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PhD studentship in Information Visualization at Newcastle University - Extended deadline 20th Dec
by Sara Fernstad 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Good afternoon everyone! We are advertising a fully funded PhD studentship (covering UK/EU tuition fees + stipend) in Visualization of Heterogeneous Multi-source Data at Newcastle University, UK. Within the project you will develop and implement state-of-the-art visualization methods to support analysis of diverse multi-source data. The project can be adapted based on the interests of the student and may focus on one or several areas of relevance, including for instance: * Visual representation of heterogeneous data (numerical, categorical, text, networks…) * Visual representation of correlation and other relationships across multiple heterogeneous datasets * Visual integration and coordination of data at different levels of detail * Visual representation and analysis of the uncertainty generated through the combination of diverse data from different sources * Visual analysis of diverse data on small display devices. Further detail on the project and how to apply is available here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/cs063.html The deadline for applications has been extended to 20th of December. This studentship will give you the opportunity to work as part of a dynamic research group with a broad focus on Data Science. The School of Computing was ranked #1 in the UK for research impact in REF 2014. It hosts the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cloud Computing for Big Data as well as the National Innovation Centre for Data (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/09/newnationalinnovationcenter/ ), and will be joining the Alan Turing Institute for data science (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/11/turing/ ). For questions about the studentship, please contact: sara.fernstad(a)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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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Data-Driven Video Stories
by Jonathan Hook 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

** Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Data-Driven Video Stories ** - Digital Creativity Labs, University of York, UK - Application deadline: 03/12/2017 - Find out more and apply: https://goo.gl/q953tx <https://goo.gl/q953tx> We seek an outstanding interdisciplinary researcher for a 1-year fixed term position as a Research Associate on the ‘Perspective Media: Personalized Video Storytelling for Data Engagement’ project. The project is situated in York’s Digital Creativity (DC) Labs (http://www.digitalcreativity.ac.uk <http://www.digitalcreativity.ac.uk/>), an impact-driven research centre that explores and develops new forms of digital creativity and interactive media experience. The post is funded by the EPSRC and is a collaborative project between the University of York, BBC R&D, The Open Data Institute, The Digital Catapult, City of York Council and BAFTA-winning immersive media producer Catherine Allen. The Perspective Media project investigates how personalized, interactive video stories (e.g. based on interactive documentary techniques or object-based media) can provide more accessible, informative and pleasurable ways for the public to engage with the increasing amounts of data that exist about them in modern society. As the successful candidate, you will be at the forefront of developments that exploit the power of storytelling for engagement and literacy with data, and the potential of data analytics to reveal new opportunities for storytelling. You will conduct user-centered research with media production partners, data providers and audience members to investigate: cutting-edge techniques for presenting data in personalised video stories and novel processes and tools for making interactive video content that is adaptive to viewer data. As the successful candidate, you will have a PhD and record of high-quality publications in Human-computer Interaction or a related field (e.g. Interaction Design, User-experience, Interactive Data Visualization, Interactive/Digital Media, Media Arts Technology, Computer Science), or equivalent experience. You will have the ability to apply user-centered research methods (e.g. workshops, observations, interviews) in the design, development and evaluation of human-computer interfaces or interactive media experiences. You will have the front-end software development skills needed to turn ideas into functional prototypes so that they can be evaluated with end users, preferably using web technologies (e.g. HTML5 and Javascript). You will also have: experience of conducting high-quality individual and collaborative research projects; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience of presenting at conferences and engaging with non-academic audiences; the ability to work to tight deadlines in an interdisciplinary team including industry and other external partners; and flexibility to travel to partner sites in the UK for a small number of short research visits and to international conferences to disseminate results. Candidates with previous knowledge and experience of either interactive video/media experiences or techniques for engaging non-experts with data would be especially welcomed, but this is not essential. ** Further Details of the Project and Role ** The project’s methodology will be focussed around the iterative and user-centered design and development of prototype Perspective Media content with project partners and other stakeholders. These prototypes will range in fidelity from low-fi mock-ups created in initial design workshops to a final functional prototype that will be deployed and evaluated with a sizable public audience via the BBC’s high-profile Taster platform. You will work closely with the PI to lead the creation and evaluation of these prototypes, employing your user-research and organizational skills to facilitate and coordinate collaborative contributions from partners and stakeholders with expertize in media production and data provision, and a team of two film production interns under your supervision. You will also employ your front-end software development skills in the technical implementation of prototypes, working in close collaboration with other researchers and software engineers in the DC Labs who are developing back-end technologies for interactive video. This full-time post is available for 12 months from the 1st February 2018, or as soon as practical after this date. The appointment will be made at Grade 6 and the salary will be in the range £31,604 - £38,832 a year. For information and enquiries please contact Dr Jonathan Hook on jonathan.hook(a)york.ac.uk <mailto:jonathan.hook@york.ac.uk> Download the candidate brief and apply here: https://goo.gl/q953tx <https://goo.gl/q953tx> Jonathan Hook Lecturer in Interactive Media Department of Theatre, Film and Television University of York, Baird Lane, YO10 5GB +44 (0)1904 325238 www.jonhook.co.uk <http://www.jonhook.co.uk/>

