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Call for Participation: IEEE VAST Challenge 2017
by Whiting, Mark A 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

Announcing the IEEE VAST Challenge 2017 - Available Now! http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2017 Submission deadline is July 16, 2017 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -9 hours). The IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge is an annual contest with the goal of advancing the field of visual analytics through competition. The VAST Challenge is designed to help researchers understand how their software would be used in a novel analytic task and determine how their data transformations, visualizations, and interactions would support users. VAST Challenge problems provide researchers with realistic tasks and data sets for evaluating their software, as well as an opportunity to advance the field by solving more complex problems. This year's VAST Challenge concerns a sad state of affairs in a nature preserve, possibly involving the nearby community and local businesses. There are three mini-challenges and a grand challenge to exercise your visual analytics prowess. Overview Mistford is a mid-size city is located to the southwest of a large nature preserve. The city has a small industrial area with four light-manufacturing endeavors. Mitch Vogel is a post-doc student studying ornithology at Mistford College and has been discovering signs that the number of nesting pairs of the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit, a popular local bird due to its attractive plumage and pleasant songs, is decreasing! The decrease is sufficiently significant that the Pangera Ornithology Conservation Society is sponsoring Mitch to undertake additional studies to identify the possible reasons. Mitch is gaining access to several datasets that may help him in his work, and he has asked you (and your colleagues) as experts in visual analytics to help him analyze these datasets. Mini-Challenge 1 The Boonsong Lekagul Nature Preserve is used by local residents and tourists for day-trips, overnight camping or sometimes just passing through to access main thoroughfares on the opposite sides of the preserve. While hiking through the various parts of the preserve, Mitch has noticed some odd behaviors of vehicles that he doesn't think are consistent with the kinds of park visitors he would expect. If there were some way that Mitch could analyze the behaviors of vehicles through the park over time, this may assist him in his investigations. Mini-Challenge 2 The four factories in the industrial area are subjected to higher-than-usual environmental assessment, due to their proximity to both the city and the preserve. Gaseous effluent data from several sampling stations has been collected over several months, along with meteorological data (wind speed and direction), that could help Mitch understand what impact these factories may be having on the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit. These factories are supposed to be quite compliant with recent years' environmental regulations, but Mitch has his doubts that the actual data has been closely reviewed. Could visual analytics help him understand the real situation? Mini-Challenge 3 As Mitch works independently, he realizes that he cannot continually visit all areas of the preserve to inspect for environmental impacts as well as he would like to. He realizes that his analysis would be incomplete without thorough surveillance and knowledge of the preserve health over time. Fortunately, Mitch has acquired data from some multi-spectral imagers that have been routinely covering the nature preserve every few months. Mitch believes that a visual analytics approach can help him achieve an understanding of the preserve health and alert him to possible conditions that may be impacting his birds. Grand Challenge Mitch realizes that explorations into each of these three areas (covered by the mini-challenges) will reveal important, enlightening information. However, could there be relationships among discoveries made across two or even all of the investigations that could reveal even more about what is happening across the nature preserve and how it is happening. Mitch remembers that you mentioned to him how important it is to analyze not only what is happening, but the entire range of "who-what-where-why-when- and -how". This understanding will enable him to pursue positive steps in helping to save the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit. Important Information about the VAST Challenge Participants are welcome to enter one, two, or all three of the Mini-Challenges. Participants who complete all three mini-challenges may also enter the Grand Challenge. Entries may be submitted by teams or individuals. Submission deadline is July 16, 2017 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -9 hours). Entries will be judged based on the criteria appropriate to the specific Mini-Challenge/Grand Challenge. Selected award winners will be asked to present their submission at the VAST Challenge Workshop on Oct 1, 2017, during the IEEE VIS 2017 conference. Award winning participants will be contacted by August 11, 2017. All Challenge participants are invited to submit a two-page summary of their entry for inclusion in the IEEE VIS 2017 electronic conference proceedings. These papers will be due August 15. All participants will also allowed to present a poster at the conference showcasing their work. For questions, please email vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vast-challenge@ieeevis.org>. VAST Challenge Committee Chairs Kris Cook, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2017 IEEE VIS 2017 http://ieeevis.org/ 1-6 October 2017 Phoenix, Arizona USA

