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[DL June 30th] 2nd CfP: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare @ IEEE VIS 2025
by Arleo, Alessio 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

** 16th Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare ** Full-day Workshop In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2025 The 2025 Workshop on Visual Analytics (VA) in Healthcare (VAHC 2025) is the 16th annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art interactive visual data analysis techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. Moreover, recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, and other emerging technologies have led to a growing and evolving need in healthcare VA. These technologies can be leveraged to enhance AI explainability and improve human data analysis through AI-driven reasoning. The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together leading VIS designers, VA researchers, medical experts, and visionaries to discuss: a) interactive data visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data, b) areas of healthcare that need more attention from visualization and visual data analysis, and c) emerging research trends, visualization techniques, software applications, benchmarks, and open datasets. The workshop will enable presenters to showcase their ongoing work through oral presentation and system demonstrations. In past years, both demonstrations of prototype and production visual analytics software have been particularly well received, and paper submitters are encouraged to submit a companion demo proposal. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------ We welcome discussions on the use of VA approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, AI, explainable AI, and ML applied to healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of various user groups, including (but not limited to) patients, clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, and insurance claim analysts. The 2025 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare will cover a range of topics on the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and abstraction of VA methods, including (but not limited to): - Applications of visual analytics to: - Clinical care - Multi-omic datasets - Patient-generated health data - Digital and mobile health, and digital twins - Patient- and consumer-related methods: - Understanding of patient/health consumer behavior and experience - Personalized healthcare and health management - Patient education, empowerment, and quality of life - Clinician-patient communication - VA-machine intelligence for healthcare data visualization - Human-centered AI for health decision-making - Human-AI collaboration and modern mixed initiatives - Equitable and ethical AI for healthcare analytics - Explainable and interpretable AI - Large-language model workflow integrations - Public health data - Epidemiology and disease surveillance - Health behavior and lifestyle studies - Health systems and policy evaluation - Longitudinal and genetic studies - Global health inequality and development tracking IDENTIFYING GRAND CHALLENGES --------------------------------------- After 15 years of VAHC workshops at both IEEE VIS and American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), several special journal issues, the founding of a formal VIS Working Group within the AMIA, and a substantial collection of papers, VAHC has helped lead the way toward advancing the use of visualization and VA within health domains. Yet, over the same time period, many forces have emerged to transform the health informatics ecosystem: a worldwide pandemic, the proliferation of mobile devices and sensors, the emergence of AI, and the rise of large population electronic health data resources, to name a few. At VAHC 2025, we will include a Grand Challenges session where we will work to integrate the expertise of present and past authors, panelists, audience, and committees to shape a common set of grand challenges for this field, in this era. To support this, we introduce a separate track for short position papers. We aim to collaboratively publish a Grand Challenges article using workshop outcomes to help guide future research. PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- We will accept short papers with up to six pages plus one page of references (6+1). We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academia, healthcare organizations, and industry in any of the short paper types listed below: - Application/Research papers (format: “6+1”) - System Demonstration papers (format “2+1”) - Posters (format: “2+1” extended abstract and A0 poster) - (**NEW FOR THIS YEAR**) Grand Challenge (position) paper(format “2+1”) Accepted application and research papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Accepted system demonstrations, posters, and position papers will be included in the VAHC proceedings and made available via IEEE VIS for digital download. All accepted types of submissions will have the chance for an oral presentation. Demonstrations: Every system demonstration paper may be accompanied by a video submission. All material will be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS), and a link will be announced at a later date. For all submissions, please use the VGTC conference style template: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/journal/ Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions for the chairs, while contact vahc.paperschairs at gmail.com to get in touch with the paper chairs for any questions about the submission process. BEST PAPERS: ---------------- VAHC assigns Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards, expressed by certificates and recognition on the VAHC workshop website. We plan to invite authors of high-quality papers to submit a revised and extended version to an internationally recognized scientific journal. IMPORTANT DATES*: ---------------- - Deadline for submission: **June 30, 2025** - Notification of acceptance: **July 31, 2025** - Camera-ready papers due: **August 17 2025** - VAHC 2025 workshop: **November 2nd or 3rd, 2025** *All deadlines are due at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) on the date indicated.

