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BioVis@VIs 2016 Call for Posters
by Jillian Aurisano 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

BioVis 2016 Posters track at IEEE VIS in Baltimore, MD October 23rd, 2016 http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ #biovis BioVis 2016 is the 6th Meeting on Biological Data Visualization, an interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The meeting brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. It is hosted as a one-day single-track event at VIS (http://ieeevis.org) and a SIG half-day meeting at ISMB (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016) The *BioVis@Vis 2016 Posters track *offers a venue to present and discuss new research in biological data visualization. Submissions take the form of a short (250-word) abstract with a supporting figure and are presented at the conference site as large format posters during a dedicated poster session. The BioVis workshop as a whole aims to promote interaction between the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities, and the BioVis poster session offers an interactive forum that encourages graphical presentation, demonstration, and active engagement with BioVis participants as well as all attendees of IEEE VIS. *Important Dates* *August 26, 2016* - Poster submission to the BioVis workshop at IEEE VIS *September 9, 2016* - Author notification of posters for the workshop Submission for BioVis@VIS: https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ *Example poster topics include, but are not limited to:* Work-in-progress and preliminary results Previously published work from other venues Visualization challenges relevant to the BioVis community Extensions of Papers submissions and content that doesn’t fit Podium presentations Details about, or generalizations of contest submissions *Review Process:* Each poster submission will be read and evaluated by the Poster Chairs for quality and relevance to the BioVis venue with the goal of being as inclusive as possible and encouraging cross-domain interactions. All accepted poster submissions will be made available on the BioVis website http://biovis.net/2016/ For more information see: http://biovis.net/2016/posters_ieee/ <http://biovis.net/2016/posters_ieee/> *Keynote Talk:* Sheelagh Carpendale University of Calgary *General chairs* G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium *Paper chairs* Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria *Poster chairs* Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA *Publication chairs* Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA *Primer & challenges chair* Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland *Highlights chair* Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia *Data contest chairs* Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK *Design contest chairs* Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium Francis Rowland, EBI, UK *Industry and fundraising chair* Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA *Website chairs* Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada *Publicity chair* Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Steering Committee* Kay Nieselt, University of Tuebingen, Germany Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)

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LDAV 2016 CFP: 6th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization
by Jian Chen 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

The 6th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization will be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 23, 2016. Abstract submission deadline: August 24th, 2016 Call for Posters: We invite you to submit unpublished work to the IEEE LDAV 2016 Poster Program. The poster program is a venue designed to highlight ongoing research and late breaking topics that have produced promising preliminary results. In addition to the topics listed under Call for Papers, we also welcome submissions that showcase successful stories of applying visualization to large-scale data intensive applications. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the symposium attendees and solicit feedback. Interested authors should submit a two-page abstract that describes the underlying problem, the proposed method, and preliminary results. Accepted poster abstracts will be included in the symposium proceedings. The format of the abstract will be the same as the format used for the regular paper submission. Poster authors are encouraged, but not required, to include a draft or sketch of the poster layout and content in their submission. This would help reviewers and show that the poster format is used effectively. The draft poster should be in PDF format. The authors should indicate if the poster would be accompanied by an on-site demonstration and/or videos. More information can be found on the IEEE LDAV Website: http://www.ldav.org/index.php/call-for-posters Sincerely, IEEE LDAV Poster Co-Chairs Best regards, --Jian, Alex and Wenwen (IEEE VIS publicity) ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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VizSec 2016 Deadline Extended
by Nicolas Prigent 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