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CFP: Special issue on human centric visual analytics
by Tony Huang 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

[Apologies for multiple copies] Special issue on human centric visual analytics: Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology (2016 Impact Factor: 1.388) Currently, many visual analytics products and tools have been developed. However, in developing those tools and products, much attention has been paid on mining data patterns and making the hidden information visible to users. Relatively less attention has been paid on how this information should be presented for sense making decision making. This imbalance between human and computer has resulted in the lack of theories and guidelines for system design and evaluation and prevented systems and tools from being more useful in practice. To foster an incentive to address the issue and improve the situation, this specie issue targets on new visualization theories, novel design principles, analytics techniques and evaluation methodologies that are to address issues surrounding human-centric visual analytics. The primary objective is to foster focused attention in this emerging area and to serve as forum for researchers and professionals all over the world to exchange and discuss the latest advances. To be precise, the aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers on the state-of-the-art in the emerging area of human-centric visual analytics. We are soliciting original contributions that have not been published and are not currently under review by any other journals or conferences. Papers to be submitted to this special issue must focus on the human side of visual analytics. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and papers will be selected based on their quality and relevance to the theme of this special issue. Topics considered for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following: • Visual perception and cognition • Design principle and guidelines for human-centric visual analytics • New evaluation methodologies and metrics • New visualization and visual analytics theories. • Adaption and refinement of existing theories and principles from HCI and Psychology in human–centric visual analytics • Novel human-data interfaces, frameworks, reference models, architectures, tools and systems • New human-data, human-computer and human-human interaction methods in the context of visual analytics • Human, social and cultural factors in collaborative visual analytics Schedule: Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2018 Review notification: June 30, 2018 Revised paper submission: August 30, 2018 Final notification: October 30, 2018 Publication: Late 2018 For more details, please see: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jmj02888-tbit-si-human-centric-visua… Guest editors: Dr. Weidong Huang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Professor Yuhua Luo, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Professor Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University, Canada Professor Remco Chang, Tufts University, USA

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Call for Papers: Diagrams 2018 (Deadline Extension)
by Atsushi Shimojima 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

**************************************************************************** Due to requests, we have taken the decision to extend the deadlines for abstract and paper submissions. **************************************************************************** Call for Papers: Diagrams 2018 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/ Conference dates: 18th - 22nd June 2018 Location: Edinburgh, UK NEW DEADLINES: - All submission categories: pre-submission of title and 200 word descriptive abstract due 30th November 2017. - All submission categories: full versions due 7th December 2017 Co-located event: International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2018 http://blogs.napier.ac.uk/iccs/ **************************************************************************** Diagrams 2018 is the tenth conference in the biennial series that started in 2000. The multidisciplinary nature of Diagrams means it encompasses: architecture, art, artificial intelligence, biology, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The conference attracts a large number of researchers from these interrelated fields, positioning Diagrams as the major international event in the area. Diagrams 2018 will be hosted by Edinburgh Napier University in the UK. The conference venue is located within a short distance of the UNESCO World Heritage designated-centre of Edinburgh. This makes the venue an ideal location for delegates to explore the vibrant city, famous for its castle, culture, and history. **************************************************************************** Calls Diagrams 2018 has various calls, providing a range of opportunities for taking part in the conference. Diagrams solicits research contributions falling within the scope of the conference, to be submitted to one of three tracks: Main track http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/home/cfp/116-2/ Psychology of Diagrams track http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/home/cfp/psych/ Philosophy of Diagrams track http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/home/cfp/phil/ In addition, Diagrams seeks to host Workshops and Tutorials: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/home/cfp/workshops/ http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/home/cfp/tutorials/ ************************************ For more information, please visit the website of the conference: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/

