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IEEE VIS 2018: Diversity Scholarships, VisKids, T-Shirt Contest Winner, LDAV Posters, and Meetups
by Call for Papers - VGTC 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

*IEEE VIS 2018============http://ieeevis.org/ <http://ieeevis.org/>Oct 21-26 2018, Berlin, GermanyIEEE VIS 2018 is the premier forum for advances in visualization. The event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), and IEEE Scientific Visualization (SciVis) by sharing your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm.We solicit Visualization in Data Science and Meetups submissions, and Posters for LDAV for IEEE VIS 2018 in Berlin, Germany. In addition, VISKids Child Care Grants submissions are now open, as is the conference and hotel registration!====================Diversity Scholarships====================IEEE VIS 2018 provides Diversity Scholarships, which are intended to support early career researchers from underrepresented groups in computer science to broaden participation. The Inclusivity and Diversity program (http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/inclusion-and-diversity/inclusivity <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/inclusion-and-diversity/inclusivity>) provides grants to VIS attendees to pay for registration and other costs incurred while attending the VIS conference. Please contact inclusivity(a)ieeevis.org <inclusivity(a)ieeevis.org> for any questions regarding this program.====================VISKids Child Care Grants====================Submission deadline: September 4, 2018The VIS conference is excited to support our VISKids and young families! Grants of up to $500 per family are available for VIS attendees who are bringing small children to the conference or who incur extra expenses in leaving their children at home. If requests exceed available funding, or if additional funding becomes available, preference will be given to students and early career attendees who are presenting at the conference.For details and application instructions, visit: http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/inclusion-and-diversity/viskids-child-car… <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/inclusion-and-diversity/viskids-child-car…>Contact: VISKids(a)ieeevis.org <VISKids(a)ieeevis.org> ====================Student Volunteers====================Congrats to Damla Çay for winning the IEEE VIS 2018 Student Volunteer T-Shirt Design Contest. Her design, BauVis, was the overwhelming selection in this year's contest, receiving nearly 70% of the total vote! Design title: BauVisAffiliation: Koç University, Istanbul, TurkeyStatement: Graphical abstraction is an essential part of visualization, as it is for the German Art School, Bauhaus. This design is inspired by the Poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar <https://www.bauhaus100.de/en/past/works/graphics-typography/plakat-zur-bauh…>. The front side incorporates a composition of the word "VIS", with a hidden "18", to represent the year 2018. The back side has the initials "SV" and the VIS logo.We’re excited to see all our student volunteers sporting the shirt in October!====================LDAV Posters====================Poster Submission Deadline: August 24, 2018We invite you to submit to the IEEE LDAV 2018 Poster Program. Interested authors should submit a two-page abstract that either:(1) showcases successful stories of applying visualization to large-scale data intensive application, or(2) highlights recent such visualization work presented or published in another venue. Accepted poster abstracts will be included in the symposium proceedings.Modern large-scale scientific simulations, sensor networks, and experiments are generating enormous datasets. Managing and analyzing large datasets to generate insights is critical for a variety of disciplines including climate science, nuclear physics, security, materials design, transportation, and urban planning. The 8th IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) symposium, to be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2018, is specifically targeting methodological innovation, algorithmic foundations, and possible end-to-end solutions. The LDAV symposium will bring together domain scientists, data analysts, visualization researchers, and users to foster common ground for solving both near- and long-term problems.For details, visit http://ldav.org/ <http://ldav.org/>Contact: posters(a)ldav.org <posters(a)ldav.org>====================Meetups====================Rolling Submission: August 4, 2018 to October 20, 2018 Do you want to meet people who share the same interests with you, discuss a topic that you care about or that brings the visualization community forward, or share viewpoints and experiences to foster community building? If yes, don’t wait, and submit a meetup proposal! Meetups are an excellent forum to discuss a wide range of topics related to visualization. Be it to share your knowledge in an informal setting, to discuss methods and trends in visualization research, to provide information about the VIS organization, or to plan a social event, the possibilities are yours to imagine! Meetups are a public and open forum for everyone (the meetup organizers need to register at the conference). For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/call-participation/meetups <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/call-participation/meetups>Contact: meetups(a)ieeevis.org <meetups(a)ieeevis.org> ====================Conference and Hotel Registration====================Conference registration and Hotel registration is open!You may register to IEEE VIS 2018 now via the conference homepage ieeevis.org <http://ieeevis.org>.Note that- Early bird deadline for conference registration is September 7, 2018.- The current hotel room rates are guaranteed only until July 27, 2018. After this, hotel rooms at the conference hotel are subject to availability.http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/conference-regi… <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/conference-registration>http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/hotel-information <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/hotel-information>==================== Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis <https://twitter.com/ieeevis>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis <https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis> *