VizSec 2016 Call for Papers - Deadline Extended =============================================== The 13th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held on October 24th 2016 in Baltimore, MD, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. *** THE DEADLINE FOR VIZSEC 2016 AS BEEN EXTENDED TO THE 8th of August 2016 *** Technical Papers ---------------- Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigations - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Vulnerability management - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics and education - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable. *** New for 2016! *** Case Studies ---------------------------------- Short papers describing practical applications of security visualization are solicited. We encourage the submission of papers discussing the introduction of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not limited to: - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting operational needs - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a positive impact - Lessons learned from operational engagements - Insights gained from the transition process Cyber security practitioners from industry, as well as the research community, are encouraged to submit case studies. Posters ------- Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Submissions ----------- Submissions must be formated using the IEEE VGTC template that can be found at http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submit papers and poster abstracts using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2016 Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. The VizSec proceedings will be published by IEEE. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Case Studies Case studies should be at most 4 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Case study submissions will be reviewed by the Paper Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted case study authors will have time to present their work at VizSec during the program. Accepted case studies will be made available on this website. Extended abstract for posters should be at most 2 pages including the bibliography. Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the Poster Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted authors must present a corresponding poster during the workshop. The poster authors can determine the layout by themselves, but the dimensions of the posters should not exceed the A0 space (841mm x 1189mm or 33.1" x 46.8"). Additionally, poster authors are requested to give a brief oral preview during a plenary "fast forward" session. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. When applicable, submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST Papers and Case Studies August 8, 2016 *** Deadline Extended *** Submission for Papers and Case Studies September 5, 2016 Author Notification for Papers and Case Studies October 3, 2016 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters September 19, 2016 Abstract Submission for Posters September 30, 2016 Author Notification for Posters

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2-year postdoc research fellowship in HCI/Infovis, Copenhagen
by Mikkel Rønne Jakobsen 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Deadline is this Friday (August 5th) for applications to a two-year position as postdoctoral research fellow at University of Copenhagen in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Department of Computer Science (http://www.diku.dk) The candidate will join the BIOPRO team to design and evaluate novel interactive visualizations that help domain experts develop and combine mathematical models and statistical models with online sensor-data with the ultimate goal of optimizing bio-based production processes. We work with domain experts from leading bio-based manufacturing companies in Denmark and with leading university researchers in chemical engineering, chemometrics, and applied statistics. Applicants are welcome to develop their own directions of research within the above context, and will have the opportunity to design both for workstations and high-resolution wall displays. Applicants must have a PhD in computer science and must have research experience in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction or Information Visualization. Knowledge of bio-based processes is not required; knowledge of predictive modeling is a plus, but is not mandatory. The deadline for applications is August 5, 2016. The position is for two years with a starting date in October 2016. For more information and directions on submitting an application, go to: http://diku.dk/english/about/vacancies/postdoc-biopro-hcc/ For questions or if you are interested in applying, please contact Mikkel R. Jakobsen (mikkelrj(a)di.ku.dk, http://www.mikkelrj.dk)

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Nomination Deadline Extension - IEEE VGTC Doctoral Dissertation Award
by Wong, Pak C 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Extended DEADLINE: Monday, Aug 15, 2016 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/ IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS conference. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between July 31 two years before the award and July 31 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between July 31, 2014 and July 31, 2016 are eligible for the 2016 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SUBMISSION DEADLINE Nomination packets must be received by 5pm PDT on Monday, August 15, 2016. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1. AWARDS The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A). Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student's advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student's advisor, which includes: * the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, * the name and email address of the candidate, and * a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission.

