the poster and the summary paper according to the reviewer comments. The poster itself needs to be brought to the poster session of the conference, and at least one presenter per poster has to attend the conference. Please submit your abstracts and manuscripts here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdva2018 *Important Dates* Submission of poster abstracts closes: September 9, 2018 Notification of poster abstracts acceptance: September 16, 2018 Submission of camera-ready poster papers: September 30, 2018 *Poster Chair* Johanna Schmidt, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria *General Chair* Falk Schreiber, University of Konstanz, Germany *Program Chairs* M. Eduard Gröller, TU Wien, Austria Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia *Program Committee* Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen Tomasz Bednarz, UNSW Art & Design, CSIRO Data61 Silvia Castro, Universidad Nacional del Sur Jian Chen, The Ohio State University Maxime Cordeil, Monash University Tim Dwyer, Monash University Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland Ulrich Engelke, CSIRO Martin Falk, Linköping University Carla Freitas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Issei Fujishiro, Keio University Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse Institute Berlin Nathalie Henry-Riche, Microsoft Marcel Hlawatsch, University of Stuttgart Tony Huang Swinburne, University of Technology Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University Jinman Kim, The University of Sydney Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz Søren Knudsen, University of Calgary Steffen Koch, University of Ulm Nils Kriege, TU Dortmund Michael Krone, University of Tübingen Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis G.Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center Frank Maurer, University of Calgary Quang Vinh Nguyen, Western Sydney University Aruquia Peixoto, CEFET/RJ Jonathan Roberts, Bangor University Bahador Saket, Georgia Institute of Technology Dieter Schmalstieg, Graz University of Technology Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Bruce Thomas, University of South Australia Manuela Waldner, Vienna University of Technology Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas *Organising Chairs* Alexandra Diehl, University of Konstanz, Germany Björn Sommer, University of Konstanz, Germany *Publicity Chair* Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King’s College London, UK

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VIS Workshop on Visualization for Communication: Call for Posters (due September 3)
by Robert Kosara 23 Aug '18

23 Aug '18

We have a call for posters with a short deadline to the Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm)! We invite both late-breaking work and contributions in this area in the form of extended abstracts between 2 and 4 pages in length (including references), with an optional video. We invite contributions from any discipline, but particularly encourage journalists and designers to submit their work involving data-based communication or reporting. Scientific contributions concerning visualization for communication are of course welcome, as well. All submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template. Extended abstracts should be submitted through this form. All abstracts should contain full author names and affiliations. If applicable, a short video (up to 5 min. in length) may also be submitted. The abstracts will be juried by the organizers. At least one author of each accepted poster needs to register for the conference (even if only for the workshop). Registration information is available on the IEEE VIS website. More information about the workshop at https://viscomm.io Ben Watson and Robert Kosara

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CfP - INTERFACE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGNECE & AI/VR (DAIVAR)
by Artur Lugmayr 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