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Upgraded mailing list server
by Luc Girardin 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

Dear all, infovis.org has been moved to new servers, and the mailing list is now running on Mailman 3. If you notice anything unusual or encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to me directly. Sorry for all the noise—and thanks for bearing with the change! Kind regards, Luc -- Luc Girardin Macrofocus GmbH, Heilighüsli 16, CH-8053 Zurich email: luc.girardin(a)macrofocus.com phone: +41 44 350 52 18 web: http://www.macrofocus.com/

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[DL June 30th] Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare @ IEEE VIS 2025
by Arleo, Alessio 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

Full-day Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) ============================================ (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2025) Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------ The submission deadline is June 30, 2025, creating an opportunity to showcase late-breaking research results on Visual Analytics in Healthcare. We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academia, healthcare organizations, and industry in any of the short paper types listed below: - Application/Research papers (format: “6+1”) - System Demonstration papers (format “2+1”) - Posters (format: “2+1” extended abstract and A0 poster) - **NEW FOR THIS YEAR** Grand Challenge (position) paper(format “2+1”) The 2025 Workshop on Visual Analytics (VA) in Healthcare (VAHC 2025) is the 16th annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art interactive visual data analysis techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. Moreover, recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, and other emerging technologies have led to a growing and evolving need in healthcare VA. These technologies can be leveraged to enhance AI explainability and improve human data analysis through AI-driven reasoning. The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together leading VIS designers, VA researchers, medical experts, and visionaries to discuss: a) interactive data visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data, b) areas of healthcare that need more attention from visualization and visual data analysis, and c) emerging research trends, visualization techniques, software applications, benchmarks, and open datasets. The workshop will enable presenters to showcase their ongoing work through oral presentation and system demonstrations. In past years, both demonstrations of prototype and production visual analytics software have been particularly well received, and paper submitters are encouraged to submit a companion demo proposal. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------ We welcome discussions on the use of VA approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, AI, explainable AI, and ML applied to healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of various user groups, including (but not limited to) patients, clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, and insurance claim analysts. The 2025 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare will cover a range of topics on the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and abstraction of VA methods, including (but not limited to): - Applications of visual analytics to: - Clinical care - Multi-omic datasets - Patient-generated health data - Digital and mobile health, and digital twins - Patient- and consumer-related methods: - Understanding of patient/health consumer behavior and experience - Personalized healthcare and health management - Patient education, empowerment, and quality of life - Clinician-patient communication - VA-machine intelligence for healthcare data visualization - Human-centered AI for health decision-making - Human-AI collaboration and modern mixed initiatives - Equitable and ethical AI for healthcare analytics - Explainable and interpretable AI - Large-language model workflow integrations - Public health data - Epidemiology and disease surveillance - Health behavior and lifestyle studies - Health systems and policy evaluation - Longitudinal and genetic studies - Global health inequality and development tracking IDENTIFYING GRAND CHALLENGES --------------------------------------- After 15 years of VAHC workshops at both IEEE VIS and American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), several special journal issues, the founding of a formal VIS Working Group within the AMIA, and a substantial collection of papers, VAHC has helped lead the way toward advancing the use of visualization and VA within health domains. Yet, over the same time period, many forces have emerged to transform the health informatics ecosystem: a worldwide pandemic, the proliferation of mobile devices and sensors, the emergence of AI, and the rise of large population electronic health data resources, to name a few. At VAHC 2025, we will include a Grand Challenges session where we will work to integrate the expertise of present and past authors, panelists, audience, and committees to shape a common set of grand challenges for this field, in this era. To support this, we introduce a separate track for short position papers. We aim to collaboratively publish a Grand Challenges article using workshop outcomes to help guide future research. PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- We will accept short papers with up to six pages plus one page of references (6+1). We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academia, healthcare organizations, and industry in any of the short paper types listed below: - Application/Research papers (format: “6+1”) - System Demonstration papers (format “2+1”) - Posters (format: “2+1” extended abstract and A0 poster) - (**NEW FOR THIS YEAR**) Grand Challenge (position) paper(format “2+1”) All accepted types of submissions will have the chance for an oral presentation. Demonstrations: Every system demonstration paper may be accompanied by a video submission. All material will be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS), and a link will be announced at a later date. For all submissions, please use the VGTC conference style template: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/journal/ Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions for the chairs, while contact vahc.paperschairs at gmail.com to get in touch with the paper chairs for any questions about the submission process. BEST PAPERS: ---------------- VAHC assigns Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards, expressed by certificates and recognition on the VAHC workshop website. We plan to invite authors of high-quality papers to submit a revised and extended version to an internationally recognized scientific journal. More details will be disclosed in the next weeks, as the submission deadline approaches. IMPORTANT DATES*: ---------------- - Deadline for submission: **June 30, 2025** - Notification of acceptance: **July 31, 2025** - Camera-ready papers due: **August 17 2025** - VAHC 2025 workshop: **November 2nd or 3rd, 2025** *All deadlines are due at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) on the date indicated. JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: ---------------------- Visit http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org to join our mailing list. GENERAL CHAIR ---------------- Alessio Arleo TU Eindhoven ORGANIZERS ---------------- Renata Raidou TU Wien Gabriela Morgenshtern University of Zurich PAPER CHAIRS ---------------- Velitchko Filipov TU Wien Robert Laramee University of Nottingham Roy Ruddle University of Leeds Jana Sedlakova University of Zurich STEERING COMMITTEE: ---------------- Jürgen Bernard University of Zurich Annie T. Chen University of Washington David Gotz UNC-Chapel Hill Danny T.Y. Wu UNC-Chapel Hill