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Job Offers: Research Scientist(s) in visual and algorithmic analysis of movement and event data, Bonn, Germany
by Gennady Andrienko 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Preliminary job announcement The Computer Science Department (Informatik III) of the University of Bonn, Germany, in collaboration with the department of Knowledge Discovery of Fraunhofer Institute IAIS invites applications for the following two positions Researcher (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) - visual and algorithmic analysis of movement and event data – (PostDoctoral researcher and PhD student) The positions are co-funded by DFG Priority research programme on “Volunteered Geographic Information: Interpretation, Visualisation and Social Computing” (SPP 1894) and Horizon 2020 projects datAcron (http://ai-group.ds.unipi.gr/datacron/datacron) VaVeL (http://www.vavel-project.eu/) SoBigData (http://www.sobigdata.eu/) INTUIT (http://www.intuit-sesar.eu/) and BigData4ATM (http://www.bigdata4atm-sesar.eu/) The positions are a part of the joint research group of the University of Bonn and Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, which focuses on visual analytics and knowledge discovery in databases. The group has an excellent record of international projects, scientific results, and publications at prestigious conferences and in highly reputed journals. The candidate would elaborate and develop scalable visual and algorithmic methods for the analysis of different types of spatiotemporal data (movement data, events, spatial time series), which will be capable to deal with the high complexity of geographical space, time, and multidimensional attributes. The candidate is expected to have completed a Diploma, Master degree, or (preferably) PhD in Computer Science and proven capabilities in software engineering (Java, SQL) and algorithms. Knowledge of Data Mining and Information Visualization is a prerequisite. Knowledge of GPU programming, Geographical Information Systems and practical handling of spatiotemporal data is an advantage. The candidate should be fluent in English and have good writing skills. For non-German speakers gradual learning of the German language is required. EU citizenship is necessary. The positions are available for an initial period of 24 months, with possible extension till 3 years. Anticipated start date is October-December 2016. Salary is according to EG 13, TV-öD. Applications are due August 31st, 2016. Applicants are expected to submit a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, a list of course marks, publication list, and the names and addresses of two persons who are willing to provide letters of reference upon request. If you are interested in this position, please contact Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel and Prof. Dr. Gennady Andrienko: ____________________________________________________________

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Deadline extended - CFP: Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Christopher Collins 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Deadline Extended: August 6, 2016 We invite contributions for the 2016 Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities: http://www.vis4dh.com This will be a one day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore, MD. http://ieeevis.org/ The purpose of this workshop is to propose new research directions in visualization for the digital humanities, to familiarize the visualization research community with the problems faced by digital humanities researchers, and to foster future collaboration between visualization and digital humanities research. Dr. Min Chen, Oxford University, is confirmed to as one of the keynote speakers on the topic of "Discovering Treasure Troves in Digital Humanities". Despite the growing popularity of digital methods for research in the humanities, digital humanists are underserved by academics in visualization, and under-represented in visualization conferences. This is due to a number of factors: 1. The differences in rhetorics of proof and discovery (and so differences in data culture and use) in the humanities as opposed to other, typically scientific or analytic fields where visualization research is commonly focused. 2. The difficulty of performing task analysis and evaluation for many humanities questions, that may have no ground truth. 3. In text visualization specifically, the difference between the needs of digital humanists (who perform close readings and critical engagements with texts) as opposed to more standard text visualization scenarios (e.g. text analytics on datasets for intelligence or social media analysis). Addressing these difficulties requires exposure of these data issues, interdisciplinary collaboration, and steering of future research directions. Submission This workshop is seeking work from scholars in both visualization and the humanities who use visualization as part of the process of analyzing and interrogating human culture. Submissions will present original research ideas or results as they relate to visualization for the digital humanities. Each submission should clearly state its specific contribution to this growing field of research. Submissions will take the form of short (2-4 page) papers, falling into one of three submission types: - Extended Abstracts: These