====================================================================================================================== Call for Long/Short Papers, Abstracts, Demos and Posters 2nd Workshop on INTERFACE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGNECE AND AI/VR (DAIVAR) In conjunction with the IEEE Artificial Intelligence Virtual Reality (AIVR) Conference - 10th-12th December 2018 - Taichung, Taiwan - Submission Deadline: 14th October 2018 - Website: http://www.artur-lugmayr.com/activities/current-activities/daivar2018/ - Submission System: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2018DAIVAR/ - Workshop proceedings published in an Scopus indexed proceedings series - Best papers will be published as edited book, or journal special issue ====================================================================================================================== The objective of this workshop is to invite scholars and practitioners to discuss synergies between interface and experience design in artificial intelligent reality virtual and augmented environments. The aim is to gather a cross- disciplinary team of contributors researching HCI related issues contributing to this fascinating newly emerging domain. We especially seek contributions from experts with a background in computer science, HCI, psychology/cognitive sciences, culture/communication studies, design and art to develop this fascinating intersection. Aspects can range from user-experience, technologies supporting end-users, practical applications, methods, content production, cultural implications, communication theories, up to more artistic approaches in artificial intelligent interaction. While AI's main aim is to replicate human intelligence, AR and VR focuses its research efforts on the creation of artificial worlds either in complete virtual world, or as part of our physical environment. Many examples that bridge the two fields have emerged recently, e.g. intelligence in digital games and the utilization of computer graphics hardware for deep learning and AI. Philosophical discussions around issues arising in this new area range from ideas when things start to think to Alan Turing's work. In this workshop, we would like to raise a question: what would happen when artificial worlds start to think, and how we humans can interact and communicate with AI through e.g. affective interfaces? Thus, while AI and VR/AR went rather distinct research pathways, we attempt to bring them together, and discuss different aspects at the intersection of machine intelligence and human interaction in a mixed reality. The workshop intends to attract a broad range of contributions to develop this scholarly field during a full day venue. As the emphasis is on creating the synergy between VR/AR and AI/ML, we are not limited to particular areas; instead, the following exemplary topics might help to gather ideas for a possible contribution: affective and emotional computation, communication with AI, digital game analytics, utilization of computer graphics hardware for deep learning, personalization and recommender systems, UX with agents and physical robots, cultural robotics, or AI in information visualization. The workshop program stretches over a full-day, and will contain a combination of invited keynote presentations, oral presentations, posters, and demonstrations. The workshop proceedings will be published in a Scopus indexed proceedings series, and the very best contribution will be published in an edited book from a highly reputable publisher which has been pre-arranged. Depending on the quality and amount of contributions, we are also considering to publish a journal special issue within an indexed publisher. ====================================================================================================================== TOPICS OF INTEREST (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) ====================================================================================================================== • Interaction design for AIVR • Multimodal AI supported interaction design • Artificial intelligence and machine learning in AIVR • Emotions and AI in VR, AR, and smart objects • Human-Computer-Interaction with AI in virtual worlds • Human communication through AIVR • Emotion enriched human-AI collaboration • AI in digital games and other application areas • User-Experience and interaction with AIVR • Affective human-virtual world interaction • Design of emotionally intelligent AIVR • Recommender systems and personalisation in AIVR • Information visualisation in AIVR • Communication theory and cognitive science • Affective ambient intelligence in mixed realities • UX with AI agents in AIVR • Brain interfaces in AIVR • AI based emotion mediated communication in AIVR • Authoring emotional intelligent interaction in AIVR • Multimodal affective interfaces in AIVR • Human-human emotional communication in AIVR The workshop proceedings will be published in a Scopus indexed proceedings series with an ISBN number as part of the Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME) workshop series. The very best contributions will be published in an edited book from a highly reputable publisher which has been pre-arranged. Please note that only selected high quality contributions will be published as part of the edited book. However, during the workshop a common journal article co-authored between all workshop participants will be published as an introduction chapter. ====================================================================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ====================================================================================================================== * 14/10/2018: Deadline for workshop papers * 21/10/2018: Notification of accepted workshop papers * 29/10/2018: Camera ready workshop papers * 31/10/2018: Registration for the Workshop * 10/12/2018: Workshop Day ====================================================================================================================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ====================================================================================================================== The workshop program stretches over a full-day, and will contain a combination of invited keynote presentations, oral presentations, posters, and demonstrations. We are calling for paper submissions of extended abstracts between 2-5 pages long, following the submission format of IEEE Manuscript Formatting guidelines. Please choose one of the three submission categories: * Abstract: 1-2 pages long * Short paper, demo, or poster: 2-4 pages long * Long paper: 4-6 pages long Please download the paper template from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html The copyright form can be downloaded from: http://www.visemex.ambientmediaassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/C… Your submission should include: scanned signed copyright form + original contribution in word or latex + pdf of the paper. Add ALL your files (copyright form, word document/latex files, scanned copyright form) into ONE zip file. Upload the zip file to the workshop submission system on: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2018DAIVAR/ ====================================================================================================================== RECOMMENDED READINGS PRIOR SUBMISSION ====================================================================================================================== We strongly recommend the ideas and topics from the following papers prior your submission or as part of a paper submission in its discussion section: * Lugmayr, A. et al., 2017. Cognitive Big Data. Survey and Review on Big Data Research and its Implications: What is Really “New”? Cognitive Big Data! Journal of Knowledge Management (JMM), 21(1). Available at: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm…, Journal of Knowledge Management/Emerald. * Sun, M., Zhao, Z., and Ma, X. (2017). Sensing and Handling Engagement Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction Involving Peripheral Computing Devices. In Proc. CHI2017 (to appear). * Zhu, F., Fang, K., and Ma, X. (2017). Exploring the Effects of Strategy and Arousal of Cueing in Computer-Human Persuasion. In Proc. CHI2017 EA (to appear). * Yang, Y., Ma, X., and Fung, P. (2017). Perceived Emotional Intelligence in Virtual Agents. In Proc. CHI2017 EA (to appear). * Ma, X. (2016). Developing Design Guidelines for a Visual Vocabulary of Electronic Medical Information to Improve Health Literacy. Interacting with Computers. * Zhu, K., Ma, X., Chen, H., and Liang, M. (2016). Tripartite Effects: Exploring Users' Mental Model of Mobile Gestures under the Influence of Operation, Handheld Posture, and Interaction Space. International Journal of Human- Computer Interaction. * A. Lugmayr, E. Serral, A. Scherp, B. Pogorelc, and M. Mustaquim, “Ambient media today and tomorrow,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 71, 2014, pp. 7-37 Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1346-z. * ZHU Kening, ZHU Rongbo, H SAMANI, BB JALAEIAN, PaperIO: a 3D interface towards the internet of embedded paper-craft, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2014 ====================================================================================================================== WORKSHOP ORGANISERS ====================================================================================================================== Kening Zhu, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Artur Lugmayr, VisLab, Curtin University, Australia Xiaojuan Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Florian ‘Floyd' Mueller, RMIT, AUSTRALIA Ulrich Engelke, Data 61, CSIRO, AUSTRALIA ====================================================================================================================== CONTACT INFORMATION ====================================================================================================================== In case of questions, please don't hesitate to contact: keninzhu(a)cityu.edu.hk

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