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Seeking Expert Opinion on Infographics Understanding and Design Space
by Xiaoyu Liu 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Greetings, We are a team of researchers at the Human Data Interaction Group at University of Maryland. We are conducting a survey to learn about how domain experts perceive, design and use infographics (information graphics) in their research and professional work. This project has been reviewed by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (irb(a)umd.edu; Package Number 2302082-2). We are looking for (but not limited to) designers, scientists, business professionals and educators as potential survey participants. To participate, you must satisfy all of the following criteria: 1. Be at least 18 years of age; 2. Consume, create or use infographics as part of your professional work. This survey is estimated to take about 5-10 minutes to complete. You will not receive compensation for successfully completing this survey. Your participation is completely voluntary and any survey response you share with us will be confidential and de-identified. If you are interested, please access the survey through https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_elF258bGkNk7AcC?c=59. You will find further instructions at the beginning of the survey when you start. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us via dasqxyl(a)umd.edu. Thank you for your time! Regards, Xiaoyu Liu Research Graduate Student University of Maryland, College Park Principal Investigator: Zhicheng Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Maryland, College Park

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[Deadline Extended to June 27] VINCI '25 - International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction | Linz, Austria
by Günter Wallner 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Dear all, the submission deadline for VINCI '25 has been extended by two weeks to June 27, 2025! Please find the updated CfP below. Best regards, Guenter Wallner on behalf of the VINCI '25 Organizing Committee ========================================================================== 3rd Call for Papers VINCI 2025 The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction December 1-3, 2025, Linz, Austria Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025 (extended!) Full CfP: https://www.vinci-symp.org/ ========================================================================== VINCI '25 includes tracks of Technical Papers, Art Papers, and Art and Media Galleries, as well as a new special track on Cultural Heritage. We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, artistic projects, or other visual media. Research papers should address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. ** TRACKS ** Technical Papers: A technical paper describes a new algorithm, technique, system, or theory that has not previously appeared in the literature. The description provided in the paper should be complete enough that a competent/qualified graduate student in visual information communication could implement or apply the work and should provide a formal/informal evaluation and discussion regarding its strengths and weaknesses. Art Papers: This track serves as a link between arts, design, technology, and science by offering creative views and artistic applications. We are especially interested in the submissions that demonstrate tangible and artistic ways of visual information communication and address information aesthetics. The topics range from experimental and interdisciplinary case studies and methodologies, novel and critical interfaces for VINCI topics to critical analysis of theory and reference works in the field. The art papers call is open-theme, and this year, we have three types in the Art Papers: full papers, short papers and posters. Art and Media Galleries: The VINCI Art and Media Galleries celebrates artistic creations demonstrating conceptual and technological innovation related to visual information communication and interaction. We accept project topics, including data art, generative art and design, interactive graphics, real-time simulation, scientific illustration, creative and critical visualization, and more. The art and media galleries call is open-theme. This year, we have two types in the Art and Media Galleries: Media Demos and Artworks. Cultural Heritage Special Track: A new Special Track this year to explore and advance the intersection of visual information communication and cultural heritage. This special track invites contributions that demonstrate how visual techniques, tools, and systems can be applied to safeguard, promote, study, and interact with cultural heritage, encompassing both tangible and intangible aspects. Technical papers, artistic works, and interactive systems or prototypes that contribute to the field of cultural heritage through innovative visual communication and interaction are welcomed. All submissions will be strictly peer-reviewed by at least three members of our international program committee. ** TOPICS OF INTEREST (including but not limited to) ** Topics for Technical Papers: - Visual communication metaphors - Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension - Empirical studies of novel visual metaphors - Visualization of artificial intelligence, machine learning, ... - Explainable artificial intelligence - Aesthetics in visual communication and computational aesthetics - Influence of visual arts and design to visual communication - Information visualization and visual analytics - Visual approaches to knowledge discovery - Visual interaction through multimodality - Visualization on mobile devices - Graph drawing and network visualization - Visual modeling languages - Visual programming languages - Graphical user interface design - Human-computer interaction - Explainable AI - Applications in SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, etc. Topics for Art Papers & Art and Media Galleries: - Generative Art & Design - Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) - Metaverse applications - Digital-twin applications - Creative Visualization - Critical Visualization - Visualization for Culture/Cultural Heritage - Tangible Visualization - Data Sculpturing - Visual Storytelling - Data Art & Design - Information Aesthetics - Interactive Graphics & Design - Real-time Simulation - Creative Applications of Scientific Illustration - Video Art - AI Video/Film - Digital Human applications ** PUBLICATION ** The peer-reviewed conference proceedings will be published by ACM as part of the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). Published papers will also be indexed by EI. A number of selected high-impact full-text papers will also be considered for special issues in journals. For this year’s VINCI, we are going to set up two special issues: One in the Journal of Visualization (https://link.springer.com/journal/12650) and the other in Information Visualization (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/IVI) for selected extended papers. More details will be made available soon. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Technical Papers Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025 (extended) Art Papers Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025 (extended) Art and Media Galleries Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025 (extended) Cultural Heritage Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025 Notification of Acceptance (all tracks): July 25, 2025 Paper submission of revised version: August 22, 2025 Final notification: September 5, 2025 Conference: December 1-3, 2025 Full CfP: https://www.vinci-symp.org/