submissions are meant to highlight emerging visualization research in the digital humanities. The intention of these shorter submissions is to provide a platform for feedback for work that is still in progress, rather than present completed projects. - Short Papers: These submissions are meant to summarize more mature work in visualization for the digital humanities, including case studies, system descriptions, and empirical results. Of special consideration are works that highlight the difficulties (and propose solutions) of designing visualizations for the digital humanities. Applied work from the digital humanities that is highly visual in nature would also be considered for acceptance. - Position Papers: These submissions are meant to present viewpoints and opinions on the interplay between visualization and the digital humanities. These positions should be informed by deep involvement and experience in one (or ideally, both) fields. Position papers should be thought-provoking but also well-supported. Authors of accepted short and position papers will be invited for a 9-minute research presentation (including 2 minutes for audience questions). Additionally, they will participate in a moderated panel discussion. Authors of accepted extended abstracts will give 5 minute "fast-forward" presentations. Submissions should be in two-column IEEE TVCG format. Latex and Word templates available at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html Submissions will be optionally double blind. Authors wishing to submit their work double blind should remove author information from the cover page of their submitted document, and take care to avoid identifying information in the submission itself (e.g., references to "our" work). Submissions should be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vis4dh2016 by 30 July, 2016. Submissions should be in pdf format, and the submission email should clearly indicate the paper type: extended abstract, short paper, or position paper. Submissions should not exceed four pages. Topics The focus of this workshop is on applied visualization in the digital humanities, as well as highlighting domains in the digital humanities with unmet visualization challenges. These applications and domains include, but are not limited to: · Literature · Philology and Linguistics · Art and Art Criticism · Political Science · Performance (Music, Dance, Film, and Theatre) · Cultural and Historical Studies We are especially interested in a number of open questions in this space, including: · The impact of visual analytics systems on research in the digital humanities: - How can interactive visualizations support new questions, and new scales of research, in the DH community? - How can we encourage DH scholars to seek out visualizations, or collaboration with visualization researchers? · Characteristics of visualization for the digital humanities: - How does visualization with a DH focus differ from general research in the visualization community? How do their user groups differ? - How can we remove obstacles for humanities scholars wanting to use visual analytics approaches for their research? · How digital humanities research questions and tasks can push the frontier of visualization research: - What challenges are there for developing systems with novelty in both visualization and DH communities? - How do we evaluate visualizations where we lack ground truth data? Dates (Extended) Submission Deadline: 6 August, 2016 Notification Deadline: 12 August, 2016 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 26 August, 2016 IEEE VIS Conference: 23-28 October, 2016 Organizers Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (contact: christopher.collins(a)uoit.ca) Michael Correll, University of Washington (contact: mcorrell(a)cs.wisc.edu) Mennatallah El-Assady, University of Konstanz (contact: menna.el-assady(a)uni.kn) Stefan Jänicke, University of Leipzig Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz (contact: daniel.keim(a)uni.kn) David Wrisley, New York University Abu Dhabi / American University of Beirut Program Committee (partial) Markus John, University of Stuttgart Steffen Koch, University of Stuttgart Shejuti Silvia, University of Oklahoma Eric Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Madison Florian Windhager, Danube University Krems Catherine DeRose, Yale University Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz Adam Bradley, University of Waterloo

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IEEE VIS Co-located workshops and tutorials, symposiums, student volunteer and much more ...
by Jian Chen 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