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Fully funded PhD studentship in Visualization, Newcastle University, UK
by Sara J Fernstad 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Dear everyone, We are advertising a fully funded PhD studentship with focus on Interactive Visualization of Heterogeneous Multi-Source Data at Newcastle University, UK. One of the most challenging and important tasks in data science today is to extract informative and valuable knowledge from the constantly increasing data deluge. There is a great need of efficient and usable analysis tools that support gaining of insight and address data analysis challenges. Data visualization utilize methods from HCI, computer graphics, data mining and other data science areas to support knowledge generation and bridge the gap between data and user. A major challenge in big data analysis is the integrative analysis of heterogeneous data that is gathered from multiple sources. These data may be of different types, collected at different levels of detail and from different application domains; and it is expected that the integrative analysis across datasets may lead to greater insight. Such data is common in areas such as climate and weather research, combining for instance temperature data, pollution levels and demographical data, or bio-medical domains where data as diverse as genome sequences and environmental data may need to be combined. Within this project you will develop and implement state-of-the-art visualization methods to support analysis of diverse multi-source data. The project may focus on one or several areas of relevance, including for instance: - Visual representation of heterogeneous data (numerical, categorical, text, networks…) - Visual representation of correlation and other relationships across multiple heterogeneous datasets - Visual integration and coordination of data at different levels of detail - Visual representation and analysis of the uncertainty generated through the combination of diverse data from different sources - Visual analysis of diverse data on small display devices. Further detail and information on how to apply is available at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/cs063.html Please note that the application deadline is 23 Nov. For more information, please contact Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad: sara.fernstad(a)ncl.ac.uk _____________________________________________ 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 URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/sarafernstad

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Multiple faculty positions in data analytics at Virginia Tech
by Chris North 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Colleagues- Attached is the official announcement for Data Analytics faculty positions in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, including data visualization and visual analytics. Additional positions are posted at: http://www.cs.vt.edu/FacultySearch <http://www.cs.vt.edu/FacultySearch> -Chris Discovery Analytics Center: https://dac.cs.vt.edu <https://dac.cs.vt.edu/> Center for Human-Computer Interaction: http://www.hci.vt.edu <http://www.hci.vt.edu/>

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Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) at EDBT in Vienna AT, 26.03.2018 (updated version)
by Gennady Andrienko 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