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Request to Share Job Posting with List Members
by Yifang Wang 08 Jun '25

08 Jun '25

Hi, I hope this message finds you well. I’m Yifang Wang, currently a postdoc at Northwestern University. I’d like to request your help in sharing a job posting with list members. We are hiring a Data Visualization Research Analyst at the Northwestern Innovation Institute (NI) and the Center for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI),Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Please see the attached document for the full job description. An online version is also available here<https://careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hr857prd_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_F…>. Thank you very much for your support! Best, Yifang Wang _________________________________ Yifang Wang, Ph.D (she/her) Post-Doctoral Fellow Center for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI) Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Homepage<wangyifang.top> | Email<mailto:yifang.wang@kellogg.northwestern.edu> | Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3qWVVUwAAAAJ&hl=en> | Twitter<https://x.com/yifanginhz> [signature_2986290402]

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IEEE AIxVR 2026 - Call for Papers
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 07 Jun '25

07 Jun '25

================================ IEEE AIxVR 2026 - Call for papers 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality January 27-29, 2025 (Osaka, Japan) ================================ Deadline 1st call (full/short papers): September 26, 2025 See https://aivr.science.uu.nl/2026/ for details. ================================ IEEE AIxVR stands out as a distinctive event that brings together researchers and professionals across the spectrum of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Virtual Reality. This event serves as a global platform fostering collaboration between these diverse fields, facilitating the presentation of cutting-edge advancements, identifying emerging research avenues, and collectively shaping the future of these dynamic research domains. === AREAS OF INTEREST ========== + Integration of AI in XR + Innovation at the Intersection of AI and XR: + XR for AI + Technical and Human Challenges + Ethical Considerations in AI-driven XR + Industry Relevance === SUBMISSIONS ========== See https://aivr.science.uu.nl/2026/aixvr2026_cfp.html for details. Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Contributions of distinguished quality will be selected for best paper awards and invited to be extended for a special section in the Computers & Graphics journal (Elsevier) and International Journal of Semantic Computing. === VENUE & DATES ========== The conference will take place from Jan 26-28, 2026, at the University of Osaka, Japan.