=================== IEEE VIS 2016 http://ieeevis.org/ October 23 - 28, 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis LinkedIn: https://goo.gl/5qABWF There are seven items in the message: 1. Accepted Workshops 2. Accepted Tutorials 3. VisSec (Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security) (Deadline: August 1, 2016) 4. VDS (Visualization in Data Science) (Deadline: August 5, 2016) 5. Student Volunteers (Deadline August 1, 2016) 6. BioVis Posters (Deadline: August 26, 2016) 7. Coming Soon… (VIS MeetUp, VISKids child care grants and VIS program at a glance) ============ 1. Accepted Workshops ============ Consider participating in the following workshops: ** Discovery Jam: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops#discoveryjam ** Innovations in the Pedagogy of Data Visualization http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops#pedagogy ** 2nd Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS) http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/etvis/ ** Creation, Curation, Critique and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization (C4PGV) http://c4pgv.swansea.ac.uk/ ** LIVVIL: Logging Interactive Visualizations & Visualizing Interaction Logs http://livvil.github.io/workshop/ ** Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities http://vis4dh.com/ ** The Event Event: Workshop on Temporal & Sequential Event Analysis http://eventevent.github.io/ ** Workshop on Visualization in Practice: Open Source Visualization and Visual Analytics Software http://visinpractice.org/ For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops. ============ 2. Accepted VIS Tutorials ============ The following tutorials will be taught at VIS: ** Applying Color Theory to VIS ** Information Theory in Visualization ** Recent Advancements of Feature-based Flow Visualization and Analysis ** Visual Analytics for High-Dimensional Data ** User-Centred Evaluation in Visualization ** Visualization Analysis and Design ** Considering Qualitative Evaluation ** Sketching Designs for Data-Visualization using the Five Design-Sheet Methodology ** Human Vision, Cognition and Visualization ** Tensor Decomposition Methods in Visual Computing For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/tutorials. ============ 3. VisSec (Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security) ============ http://vizsec.org/ The 13th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. Submission deadline: August 1, 2016 ============ 4. VDS (Visualization in Data Science) ============ http://www.visualdatascience.org/ Visualization is an integral part of data science, and essential to enable sophisticated analysis of data. VDS will bring together domain scientists and methods researchers (including data visualization, usability, data management, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, programming environments, scalable software). We solicit contributions in the form of short abstracts based on * novel work, * previously published work or, * position statements Selected contributions will be invited to speak at the workshop. Submission deadline: August 5, 2016 Contact: contact(a)visualdatascience.org ============ 5. Student Volunteer ============ http://vissv.org/ The Student Volunteer Program is looking for reliable, hard working and enthusiastic student volunteers to help us create a great experience and a premier conference. Each year student volunteers provide essential support to the IEEE VIS Conference. Their enthusiastic participation enhances the conference experience for all the attendees. Student Volunteers benefit by observing first-hand the latest advances in visualization, hearing and meeting world-class as well as next-generation visualization professionals from around the world, and building a network of research colleagues. Application deadline: August 1, 2016 ============ 6. BioVis Posters ============ http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ The BioVis 2016 Posters track offers a venue to present and discuss new research in biological data visualization. Submissions take the form of a short (250-word) abstract with a supporting figure and are presented at the conference site as large format posters during a dedicated poster session. The BioVis workshop as a whole aims to promote interaction between the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities, and the BioVis poster session offers an interactive forum that encourages graphical presentation, demonstration, and active engagement with BioVis participants as well as all attendees of IEEE VIS. Submission deadline: August 26, 2016 ============ 7. Coming Soon... ============ VIS MeetUp: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/meetups VISKids Child Care Grants: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/committees/viskids-child-care-grants VIS program at a glance: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/week-glance Best regards, -- Jian (on behalf of IEEE VIS publicity) ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice: Open Source Visualization and Visual Analytics Software
by Oelke, Daniela 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

************************************************************* 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice Call for Abstracts http://visinpractice.org/ ************************************************************* The 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice is an opportunity for visualization practitioners and researchers to meet and share experiences, insights, and ideas in applying the latest visualization and visual analytics research to real world problems. The focus of this year's workshop will be the design, development, distribution, and application of open source visualization and visual analytics software. The workshop will include an invited keynote, a session of talks, and a poster session in which live demonstrations of open source tools will be given. All accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present in the poster/demonstration session. At the discretion of the conference organizers, approximately 12 submissions will also be