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Deadline Extension (May 15, 2017): Visual Analytics in Healthcare Workshop at IEEE VIS 2017
by Visual Analytics Healthcare 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2017, Oct 1st, 2017, Phoenix, Arizona) Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org *** Paper Submissions due May 15th, 2017 (Extended by two weeks!) *** CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------- The 2017 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2017) is the eighth annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art data visualization techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The primary objective of the annual workshop is to bring together medical experts, leading scientists, and visionaries to discuss visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data and discuss the areas of healthcare that need more attention from the visualization and visual data mining communities. The workshop will allow participants to showcase their ongoing work on visual analytics of healthcare-related data through podium, posters, or demo presentations as well as to learn more about emerging techniques, software applications, and datasets. In years past, demos of prototype and/or production visual analytics software have been particularly well received, and paper submitters should also consider submitting a companion demo proposal. During the last seven years the Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) has been organized and hosted annually. The VAHC workshop has been hosted four times at the IEEE VIS conference (2010, 2011, 2012, and 2015) and three times at the AMIA Annual Symposium (2013, 2014, and 2016). This year the VAHC 2017 workshop is held in conjunction with the IEEE VIS conference in Phoenix, Arizona. For information about all previous VAHC events and to access the open-access proceedings from each of the previous workshops, please see http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------ We will welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, and machine learning for healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of a variety of users, including clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, pharmaco-vigilance experts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, insurance claim analysts, and patients. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: * Visualization of Public Health Data * Visualization of patient-generated health data * Design principles of Dashboards for Public Health Surveillance programs * Visual analysis and exploration of longitudinal clinical data * Visual data mining of EMRs * Visualization of prescriptions drug-drug interactions * Improving hospital and operating room (OR) workflow with visual analytics * Outcome forecasting or prediction * Visual analytics for patient safety * Pandemic forecasting and tracking * Visual analytics in radiology * Visual analytics in the emergency department (ED) * Improving patient understanding and/or physician-patient communication with visual analytics * Visual Analytics as a means for knowledge discovery * Human Computer Interaction of EHRs PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academic, healthcare organizations, and industry that addresses any of the topics listed above. Submissions can be for (1) paper / podium presentations, (2) poster presentations, or (3) live & interactive demonstrations. - Paper: Papers are limited to eight pages. Accepted papers will be published on the IEEE Xplore digital library and the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. - Poster: Poster abstract submissions are limited to two pages. Accepted posters will be included in the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. - Demo: Demonstration abstract submissions are limited to two pages. Accepted demonstration abstracts will be included in the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. All material should be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS). Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Deadline for submission: May 15th, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Jun 19th, 2017 † Camera-ready papers due: July 6th, 2017 VAHC 2017 workshop: October 1st or Oct 2nd, 2017 (to be determined by VIS 2017) JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: ---------------------- Visit www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org to join our mailing list. NEWS: ----- Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2016) are now available at http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org/proceedings.html ORGANIZERS: ---------------- Jurgen Bernard - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (juergen.bernard at gris.tu-darmstadt.de) Jesus J Caban - NICoE, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Theresia Gschwandtner - Vienna University of Technology (gschwandtner at cvast.tuwien.ac.at) Jeremy Warner - Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN (USA)

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Call for papers: VISSOFT 2017: 5th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization
by Cong Chen 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