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VizSec 2018 Diversity Scholarship
by Nicolas Prigent 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

Thanks to the generous donations of our sponsors, we are delighted to announce that we will be offering several VizSec 2018 Diversity Scholarship awards to help cover the costs of attending VizSec. This scholarship award covers full week registration plus a small stipend to help offset travel costs. All VizSec attendees may apply for the diversity scholarships except for those from a country on the OFAC sanctions list at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/organizers/sanctions.html Applicants must submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae in PDF format. The cover letter should discuss your eligibility for this scholarship and how you would benefit from attending VizSec 2017. It should be no more than 2 pages (letter size) with at least 1 inch margins and 11pt or larger font. Applications will also be asked to answer the following questions: Have you ever attended VizSec or VIS before? If so, when? Are you currently a student? If so, please specify the degree and subject area you are working on, and where. Are you from an underrepresented group in computer science? If so, please specify. Please let us know your country or countries of citizenship, and the country and city you will be traveling from. To apply for this scholarship, login or create an account at: https://new.precisionconference.com/vizsec18b After logging in, click the "new submissions" link on the top navigation bar and look for the link for "Submit to VizSec 2018 Diversity Scholarship" in the list under the "VIS 2018" heading. The application deadline is August 22, 2018 at 5:00pm PDT. Awardees will be notified by September 04, 2018, and must register for the conference by the early registration deadline on September 7, 2018.

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PhD studentship at Newcastle University UK: Interactive Visualization of Temporal Multi-Omic Data - deadline 1 Sep.
by Sara Fernstad 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Dear everyone, We are advertising a PhD studentship in Interactive Visualization of Temporal Multi-Omic Data, in the School of Computing at Newcastle University, UK, in collaboration with the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences. The studentship is fully funded by EPSRC, covering UK/EU tuition fees + stipend, with a possibility of funding for international students who are able to bring their own funding to cover the additional tuition fees Further detail on the project and how to apply is available at: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/comp003.html The deadline for applications is 1 September 2018. This studentship will give you the opportunity to work as part of a dynamic research group with a broad focus on Data Science, as well as to collaborate with leading scientists within bioscience and offering possibilities to build your professional network through our industrial collaborators. The School of Computing at Newcastle University is one of the leading Universities in the UK for Data Science. It is a member of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and AI (https://www.turing.ac.uk)<https://www.turing.ac.uk)/> and hosts the National Innovation Centre for Data (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/11/nationalinnovationcent…) The school was ranked #1 in the UK for research impact in REF 2014 and hosts the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cloud Computing for Big Data. For more information about the project and questions about the studentship, please contact: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk> Kind regards, Sara _____________________________________________ Sara Johansson Fernstad, PhD Lecturer in Visualization School of Computing Newcastle University Urban Sciences Building 1 Science Square Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE4 5TG Office: 4.042 E-mail: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk> URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/sarafernstad