selected to give an oral presentation during the talk session. The 2016 VIP workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS in Baltimore, Maryland during the week of October 23-28. Topics --------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Design of open source visualization or visual analytic systems and libraries - Demonstrations of new open source tools that address practical visualization problems - Critiques of existing open source visualization systems, informed by real-world usage, with suggestions for improvement - Retrospectives on the process of turning research prototypes into robust, open source software - Discussions of the state of the open source visualization ecosystem---how well do existing tools interoperate? where are there substantial gaps? - Best practices for using open source visualization tools and adopting them within organizations - Proposals for researcher-practitioner collaborations to address real-world visualization challenges We especially encourage submissions from practitioners who apply visualization and visual analytics to real-world problems in journalism, industry, national laboratories, government, non-profits, etc. Submission ---------------- We solicit submissions of extended abstracts of up to 2 pages, IEEE paper format guidelines (http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) plus up to 12 additional figures (beyond those in the abstract) which cover the visual content you would include in your final poster or in a talk, if invited to give one. The images should be appended to the 2-page document (thus, your whole document may have more than 2 pages). You are invited to use captions in order to explain your images. To clarify, we count a Latex figure as one item regardless of how many sub-images it contains. Optionally, you may submit a video (MPEG, AVI, or Quicktime format, duration at most 5 minutes) showing your methods or processes in action. This will be most helpful for demonstrating the effectiveness of your approach. If you would like to have your video included in the conference USB stick, it should not exceed 100MB. Abstracts will be reviewed for their potential applicability to the VIP workshop audience and their potential positive impact on the broader open source visualization community. Additionally, they will be reviewed for timeliness, clarity, and overall quality of writing. Where applicable, the described open source software will also be reviewed for robustness, applicability, ease of access (e.g. github repository), licensing, documentation, and ease of running an initial demonstration. Submissions should provide clear directions to where the software can be downloaded. Note that research novelty is explicitly not a criteria for evaluation at the VIP workshop. All submissions for the 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice should be submitted via the Precision Conference System (https://precisionconference.com/~vip16) Submissions must be received on or before July 29, 2016 to be considered. Questions about this workshop or requests for help with submission problems can also be sent to vip(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vip@ieeevis.org>. In order to maintain interactive and exciting presentations and posters, we require that at least one presenter per accepted submission attend the workshop. Important Dates --------------------- Submission Deadline: July 29, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: August 26, 2016 Final Submission (Camera-ready): September 9, 2016 Workshop: October 24, 2016 Publication -------------- All submitted abstracts and the accompanying material will be published on the workshop's website and on the IEEE Vis conference USB stick. Organizers --------------- Bernd Hentschel - RWTH Aachen University Alan Keahey - IBM Daniela Oelke - Siemens AG Justin Talbot - Tableau Research

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VINCI 2016 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION====================== The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016)(vinci-conf.org) Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016========================================VINCI ’16 features high profile keynote speeches, state-of-the art technical sessions and entertaining social programs, which will surely be interesting and beneficial to our participants (detailed programs can be found on vinci-conf.org) 1. KEYNOTES =========== Keynote Speech 1: TITLE: Beyond the Two Cultures: A Crisis in Representation Prof. Malina Roger (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Abstract: As an astrophysicist, I have spent my career bathing in astronomical data, the data world is as real to me as the sensory physical world. Yet we are still in the stone age of representing digital data in forms that we can understand and feel. Three years ago I started the UT Dallas ArtSciLab where artists and scientists work side by side making trouble with data. I will present our work with neuroscientists, astronomers and geoscientists and also talk about the new born digital hybrids whose existence gives the lie to the very concept of C P Snow’s Two Cultures. Short Bio: Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, an art-science researcher, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair Professor, and Professor of Physics, at UT Dallas. He obtained his B.S. in physics from MIT in 