-== Call for Papers ==- Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. This year’s VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. VISSOFT topics of interest include: * Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks like StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. * Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. * Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization * Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education * Integration of software visualization tools with development environments * Empirical evaluation of software visualizations * Industrial experience with using software visualization * Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and machine learning. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tools track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. -== Technical papers ==- A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is not limited in length. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video should provide a URL to the video. Authors will be given the opportunity to provide a response to reviewer requests for clarifications before a final decision is made. Important Dates: Abstract submission date: May 2, 2017 Paper submission date: May 9, 2017 Author response period: May 29 - June 2, 2017 Notification: June 9, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 Awards: A Mate 9 smartphone will be awarded to a distinguished technical paper, sponsored by Huawei. Special issue: We plan to invite a selection of the technical papers accepted at VISSOFT 2017 to submit an extended version to a journal. -== Artifacts ==- Traditionally, technical research papers are published without including any artifacts (such as tools, data, models, videos, etc.), even though the artifacts may serve as crucial and detailed evidence for the quality of the results that the associated paper offers. Following the effort initiated at ESEC/FSE’11, authors of accepted technical papers at VISSOFT 2017 can have their artifacts evaluated by the program committee. Positively evaluated artifacts will be reflected in the paper publication, presentation, and be formally announced during the conference. More information about the artifact evaluation process may be found on http://www.artifact-eval.org. Important Dates: Artifact submission: June 25, 2017 Artifact notification: July 15, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 -== NIER and Tool papers==- We accept two types of paper submissions: NIER contributions (New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool contributions. The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. NIER papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube video). Tools papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Important Dates: Paper submission date: June 23, 2017 Notification: July 24, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 -== Organizing Committee ==- General Chair: Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA http://www.utdallas.edu/~kzhang/ Program Co-Chairs: Ivan Beschastnikh, University of British Columbia, Canada https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bestchai/ Andrea Mocci, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland http://www.inf.usi.ch/postdoc/mocci/ Publicity Co-Chairs: Cong Chen, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA http://www.fujitsu.com/us/about/businesspolicy/tech/rd/research-staff/cong-… Bin Lin, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/lin/ NIER/Tool Co-Chairs: Bonita Sharif, Youngstown State University, USA http://www.csis.ysu.edu/~bsharif/ Olga Baysal, Carleton University, Canada http://olgabaysal.com Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Anne Etien, École Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille, France http://www.lifl.fr/~etien/ Omar Benomar, Yellow Pages / Pages Jaunes and Université de Montréal, Canada http://www-ens.iro.umontreal.ca/~benomaro/ Most Influential Paper Award Chairs: Stephan Diehl, University of Trier, Germany https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=52170 Malcolm Munro, Durham University, UK http://community.dur.ac.uk/malcolm.munro/ For updates, visit http://vissoft.info follow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevissoft/ Twitter: @IEEEVISSOFT -- Best wishes, Carl (Cong) Chen VISSOFT 2017 publicity co-chair CongChenUTD(a)Gmail.com

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Survey: Values in Visualization Work
by Jaime Snyder 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Values in Visualization Work URL: http://bit.ly/2p9sER4 Building on recent conversations in the visualization community, including the survey by Meeks et al., this questionnaire will help us better understand the work practices and values of people who create visualizations and visualization systems. Responses will enable us to characterize motivations, priorities, and standards of folks within the visualization community. This survey should take about 20 minutes to complete. It begins by asking you for basic information about yourself, your training, and your background. Next, we ask you to reflect on what is most important to you when you are doing visualization work. All questions are optional, though we ask you to try to answer each of them as best you can. At the conclusion of the survey, you can sign up for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card (1 for every 100 participants). This work is being conducted by researchers at the University of Washington. If you have questions or comments, please contact Jaime Snyder (jas1208(a)uw.edu<mailto:jas1208@uw.edu>, @jay_ess). Thanks! ————————————————— Jaime Snyder Assistant Professor, Information School Adjunct Assistant Professor, Human Centered Design and Engineering University of Washington jas1208(a)uw.edu<mailto:jas1208@uw.edu> 206-616-1094

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VISSOFT'17 Paper submission extended to May 9th
by Andrea Mocci 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