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Call for Participation (Posters) for IEEE VIS 2018 Workshop on Machine Learning from User Interaction for Visualization and Analytics
by John Wenskovitch 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Just as a reminder, the poster submission deadline of August 15 for our workshop is approaching! Please read the updated poster submission information below, which is also available on the workshop website <https://learningfromusersworkshop.github.io/>. Feel free to distribute this information as you see fit: *IEEE VIS 2018 Workshop:* *MACHINE LEARNING FROM USER INTERACTION FOR VISUALIZATION AND ANALYTICS* *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Date and Location*: October 22, 2018 in Berlin, Germany *Website*: https://learningfromusersworkshop.github.io/ The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from across the VIS community – SciVis, InfoVis, and VAST – to share their knowledge and build collaborations at the intersection of the Machine Learning and Visualization fields, with a focus on learning from user interaction. Our intention in this workshop is to pull expertise from across all fields of VIS in order to generate open discussion about how we currently learn from user interaction and where we can go with future research in this area. We hope to foster discussion regarding systems, interaction models, and interaction techniques across fields within the VIS community, rather than the current state of having these discussions independently contained within the SciVis/InfoVis/VAST fields. Further, we hope to collaboratively create a research agenda that explores the future of machine learning with user interaction based on the discussion during the workshop. *WORKSHOP TOPICS* The topic of the workshop will focus on issues and opportunities related to the use of machine learning to learn from user interaction in the course of data visualization and analysis. Specifically, we will focus on research questions including: - How are machine learning algorithms currently learning from user interaction, and what other possibilities exist? - What kinds of interactions can provide feedback to machine learning algorithms? - What can machine learning algorithms learn from interactions? - Which machine learning algorithms are most applicable in this domain? - How can machine learning algorithms be designed to enable user interaction and feedback? - How can visualizations and interactions be designed to exploit machine learning algorithms? - How can visualization system architectures be designed to support machine learning? - How should we manage conflicts between the user’s intent and the data or machine learning algorithm capabilities? - How can we evaluate systems that incorporate both machine learning algorithms and user interaction together? - How can machine learning and user interaction together make both computation and user cognition more efficient? - How can we support the sensemaking process by learning from user interaction? *SUBMISSIONS* *Posters* We invite both late-breaking work and contributions in this area from other research domains to submit extended abstracts between 2 and 4 pages in length (NOT including references). All submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> (i.e., *NOT the journal style template that full papers use*). Extended abstracts are to be submitted online through the Precision Conference System (additional details TBA; do NOT use the PCS link above to submit extended abstracts for posters). All abstracts accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published on IEEE Xplore and linked from the workshop website. All abstracts should contain full author names and affiliations. If applicable, a link to a short video (up to 5 min. in length) may also be submitted. The abstracts will be juried by the organizers and selected external reviewers and will be chosen according to relevance, quality, and likelihood that they will stimulate and contribute to the discussion. At least one author of each accepted poster needs to register for the conference (even if only for the workshop). Registration information will be available on the IEEE VIS website <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome>. Important Dates - Submission deadline: August 15, 2018 - Author notification: September 1, 2018 - Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2018 - Workshop: October 22, 2018 *ORGANIZERS* - John Wenskovitch, Virginia Tech (jw87(a)vt.edu) - Michelle Dowling, Virginia Tech (dowlingm(a)vt.edu) - Chris North, Virginia Tech - Remco Chang, Tufts University - Alex Endert, Georgia Tech - David Rogers, Los Alamos National Lab