*** sorry for repeated posting - by mistake I've sent yesterday a wrong version of the CFP *** BMDA’18 Call for papers ----------------------- International Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) co-located with EDBT/ICDT Conference, March 26, 2018 – Vienna, Austria http://www.datastories.org/bmda18/ ** Submissions due December 15, 2017 ** ** Selected accepted papers will be considered for a special section at GeoInformatica (Springer) ** Workshop Description ==================== >From spatial to spatio-temporal and, then, to mobility data. So, what’s next? Not perhaps, but for sure it is the mobility-aware integrated Big Data analytics. The Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) workshop, co-located with 2018 joint EDBT/ICDT Conference, aims at bringing together experts in the field from academia, industry and research labs to discuss the lessons they have learned over the years, to demonstrate what they have achieved so far, and to plan for the future of "mobility". The objective of BMDA workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in scalable data-intensive applications that manage and analyze big mobility data. The workshop will foster the exchange of new ideas on multidisciplinary real-world problems, discussion on proposals about innovative solutions, and identify emerging opportunities for further research in the area of big mobility data analytics, covering all layers of the Big Data Value Analytics (BDVA) reference model, namely data management, data processing, data analytics, and data visualization and user interaction. The workshop intends to bridge the gap between researchers and big data stakeholders, including experts from critical domains, such as urban / maritime / aviation transportation, human complex networks, etc. We encourage submissions of papers that highlight the value of mobility data processing, analyzing, and mining on topics that include, but are not limited to the following: - Fundamentals of mobility data analytics - Big data platforms for mobility data analytics - Parallel / streaming data processing for mobility analytics - Predictive analytics using mobility data - Complex event detection for moving objects - Visual analytics on big mobility data - Mobility-as-a-Service - Interactive traffic analysis with GPS data - Urban / maritime / aviation traffic flow forecasting - Urban / maritime / aviation travel time prediction - Integration / interlinking of mobility with societal data - Geosocial networks - Philosophical / ethical / privacy issues on mobility data analytics Keynote Speakers ================ The program includes two keynote talks by: - Prof. Dino Pedreschi, Co-leader of KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR & University of Pisa [Dino's homepage: http://kdd.isti.cnr.it/people/pedreschi-dino ] - Dr. Andreas Metzger, Head of Adaptive Systems and Big Data Applications, Universität Duisburg-Essen [Andreas' homepage: https://sse.uni-due.de/en/team/researchers/dr-andreas-metzger/ ] Paper Submission Procedure, Workshop Proceedings, Journal special section ========================================================================= We invite papers discussing novel research and ideas without substantial overlap with papers that have been published or submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers can be of two types: - Regular Research Papers: these papers should report original research results or significant case studies. They should be 5000-8000 words (at most 8 pages) long. - Position Papers: these papers should report novel research directions or identify challenging problems. They should be at most 4 pages long. Submissions should be formatted using the EDBT/ICDT 2018 camera-ready template and submitted through the workshop’s submission system at EasyChair [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bmda18] Following the tradition of recent EDBT/ICDT workshops, all workshop papers will be published online at CEUR [http://ceur-ws.org/] All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work. Selected accepted papers will be considered for a special section at GeoInformatica (IF: 2.392); https://link.springer.com/journal/10707 . Important dates =============== Paper Submission: December 15, 2017 ** revised wrt. preliminary CFP ** Notification of Acceptance: January 19, 2018 ** revised wrt. preliminary CFP ** Camera Ready Paper Due: January 29, 2018 Workshop date: March 26, 2018 Organization and Support ======================== Workshop organizers: - Nikos Pelekis, University of Piraeus, npelekis(a)unipi.gr - Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS, gennady.andrienko(a)iais.fraunhofer.de - Alexander Artikis, University of Piraeus & NCSR Demokritos, a.artikis(a)unipi.gr - Fosca Giannotti, ISTI CNR Pisa, fosca.giannotti(a)isti.cnr.it - Akrivi Kiousi, Intrasoft International, akrivi.kiousi(a)intrasoft-intl.com - Themis Palpanas, Paris Descartes University, themis(a)mi.parisdescartes.fr - Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus & Athena RIC, ytheod(a)unipi.gr Program Committee: - Elias Alevizos, NCSR Demokritos, Greece - Nicolas Baskiotis, LIP6/UPMC, France - Kostas Chatzikokolakis, LIX, École Polytechnique, France - Harris Georgiou, University of Piraeus, Greece - Christos Doulkeridis, University of Piraeus, Greece - Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium - Sophia Karagiorgou, Intrasoft International, Greece - Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. - Mirco Nanni, HISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy - Kostas Patroumpas, IMIS, Athena Research Center, Greece - Alessandra Raffaeta', Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy - Cyril Ray, Naval Academy Research Institute, France - Chiara Renso, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy - Giorgos Santipantakis, University of Piraeus, Greece - David Scarlatti, Boeing Research and Technology Europe, Spain - Roberto Trasarti, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy - George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece - Robert Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, University of Cyprus, Cyprus - Dimitrios Zissis, University of the Aegean, Greece Supported by: - EU Horizon 2020 project datAcron “Big Data Analytics for Time Critical Mobility Forecasting” - EU Horizon 2020 project MaaS4EU “End-to-End Approach for Mobility-as-a-Service tools, business models, enabling framework and evidence for European seamless mobility” - EU Horizon 2020 project Track’n’Know “Big Data for Mobility Tracking Knowledge Extraction in Urban Areas” - EU Horizon 2020 project TT “Transforming Transport” ____________________________________________________________

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Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) at EDBT in Vienna AT, 26.03.2018
by Gennady Andrienko 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