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[VIS4DH CfP] 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Alfie Abdul Rahman 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We’re happy to announce the call for papers for the VIS4DH workshop co-located with the IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna, Austria! The VIS4DH workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from the fields of visualization and the humanities to discuss new research directions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities research. This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2025 in two ways - you can submit to the workshop’s Paper track, or you can submit to the Agora track, which calls for provocations, artworks, work in progress, or lab talks. Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the (digital) humanities and social sciences, and to all areas of visualization research and practice. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. While the workshop theme for VIS4DH’25 remains open to all submissions exploring the intersection of the humanities and visualization, we especially invite contributions related to the theme Visualizing Peace and Conflict as a response to the global increase of violence and armed conflict (seehttps://ucdp.uu.se/encyclopedia). At the same time, however, submissions do not need to focus explicitly on conflict between warring parties. We also encourage submissions related to ideological, civil, social, environmental, or epistemic conflicts and the potential for their resolution to address a broader theme/trend of intensified division worldwide. The topic aims to bring together researchers in international relations, peace & conflict resolution, sociology, anthropology, digital humanities, and visualization to present and discuss how research approaches in these areas can critically inform one another and contribute to new ways of studying conflict and its peaceful resolution. Besides general contributions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide theoretical and/or applied perspectives, with this year’s theme, we invite work around (but not limited to) the following questions: * How can visualization techniques make cultural phenomena which are substantially structured or driven by tensions, antagonisms, controversies, or conflicts visible and negotiable? * How can visualization tools be designed to inform or support the resolution of conflicts? * What visual strategies can be employed to highlight how political conflicts frequently translate into representational or interpretive conflicts (e.g., generating contested or conflicting descriptions, datasets, framings, rhetorics, or other design choices)? * What role do disagreements play in collaborative research and visualization processes, and how might those be productively visualized rather than resolved or hidden? Submission Deadlines Paper Track: 30 June 2025, 23:59 AoE Agora Track: 22 August 2025, 23:59 AoE Please, visit the workshop website on https://vis4dh.dbvis.de<https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/> for more information. The organizing committee looks forward to your contributions and to lively discussions in Vienna Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Mark-Jan Bludau, Eva Mayr, Monika Schwarz, & Tomas Vancisin — vis4dh(a)gmail.com<mailto:vis4dh@gmail.com>

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Reminder - CfP VINCI '25 | International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction
by Günter Wallner 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

========================================================================== 2nd Call for Papers VINCI 2025 The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction December 1-3, 2025, Linz, Austria Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 Full CfP: https://www.vinci-symp.org/ ========================================================================== VINCI '25 includes tracks of Technical Papers, Art Papers, and Art and Media Galleries, as well as a new special track on Cultural Heritage. We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, artistic projects, or other visual media. Research papers should address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. ** TRACKS ** Technical Papers: A technical paper describes a new algorithm, technique, system, or theory that has not previously appeared in the literature. The description provided in the paper should be complete enough that a competent/qualified graduate student in visual information communication could implement or apply the work and should provide a formal/informal evaluation and discussion regarding its strengths and weaknesses. Art Papers: This track serves as a link between arts, design, technology, and science by offering creative views and artistic applications. We are especially interested in the submissions that demonstrate tangible and artistic ways of visual information communication and address information aesthetics. The topics range from experimental and interdisciplinary case studies and methodologies, novel and critical interfaces for VINCI topics to critical analysis of theory and reference works in the field. The art papers call is open-theme, and this year, we have three types in the Art Papers: full papers, short papers and posters. Art and Media Galleries: The VINCI Art and Media Galleries celebrates artistic creations demonstrating conceptual and technological innovation related to visual information communication and interaction. We accept project topics, including data art, generative art and design, interactive graphics, real-time simulation, scientific illustration, creative and critical visualization, and more. The art and media galleries call is open-theme. This year, we have two types in the Art and Media Galleries: Media Demos and Artworks. Cultural Heritage Special Track: A new Special Track this year to explore and advance the intersection of visual information communication and cultural heritage. This special track invites contributions that demonstrate how visual techniques, tools, and systems can be applied to safeguard, promote, study, and interact with cultural heritage, encompassing both tangible and intangible aspects. Technical papers, artistic works, and interactive systems or prototypes that contribute to the field of cultural heritage through innovative visual communication and interaction are welcomed. All submissions will be strictly peer-reviewed by at least three members of our international program committee. ** TOPICS OF INTEREST (including but not limited to) ** Topics for Technical Papers: - Visual communication metaphors - Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension - Empirical studies of novel visual metaphors - Visualization of artificial intelligence, machine learning, ... - Explainable artificial intelligence - Aesthetics in visual communication and computational aesthetics - Influence of visual arts and design to visual communication - Information visualization and visual analytics - Visual approaches to knowledge discovery - Visual interaction through multimodality - Visualization on mobile devices - Graph drawing and network visualization - Visual modeling languages - Visual programming languages - Graphical user interface design - Human-computer interaction - Explainable AI - Applications in SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, etc. Topics for Art Papers & Art and Media Galleries: - Generative Art & Design - Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) - Metaverse applications - Digital-twin applications - Creative Visualization - Critical Visualization - Visualization for Culture/Cultural Heritage - Tangible Visualization - Data Sculpturing - Visual Storytelling - Data Art & Design - Information Aesthetics - Interactive Graphics & Design - Real-time Simulation - Creative Applications of Scientific Illustration - Video Art - AI Video/Film - Digital Human applications ** PUBLICATION ** The peer-reviewed conference proceedings will be published by ACM as part of the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). A number of selected high-impact full-text papers will also be considered for special issues in journals. For this year’s VINCI, we are going to set up two special issues: One in the Journal of Visualization (https://link.springer.com/journal/12650) and the other in Information Visualization (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/IVI) for selected extended papers. More details will be made available soon. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Technical Papers Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 Art Papers Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 Art and Media Galleries Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 Cultural Heritage Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025 Notification of Acceptance (all tracks): July 25, 2025 Paper submission of revised version: August 22, 2025 Final notification: September 5, 2025 Conference: December 1-3, 2025 Full CfP: https://www.vinci-symp.org/