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CFP 11th Forum Media Technology 2018, DL: Sept 16, 2018
by Aigner Wolfgang 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: September 16th, 2018) Apologies if you receive this more than once. ========================================================== CFP: 11th Forum Media Technology 2018 St. Pölten, Austria November 28-29, 2018 http://fmt.fhstp.ac.at Submission address: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FMT2018/ Contact: forummedientechnik(a)fhstp.ac.at ========================================================== Audio-visual, interactive and mobile media interweave with our everyday life. In almost all our areas of life, they change our behaviour and affect our perception, thinking and feeling. The Forum Media Technology (FMT) aims for an intensive dialogue of experts working at agencies, studios and production companies with students, lecturers, researchers and developers. Contributions are sought for the 11th Forum Media Technology, presenting current results of applied research and development, new theoretical and scientific findings or case studies, projects, formats, services and prototypes in digital media technologies. TOPICS To foster the exchange between various disciplines in the huge field of digital media, the Forum Media Technology intentionally puts its focus on a wide range of content and on interdisciplinary dialogues at the intersection of new technological possibilities, creative design as well as economic, social and cultural framework requirements. We invite submissions which address one of the topics of the conference: • Digital Media Experience (Game Design, Serious Games, Experience Design) • Innovative Audio - New Applications for Music, Sound Design and Sonic Interaction • Mobile (Design, Development, Trust, Privacy, Learning) • Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis • Multimedia Modelling, Retrieval and Machine Learning • Digital GLAM (Media Technology in Arts and Heritage) and Participatory Culture • Ambient Assisted Living and Digital Healthcare • Physical Computing and Industrial Internet Please refer to http://fmt.fhstp.ac.at for a detailed list of subtopics. SUBMISSION Contributions shall be submitted in English. The mandatory oral presentation must be held in English as well. Forum Media Technology allows submissions in three categories: • Full paper: Full papers should report substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research. The length limitation is 5 to 8 pages excluding references in the FMT conference paper format. • Short paper & Demo: Short papers are appropriate for reporting smaller experiments, surveys, on-going work, and late-breaking results. Demos cover demonstrations of prototypes, innovative tools, and services. The maximum length is 4 pages excluding references in the FMT conference paper format. • Graduate Consortium: The FMT 2018 Graduate Consortium is intended to provide an opportunity for graduate and doctoral students to explore, discuss and develop their research topics in an interdisciplinary workshop under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers. PAPER SUBMISSION & REVIEW GUIDELINES • Template: http://bit.ly/fmt2018template • Online submission: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FMT2018/ All contributions will be reviewed in a double-blind process, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Please be sure your name and affiliation do not appear on your initial submission. IMPORTANT DATES • Full paper, Short paper and Demo submission: September 16, 2018 • Notification of acceptance: October 17, 2018 • Camera-ready version submission: October 29, 2018 Contributors commit themselves to present their contributions at the 11th Forum Media Technology in St. Pölten, Austria on November 28th or 29th, 2018. All accepted contributions are included in the conference proceedings volume published via the free open-access publication service CEUR-WS, a recognized ISSN publication series (ISSN 1613-0073). The copyright of the published work remains exclusively with the authors. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Markus Seidl, Thomas Moser, Kerstin Blumenstein, Matthias Zeppelzauer, Michael Iber, Grischa Schmiedl. LOCATION: St. Pölten, Austria (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, http://www.fhstp.ac.at) Situated 60 km to the west of Vienna in Austria’s oldest baroque town, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1996 and is an expanding institution of higher education. -- WOLFGANG AiGNER Scientific Director Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies (IC\M/T) Department Media & Digital Technologies St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Matthias Corvinus Strasse 15, 3100 St. Poelten, Austria wolfgang.aigner(a)fhstp.ac.at +43 (0) 2742 313 228 - 611 http://mc.fhstp.ac.at/people/wolfgang-aigner @wolfgangaigner FN 146616m, LG St. Pölten, DVR 1028669F

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CALL FOR PAPERS. A SPECIAL ISSUE OF EDUCATION FOR INFORMATION ON Visual Learning
by IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

Apologies for multiple postings *CALL FOR PAPERS. A SPECIAL ISSUE OF /EDUCATION FOR INFORMATION/ ON * *Visual Learning*** https://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/ *PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE EXTENSION TILL 10th October 2018* <https://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/> The changing needs for innovative learning environments can be positioned as a consequence of complex societal issues subject of the professional and scientific domain of the information science. More and more students are coming from a variety of backgrounds and consequently the diversity in learning styles and learning experiences is growing and change the face of the classroom. The challenges of visual learning strategies in a context of complex and interdisciplinary education approach, are setting the need to have a better academic understanding of the potential of visual learning in relation to knowledge demands in the digital humanities age. Visual learning is grounded in the existence and relevance of information encapsulated in images. Visual learning is defined broader than a visual way of dealing with descriptive knowledge. Visual learning strategies provide opportunities for learning which are not possible with traditional written/printed support; they overcome physical limitations and provide specific tools for reflection and mediation. The current absence of expertise and understanding of designing and producing visual learning strategies and devices requires consideration for various disciplines involved. “Visual could be defined in visual learning as a rich language that uses pictures or images of any type – even mental pictures included – that creates a look to the word, brings people and issues on stage, alters time, distance, places and spaces in a language that is metaphorical and narrative” (Witteven, 2009). The 2018 special issue of Education for Information on Visual Learning invites broad-ranging considerations of questions around Visual Learning. With this in mind, Education for Information is seeking articles for a special issue on Visual Learning to be published in winter 2018. We welcome both conceptual and empirical papers (approximately 6,000 words) as well as shorter discussions of visual learning and applied practice (approximately 1,500 words). Submissions should be original works neither previously published nor undergoing review for publication in another journal at the time of submission. The scope of this special issue includes: ·Education Theory and Practice in the Visual Age ·Visual Learning Transforming the Information Age ·Epistemological Approach of Visual Learning ·Semantic and Linguistics Visual Learning Approach ·Linking Cultures & Languages through Visual Learning ·Semiotic as a Tool for Learning ·Visual Learning as a Mediation Tool for Learning ·Visual Learning for Social Sciences ·Visual Learning Analytics ·Visual Learning for Research Methods ·Visual Learning Strategies ·Models of Visual Learning ·Visual Learning Style and Techniques ·Learning Techniques for Visual Learners ·Multimedia Content Development for Visual Learning This special issue is co-edited by Audilio Gonzales (IMSIC Aix-Marseille University, France) and Francisco Carlos Paletta (University of São Paulo, Brazil). Questions, comments and inquiries can be directed to either Audilio (audilio.gonzales(a)gmail.com <mailto:audilio.gonzales@gmail.com>) or Francisco (fcpaletta(a)usp.br <mailto:fcpaletta@usp.br>) Style Guidelines for Education for Information are available here: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/?tab=submission-of… Submissions are due on*October 10, 2018*. They can be submitted via email to either Audilio (audilio.gonzales(a)gmail.com <mailto:audilio.gonzales@gmail.com>) or Francisco (fcpaletta(a)usp.br <mailto:fcpaletta@usp.br>). Submissions will be blind peer-reviewed. ***About the journal* Founded in 1983, Education for information (EFI) is a quarterly refereed academic journal publishing research articles on issues related to the teaching and learning of information scientists and professionals for an information society. EFI welcomes a broad perspective on issues related to pedagogy and learning in the information and communication disciplines (ICD) such as Library and Information Science, Communication and Media studies, Journalism, Archival studies, Museum studies, Psychology, Cognitive science and Digital Humanities. > *Twitter*: https://twitter.com/EducationforIn1 *Facebook*: > https://www.facebook.com/educationforinformation/ Subscribe to the > newsletter: > http://madmimi.com/signups/290d73e84d1f4b8badb5030a3d10e86d/join -- ---------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor - School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) Aix-Marseille University - France. https://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/en Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=-A8QJv8AAAAJ&hl=en Editor in chief Education for Information, IOS Press http://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/ -----------------------------------------