The deadlines for the research track 5th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2017) have been extended as follows: Abstract submission date: May 2, 2017 (extended) Paper submission date: May 9, 2017 (extended) Details/CfP below. VISSOFT 2017: 5th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization http://vissoft17.dcc.uchile.cl/ September 18 - 19, 2017, Shanghai, China Co-located with ICSME 2017: http://icsme2017.github.io Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevissoft/ Twitter: @IEEEVISSOFT -== Call for Papers ==- Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. This year’s VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. VISSOFT topics of interest include: * Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks like StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. * Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. * Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization * Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education * Integration of software visualization tools with development environments * Empirical evaluation of software visualizations * Industrial experience with using software visualization * Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and machine learning. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tools track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. -== Technical papers ==- A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is not limited in length. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video should provide a URL to the video. Authors will be given the opportunity to provide a response to reviewer requests for clarifications before a final decision is made. Important Dates: Abstract submission date: May 2, 2017 (extended) Paper submission date: May 9, 2017 (extended) Author response period: May 29 - June 2, 2017 Notification: June 9, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 Awards: A Mate 9 smartphone will be awarded to a distinguished technical paper, sponsored by Huawei. Special issue: This year’s VISSOFT will organize a special issue with the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP). Top papers accepted to the conference will be invited for an extension that is then submitted for review with JSEP. -== Artifacts ==- Traditionally, technical research papers are published without including any artifacts (such as tools, data, models, videos, etc.), even though the artifacts may serve as crucial and detailed evidence for the quality of the results that the associated paper offers. Following the effort initiated at ESEC/FSE’11, authors of accepted technical papers at VISSOFT 2017 can have their artifacts evaluated by the program committee. Positively evaluated artifacts will be reflected in the paper publication, presentation, and be formally announced during the conference. More information about the artifact evaluation process may be found on http://www.artifact-eval.org. Important Dates: Artifact submission: June 25, 2017 Artifact notification: July 15, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 -== NIER and Tool papers==- We accept two types of paper submissions: NIER contributions (New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool contributions. The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. NIER papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube video). Tools papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Important Dates: Paper submission date: June 23, 2017 Notification: July 24, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 -== Organizing Committee ==- General Chair: Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA http://www.utdallas.edu/~kzhang/ Program Co-Chairs: Ivan Beschastnikh, University of British Columbia, Canada https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bestchai/ Andrea Mocci, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland http://www.inf.usi.ch/postdoc/mocci/ NIER/Tool Co-Chairs: Bonita Sharif, Youngstown State University, USA http://www.csis.ysu.edu/~bsharif/ Olga Baysal, Carleton University, Canada http://olgabaysal.com Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Anne Etien, École Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille, France http://www.lifl.fr/~etien/ Omar Benomar, Yellow Pages / Pages Jaunes and Université de Montréal, Canada http://www-ens.iro.umontreal.ca/~benomaro/ Most Influential Paper Award Chairs Prof. Stephan Diehl, University of Trier, Germany https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=52170 Prof. Malcolm Munro, Durham University, UK http://community.dur.ac.uk/malcolm.munro/ For updates, visit http://vissoft.info follow * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevissoft/ * Twitter: @IEEEVISSOFT Best regards, Ivan Beschastnikh and Andrea Mocci Program Co-Chairs

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Call for Workshop Papers (DIS 2017) Pedagogy & Physicalization: Designing Learning Activities around Physical Data Representations
by Samuel Huron 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

The deadline is soon ! :-) And the workshop will be awesome ! Come an join us ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Workshop Papers (DIS 2017) Pedagogy & Physicalization: Designing Learning Activities around Physical Data Representations Pedagogy & Physicalization: Designing Learning Activities around Physical Data Representations This workshop will be held as part of the DIS 2017 conference June 10-14, Edinburgh, UK http://dataphys.org/workshops/dis17/ Call for Participation In an age where data and their various representations proliferates many aspects of our professional and private lives, a new form of awareness and visual literacy is required that enables people to decipher, interpret, critically discuss and actively engage in activities around this public and/or personal data and its (visual) representations. Previous case studies have found Physicalization to be a productive way to introduce people of different ages, and with different backgrounds, to activities around data collection, processing, and representation. This full-day workshop will provide a rich hands-on introduction to and reflection on questions around the pedagogy of Physicalization. We will explore current research questions, as well as approaches to engaging people into designing physical data representations, while critically reflecting on the role these choices play in a learning environment. The aim of this workshop is to: (1) discuss different learning scenarios in which Physicalization activities can be beneficial, (2) explore different approaches on how to introduce Physicalization activities to different learning audiences, and (3) to build a community of researchers and practitioners interested in the pedagogical aspects of Physicalization. We invite designers, educators, researchers and practitioners from all backgrounds to participate in our workshop, which will explore Physicalization as an activity to encourage active learning. Participants are invited to submit a 2-4 page position paper in ACM CHI Extended Abstract Format to trevor.hogan(a)cit.ie by 27 April 2017. Toptics can include, but are not limited to, participants’ research or practical experience with applying Physicalization in educational and/or workshop scenarios from a teaching and/or methodological point of view. Submissions will be peer reviewed by an interdisciplinary review-committee. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop. Important Dates Paper Submission deadline: 27 April 2017 Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2017 Workshop date: 11 June 2017 Organizers Trevor Hogan (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland) Uta Hinrichs (The University of St Andrews, UK) Yvonne Jansen (Sorbonne Universités, France) Samuel Huron (Mines-Télécom ParisTech, France) Pauline Gourlet (University Paris 8 & EnsadLab, France) Eva Hornecker (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany) Bettina Nissen (University of Edinburgh, UK) More information available at: http://dataphys.org/workshops/dis17/ For any questions, please contact: trevor.hogan(a)cit.ie Best regards Samuel Huron

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Call for Participation: VIZBI 2017 (Sydney, Australia, 14-16 June)
by Julian Heinrich 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