1972, and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. Founded the ArtSciLab which hosts projects which involve collaboration between artists and scientists, resulting in art works, scientific data exploration tools, and public engagement activities involving the integration of the arts, design and humanities in science, technology, education and mathematics (STEAM). Malina is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. "Laser d’or" Prize, from the International Video Art Organization. Keynote Speech 2: TITLE: Visual Analytics and the VAST Challenges: this year’s Challenge and a retrospective look at an influential international competition Prof. Georges Grinstein (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Abstract: The VAST Challenges are a decade old and have had large international participation. The challenge data sets are mostly synthetic with embedded ground truth and participants are asked stop solve a particular problem, which in many cases involves discovering that ground truth, which in turns makes it easier to objectively evaluate submissions. But submissions are also evaluated several other ways. I will discuss several key problems in Visual Analytics, provide examples of how the VAST Challenges were developed as an attack on these problems, and show award winning solutions. I will also discuss the importance of open source tools in solving these problems. Short Bio: Georges Grinstein is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, was head of its Bioinformatics Program, Director of its Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, and is now Chief Scientific Officer of Weave Visual Analytics. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978. His work is broad and interdisciplinary, covering the perceptual and cognitive foundations of visualization, very high-dimensional data visualization, visual analytics and applications. The emphasis is on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex information data and systems. He has over 40 years in academia with extensive consulting, over 300 research grants, products in use nationally and internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and conferences, a book on interactive data visualization, founded several companies, been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining. He has given numerous keynotes and mentored over 40 doctoral students and hundreds of graduate students. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO Expert, and a technology consultant for various government agencies and commercial organizations. For the last ten years he has co-chaired the IEEE VAST Challenges in visual analytics leading to new research areas. He has developed and taught new courses, one of which Radical Design focused on how to develop radical new products instead of evolutionary ones. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence CCICADA (Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis), and directs the development of Weave, an open source web-based interactive collaborative visual analytics system incorporating numerous innovations. 2. PANEL ========Facilitating Visualization Capacity Building Organizers: Vetria L. Byrd (Purdue University) and Joseph A. Cottam (CREST/Indiana University) Panel Members: TBA Visualization plays an important role in discovery and insight. As a tool, visualization is often times utilized as a light in a sea of data providing insight to large, complex datasets. The scientific community and society at large are the beneficiaries of the utility visualization brings. As more and more data is created and consumed persons with knowledge of the visualization process, applications, methods and techniques will continue to be in demand in all fields with data visualization needs. The purposes of this panel are two-fold: (1) to discuss the need for facilitating visualization capacity building: incorporating visualization early and often into computing and other educational programs to equip students with transferrable skillsets that are in demand in the global workforce and (2) to facilitate a discussion on what knowledge base is needed to build and strengthen visualization capacity of users in visualization application domains. 3. ACCEPTED PAPERS AND POSTERS ============================== Full Papers: Visual Analysis of User-Driven Association Rule Mining Hui Lei, Cong Xie, Pingping Shang, Fan Zhang, Wei Chen and Qunsheng Peng Supporting Collaborative Political Decision Making - An Interactive Policy Process Visualization System Tobias Ruppert, Andreas Bannach, Jürgen Bernard, Hendrik Lücke-Tieke, Alex Ulmer and Jörn Kohlhammer Enhancing Infographics Based on Symmetry Saliency Kouhei Yasuda, Shigeo Takahashi and Hsiang-Yun Wu A User Study on Judging the Target Node in Partial Link Drawings Michael Burch, Rudolf Netzel, Marcel Hlawatsch and Daniel Weiskopf The Dynamic Call Graph Matrix Michael Burch Adaptively Tiled Image Mosaics Utilizing Measures of Color and Region Entropy Lina Zhang, Kwan-Liu Ma and Jinhui Yu BranchingSets: Interactively Visualizing Categories on Node-Link Diagrams Francesco Paduano, Ronak Etemadpour and Angus Forbes Visibility Widgets: Managing Occlusion of Quantitative Data in 3D Terrain Visualization Martin Röhlig and Heidrun Schumann Generation of Miro’s Surrealism Lu Xiong and Kang Zhang Eliciting Tacit Expertise in 3D Volume Segmentation Ruth West, Cindy Grimm, Max