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BigNet 2018 (Dec 10-13, 2018, Seattle, USA): submission deadline Aug 19
by Nikola.Nikolov 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

================================ BigNet2018: 1st International Workshop in Visual Analytics for Big Networks http://bignet2018.bdarg.org A Workshop of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2018) December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA === Important Dates === 19th August, 2018 : Submission of papers 9th October, 2018 : Notification of acceptance 10 November 2018 : Camera-ready submission of accepted papers 10-13 December, 2018 : Conference; Workshop date TBA === Aim === Network visualization is one of the earliest branches of information visualization with a foundation in a more than three-decades long history of active research in the field of graph drawing. In recent years, large-scale networks, such as social, biological, and financial networks as well as networks representing software engineering processes, have become prominent generators of big data. The need and the opportunity to utilize the information in such networks better has raised a range of new research questions, such as, what constitutes an insightful visualization of a big network, how to visualize a big network efficiently without loss of information, how to scale-up existing graph drawing methods for dealing with huge datasets, etc. This workshop aims at bringing together the leading researchers in this field and showcase the latest results in big network visual analytics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Algorithmic frameworks for visualizing big networks • Quality and effectiveness of big-network visualization • Data management for efficient big-network visualization • Applications of visual analytics for big networks in the fields of o software engineering, o social science, o finances, o biology • Application of big-network visualization to complexity and complex systems • Sustainability aspects of big-network visualization == Paper submission == Papers (up to 6 pages in the two-column IEEE CPS Conference Style format or extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) must be electronically submitted using the submission system accessible on CyberChair via http://bignet2018.bdarg.org. === Publication === Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE Big Data conference proceedings. Extended versions of these will be considered as a special issue in the International Journal of Information Security Science. === Workshop organizers === + Patrick Healy, University of Limerick, Ireland Tiziana Margaria, Lero, + University of Limerick, Ireland Nikola S. Nikolov, University of + Limerick, Ireland Alexander Wolff, Universität Würzburg, Germany