VIZBI 2017 <https://vizbi.org/2017/>, the 8th international meeting on ‘Visualizing Biological Data’, will take place 14-16 June 2017 at the Charles Perkins Centre <http://sydney.edu.au/perkins> in Sydney, Australia, sponsored by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Destination New South Wales, and EMBL-Australia. VIZBI 2017 <https://vizbi.org/2017/> features keynotes from Daniel Keim <http://www.vis.uni-konstanz.de/en/members/keim>, Tamara Munzner <http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm>, and Drew Berry <http://www.wehi.edu.au/people/drew-berry>, and talks from 18 world-leading researchers <https://vizbi.org/2017/People/> showcasing visualizations transforming how life scientists view data, and driving key advances in molecular biology, systems biology, biomedical science, and ecology. The conference brings together a diverse community, including bioinformaticians, data scientists, computer scientists, and experimentalists, as well as medical illustrators, graphic designers, and graphic artists. VIZBI 2017 <https://vizbi.org/2017/> will be part of Vivid Sydney <https://www.vividsydney.com/> - a spectacular festival of light, music, and ideas - strong syngeries between these events give extra incentive to make the trip to Sydney. All participants have the opportunity to present a poster and a lightning talk <https://vizbi.org/2017/Posters/> describing their work. If you cannot join us in Sydney, you have the option of virtual registration, which allows participation via streaming video and chat. Tutorial proposals. Prior to the meeting (June 13), there will also be half-day tutorials on visualization tools & methods. If you are interested in running a tutorial, you are invited to submit a tutorial proposal <https://vizbi.org/2017/Tutorials/> (deadline: 20 March 2017). Sponsorship. If you are interested in promoting your organization or professional society, a range of sponsorship options <http://vizbi.org/2017/Sponsors> are also available. As with previous meetings, VIZBI 2017 <https://vizbi.org/2017/> promises to be an exciting event that will again help raise the standard of data visualization in the life sciences. We hope very much you can join us!

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Open PhD Position in Visual Analytics for Engineering Smarter Systems, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

==== PHD STUDENT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH SPECIALIZATION IN VISUAL ANALYTICS ==== placed at Linnaeus University, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Technology – Växjö Campus, Sweden Application Deadline: June 1, 2017 ****Description**** The focus of this advertised PhD position and the corresponding research project is on visual analytics for engineering smarter system. The research will be performed within the Linnaeus University Center on Data Intensive Sciences and Applications, DISA, funded by Linnaeus University for five years. Overall aim of this DISA subproject is to better understand and engineer complex cyber-physical systems. We will develop foundational visual analytics principles, techniques and tools for analyzing data and models in those systems. Thus, trust into the analysis results will be finally increased by making the analysis methods and resulting empirical models transparent for end users. In consequence, our users will be enabled to better predict the behavior of cyber-physical systems and to reconstruct the underlying models more efficiently when needed. Duties consist mainly of the following: • Graduate studies in the field of Visual Analytics, with a doctoral degree as the goal. The PhD thesis should be completed and defended within the official appointment duration of five years (4 years graduate studies, 1 year departmental tasks). • Research in the field Visual Analytics. The position is part of DISA and its subproject Visual Analytics for Engineering Smarter Systems. • Regularly present intermediate research results at international conferences and workshops, and publish them in conference proceedings and journals. • Close collaboration with the other project members in an interdisciplinary research environment as well as with domain experts. • At most 20% of the working time will be dedicated to teaching and other departmental tasks. Note that a PhD position in Sweden is a salaried employment with the right to social benefits and paid vacations. ****Qualifications**** Qualification requirements A person fulfils the general entry requirements. if he/she has comprised a completed undergraduate program of at least 240 credits, including 60 credits at advanced level, or the equivalent knowledge in Sweden or abroad. Specific requirements are • approved courses of a minimum of 90 credits in the subject Computer and Information Science or the equivalent, and • an individual study project of a minimum of 15 credits in the subject Computer and Information Science, or the equivalent. Others The specific prerequisites for admission to PhD studies within the above-mentioned specialization are • a successfully finished Master’s thesis in a field related to Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, or Data Sciences; and • high proficiency in written and spoken English. ****Assessment criteria**** Excellent knowledge in the focused research areas of information visualization and visual analytics is a strong advantage. Good programming skills (Java, JavaScript / HTML5, WebGL/OpenGL) and a solid training in mathematics, data mining, or machine learning are highly preferred. Documented expertise and working experience within at least one of the following research and educational areas is a great advantage: • Visual analytics of Big Data • Visual analytics of streaming data • Multidimensional visualization techniques in combination with machine learning and/or data mining techniques (such as dimensionality reduction) • Evaluation of visualizations • Experiences in specific application domains and their visualization needs related to the DISA subproject, such as in systems engineering Because of the interdisciplinary character of the project and DISA, the candidate should be an enthusiastic person who is interested in making sense of large and complex data sets of various types as well as capable of working both independently and within a group. Teamwork experiences should be documented in the application. Applicants will be selected through a qualitative overall assessment of the competences and skills, assessed most suitable to conduct research and to contribute to a successful development of the research environment. ****How to apply**** Interested candidates find detailed application information including contact details on the following web page https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/work-at-the-university/?rmpage=j… Online applications (reference number: 2017/2251-2.2.1) will be received until June 1, 2017. The application must include a cover letter (with a motivation why the candidate wants to pursue this PhD project in visual analytics), a resume and the contact information of two referees. In addition, a link to the candidate’s Master’s thesis should be provided. ****Further information**** The advertised position will be physically placed in the ISOVIS Research Group led by Professor Andreas Kerren who is a member and key researcher of DISA. The ISOVIS group mainly focuses on the explorative analysis and visualization of typically large and complex information spaces. Our vision is to attack the big data challenge by a combination of human-centered data analysis and interactive visualization for decision making. These research topics are highly relevant for academia and economy as both science and industry make increasing use of data-intensive technologies. Linnaeus University, Sweden, has the ambition to utilize the qualities that an even gender distribution and diversity brings to the organization. -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linnaeus University + Department of Computer Science + Vejdes Plats 7, Room B3019 + SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden + + Phone: +46 470 767502 + Fax: +46 470 84004 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)lnu.se + WWW: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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BioVis full paper deadline extended to April 20th
by Jillian Aurisano 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