Parola, Meghan Kajihara, Anahita Sanandaji, Jeremy Deutsch, Luke Hillard, Brandon Lane, Kathryn Hays and Anne Carlew A Comparative Study on Inter-Device Interaction: One-Handed Interaction VS Two-Handed Interaction Zheng Huang, Jed Limke and Jun Kong What Makes You Think This Is a Map? Suggestions for Creating Map-like Visualisations Patrick Cheong-Iao Pang, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai and Muye Yang How People Deploy Dimensional Information to Estimate Relative Values Yina Li and Dong-Jin Li A Guided Tour of Literature Review: Facilitating Academic Paper Reading with Narrative Visualization Yun Wang, Dongyu Liu, Xiaojuan Ma, Qiong Luo and Huamin Qu Deep Exploration of Multidimensional Data with Linkable Scatterplots Quang Vinh Nguyen, Simeon Simoff, Yu Qian and Maolin Huang Short Papers: IDSPlanet: A Novel Radial Visualization of Intrusion Detection Alerts Yang Shi, Yaoxue Zhang, Fangfang Zhou, Ying Zhao, Guojun Wang, Ronghua Shi and Xing Liang Spatio-temporal Visual Information for Human Action Recognition Li Yao and Weixin Xu Bus Lines Explorer: Interactive Exploration of Public Transportation Data Rainer Splechtna, Alexandra Diehl, Mai El-Shehaly, Claudio Delrieux, Denis Gracanin and Kresimir Matkovic Do Defaults Matter? Evaluating the Effect of Defaults on User Preference for Multi-Class Scatterplots Casey Haber, Lyndon Ong Yiu, Alark Joshi and Sophie Engle Spatiotemporal Analytics of Topic Trajectory Jiangen He and Chaomei Chen A Hybrid Approach for Event Social Influence Visualization Wenqian Ji, Yan Tang, Pengju Ma, Shijie Tang, Zhipeng Fang, Xuan Li and Tianjian Chen Posters: EduVis: Visualization for Education Knowledge Graph Based on Web Data Kai Sun, Yuhua Liu, Zongchao Guo and Changbo Wang Visualizing Time-Variant Sets on a Handheld Device Iliesa S. K. Delai, Meilan Jin and Geoffrey M. Draper Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional YouTube Data Using the GPLOM Technique Seimei Matsusaki, Xi Han, Alark Joshi and Sophie Engle Visual Communication Power Construction and Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Tobacco Control Advertising Qian Wang and Bing Xiao The Effect of Color on Short-term Memory in Information Visualization Kang Xin Design for the future: Incorporating Cradle to Cradle Design into our street Yinan Li and Jian Wang Understanding Contagion Dynamics in Networked Populations Through Data Exploration and Visualization Sherif Abdelhamid, Chris Kuhlman, Madhav Marathe and S. S. Ravi SeaCove: accessing SEmAntic COVErage of queries for improved user experience when searching the web Haolin Ren, Guy Melançon, Benjamin Renoust and Marie-Luce Viaud VolSelectAware: Visual-Cognition Coupled Non-Visual Data-Driven Volume Selection for Immersive Scientific Visualizations Daniel Wilches and Amy Banic Performance Histogram Curve: Abstractive Visualization and Analysis of NBA Games Biao Zhu and Wei Chen 6. ORGANIZATION=============== GENERAL CHAIR:Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM CHAIR:Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden PUBLICITY CHAIR: Jie Li, Tianjin University, China PUBLICATION CHAIR: Kostiantyn Kucher, Linnaeus University, Sweden LOCAL ORGANZATION CHAIR: Pushpa Kumar, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA FINANCE CHAIR: Jey Veerasamy, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Wolfgang, Aigner, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Benjamin Bach, Microsoft Research — Inria Joint Centre Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau Rita Borgo, Swansea University Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome Paul Bourke, University of New South Wales Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa Daniel Cernea, AGT International Jian Chen, University of Maryland Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern Mai Elshehaly, Virginia Tech Camilla Forsell, Linköpings Universitet Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno Philip Galanter, Texas A&M University Liang Gou, IBM Research - Almaden Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech Ira Greenberg, Southern Methodist University Theresia Gschwandtner, Vienna University of Technology Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Weidong Huang, University of Tasmania Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University Karsten Klein, Monash University Jun Kong, North Dakota State University Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University Yina Li, Nankai University Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University Aidong Lu, UNC Charlotte Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center John McGhee, UNSW Australia Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology Francois Poulet, University of Rennes 1 - IRISA Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Maximilian Schich, The University of Texas at Dallas Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Ioannis G. Tollis, University of Crete Cagatay Turkay, City University London Chris Muelder, University of California at Davis Andrew Vande Moere, K.U.Leuven Gualtiero Volpe, DIBRIS-University of Genova Sai-Keung Wong, The National Chiao Tung University Hsiang-Yun Wu,Keio University Jie Wu, Tongji University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, National ICT Australia Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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