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Expand your research: Try some medical perception and/or cognition research
by Chen, Jian 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Dear VIS and VR colleagues, I am posting this message on behalf of Prof. Jeremy Wolfe@Harvard. Please take a look at the CFP, stay in touch, and submit your application(s). I think this is a great opportunity to evaluate / validate our methods with real users who are expensive and difficult to find. Now, you get them for free. Please help spread the words. Best regards, — Jian ————— Jian Chen, PhD, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University Office phone: 614.688.1981 Fax: 614.292.2911 My web home: http://www.cse.osu.edu/~chen.8028 Lab openings: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~chen.8028/OSUHVCL/Hiring.html Begin forwarded message: From: "Wolfe, Jeremy M.,Ph.D." <jwolfe(a)bwh.harvard.edu<mailto:jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu>> Subject: Expand your research: Try some medical perception and/or cognition research Date: July 26, 2018 at 9:19:42 AM EDT To: "Chen, Jian" <chen.8028(a)osu.edu<mailto:chen.8028@osu.edu>> Hi Jian…Are the places you could post this where visualization people might see it? ===================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Try something a bit different TWO OPPORTUNITIES TO CONDUCT MEDICAL IMAGE PERCEPTION / MEDICAL COGNITION RESEARCH! Oct 3-5 at the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Nov 25-30 at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Investigators conducting research on medical image perception know that it can be difficult to attract radiologists or other experts to participate as experimental observers. For the last two years support from the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) has funded the Perception Lab in the Learning Center of the RSNA annual meeting in Chicago. Last year, fourteen labs tested over 200 radiologists. We are happy to announce Year 3 of the Perception Lab will run from: Nov. 25th to Nov. 30th at RSNA in the McCormick Place in Chicago. NEW in 2018: In addition, if we get NCI funding, this year a similar opportunity will be available at the ASCP Annual Meeting, Oct 3rd – 5th at the Baltimore Convention Center. At the RSNA Perception Lab, you can test radiologists and others on relatively brief experiments (~30 minutes maximum). The annual RSNA meeting provides an unparalleled pool of potential participants: attendance is upwards of 50,000, including ~25,000 professionals in some aspect of radiology. The ASCP Perception Lab is a new venture that will run on the same principle. Here you will be able to recruit observers from among the approximately 2,000 pathologists, residents, and lab professionals in attendance. We are inviting applications for investigators to participate in either lab…or both. Facilities: There will be six small, darkened testing areas. At RSNA, each will be equipped with a desk, two chairs, two 47-inch monitors (Samsung LN-T4665F, color with VGA and HDMI, 1920 x 1080 pixels), power, and internet access. At ASCP, there will be a single monitor. There will be a registration/waiting area. RSNA and ASCP will provide some help in recruiting observers and with general publicity. In addition, registration fees for the meeting will be waived for participating researchers. Individual researchers will need to provide any equipment other than the monitors described above (e.g., if you need medical grade monitors, computers, eye-trackers, you need to make arrangements). You will also need to provide personnel to carry out the experiment. Finally, investigators will be asked to contribute a modest amount to a fund that will allow us to run a participant lottery (an Amazon gift card did well last year). Applications by Aug 1 (or, at least, tell us your application is coming). For application details, send a note to Jeremy Wolfe (jwolfe(a)bwh.harvard.edu)<mailto:jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu)> and/or Jennifer Trueblood (jennifer.s.trueblood(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:(jennifer.s.trueblood@vanderbilt.edu>) Jeremy M Wolfe, PhD Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology, Harvard Medical School Visual Attention Lab Department of Surgery Brigham & Women's Hospital 64 Sidney St. Suite. 170 Cambridge, MA 02139-4170 Phone: 617-768-8818 Fax: 617-768-8816 Best email: jwolfe(a)bwh.harvard.edu<mailto:jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu> Backup: jeremywolfe0131(a)gmail.com<mailto:jeremywolfe0131@gmail.com> URL: search.bwh.harvard.edu<http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/> Editor: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) CRPI is the open access, peer-reviewed journal of the Psychonomics Society Do you do "use-inspired, basic research" in Cognition? That is what we publish. http://www.cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/ Jeremy M Wolfe, PhD Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology, Harvard Medical School Visual Attention Lab Department of Surgery Brigham & Women's Hospital 64 Sidney St. Suite. 170 Cambridge, MA 02139-4170 Phone: 617-768-8818 Fax: 617-768-8816 Best email: jwolfe(a)bwh.harvard.edu<mailto:jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu> Backup: jeremywolfe0131(a)gmail.com<mailto:jeremywolfe0131@gmail.com> URL: search.bwh.harvard.edu<http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/> Editor: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) CRPI is the new open access, peer-reviewed journal of the Psychonomics Society Do you do "use-inspired, basic research" in Cognition? That is what we publish. http://www.cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/