The paper deadline for the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) has been extended to *April 20th*. Details below. ========================= BioVis will be held as a Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2017 July 24, 2017 Prague, Czech Republic http://biovis.net/ https://twitter.com/biovis_net ========================= We invite submissions of contributions to the BioVis Symposium in various formats on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. For detailed information including submission instructions please refer to the full CfP at http://biovis.net/2017/cfp_ismb/ Full Papers ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a full paper to the BioVis Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in BMC Bioinformatics ( https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/, impact factor 2.4) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: April 20, 2017 Highlight Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts highlighting previously published work. Accepted highlight talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Posters ---------------------------- We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, or visualization challenges to be presented as a poster. A selection of these will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2017

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Workshop on Immersive Analytics @ IEEE VIS 2017
by benjamin bach 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Call for Papers: Workshop on Immersive Analytics: Exploring Future Interaction and Visualization Technologies for Data Analytics (#Immersive2017) We are inviting short paper submissions (2-4 pages, TVCG style) and/or posters for our workshop on immersive analytics, held jointly with the IEEE VIS conference, October 1st, in Phoenix (http://ieeevis.org <http://ieeevis.org/>). Accepted papers will made available in the IEEE Digital Library. http://immersiveanalytics.net Deadline: 21st July 2017 Due to the recent advances in immersive technologies (VR, AR, large displays, tangible surfaces, etc.), we see new opportunities to using these technologies to analyse and explore data. Visual analytics is concerned with analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. This definition is agnostic of the actual interface devices employed by visual analysis systems. Nevertheless, the affordances of the display and input devices used for analyzing data strongly affect the experience of the users of such systems, and so, their degree of engagement and productivity. However, a systematic approach to developing visual analytic tools that move beyond the desktop is yet lacking. In this call, we are looking for innovative research, design, and view-points, mature or work-in-progress, that fall into or are related to the following topics: Real-world VR/AR/MR, Collaboration, Hybrid 2D/3D,Affordances for Immersion, Changing Technologies, Application Areas, Platforms and Toolkits. We call this new research thrust ``Immersive Analytics", a topic that will explore the applicability and development of emerging user-interface technologies for creating more engaging experiences and seamless workflows for data analysis applications. More info here. Representative subtopics: Hybrid 2D/3D Changing Technologies and Scenarios Affordances for Immersion Collaboration Physical and Tangible Visualization Interaction Techniques for visualization Real-World VA and Applications Workshop Organizers: Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh, UK (main contact) Maxime Cordeil, Monash University, VIC Tim Dwyer, Monash University, VIC Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research Bahador Saket, Georgia Tech Alex Endert, Georgia Tech Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary

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