BMDA'18 Call for papers International Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA), co-located with EDBT/ICDT Conference, March 26, 2018 in Vienna, Austria http://www.datastories.org/bmda18/ Workshop description: >From spatial to spatio-temporal and, then, to mobility data. So, what's next? Not perhaps, but for sure it is the mobility-aware integrated Big Data analytics. The Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) workshop, co-located with 2018 joint EDBT/ICDT Conference, aims at bringing together experts in the field from academia, industry and research labs to discuss the lessons they have learned over the years, to demonstrate what they have achieved so far, and to plan for the future of "mobility". The objective of BMDA workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in scalable data-intensive applications that manage and analyze big mobility data. The workshop will foster the exchange of new ideas on multidisciplinary real-world problems, discussion on proposals about innovative solutions, and identify emerging opportunities for further research in the area of big mobility data analytics, covering all layers of the Big Data Value Analytics (BDVA) reference model, namely data management, data processing, data analytics, and data visualization and user interaction. The workshop intends to bridge the gap between researchers and big data stakeholders, including experts from critical domains, such as urban / maritime / aviation transportation, human complex networks, etc. We encourage submissions of papers that highlight the value of mobility data processing, analyzing, and mining on topics that include, but are not limited to the following: - Fundamentals of mobility data analytics - Big data platforms for mobility data analytics - Parallel / streaming data processing for mobility analytics - Predictive analytics using mobility data - Complex event detection for moving objects - Visual analytics on big mobility data - Mobility-as-a-Service - Interactive traffic analysis with GPS data - Urban / maritime / aviation traffic flow forecasting - Urban / maritime / aviation travel time prediction - Integration / interlinking of mobility with societal data - Geosocial networks - Philosophical / ethical / privacy issues on mobility data analytics Keynote Speakers The program will include two keynote talks, which will be given by: - Prof. Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa & KDD Lab [Dino's homepage: http://kdd.isti.cnr.it/people/pedreschi-dino] - Dr. Andreas Metzger, Head of Adaptive Systems and Big Data Applications [Andreas's homepage https://sse.uni-due.de/en/team/researchers/dr-andreas-metzger/] All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work. Selected accepted papers will be recommended for submission to a special section of the GeoInformatica journal (IF: 2.392); https://link.springer.com/journal/10707. Proceedings and Paper Submission We invite papers discussing novel research and ideas without substantial overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers can be of two types: - Regular Research Papers: these papers should report original research results or significant case studies. They should be at most 6 pages long. - Position Papers: these papers should report novel research directions or identify challenging problems. They should be at most 4 pages long. Submissions should be formatted using the EDBT/ICDT 2018 camera-ready template and submitted through the workshop's submission system at EasyChair [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bmda18] Following the tradition of recent EDBT/ICDT workshops, all workshop papers will be published online at CEUR [http://ceur-ws.org/] Important dates: Paper Submission: December 15, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: January 19, 2017 Camera Ready Paper Due: January 29, 2018 Workshop date: March 26, 2018 Workshop organizers: Nikos Pelekis, University of Piraeus, npelekis(a)unipi.gr Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS, gennady.andrienko(a)iais.fraunhofer.de Alexander Artikis, University of Piraeus & NCSR Demokritos, a.artikis(a)unipi.gr Fosca Giannotti, ISTI CNR Pisa, fosca.giannotti(a)isti.cnr.it Akrivi Kiousi, Intrasoft International, akrivi.kiousi(a)intrasoft-intl.com Themis Palpanas, Paris Descartes University, themis(a)mi.parisdescartes.fr Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus & Athena RIC, ytheod(a)unipi.gr Program Committee: Alevizos Elias, NCSR Demokritos, Greece Baskiotis Nicolas, LIP6/UPMC, France Chatzikokolakis Kostas, LIX, Ã‰cole Polytechnique, France Georgiou Harris, University of Piraeus, Greece Doulkeridis Christos, University of Piraeus, Greece Janssens Davy, Hasselt University, Belgium Karagiorgou Sophia, Intracom, Greece Mokbel Mohamed, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Nanni Mirco, HISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Patroumpas Kostas, IMIS, Athena Research Center, Greece Raffaeta' Alessandra, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy Ray Cyril, Naval Academy Research Institute, France Renso Chiara, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Santipantakis Giorgos, University of Piraeus, Greece Scarlatti David, Boeing Research and Technology Europe, Spain Trasarti Roberto, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Vouros George, University of Piraeus, Greece Weibel Robert, University of Zurich, Switzerland Zeinalipour-Yazti Demetrios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Zissis Dimitrios, University of the Aegean, Greece ____________________________________________________________