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CFP: Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces Creative Residency
by Mike Nutt 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

I'm Mike Nutt , the creator of the Mellon-funded Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces (i.e., the Immersive Scholar project). I'd like to share with you the following Call for Proposals [ https://www.immersivescholar.org/creative-residency-call] for a creative residency to make a scholarly visual work that will be featured on one or more of the large-scale digital walls in the award-winning James B. Hunt Jr. Library in Raleigh, NC . If you know of someone whose work would be a good match for the project and who could benefit from participating, please feel free to share this CFP. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Nutt Associate Head, Data & Visualization Services NCSU Libraries 919.513.0651 *https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/services/data-visualization <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/services/data-visualization>* Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning SpacesCreative Residency Call for ProposalsOverview *Application Deadline*: 8:00am EST, August 20th, 2018 *Duration*: 4-6 weeks *Start date*: Flexible, Spring semester, 2019 *Stipend*: $25,000 The NCSU Libraries invites proposals from artists, scholars, and creative technologists for a four-to-six-week residency to create immersive scholarly visual content for one or more of the large-scale digital walls <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/videowalls> in the award-winning James B. Hunt Jr. Library at NC State University in Raleigh. The residency is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces grant (“Immersive Scholar”), and is part of the NCSU Code+Art program. Residents are encouraged to interrogate the intersections of data, knowledge, and culture through visual expression. This residency offers an opportunity for the selected project to influence the way that people look at the university’s role in supporting data visualization and digital art, similar to the manner that the Hunt Library has started to change the way that people think about academic libraries in the 21st century. Libraries have long been places where people have explored new ways of interacting with information and data. The NCSU Libraries’ Code+Art program <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/projects/codeart> continues this tradition by bringing an aesthetic eye to the increasing role of data in our lives by combining creative and computational thinking in a library’s physical spaces. Code+Art provides the lens that focuses this residency program. Program Details The resident will produce a large-scale work of digital art or visualization. Creations could include generative art or dynamic, data-driven visualizations of high aesthetic quality. The data underlying the piece may or may not be literally interpretable, depending on the resident’s scholarly approach. To generate broader impact and a larger audience, the work will: - Be open source - Follow principles of responsive design - Follow principles of universal design - Be documented using principles of literate computing - Be broadly distributed to other libraries and learning spaces with similar visualization facilities Additionally, the work should be scholarly output that is citable and impactful. NCSU Libraries staff and collaborators will explore with the resident innovative approaches to peer review, sharing, and credit for the work created during the residency. The work will be displayed on one or more of the Hunt Library’s large video walls: - Art Wall <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/artwall> - the screen that welcomes visitors to the Library - iPearl Immersion Theater <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/ipearl-immersion-theater> - the Library’s premier storytelling venue - Commons Wall <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/commons-wall> - in the heart of the Library’s learning spaces - Visualization Wall <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/visualization-wall> - a unique shape that symbolizes the Library’s blend of physical and digital space Please see our Video Wall Guide <https://github.com/NCSU-Libraries/visualization_templates/blob/master/Displ…> for technical specifications of the walls. Additionally, the resident will have access to the Libraries’ full suite of spaces for creation and making <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces?s=1#/Make%20&%20Create/all/all/>. *The resident must have sufficient knowledge required to produce the work described in their application for this residency.* Experience in open web technologies is strongly preferred, but other technologies could be considered if the requirements for open source and broad distribution can be met. To further support the resident, the library will hire a student worker to assist the resident with content production. The resident can specify the student’s title and skill set. If additional technology skills are needed beyond what the student employee can provide, the residency stipend may be used to hire technical help. The residency includes a stipend of $25,000 that can be used to cover housing, travel, and other expenses incurred by the project. Women and historically underrepresented communities are especially encouraged to apply. Support and Community Engagement The resident will work closely with NCSU Libraries staff, who will facilitate engagement with the NC State community and the broader scholarly community. Libraries staff have expertise in visualization <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/do/visualization>, making <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/services/makerspace>, data management <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/do/data-management>, and other areas of research support <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/services/researcher-support>, and will be available to the resident for consultation. The resident will be expected to engage with the NC State community through a talk and/or workshop, to be determined and facilitated with Libraries staff. NC State University <https://www.ncsu.edu/about/> is a pre-eminent research enterprise that excels in science, technology, engineering, math, design, the humanities and social sciences, textiles, and veterinary medicine. Collaborations with NC State researchers and students will grow from the vision and needs of the resident, and can be facilitated by Libraries staff, who maintain deep relationships with the campus community. This residency is funded as part of a larger, “Immersive Scholar” grant. Immersive Scholar is a three-year effort funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop extensible models and programs for the creation and sharing of digital scholarship in large-scale and immersive visualization environments. The resident, therefore, will be part of a larger, national network of participating institutions <https://immersivescholar.org/news/announcing-our-partners> and advisors <https://immersivescholar.org/advisory-panel>. Work completed under this residency must be designed to be open source and will be shared to the grant’s participating cohort <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/ncsu-libraries-chooses-cohort-for-large-scale…>for display at their respective institutions. Eligibility Requirements - Must be eligible to work in the U.S. - Must not be a currently enrolled student - Must not be a UNC system employee Application - Statement of interest (500 words or less) - Narrative and visual sketches of proposed work (500 words or less) - Campus engagement plan outlining how the resident proposes to collaborate with faculty and students - Description of spaces, technologies, and support needed for project (500 words or less) - Resume/CV - Online portfolio of past relevant works - 1 letter of reference Selection and Notification Process Proposals will be selected by the Immersive Scholar personnel <https://immersivescholar.org/contact> based on the following criteria: - Creativity of proposal - Whether the proposal is extensible, desirable, and feasible for distribution to multiple visualization installations - Proficiency in web or creative coding technologies - Good collaboration skills - Value of proposed outcomes to digital scholarship - How successfully the proposal advances a design philosophy that ensures accessibility of the finished work - How successfully the proposal incorporates the goals of diversity and inclusion Applicants may be contacted for an interview or a presentation of previous work. Questions Please see http://immersivescholar.org for more information about the grant and send inquiries to immersivescholar(a)ncsu.edu. *Submit applications through this Google Form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVxSIRUT4L6L6FPu4gDxaKx1uritxAE6X…>. All applications must be submitted by 8:00am EST, August 20th.*

