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🔍 SURVEY: Graph Analytics Pain Points 🌐
by Behrisch, M. (Michael) 16 Jul '25

16 Jul '25

🔍 SURVEY: Graph Analytics Pain Points 🌐 https://edu.nl/txvgu Are you working with networks, entity relationships, or complex connected data? We want to hear from you! The Visualization and Graphics Group at Utrecht University is conducting a scientific survey to better understand the challenges, frustrations, and needs of professionals and researchers in (knowledge) graph analytics. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲? Your insights will directly contribute to academic research aimed at making graph analytics more accessible and effective for everyone. The survey explores real-world practices and unmet needs in analyzing and visualizing graph data, helping to guide the next generation of visual analytics tools. 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀: 𝗗𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Just 7–8 minutes 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻: Anyone working with graph-based data—regardless of technical background 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: All responses are anonymous and used only for scientific research 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘄: https://edu.nl/txvgu Thank you for supporting research to lower barriers and improve the usability of graph data analysis and visualization for all users. For questions or more information, contact the Visualization and Graphics Group at Utrecht University. Michael Behrisch Associate Professor Visual Analytics Utrecht University CTO GraphPolaris Telephone: +687110577 Web: https://www.michael.behrisch.info Company: https://www.graphpolaris.com Schedule a meeting: https://cal.com/mbehrisch

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[DL Extended July 5th] Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare @ IEEE VIS 2025
by Arleo, Alessio 01 Jul '25

01 Jul '25

============================================ Full-day Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2025) *** DEADLINE EXTENDED *** Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org<http://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: **July 5, 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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[Last CfP] SUMAC'25 @ACMMM'25: the 7th ACM International workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents
by Valerie Gouet 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Call for Papers SUMAC 2025 7th ACM International workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents Advances in machine learning, signal processing, multimodal techniques and human-machine interaction 27 - 31 Oct, 2025 Dublin, Ireland In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2025 Workshop: https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2025/ Main conference: https://acmmm2025.org/ *** Aims and scope The ambition of SUMAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current trends in the analysis, understanding and promotion of heritage contents. These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub- fields of machine learning, signal processing, multi-modal techniques and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics: * Information retrieval for multimedia heritage * Automated archaeology and heritage data processing * NLP and knowledge graphs * Multi-modal deep learning, generative modeling * Time series analysis for heritage data * Heritage visualization, virtualization and narratives * Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data * Open heritage data and bench-marking The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes: * Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts * Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation * Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage * Inclusive education * Smart and sustainable tourism * Urban planning * Digital Twins *** Important dates (AoE) * Paper submission: July 11, 2025 * Author acceptance notification: August 1, 2025 * Camera-Ready: August 11, 2025 * Workshop date: TBA (October 27 or 28, 2025) *** Keynote speakers * Johan Oomen (Research Director, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, The Netherlands): talk "TransMIXR : ignite the immersive media sector by enabling new narrative visions for cultural heritage". * Diego Jiménez Badillo (Profesor Investigador, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico): talk "The analysis of cultural heritage in the age of Artificial Intelligence - application to archaeology and cultural heritage conservation". *** Special Highlights Best Paper Award. Following tradition, SUMAC 2025 will also be awarding a best paper award, accompanied with a certificate and a trophy. *** Submission guidelines Submission format. All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work (full paper) as well as work in progress (short paper). Two submission formats are accepted: a) 4 pages plus 1-page reference (short paper); or b) 8 pages plus up to 2-page reference (full paper). They must be encoded as PDF using the ACM Article Template of the main conference ACM Multimedia 2025, see https://acmmm2025.org/information-for-authors/. Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field; they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. As for the main conference ACM MM, the workshop papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *** Organizers Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LASTIG Lab / IGN-ENSG / Gustave Eiffel University, France) Edgar Roman-Rangel (ITAM, Mexico) Li Weng (Zhejiang Financial College, China) Looking forward to hearing from you at SUMAC! The workshop organizers -- Valerie Gouet-Brunet Senior researcher / DR1 Ministère de la Transition Ecologique LASTIG Lab. / Univ. Gustave Eiffel / IGN (French mapping agency) https://www.umr-lastig.fr/vgouet/

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Deadline Extended: EduVis Workshop at IEEE VIS 2025
by Keck Mandy 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

Dear community members, The submission deadline for the EduVis workshop has been extended to July 10, 2025. Join us for the 3rd edition of the Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities at IEEE VIS 2025! 🎉 Take part in inspiring conversations, showcase your ideas, and explore the intersection of visualization and education. This year’s theme centers on Modalities of Learning and Engaging, with a focus on both education for visualization (ed4vis) and visualization for education (vis4ed). Whether you're in visualization, learning analytics, science communication, arts and design, psychology, data science, or HCI, this is the space for you to contribute, collaborate, and inspire. Important dates: All deadlines are at 11:59pm (23:59) AoE (Anywhere on Earth) July 1, 2025 extended to July 10, 2025: Paper and Educator Report Submission August 1, 2025: Author Notification August 15, 2025: Camera-ready Submission 👉 For more details and submission guidelines, visit: https://ieee-eduvis.github.io/ Best regards, Christina Stoiber, Fateme Rajabiyazdi, Mandy Keck, Magdalena Boucher, Jonathan C. Roberts, Lonni Besançon, Mathis Brossier, Benjamin Bach

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[CFP: Short Papers + Mini-Challenge] Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and VIS @ IEEE VIS 2025
by ztchen＠umn.edu 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce the VISxGenAI Workshop at IEEE VIS 2025 and invite your participation! # How to participate We welcome contributions through two tracks: 1. Short Papers (2–4 pages) Submit work-in-progress ideas, early research results, or position pieces related to GenAI, agents, and VIS. 2. Mini-Challenge For the first time, we're hosting a challenge where participants build AI agents that autonomously analyze datasets and generate visual reports (PDF or interactive webpage)—inspired by benchmarks like ImageNet. - A starter kit and evaluation server are provided. - Winners will receive $thousands in unrestricted cloud credits (sponsored by AWS Generative AI Innovation Center), award certificates, and the opportunity to present at the workshop. - A great opportunity for senior undergrads, master's, and PhD students interested in AI agents, data VIS, and potential internships at AWS. # Deadline: August 20, 2025 # Workshop Info: https://visxgenai.github.io # Challenge Info: https://www.visagent.org/ We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this with your students and colleagues. Thank you! — Zhu-Tian Assistant Prof., U of Minnesota (on behalf of the VISxGenAI organizers)

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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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