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Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SFU SIAT) invites candidates to apply to our graduate program
by Wolfgang Stuerzlinger 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology invites candidates to apply to our graduate program. Apply now: http://siats.ca/apply Learn more: http://siats.ca/more Application Deadline: January 15, 2018 The School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary school with a focus on technology and the human experience. SIAT MSc., MA, and Ph.D. students develop and apply innovative multi-disciplinary research methods to explore the broader implications of advanced information and media technologies. Guided by these studies, they design new technology and media experiences that are responsive to individual, organizational, and societal values. SIAT’s infrastructure includes state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities, and is further enhanced by the capabilities and resources of our many university collaborators and partner organizations in the public and private sectors, which also provide opportunities for internships. Students admitted to our graduate program can expect to receive funding for multiple years in the form of scholarships and/or research and teaching assistantships. SIAT graduate students are mentored in interdisciplinary research methods and various forms of dissemination, such as international academic publishing, conference presentation, or curation and exhibition of media arts, both locally and abroad. Our program’s unique focus, which brings together experts and students from a variety of backgrounds, such as media arts, human-computer interaction, design, computing, and social science, prepares graduates for diverse careers in the technology sector and in academia. SIAT alumni hold leading positions in industry and in tenure-track positions in institutions around the world. Our specialized areas of research include, but are not limited to, the following: * Interactive Computing: visualization and visual analytics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, tangible interfaces, virtual and augmented reality, learning technologies, game technology, domestic computing and other themes * Media, Visual Arts and Performance: performance technology, interactive animation, interactive environments and installations, game narrative, film and video, audio/music, digital curation, and other themes * Design: interaction design, sustainable design, parametric design, immersion design, experience design, participatory design, game design, museum design, design for children and the elderly, and related themes * People: cognitive, perceptual, and social psychology, anthropology and ethnography of media, history, user modeling, chronic pain management, and health data management * Science of Interaction: uses the scientific method to develop and test theories of human perceptual, cognitive, interactive, and communicative performance that are used to design, prototype, and evaluate interactive systems in their context of use. SIAT, at Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Surrey campus, is located directly on the main rapid transit line to downtown Vancouver. Located between the mountains and the sea, Metro Vancouver is home to one of the central nodes of Canada’s cultural and entertainment industry and much of its digital media production. The region’s rich cultural, natural and intellectual resources make it one of the world’s most desirable places to live, study and work. SIAT, a unit of the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology (FCAT), is a member of many local, national, and international networks, and has strong connections to leading companies. Visit our website for more information on the admissions process http://siats.ca/more Consider liking our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SIATSFU/ or follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/SIAT_SFU to see what we are up to and learn about our latest news, research, and exhibitions. -- Wolfgang Stuerzlinger http://ws.iat.sfu.ca Simon Fraser University w.s(a)sfu.ca

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1st Workshop on Context in Analytics @ IEEE ICDE'18, Paris, France
by Eser Kandogan 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

=========================================================== Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Context in Analytics (CiA) IEEE ICDE'18 - International Conference on Data Engineering Paris, France, April 16-20th 2018 =========================================================== ** Note new dates for submissions ** As the role of computers in decision-making expands in business, education, health care, law, and government, big data and analytics community needs to pay specific attention to context. Studying, representing, incorporating, exploiting and explaining context in analytics has the potential to provide significant value and address major challenges. The 1st Workshop on Context in Analytics (CiA) encourages participation from a broad spectrum of communities to explore the role of context in big data and analytics, as we collectively try to address questions such as: What is the right model of context? What should context capture? What is the architecture of context services? How to address data integration when bringing in context from various systems? Can context provide value without violating privacy? What are the right user experience and interaction models for interaction with context? How should context be governed? Topics ------ Original unpublished contributions are sought in areas including but not limited to: -Contextual user experience design -Context in machine learning -Contextual Personalized Search -Collaborative contextual analytics -Privacy and context -Context in visual analytics -Context models and querying -Context services and architectures -Context in provenance•Recommender systems and context -Data governance with Context Important Dates: --------------- Jan 12th, 2018: Paper Submission Feb 9th, 2018: Papers Notification Mary Roth, IBM Research Amol Deshpande, U of Maryland Eser Kandogan, IBM Research For more information please visit https://umddb.github.io/contextanalytics2018/ ==============================================================

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