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ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019): Call for tutorial proposals
by Axel Soto 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

CALL FOR TUTORIAL Proposals To be presented at the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019) Los Angeles, CA, USA March 17 - 20, 2019 http://iui.acm.org/ ========================================================================= IUI 2019 is pleased to invite tutorial proposals. Tutorials offer the community an opportunity to learn about the state-of-the-art concepts and techniques and allow the presenters to share their expertise. We invite proposals from active researchers and practitioners, and experienced presenters. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research and development in a specific area strongly related to IUI. Tutorials on interdisciplinary areas, novel or fast growing directions, and significant practical applications are also encouraged. Tutorials will be held in auditoriums with a screen, projector, and Internet connection. Presenters are expected to bring their own computer. =============== PROPOSAL FORMAT =============== Each tutorial proposal should provide the following information: - Name and title: Your name, the tutorial title and the expected length of your tutorial (preferably half a day, i.e. 2 sessions on 90 minutes each). - Description of tutorial topic and goal: Detailed outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the objectives, its relevance to IUI, benefits to the attendees, and course materials/handouts (links to online materials encouraged). - Organizers: Name, email address, and affiliation of each presenter. Note that each listed presenter must register for the conference and be present at the tutorial. - Target audience and prerequisites: Target audience level (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills. - Experience: Tutors' short bios and their expertise related to the tutorial, including history of previously given tutorials. - Equipment and software requirement: please list any that will be needed. - History of prior similar tutorials given by the presenter(s). Additional guidelines: ---------------------- The proposals should be PDF documents not exceeding 3 pages, submitted by e-mail to the tutorial chairs at: tutorials2019(a)iui.acm.org We encourage prospective presenters to contact the tutorial chairs in advance and discuss their tutorial ideas. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Discuss your topic with the tutorial chairs: ASAP (tutorials2019(a)iui.acm.org) Proposals due: August 14, 2018 Decisions Sent: September 14, 2018 Tutorial date: TBA ================== TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS ================== Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, Norway Denis Parra, Pontifical Catholic University, Chile Nathalie Riche, Microsoft Research

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