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IEEE VL/HCC 2025 Workshop on "Beyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in Sensemaking"
by Chris North 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

https://human-ai-sensemaking.github.io/ Beyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in Sensemaking An IEEE VL/HCC 2025 workshop 2025 Workshop Summary Date and Location: TBD, co-located with IEEE VL/HCC (October 6-10, 2025), Raleigh, North Carolina, United States User interfaces for Human-LLM interaction in information-intensive tasks such as sensemaking have predominantly been limited to the chatbot style of interaction. The linear nature of chat poses significant limitations on sensemaking activity that often requires nonlinear thinking, incremental formalization, use of diverse information sources, etc. Human cognition in sensemaking tasks exploits a psychological phenomenon called embodied cognition, which externalizes thought processes onto interactive visual workspaces and canvases that enable complex iterative structuring of ideas. These nonlinear structures often represent various forms of visual languages for sensemaking —- space to think. While LLMs also exploit the notion of external memory in the form of prompt context or chain of thought, these are often limited to sequential text inputs. Is there a possibility of marrying the analogous concepts of human embodied cognition and LLM context? Can the visual languages of embodied cognition serve as a common ground between human cognition and LLM processing? Can LLMs have a form of embodied AI cognition that exploits visual languages? As AI agents become increasingly autonomous, how can visual languages support incremental progression and reduce uncertainty in various sensemaking scenarios, from simple coordination to active collaboration to full teaming, while enabling trust between humans and AI? This workshop seeks contributions that push these frontiers and bring together a multi-disciplinary group of researchers in HCI, AI, cognitive science, visual languages, and computer vision. The workshop will foster a community that will discuss and prepare a forward-looking research agenda for embodied human-LLM interaction with visual languages. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Design or evaluation of visual languages for AI User interface or visualization design for human-AI interaction Theories for human-AI common ground in sensemaking Methods for human steering or explainability of AI sensemaking NLP methods for augmenting LLMs with embodied cognition capabilities Models for LLM processing of visual languages Evaluations of human-AI teaming for sensemaking Call For Participation Two types of contributions are sought, each with separate deadlines and review criteria. Research Papers: Manuscripts that contain results suitable for publication, which will be presented at the workshop. Research paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of one organizer and one knowledgeable external reviewer recruited by the organizers to ensure relevance, quality, and soundness of results. A length of 4-8 pages is required. The VL/HCC Conference plans to publish accepted workshop manuscripts in an accompanying volume published by IEEE. Submission deadline: Friday, July 11 Acceptance notification: Friday, August 1 Camera-ready deadline following minor revisions: Friday, August 8 Submissions should be uploaded to EasyChair: TBA Position Statements: Statements relating to a topic of interest that can be discussed at the workshop. Position statements will be reviewed by the organizers to ensure relevance to the workshop. A length of 1-4 pages is required. Submission deadline: Friday, August 22 Acceptance notification: Friday, August 29 Submission method: TBA ORGANIZERS Contact: human-ai-sensemaking(a)googlegroups.com Chris North, Virginia Tech Joel Chan, University of Maryland Rebecca Faust, Tulane University Xuxin Tang, Virginia Tech Xuan Wang, Virginia Tech John Wenskovitch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Siyi Zhu, University of Maryland

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